Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-07-31
ROW w1REfrr rHr Dr1focRATy ARE
IN THESE "PTPING TINS OF PEACE."

IN IHESE "PIfIAG IIHEO OT CI'
Gen. Roberts should be restrained by
his friends. His military zeal is running
away with him. He seems to be trying
| to make up in nourishcs and iandangoes
| in time of Peace that two years and hall
| of active war in which he declined to
| fight at the crisis of the nations fate. He
can't open his mouth or seize his pen
but he discourses or writes of "orders'
and minute men," and signal guns, -
and "watch-fires, and "Routs," and
"Regiments," and "Brigades," and "ar-
my corps He cannot even a lude to the
supporters of Gen. Common by their bap-
tsmal pane of Republicans, but he dis
cribes them as the 'cnemy's forces"
Really nothing quite so funny has oc-
Cured since my Uncle Toby" was COM
PEELED to leave the army in Flanders, and
insisted while living on half-pay in Eng
land on fighting all the battles of the
great Duke's army and conducting the
siege of Dendermond in his back yard,
with Corporal Trim for consulting en-
gineer and military adviser. But my I'M
Gle Toby left the army because of 4 dis
aiding wound--therein differing from Gen.
Roberts-and his wise and witty compan-
ion had some points about him that we do
not recognize in Corporal Emery.
Hear Gen. Roberts in his letter of ac-
ceptancc, How he raves and rants his
great military soul humping out against
the restraints of that civilians waistcoat
which he was so anxious to put on before
the war was half over. Hear him:
The decentralization of our opponents
in the coming election is certain; their
rout, not impossible.
Let the "minute men, be warned, the
watch-tires speedily kindled upon the hill
tops. and every true patriot, and sincere
lover of Individual Liberty, be up and do
ing, prepared at the sound of the first sig
nal gun promptly to respond to the sum-
mons
And then he and his Corporal Emery
have undertaken to organize the democ-
racy of Maine after the most approved
pattern of the Revised Army Regulations.
They are publishing series of "OR-
DERS." They issue them jointly and call
them "OUR ORDERS and Roberts signs
them as "GENERAL," but Emery, we
think omits the Corporal ard signs as
plain Marcellus. Listen to one of these
Orders. We quote it literally. 1t is num-
Der two:
eff our orders are faithfully and prompt
ly executed, the middle of August will
find every democrat in the State enrolled
in Companies, Regiments, Brigades, Di-
visions and Corps, in the school districts,
towns, Representative classes, Counties
and Congressional Districts. That date
will also find our whole army, for the first
time in twenty years in battle array, from
the New Hampshire boundary to the Prov
nce borders. and from the Canadian from
tiers to the Ocean. We shall also know
the exact strength and disposition of the
enemy's forces
This order is signed by Roberts as "Gen-
eral' Can anything in Tristram Shandy
equal that for side-splitting fun?
Observe, too, that this military zeal is
contagious. 1t is inoculating the entire
democracy of Maine, that great party that
is for war in time of peace, and for peace
in time of war! The war fit is ON them very
heavily just now. Even the committee to
could not discharge their pacific and harm
less task without going off with sky-rock-
ets Roberts. they assure him to his face,
is to dead lhe van" and "bear aloft the
standard (wonder if they meant Pills
bury's Standard,) while the rest of them
are going to follow in "serried columns"
This is the way our distinguished fellow
citizen, Colonel George Washington STAN
ley, talks. Think OF our venerable fnan-
cial friend with his portly frame and hand
some face "serrying" along in column
sustained on either side By Lorenzo De
Medici Sweat and James Chrysostom
Madigan. Why the name of the one and
the unctuous face of the other would start
the perspiration in much cooler weather
than we now enjoy. But Roberts "lead-
ing the van." and Emery along issuing
sour orders, with Stanley and Sweat
and Madigan a-"serrying" in columns and
the whole democracy of Maine forming in
the rear Ohey are used to the rear both in
peace and in wary into Companies and
Regiments and Brgades and Divisions
and Army Corps, and all getting into
Battle Array"-Great Jemma! What
a sight Falstatfs' ragged Regiment
wasn't touch to it What "amusin'
cusses' these Maine democrats are
We would respectfully suggest to the
republican State Committee that they take
means to secure the largest possible circu-
lation of the Maine Standard among the
respectable and thinking people of the
State. as the surest method of disgusting
them with the existing type of Maine de-