Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-11-30
Charge Of the mails, when the train was stoppedi

charge Of the mails, when the train was stopped
by false signals made by those disg used bands of
democratic conservatives, and he was murdered in
the mail car. The men butchered in Louisiana
were proud New Englands soldiers who fought
through the war for the Union and when peace
came, had there made for themselves home as
they had right to do; but they were republicans
and stood manfully up for that for which they
fought; and for that they were murdered. And
when manly protest is made against this great
wrong and crime, the democratic press, and am
sorry to say some neutral papers screech out
"bloody Shirt Thus encouraging the crime Of
murder and making excuses for the murderers.
Well and truly does democratic paper of Ten
nessec say while northern dough is screening
"bloody shirt" and making excuses for the assas-
sins and their crimes, which the President declares
to be an outrage upon any civilized governmen):
"The christian world will come to the conclusion,
that the murderers, and not the murdered are the
villains" The New York Journal of Commerce,
not republican sheet, says in substance speaking
to this subject "What strikes the intelligent mind
as singular, is that the authorities where these
outrages committed seem to be Furnishing the
friends Of the murdered, not the murdercrs.'
But these christian gentlemen in the same col
umn in which they screech "bloody shirt, insult
both the dead and the living by asking for infor-
nation from the second rebellion. suppose they
want to know, in the language of the Journal Of
Commerce, how their friends get along Gin
furnishing the friends of the murdered"
There is an open rebellion against every principle
Of our government. Freedom of speech denied.
assemble, cannot be enjoyed, only at the risk Of
life. Men who were elected to Office at the late
election openly told through Inc democratic
conservative press, that if they enter upon the du
ties of the office to which they were elected they
shall die Read the southern press. 1t is full of
such threats. On the night of the late election in
Alabama, little son of one of the Judges Of
election, IA republican, was shot, and the local
democratic paper there, speaking of the shooting
of this little boy, says eve did not want to hurt
the boy, it was the father we were after" And as
they could not get at him direct, struck at him
through his little son. submit to the intelligent
people of the valley OF the Kennebec, without dis
tinction Of party if in the cruelties of the nquis
ton, Spanish barbarism, or savage torture, they
any where find more .fendish or Economical spirit,
than is here manifested? Is it not barbarism
And is not he who does not denounce it in man
ly way, but when it is so denounced, screeches
"bloody shirt" coward and a craven A few
years since late democratic candidate for the
Presidency, Horatio Seymour, addressed mob
whose hands were red with the blood of their muir
dered victims, just from the burning Of Orphan
Asylums, as his friends but | had supposed that
day and age had passed, and that no man Or press
could be found, especially in New England, who
would not in the most outspoken manner denounce
every crime against the rights of man. But
when I remember, the brutal assaults Of these men
upon the lamented Lincoln, the persistent demands
for Brutus, until Brutus was found, why should
any be surprised, that when hundreds of our fell
low citizens are butchered, by lawless bands of
the same party, that instead Of denouncing in
manly way, the perpetrators, they should through
the press, and in the streets, when such crimes are
denounced, shout "bloody shirt"
"BLooDY SHIRT"