Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-08-24

brother, or son of one who perished
that the Union might live, willing to
vote on the 18th of September SO as to
give strength and hope to the Confed-
crate and Tammany Hall Democracy in
their designs to regain control of the
National Government Would it not
be startling satire on American patri-
otism to have the men who sought to
destroy the Government, by the elec-
tions Of 1875 and 1875 placed in the
control of the immense power and
patronage of the National Union !?
Will any citizen of Maine by his vote
give encouragement to such startling
national disaster in the great Centen-
nial Year of the Republic?
That the Democratic party stand on
the precise doctrine which led to the
Civil War-and that its leaders hope
to regain by the ballot what it lost
by the rebellion and the bayonet, is
evinced by the repeated and undenied
declarations of its leaders, and by facts
patent to the entire country.
In the Senate of the United States,
March, 1875, Senator Eaton, of Con-
necticut, a conspicuous Democratic
leader, remarked as follows:
This is a government of Sales
equal States, sovereign States, independ-
ent States. When ii ceases TO be a gou-
ernment of this character, may ii be long
after I haze laid my bones in the soil
near my o,0n riuer. That IS the nature
Of this government, IN brief formed By
free States, formed By Independent sou-
ereignties."
To this enunciation of the old dogma
of South Carolina Notification no Dem
ocratic Senator took dissent, and no
Democratic State Convention has dis
owned.
A few weeks since, Mr.. Withers. the
new United States Senator from Vir-
ginia, at the laying of the corner stone
of monument to the memory of the
Confederate soldiers, took pains to as
sure his constituents that "Meirs ,Uds
not lost cause" This, he said, "nay
not be loyal tak-I don't kno,o as it is,
and ,ohat is more, 1 don't care"
Said Hon. James B. Beck, of Ken
lucky, leading Democratic member
of Congress, for years passed more
moderate in his general course than
many of his party associates, being
recently on the stump as candidate
for the United States Senate:
There is that contemplate ,OOrd
naiion,-he ,0ord that no Democrat uses
,Chen he can find any other, and ,ohe,,
forced 10 use ii utters ii almost aoith dis
gust. This is no nation We are free
and independent States"
Said Gen. F. w. Capers, recent
rebel officer, at a meeting of reception
in Charleston, South Carolina, to the
citizen soldiers who had just returned
from the Centennial Celebration at
Bunker Hill" We seek the Republic
of '76 for its own sake, and because
we deprecate revolution. One or the
other is ineuitable." That is-they
must have a Confederation. and not
the Union of 1889. This is the old
secession menace. II is our duty to
striUe by all these peaceable means 10
endeaUOr to erpurgate from the COnsti-
tuition that foul and infamous amend
ment kno,on as the fourteenth amend
ment IUant black lines drapn
around 1t as a seal of d,sapprobation,
put there by the american people,"
Admiral Semmes' eulogy ON Ex-Vice
President Breckenridge.
Said Kemper, present Democratic
Governor of Virginia, in welcoming
home the Masons at Richmond just
from the Boston Centennial: You
,cent as Virginians should go, ,oith up
lifted heads, proud, erect, asking no for
gareness, processing no repentance for
the past"
The following is the way the Dem
ocratic Governor Smith of Georgia,
would ignore the fair meaning of the
authority of the Union: We may
hold inviolate euery la,o Of The United
States, and still so legislate upon our Ia
Dor system as TO retain our old planta
ton system, or in lieu Of that, establish
baronial one"
How obvious the meaning of that
immense reception of Jefferson Davis
the other day at Dallas, Texas, which
that prince of Treason declared to be
such "a ,oelcome as no Roman DICTATOR
consul or prgtor erer received"
Speaking of State Rights on this
Texas visit, this Democratic leader
said: "N is The foundation of This
STATE and Government, The rock upon
,oiich they stand; and if in error ii has
been sOept asoay, so surely as ,oe hue
,ciR The american people return to ii
and again assert their rights"
1t is said by those who wish to wipe
out all remembrance of the rebellion,
that everything is now quiet and hope
full in American politics-that the spirit
of forgiveness should be warmly ex-
tended towards our erring brethren Of
the South and their allies in the North.
The wisdom of generous forgiveness
is fully conceded by the Republicans.
If there was ever great party in his
tory which has made broad, full
chapter of generous overlooking of the
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