Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-02-03

less and barbaric war of four years in de-
Tense OF human bondage, while its
poisoned shafts are hurled thick and fast
| against the Nations heroes and
defenders So was Benedict Arnold after
his treason the bittercst of his country
foes. the most wanton libeler OF her de-
tenders and heroes.
Plainly there is mischief in the Southern
| sky The signs, the causes, the facts are
100 numerous and conclusive 10 be mistak-
en- 10y those whose eyes are not closed
against them. In addition to the disorders,
the outrages on colorcd men and persons
of Northern birth and sympathics, the dis
loyal tone of the Southern press, orators,
| and social circles, is the insolent bearing
of the Southern religious bodies towards
the christian bodies of the North. 1t is the
old pro slavery and secession feeling
kindled anew with plainly revolutionary
aim 1t may be said that history does not
repeat itself As to form and method this
may be true as a general maxim; but 1t
is often otherwise in tact and substance.
The Southern Democrats have only
changed their weapons, not their purpose.
They are busy in conspirng to regain their
lost political power They intend to use
their Northern allies for the same purposes
rs in former years-to enable them to re-
gain and WELD for their sectional designs
the power and patronage of the National
Government. Their alliance with Tam
many Hall is precisely what it was in the
DAYS of Pierce and Buchanan. They de-
sign to get control of the Army and Navy.
They design to hold the four and half
millions of blacks in social and political
servitudc--to keep from them ownership
in lands, from positions of commercial
prosperity and official trust, to compel the
blacks to vete for them as blindly and SER
vilely as they formerly obeyed the Slave
drivers in the rice and cotton fields, or not
vote at all, to be the hewers of wood and
drawers of water, the helpless pariahs
of the land.
Nothing can be clearer than the alarm
ing meaning of these indications. To de-
ny it is to foster the most pernicious de-
| fusion. The plain intent as rerolMion-
usurpation and rebellion under the forms
of the Constitution-the most dangerous
form of revolution in the hands Of able
and desperate men. 1t is the same kind
of revelation which carried back the
Stuarts to the possession Of the British
Government with deluge of corruption,
vice and .despotic mal-administratien. 1t
is the same kind of revolution which put
Louis Eighteenth and Charles the Tenth
on the French throne. 1t is the same In
| kind that James the Second and his Jaco.
bite supporters attempted against the Eng
fish people while William and Mary and
the friends of constitutional freedom con-
trolled the government, which revolution
AIRY reaction signally failed.
Thoughtlessly and in an unguarded mo-
ment some Republicans may have said
that it might not do great harm should
the Democratic party come into power in
1876. They did not stop to consider what
a slupendous calamity it would prove to
this great nation-what deluge of woes
it would bring on the yet half-liberated
Londmen of the South--the flood of rebel
claims it would force on our National
Treasury--the discord it would introduce
into the Army and Nayy-the schemes it
would bring into gigantic life for compen-
sation for the slave property lost by the
rebellion, for the cotton burned or cap
tured, for the payment of rebel pensioners
and for the blotting out the evidences Of
Union victory, heroism and supremacy
To beat back this darby threatening wave
of reaction, to prevent this dire disaster tc
the nation, the Republicans of Maine. Of
the North and West, the true men of the
entire Union, will again unite in solid
phalanx and conduct themselves as duty
and patriotism demand. To your tents,
Oh Israel, Once more to the front and to
the tbickest of the fight, the Old Anti
Slavery Guard!