Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-08-24
A., no buneiers, but .hrewd at bargain, and

are no bunglers, but shrewd at bargain, and
sure to get good security for promise.
The corner stone of their policy Is to repu-
diste our debt, or assume their own. We
shall surely hear that advocated. We shall
probably see jefferson Davis in the Senate,
and certainly have his agents in the cabinet
No doubt he will be consulted In the con-
struction of the cabinet. This is to put in
peril all the war has gained. am not ready
for such an experiment An old friend, now
residing in Georgia, who stood, with rifle in
hand, in Kansas, all through that fight, told
me, lust after the Cincinnati Convention
Sir, before Grant arrested those twenty
Ku.Klux 10 North Carolina l never slept with
out a loaded musket at my bed head and
never yentured into the village unless fully
armed. Since that stern interference in
North Carolina, l, even afar off in Georgia,
sleep and walk about as safe. careless and
free az you, do here"
"If Greeley is elected, suppose. said |,
you'll load hose revolvers again.
Never; know, by Southern boast, what
that election means. I'll never risk living in
Georgia under Greeley; III sell out and come
NORTH
Such is the testimony of loyal man in the
South. That is how it looks in Georgia.
Gentlemen l have another interest in
Grants election. The anti -slavery cause was
only portion of the great struggle between
capital and labor. Capital undertook to own
the laborer. We have broken that up. II
Grant is elected, that dispute and all questions
connected with it sink out Of sishe. All the
Issues of the war are put beyond debate, and
q clear field, is left for the discussion of the
labor movement do not count much on
tho IF hat I'M MT hry tho Ra.
publican Convention, though greatfully ap
preciate it. But see in the bare success it
self of General Grant the retiring of old is
sues and the securing of place for new
ones.
II Greeley is elected, we shall spend the
next four years in fighting over the war quar-
rels, constitutional amendments, negroes
rights, State rights, reputation and Southern
debts. And we shall have beside contemp
tpous ignoring of the labor question. Its
friends were at Cincinnati. The convention
scorned their appeals, and Mr.. Schurz him.
self affirmed that labor was mot a live is
sue" President Grant means peace and OPP
portunity to agitate the great industrial Ques-
tons Of the day. President Greeley means
the scandal and wrangle of Andy Johnson's
Year, over again, with secession encamped il
Washington.
AUG U8uoSot llHS " lie Va MAJ OumucE
letter was where he warns you colored men no
''to band together in a hostile camp, and keel
alive the separation of races" The negro
robbed, tortured, murdered, trodden unde
foot, defsnceless in unresisting submission
-who has the heart to charge him with al
iote Of the guilt of excepting alive the sepa
ration Of the races? Surely this lamb ha.
never shown any hate, or any undue preju.
dice against the wolf. The senator used t.
think all the fault was on the other side.
We put aside with the scorn it deserves the
insult implied in preaching to us forgiveness
and Cancellation. Andersonville and Libby
Prison are still living horrors. Beside the
Thousands who were starved there, hundreds
still drag out weary lives in our streets, pois-
ened all through by that dread cruelty. The
graves of seven white native Georgian Loyal
men, ruthlessly shot down in the streets, are
hardly yet covered. The first born of hun
dred thousand households are still freshly
mourned. Till within a year, Throughout
half the South, the negro was robbed, tortur
ed and murdered with impunity, the Southern
press glorying in the atrocities.
observation-disclosures to the unparalleled mer
cy, the unutterable generosity of the nation
ninety -nine out Of every one hundred Con
federate soldiers enjoy to-day all the right
they had before the war. jefferson Davis an,
his fellow assassins-the real jailers of Ander
sonville and Libby
"Shame on those cruel eyes
That bore to look on torture
And dared not look on war;
still alve,-unharmed, in peaceful posses
sion Of every right the law can give, excep
that of lifting their hands against the Govern
ment which has spared them. dare not at
fix the epithet think fitting to the mood o
mind which deems it necessary and becoming
to preach to such community the duty Of
forgiveness!
We do forgive. We have forgiven. But
duty to the dead and to the negro forbids US
to trust power to any hands without undoubt-
ed, indubitable certainty that such hands are
trMstvos5hy. five fail in this caution we
shall only have decoyed the negro into dam
ger and left him doubly defenceless. / wish
my voice could be heard by every colored
man down to the Gulf; not because they
need my advice. No; they understand and
see the danger. But should like to rally
them to help US, a second time, to save the
nation. should say to them-"Vote every
one OF you, for Grant, as you value property,
life, wife or child. If Greeley is elected,
arm, concentrate, conceal your property
but organize for defence. You will need it
soon and sadly"
Workingmen, rally now to save your great
question from being crowded out and post
poned another four years.
Soldiers, at the roll call in November let
no loyal man fail to answer to his name.
We decorate our loyal graves with worse
than empty ceremonies if over them we clasp
hands with still revengeful enemies When
parties and politicians betray US, do you raj
ly, IS you did before, and under the same
great captain, to save the State.