Daily Kennebec journal., 1876-02-11
having done what did for the country, because

having done what did for the country, because
believed secession was Infamous, wicked and
dey ilsh, beg TO join issue with JeT Davis and
hurl back in Lis teeth the plain, unvarnshcd state
mcut, that he is not only q murderous old fend'
but i. or ought TO be, branded from the crown OF
his head to the sole of his foot, with "Ttaitor,
50 tina. no individual yet TO live in the land, can
ever look upon him without discovering his in
famy; and across his brow let the word Liar be
written in burning letters Of shame.
Again he says
"yybcu closely confined at Fortress Monroe
was solicited TO add my name to those OF many es-
teemed gentlemen who had signed petition for
NV pardou. and an assurance given that on
nv doing so the President would order my hber
tion. Confident of the justice OF our cause and
the rectitude Of my own conduct, declined to
sign the petition
What was "our caase." To destroy the repub-
lie, in attempting which they seized the Cnited
States fort. arsepas, miDts and vessels, fired up
on the flag OF the nation, raised an army OF mil
lions, wagcd war for four years, during which
time. Of 10y al men more than quarter OF mil
lion were slain in battle by disease or IN the hell
ISL pens and dungeons, called 'prson camps;
the whole land being filled with widows ard or
phans, Abraham Lincoln foully murdered beside
On enormous debt piled upon the people under
which we are smaiting to-day. And this was
"our cause which jeff Davis-who is living to-
day, breathing the breath of life upon the soil of
the nation, by the gracious magnaninlty OF the
republican party and the very men whom he now
traduces-dares TO say was "just.
Bah To be brief, comrades Of the Union ar
my-wll you longer remain SILENT You who
were prisoners speak out. The writer had the
misfortune to have brother confined Prison
or Of war at the South eleven months, but so Sc
we're was his treatment, he only lived fouteen
days after being pareled; during those days, how
ever he did leave with his family declaration OF
his treatment which was toe brutal TO spread be-
fore humane people. By the declaration OF Jetf
Davis, we who fought Cor the government will
soon have need to be bowing before Rebel Con-
gress, pleading for pardon for our wrong doings
toward a patriotic, law-abiding, humane and
Christian South, while Jefferson Davis and his CO.
horts of the late confederacy, shall be pensioned
for their extreme suflerirgs. in the honor and in
terest Of the nation.
Thank God, the loyal people of this nation re-
member, and while recollection to them shalllast,
this infamous old traitor, this genuine human
devil will never receive pardon or even prayer
or thought from them for forgiveness or mercy.
Until the land shall be restored as it was before
the blighting curse Of war, until the last trace OF
patriots grave shall be removed forever from the
land, until the last armed soldier has gone to
his grave and no longer reminds us by his pres
eace Of the awful conflict, until all the widows
and orphans, made so by JEFF Davis and "our
cause" shall have passed to the next life, until
Abraham Lincoln shall be restored to the Plesi-
dental chair of the Republic, from which he was
hurled by the paid murderer Of JEFF Davis and
"our cause" for one say, let there be no peace,
no pardon, no forgiveness for Jefferson Davis
A UNION SOLDIER.
Feb :, 1876.