Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-11-26
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DOUGHFACEISN REVIVED.

When the Emancipation Proclamation
Of Abraham Lincoln, and the triumphant
advance of the Union armies had over
turned the Slave Power and broken the
last shackle Of the bondman, it was conf
IDENTIFY hoped that the Doughface would
cease to have occasion to exist in the land
and that the very name, rocking with
shame and humiliation, would become OBJ
solete as no longer corresponding to liv-
ing men and passing events. But it is
obvious that this view was more sanguinc
than present facts will justify. The Slave
Power In form is dead, but its spirit sur
wives and is dominant in Southern life and
politics. Before the war the editor, the
politician, and the man of business passing
into the Slave States were too often tempt
ed to yield to the seductions which the
slayeholding society knew SO well how to
use on those who came within its circle.
These men from the North were dined,
wined, and surrounded by an aroma of
fattering civilities well designed TO take
them captive, obfuscate their judgment,
and blunt their moral sensibilties to many
aspects OF one fthe foulest vices and most
prolific wrongs rnau ever cursed the hui
man race. And on the floors of Congress
and in political conventions those who
yielded to the Establishments or threats OF
the Slave Power, were fittingly termed
Doughfaces. 1t is too plain in the light
of recent events that there has arisen
again the necessity for the use OF this
term. There are those who travel South
stopping at the best hotels of the chief
cities and large towns. who have not the
nerve TO encounter the insolent assurance
and the bitter prejudices which prevail in
Southern society in respect to the prevail
ing men and influences Of the North.
These persons of soft and ductile COM
position more than half assent to all
the low aspersions vented on the emanci-
pated race. and the insulting criticisms OF
the men and party that carried the coun-
try through the perils of the rebellion. A
doughface of the Democratic type is bad
enough, but Republican doughface is
worse. To the latter class belongs the
correspondent of the New York Times,
who hiss been writing series of letters to
that paper from the South. Travelling
quickly over various States he has claimed
to give veracious statements about facts
and things in vast extent of country,
manifestly in conflict with common sense
and the obvious logic of facts and circum-
stances, which no servile dash of the pen
can speedily sweep away. The ear
marks of funkyism and moral coward
ice were apparent in most OF his letters.
The spirit which dominated his pen, is
clearly evinced by the following from his
remarks at recent Notification meeting
in Columbus. Georgia, over the recent
elections. He stated to the crowd that he
was q Republican. and the Democratic
newspapers said he did SO in manly,
straightforward way as follows
II am . Nortnerh mana lanAee. N J
father vas killed in the Union army, and all
ny heart 10 with my country. am Repub-
lican, and am glad of 1t, but am not such
. Republican - you have South. glory in
your success because deem it the success OF
nv country, and not Of q party, as Alt. CAL
hcus told you. CCheers. rejoice with him
70 think the day of psrties 10 past and the day
Of patriotism has come. l expected to see
yos lavless brigands. l have found you