Daily Kennebec journal., 1876-05-13
kElNEBEC JOURNAL.
CAMPAIGN EDITION
FOR 1876.
To be issued Three Months, Begin
ming June 81, Closing Sept. l3.

The great political contest is pressing rapidly
upon This Centennial Year of the Nation Is
to decide whether tie principles of lU6, of the
administrations of George Washington and of
Abraham Lincoln, are to be maintained, or wheth-
er a counter revolution representing the political
dc crimes of John c. Calhoun, Jefferson Davis,
and the Confederate Democracy, shall prevail, and
thus IN large degree undo the best results of the
war for the Union, which cost so much treasure
and much precion5 blood. For the first time
suce the flames of civil were lighted by the
leaders of the Democratic party, that political or
ganization has now the control of the National
House of Representatives, and the prevailing ami
mus and DRIFT of the ma lority of that body well may
fiji the patriots of the mon with alarm. It's clear
y obvious that all the worst elements which have
opposed the principles and OF jccts of the Kepubl-
Can party the last fifteen years, have combined
with the determination by fair means or foul, by
fraud or force, to obtain control of the National
Government and put it on the track in which it
| moved in the days of Pierce, Davis, Mason, and
Sldell. The party which is in this aggressive at
ttude towards the tried friends of Liberty, the
Union, and National Faith, is under the complete
control of the Southern Confederates and lam
| many Hall. Hill, Lamar, and Beck of the South
ern Democracy, and Eaton, Tilden, and Hendricks
Of the Northern Democracy, represent the identi-
| cal political d gmas of the National admini,tra-
tions of the eight years Immediately prior to the
| Rebellion. The success of the Democratic party
| in 1876 would be to place the National Govern
| ment under the absolute control of the Confeder-
l ate politicians and the Chiefs of Tamm ny Hall
| Never more dangerous and insolent combination
| houted before the American people. This threat
ened revolutionary-rea must be met by all the
patriotic and vigorous determination which ear
| nest and resolute freemen know how to call into
action. Not only must all the results of the war
| be mantained-a rescued and reconstructed ma
| ton and an emancipated race-bat the piighted
faith of the Republic as to our National bonds and
| specie currency, must be preserved against all
| assaults come from whatever quarter they may
Our circulating medium at the earliest practicable
period must be brought to the par of gold, no
| backward steps must be taken, but FORWARD must
| be the signal word of all friends of the country
for Treason, and National Dishonor in respect tC
our Finances, belong only to the vocabulary OF
| thoughtless and unprincipled men.
| To counteract these pernicious dogmas of the
enemy, to the zeal and inspire the efforts OF
| all true friends of the Union and National Justice
| throughout the State, there should be at once a
more general and liberal circulation of Republi-
| can newspapers. 1t is the purpose of the pro
| prietors of the keunebec journal to make it re-
| spond to the demand for an earnest and uncom-
| promising discu. sion of the political issues and
duties of the pending campaign. The assistance OF
some of the ablest political writers OF the State has
been secured, and the Republicans Of Maine NAV
calculate there will be avgorous pushing along
the line of whatever will fairly tend to splendid
| triumph in September and November. The voice
| of Maine, in this great contest, viii be potential
| and it must be emphatically pronounced on the
| side of the Union and National Honor. She is
one of the first to speak. Let her voice be one OF
substantial encouragement to her sister States en-
| gagged in the same great struggle.
In order to aid much possible in dissent
mating sound political information the issues
before the country, the unders gned will publish
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