Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-01-20

gives place 70 hate; when the press de,ib-
erately closes its eyes to facts: when, in
stead of using its efforts 10 eXtingush the
confagration and quiet the frightened
multitude. it sezes the torch, spreads the
fire. and exci.es the popular passion? If
so. then we are not much better off than
was Paris during the Commune, and brute
force alone can save us. Ii 50, then, in
deed. has the time come when the sword
and the bayonet Ere the elements Of the
governing power, and the bonaparte and
the Caesars might a. well mount their
thrones.
The newspapers of New York and Chi
cago are the opponents of the character OF
the two cities. Chicago is young city,
built upon The pra!ries only few years
ago. and stocked with the best and fresh.
est blood of the nation. She has no faint
of treason resting upon her; has had no
ancestry to transmit bad qualities. She is
radical to the core. and tempcrs her radi
calism with reason, and discusses great
national questions without heat or pas
sion. During her short existence she has
been as true as steel to the Union in the
day OF its sore peril In the war of the
rebellion, with Il population averaging but
200. 900. she placed q 900 men in the field
to defend the Union. What was New
York doing at that time -? Alter the lat
tie of Gettysburg, when the army should
have been used To follow up It's victory,
q 900 men had to he Withdrawn aud sent
to New York city ! Guaboats were sta
toned in New York bay training their
guns upon the city. Why To put down
the treason and rebellion which had bro
ken out there From the beginning oft he
civil war To- its close. the government was
hindered by This fire in the rear" which
came from the sccessioni>t masses OF New
York. 1t openly sSmpathized with rebels
1t opposed the drafts with violence. II
shot and hanged negroes /, burned
colored orphan asylums. Ii attacked loya
newspapers offices, and TODAY one OF lis
newspapers is leagued hand i'll glove with
the men who attacked it, Ii has ALWAYS
been the home of stale Sovereignty, %
always claimed that the States are soy
ereign nationaitics in themselves, and
that the National Government has no
rights except in The territories, in the Gus
tom Houses and post offices, and OH the
deck of a gunbuat, and its howl to- day i
only howl for State Sovereignty.
Chicagos first attachment is to the Union
New York to the State. Chicago dates
back thirty or forty years. and its first eff
fort was in behalf of the Union. to which
it gave its money and its best blood. New
1ork's dates back to the Revolution, when
it was the nest-egg and headquarters Of
Toryism. 1t was the last place in Ameri-
ca to desert George III. the last place
which hauled down the British flag. Its
Toryism has clung to it ever since. 1t
has never recovered from its antipathy to
the Government OF the United States as Il
nation. Its blood is tainted at the foun-
tain with the virus OF disloyalty. It's
morality is poisoned by its Sums Its
politics are corrupted all through Its
commercial honor is in the hands of sharp
ers and spectators. 1t is the plague-spot
of the country. Its newspapers reflect its
character.