Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-07-09
therefore Gil persons who desire to be present
on the Sabbath must enter the gates on satar-
day evening.
Decoration Asaln-7Gc standards Last Resort.

repeats the epithets Of former ones and strik-
ing wildly in his anger ana shame, he drops
even the Committee Of Arrangements, and
claims personal quarrel that in some way he
may escape, or at least raise himself, from the
effect of this series of extraordinary articles,
that are below contempt in their exhibitions
of ignorance and falsehood and malice, so
that on being questioned, we have caused him
TO say eve have no charge to make" after
about four columns of general abuse and
apology to say that he "never knew or heard
it stated or intimated who the committee were"
till we called his attention to the fact that he
had published part of them, emitting the
name OF every member of his own party, after
charging an intentional insult TO the dead by
the committee and at last the bold and furi-
Gus knight Grant who declared 1.-The honor of
the city is compromised by such unexplained.
anridious discrimination, such "reproachful
action, and insinuated the cause to be the
"nationality or religious sentiments of the
dead heroes, entangled in facts which lie
cannot meet and only lodges by saying he
"has no recollection as TO them "partcular-
ly,.meritng the disgust of all ensibie Cath
olies by the war dance he has performed over
their dead who rest under the blessing of their
chosen Church. having died as martyrs for
their adopted country, flat in the Shiny ooze
have never intended to charge wrong doing
upon the committee or anyone else connected
with this unhappy occurrence.
He accuses us of riding high horse 1t
is a matter of choice. We do not Frefer, like
himself, to wade in the fostering pools of per-
sunal abuse, and by piling up epithets to
crawl away from the question at issue. We
asked what right q citizen had TO growl about
omissions in ceremonies which he was too
careless to attend, or newspaper to abuse
the managers of ceremony to which they
sent no reporter, and where the soemnites
of the occasion ought to Danish all feelings of
malice. and said if the Standard writer felt
this remark belonged to him he was welcome
to it. fer il was a personal matter entirely,
and he had persistently declined to indicate
how much interest he took in decoration, or
if he was present at all, and this only is his
basis for saying che admits himself that he
makes il entirely personal matter He
talks of "wilfuly" falSfying his position
after such an exhibition as this? The per-
sonal matter is the position OF the Standard
writer who has persistently from his first
abusive attack made and continued It AS such.
Let him come with clean hands to champion
this cause, "a We suggested. or in deccncy
keep respectful silence. After his state
ment that he intended 10 charge no acroag
doing (and he has searched hard for some
time 70 find some errorsfor this purpose we
think the committee can afford to let the mat
ter rest till some 3asts for charges of wrong
doing can be found. He assumes that we are
the State Librarian We have to assure him
that We are a member of the Capital Guards
and Committee Of Arrangements, ond ii
makes not the slightest difference whether we
are or are not in charge Of the State Library.
If he wishes 10 discuss the personal or polit-
cal or military course OF any member OF the
committee. We hope he will find it possible TO
make some charges which he will not find
himself Obliged to retract N his next issue,
and if he has constituted himself an inspector
Of the various state offices that we shall soon
have the benefit of full report OF this new
theory that a state officer sho9f 6erote has
lrhole time" to the service Of the people. while
tradesmen, mechanics and workingmen. clerks
and others. serve but certain number of
hears daily that while these may, outside of
working hours answer private correspondence
or public abuse, or even assist as committee
in decorating the graves OF our soldiers, he
who holds public trust may do neither of
these Such work must be specially suited
to his intellect. his tastes and his Judgment,
and when completed, Geo. Francis Train and
Daniel Pratt must look TO their laurels, for
they are liable to be entirely eclipsed by the
elories of this new and rising star.
He says few if any OF the soldiers inferred
in the Catholic cemetery sought exemption
from the dangers of war by enlistng in nine
months regiments for excessive bounties."
This is the writer's way of saying that all the
soldiers iRterred in the Catholic cemetery
were three years men. Be it so or not, they
died in their country's service and deserve all
honor. And also his way of stating that men
who enlisted in nine months regiments sought
tioo f-oD nt
listed for excessive bounties. The statement
about hounties only shows the densest ignor-
ance of the subject he intends to discuss, for
when these men were enlisted, only nominal
buunties were given. AS soldiers who hav-
ing enlisted for three years or the war, who
fought side by side with nine months troops,
bivouacked with them along the malarious
swamps and bayousof the South and helped
10 bury them as comrades from the hospital
and on the battlefield, never indulge in such
talk this, this writer must have seen some
service which entities him to speak for the
soldiers OF Maine. What that service has
been may in future be made to appear, but
when he accuses such men as Gen. L. W.
Bartlett of Massachusetts,, a nine months man,
who having already lost a limb in the service
and who rode TO the battle field from sick
bed to take command OF his regiment or
Lieut.. Col. O'Brien of Massachusetts, who
fell molly in battle, an lrishman, in command
OF Irishmen who also enlisted for nine months
service. his malice has far overshot its mark,
and if the sense of shame has not entirely
forsaken him, he must hang his head in utter
disgust with himself Some Of the same
Maine soldiers who sought exemption from
the dangcra of war" according to TINS mans
suggestion, sleep in the Protestant burial
places in this city, dying from wounds receiv-
ed in the service OF their country, and this
man who RACES because flower more or less
was omitted from Catholic grave, in his
publ, journal openly insults the living sold
iers. and with the low hiss that indicates the
sort of reptile that utters it, insinuates in the
quotation given, in the same public manner
above these graves, that these men whose
mouths the guns of the enemy have closed SO
that they cannot reply to the foul charge,
were towards. He teaches that the
towards were those who enlisted, were
wounded and died, and now rest under
southern soil or in our cemeteries at
home, and the men OF true courage were in
that ienoble army, and their abettors who
plotted insurrections and draft riots at home,
who drilled in the woods and lodged the draft