The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1872-11-14
What a "Curious Part" Il.


We must leave it to others to Judge who is
discounted, and why the journal has ''no heart
10 pursue the discussion alluded to further.
Talk about poverty of intellect! What sort of
poverty Is that which leads our contemporary to
characterize loyalty to our Government In the
late war as "curious part? Patriotism which
rises above the bonds of darty is thing quite
lncomprehensble to the pollywog eSsayist of
the journal, evidently. His temperance prin-
clples are also conformed to the well-known
habits OF his party. [Rockland Free Press.
Our neighbor must not think that be-
cause he has conveniently short pemory
concerning those matters, that others have
the same. We remember very well the
buster and bravado with which the Free
Press assailed the republican party, and
patted the rebels on the back 1t de-
manded Of the Legislature of 1861 that it
should appease the irritated south by a
repeal Of the Personal Liberty bill, in
order that the southern shareholders might
come north for their fugitive slaves with
out molestation 1t declared the repubi-
can party responsible for the trouble at
the South. Long after the states of the
south had seeded, after President Lincoln
had been inaugurated, it declared that the
Union was being wrecked for want nt a
man at its head-that the President was
abusing his trust, and appointing crimi-
nails to office-that he was poor foolish
Lincoln, whining, sniveling, rolling up
his eyes and wringing his hands The
war was declared to be one of lerocity
and cruelty, that slaves were to be let
loose, with lust and cruelty upon the de-
fenceless women and children OF the
south. SO greatly was the editor of the
Free Press exercised by the terrible
calamities that were to overtake the south.
as pictured from his own fervld magma
tion that he grew chv alrous, and declared
that those who engaged in this awful
work must rush upon the bayonets of HIM
self and other patriots of the north 1t
was sublime, moving spectacle, to see
the stalwart and determined editor of the
Press, llguratively holding his bayonet at
charge TO oppose the Maine regiments
that were moving south
But alas the age of chivalry at the
Press office was exceedingly brief. The
times grew dangerous. Men who talked
and wrote like that, were threatened. ar
rested, imprisoned, mobbed That bay
onet was put away; the Press changed its
tune the editor went into his boots. The
foolish, whining and snvelling Lincoln
became god-like. The repeal of the Per
sonal Liberty Bill was no longer urged
Never was conversion so rapid and COM
plete. At last, after brief term OF pro
baton, the editor of the Free Press was
made County Treasurer, by those same
tiendish abolitionsts, and like the scrip
tural Judas, carried the bag
This we call "a curious part" We
don't like to dig up these records but in
course of discussion of the cider law.
our neighbor saw fit to 60 long distance
out OF the way TO lug in matters pertain
ing to the war, with which they have no
more to do than with signs of the zodiac
When the Free Press is satisfied with war
records, and wants to examine the LIQUOR
law, we shall be happy to engage in the
discussion