The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-08-27

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'.'Tis death to me to be at emnity:
hate 1t, and desire all good mems love-
lentreat true peace
OF you, my noble cousin Buckingham
| l1ever any grudge were lodged between us;
| vi you, Lord Rivers, and Lord Grey, of you;
That all without desert have frown'd on me;
| Dukes, earls, lords, gentlemen; indeed, of all.
| do not know that Engshmen alive
With whom my soul is any jOt at odds
More than the infant that is born tonight:
thank my God for my humility"
Gloucester was aiming to be Richard III.
Greeley is eager to be our next President.
He parades his humility and fOrgiving temper
with the same ostentatiOn and emphasis. He
plagarizes the very words of the willy, crooked
back aspirant; and it is only necessary TO
substitute Beauregard for Buckingham, jeff
Davis for Lord Rivers, Robert TOombs for
Lord Grey, with all the rank and file of rebel
dom for the other parties named, to make the
parallel complete.
In her relations to the South, whether be-
fore the rebellion, during its prosecution, or
since its suppression, the North has never
manifested or cherished any unkindness; and
1t is slander OF the first magnitude to assert
the contrary. Before that perfidioUs uprising,
for seventy years, she left nothing undone to
prOpitiate the always overbearng spirit of the
South; making the most humiating con-
cessions, and acquiescing in the most fragrant
wrongs, and allowing herself to be reduced to
falsely so called. Nor has she to this day
fully recovered her selfrespect, or wholly
freed herself from the malign influence of
that long-extended ,laveholding domination.
II there ever could be an occasion for sec
tional animosity to the btterest extent on
her part, it was furnished by the worse than
savage warfare which was carried ON by the
South during her reasonable attempt to dis
member the republic A hundred thousand
northern homes we're filled with lamentation
and woe for the loss of fathers, husbands,
sons and brothers, who, but for this hideous
revolt, would now be living to make those
desolate homes radiant with happiness. At
least forty thousand OF these died in Southern
prisons by starvation, and the infiction of
every insult and outrage that hellish malig-
nifty could originate. Witness AndersOnville,
witness Fort Pillow, to all coming generations,
that the people of the South, demonized by
their accursed slave system, carried on their
bloody struggle like demons!
If they failed to reduce to ashes the prin-
cipal Northern cities by the torch Of incen-
diarism, or to spread loathesome and deadly
contagious at the North by an internal de-
vice, it was only as they failed to accomplish
their reasonable purposes generally. Their
contempt for the people of the North ex-
hausted the language of invective, and their
hatred of them 'burned to the lowest hell'
Let them speak for themselves:
"We have got to hating everything with
the prefix free-free farms, free labor, free So
ciety, free will, free thinking, free children
and free schools, all belong to the same brood
of damnable isms. But the worst of all these
denominations is the New England system of
free schools that have turned her cities into
Sodoms and Gomorrahs." Free
society! We sicken of the name. What is it
but a conglomeratiOn of greasy mechanics,
filthy operatives, small listed farmers, and
moonstruck theorists? All the Northern
States, especially the New England States, are
devoid of society fitted for well-bred gentle
men,"
''Since the foul invaders have polluted our
soil with their footsteps, an irrepressible ca
gerness to give them bloody graves pervades
all classes. We know no Tefrefreshing sleep
on account of the restless desire to be butch
ering the invading ruffians." y "Swear
eternal hatred to treacherous foe, whose on
ly safety is in your defeat and subjugation."
n y ''The rabble of vagabonds and cut
throats enlisted by Lincoln's agents to exc
| cute his foul purposes-we would meet them
as robbers and murderers assailing the safety
I and sanctity of our homes" *"South-
| ern soldiers ask no better odds than one to
| three Western, and one to six of the Eastern
| Yankees"
''Lincoln's government is capable of any
deed Of hellish perfdy, of atrociOus cruelty,
| of damning infamy, to accomplish its ends.
| Abe Lincoln is a fit successor and representa-
| tive of the cruel king who thrsted for the
blood of the infant Jesus" y ''Da-
Wis is the very soul of courage, honor, chiv-
airy; Lincoln is a cowardly sneak, filled with
| abject fear drunk half the time, occasionally
foolishly facetious, whistling to keep his cour-
| age up" *"We doubt if any society
| since Sodom and Gomorrah has ever been
more thoroughly stepped in every species of
1 H. - fI,a loo, - - y =
| 'Let us prefer even for our beloved ones the
charnel house as a home, than loathesome
vassalage to a nation already sunk below the
contempt of the civilized world"
| 'Well, let them come-those minions of
| the North. Well meet them in way they
least expect; We'll glut ourcarrion crows with
their beastly carcasses. and leave their bleach
ing bones to enrich our soil.'
10 be conquered in open and manly fight by
nation ofgentlemen, and subjected to their
| sway, might not drive us raving distracted
| with rage and shame but for Yankees-the
| most contemplate and detsstible of Gods
| creation-the vile wretches whose daily sIls-
| tenance consists in the refuse of all other peo-
! ple-for they eat nothing that anybody else
| will buy-tor them to lord it over us the
| English language must be enlarged, new
| words must be invented, to express the ex-
tent and depth of our feelings of modification
| and shame.
| We must bring these enfranchised slaves
| back to their true condition. They have long,
| very properly, looked upon themselves as our
| social inferiors-as our serfs. Their uprisings
| has all the characteristics of a ferocious SER
| vile insurrection. They have burst the bonds
| of servitude, and are running riot with more
than the brutal passions of liberated wild
beast. We must restore them to their nor
NAL condition of vassalage, and teach them
that cap in hand is the proper attitude OF the
| servant before his MASTER"
These are only samples of volumes of SINH
| lar extracts that could be compiled from
| Southern journals during the rebellion; and,
| certainly, they were eminenty calculated to
| excite all that is wrathful and vindictive in
the human breast by way of retaliation-to
| say nothing of the startling atrocities perpet-
rated by the rebels, perfidiously violating
flags of truce, cerisively making lanterns out
| of the skulls of Northern soldiers and trinkets
out of their bones, shooting them in sport or
malice behind their prison bars, and treating
them with barbarity to which no domestic
brutes would be subjected.
Yet no one knows better than Mr.. Greeley
that these bitter provocations failed to excite
any revengeful feelings; that the war was
| conducted by the General Government with
unexsmpled forbearance and clemency; that
| the Northern soldiers were animated by pat
| riotic and not sectional motives; that the
Northern journals advocated no treatment of
| the rebellious South at variance with the most
advanced views of civilization in such cases !;
| that Southern prisoners were fed and dealt
| with in marked contrast with the treatment
4 TO which Northern were subjected by
their captors; and that at no time during the
war did the people of the North evince any
animosity to the South as such or need to be
reminded how pleasant a thing it is to clasp
hands in amity, provided it be done in good
faith, and not in assimilation for an Interior
purpose.
Mr. Greeley dedicated the second volume
of his american Conflict" as a merited
tribute, "to the Union Volunteers of 1864,
who flew to the rescue of their imperilled
country because they so loved her that they
joyfully profered their own lives to save
hers" No sectional feeling herel
When General Lee surrendered to General
Grant no humiliating conditions were inn
posed only this: Each officer and man will
be allowed to return to his home, not to be
disturbed by United States authority so long
as they observe their paroles and the laws in
force where they may reside" Most extra
ordinary leniency!
''There were many in the North, "says Mr.
Greeley in his work, "who deemed Grant
quite too generous in fixing the terms OF
Lees capitulation; but their hesitating utter
ances were drowned in the general burst OF
gladness and thanksgiving over the virtual
collapse of the Rebellion" And, still further,
to Illustrate the noble spirit that animated