The Portland daily press., 1876-07-27
Hasty Ap0l0gists.

The following is commended to readers of
the PRESS, or such newspapers as have pub
lished Gov. Chamberain's account of the
Hamburg massacre:
A serious riot occurred in Hamburg, s. c., Satur-
day, resulting in the death of seven men and the
capture of fifteen persons. The colored militia
fused obey the orders of the coored commander of
the state militia, who then called upon the citizens
for assistance Seven negroes aud two whites are
reported killed.
The above is the version of the Hamburg
massacre as given by South Carolina-no, a
Maine Democratic paper-the Union Aduo-
cate of North Anson edited by Albert Moore!
Mr.. Moore is a man of more than ordinary
intelligence, and accordingly must have
known that the above version of the massa-
ere IS FALSE in every respect. We, how
ever, beg that our readers will not judge Mr..
Moore too severely. In everything but pol
itics he is an honorable gentleman. In poll
tics he is the most unfair and bitter of parti-
sans. The above lying apology for rebel bar
bari!y comes natural to Mr.. Moore. For
twenty years he has been apologizing for his
Southern masters. Uutil the beginning of
the war he was the champion of the slavery
extensionists. For their sake, during the
war, Mr.. Moore was all that the term cop
perhead implied. His paper denounced it
because it was an abolition war;" reviled
every man in authority and spoke none but
words of Encouragement. Of course, it is
the most natural thing in the world for the
Advocate to defend negro murderers. Dirt
eating, lying any and all sorts of humilia-
tion and qualification are eagerly undertaken
even without request. The AdUocate is
rather an object of pity than the subject of
censure. This exhibition should only warn
us that the changes in public opinion brought
about by the war have not reached the Ad-
u0cate and the class it represents. The
slaves of the Southern Buffers have long
since discovered that they are freemen. The
Maine politician of the Moore stripe will nev-
er ascertain that it is not his paramount duty
to do the bidding of the same masters who
were potent twenty years ago. Should one
Of them by chance make that discovery he
would never be happy again.
Here is the apology of another Democratic
organ, the Belfast Journal:
At the Hamburg riot, of last week, colored mill
tary company on parade needlessly blocked the road
and stopped passage for carriage, when white men,
under like circumstances, would have allowed the
travellers to pass. When summoned before colored
magistrate, the captain and his followers refused to
obey. The magistrate called posse, and in the en-
deavor to enforce the law lives were sacrificed.
While the customary howl about rebel atrocities
goes up let the fact be kept in mind that negroes
lost their lives in resisting the law, and that they
were stimulated to the riot by carpetbag teachings.
1t is matter of surpise that the editor of
the Journal should manage to crowd so
many false statements relative TO the
Hamburg trouble into single para
graph. 1t, however, goes to show how
eager Northern Democrats are to apol-
ogize for Southern murderers and how
utterly unscrupulous they are in doing it.
Indeed, these two Maine papers in their
shameless perversion of facts and attempts to
vindicate Gen. Butler and his crew, have
exceeded the zeal of all the Southern pa
pers except such as openly defend the ac-
tion OF the assassins on the ground Of right.