Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-02-27
from the Bangor Wing and Courier.]

from the Bangor Wing and Courier.
SPECIMEN BRICKS.
The Democratic City Committee of Ban
COR have had supper, with toasts and
speeches and letters from distinguished
"pa,riots" abroad to that distinguished To-
cal "patriot," Mr.. Marcellus Emery. Well.
we certainly do not grudge these loyal
statesmen good square meal or whatever
satisfaction they derived from compare
son of past records. The political antecc-
dents of the company, however, did make
the selection of the anniversary of the
founder of that nationality for whose de-
structon they were recently praying,
seem rather anomalous, and some of the
speeches read like reports of the anti-war
meetings of dozen years ago. The lar
gest gun obtainable for the occasion was
Mr.. Titcomb, OF whom some Of our read
ers have heard as the gentleman who kind
ly permits his name to be printed annual
| " on the democratic ballots. and although
he did not rush headlong into the fray in
defence of Washington's flag in 1861. he is
now girdng his loins, and significantly
remarks:
eff fail not in reading the signs OF the
times, there is coming a contest more bit
ter more deadly more pregnant with bless
ings or woes to our country than any
| that has preceded it,"
| He does not inform us whether this
deadly conflict is TO take the form Of a re-
vival OF the Lost Cause BIZ that is the
drift, and the jovial Dr. Ladl gives hint
as to the programme by asking:
"Will it be left to the next Congress to
withhold supplies until the Federal army
! is Withdrawn from the South, and our
brethren allowed Constitutional Goaern-
ments p
As our Democratic brethren do not rec
ognize anything which has taken place
since the war as constitutional, the kind of
restoration" aimed at is obvious The
worthy Doctor seems to have found some
difficulty in handling what his Southern
friends would call the "nigger question !"
as in one place he says:
1--WE all rejoice in his freedom: we
have made him by law all that any of US
can be by legislation"
But he subsequently, remarks:
1--WE must humbly request the African
TO wait and educate suitably before he be-
comes citizen"
We have looked through the gentle
man S remarks in vain. however, for any
suggestion of an educational test in our
own First Ward. OF course the Doctor
s'reioices in his freedom" but then he
would paraphrase Andy johnson by send
ing africans" instead of TRAITORS to the
"back seats" But these little idiosyncra-
sizes find natural outlet at a. democratic
banquet, and We have only cited them as
Introductory to remark upon the kind OF
men whom these democrats sought to
lionize on Washington's Birthday by ap-
plying to them for letters for the occasion.
If any one doubts as to the class of men
who have the active sympathy of the dem
ocratic fuglers in Bangor, the list of names
Of persons to whom toadying invitations
were sent without the slightest anticipa-
ton of their attendance, will afford the
information. No Democratic jubilee
would be complete without word from
the great statesman and salary -grabber, y
the Hon. Fernando Wood, and he was cor.
daily invited. But dearer to the Bourbon
heart than even the great policy
shop" politician of New York is the Hon
John Young Brown. of Ken lucky, whose
autograph letter was regarded as the big
thing of the occasion. The Democrats adj
mire this man because he recently incurr-
cd the formal censure of the House for a
scandalous exhibition of his rebel venom,
and because in 1861 he declared that:
mot one man nor one dollar would
Kentucky furnish Lincoln to aid him in
his unholy war against the South, and that
if the Northern army should attempt Ia
cross the borders of Kentucky, it would be
resisted to the death and if one man was
found in the Commonwealth to volunteer
to join it, he ought to be and would be
shot do,Dn before leaving the State"
That is the sort of man to inspire Dem.
ocratic eloquencc on Washington's Birth.
day; and another exponent of "chivalry'
upon whom our Penobscot sachems be.
slowed their adulation was the ex-Rebel
General John B. Gordon, now permitted
to occupy seat in the United States Sen.
ate, although in 1868 he accepted the
chieftainship of the bloody Ku-Klux Khan
Of Georgia, and glories to this hour in his
treason. No stronger side-light could be
thrown upon the character of the new
leaders of democracy, and the spirit which
animates that organization in its subservi-
ency to the South, than the following ex.
tract from the testimony given by this
same Senator Gordon, then an unpar.
doned Rebel of Georgia, before the Con.
gressional Committee of 1871. 1t required