Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-05-24

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 US. This Centennial Year of the Nation is
to decide whether II principles of 1716, of the
administrations of George Washington and of
Abraham Lincoln, are to be maintained, or wheth-
er counter revolution representing the political
| doctrines of John {. 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 precions blood. For the first time
| since the flames of civil war 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 ority of that body well may
fill the patriots Of the Union with alarm 1t is clear
ly obvious that all the worst elements which have
opposed the principles and objects of the Republ-
| 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 the track in which it
| moved in the days of Pierce, Davis, Mason, and
Slidell. 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 Tam
| many Hall. Hill, Lamar, and Beck of the South
| ern Democracy, and Eaton, Tilden, and Hendricks
| OF the Northern Democracy, represent the denti-
| cal political dogmas of the National administra-
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-
| ate politicians and the Chiefs Of Tammi my Hall.
| Never a more dangerous and usolent combination
| fouted before the American people, This threat
ened revolutionary must be met by all the
| patriotic and vigorous determination which ear
| nest and resolute treemen know how to call into
| action Not only must all the results of the war
be maintained-a rescued and reconstructed ma
| ton and an emancpated race-but the pighted
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 to
| our Finances, belong only to the vocabulary of
thoughtless and unprincpled men.
To counteract these pernicious dogmas of the
enemy to arouse 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 Kennebec journal to make it re-
spond to the demand for an earnest and urcom-
promising discussion Of the political issues and
duties of the pending campaign. The assistance Of
of the abest political writers of the State has
been secured, and the Republicans of Maine NAV
calculate there will be rigorous pushing "all along
the line" Of whatever will fairly tend to splendid
triumph in September and November The voice
of Maine in this great contest, will 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 as much as possible in dissent
mating sound political information the issues
before the country, the undersigned will publish a