Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-01-03
PATRIOTS AND REBELS.

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To the Editor etMe Journal:
Modesty, to suy nothing of gratitude, pair otism
or discretion ought to keep certain Editors, dem
ocratic as well as liberal, in Maine and other
States, silent in regard to General Grant Senator
Morton, and Secretary Chandler. That these
three men were patriots in the day of our nations
need, no man dare deny. That each of them, in
their respective fields of labor did his best for his
country is matter of history. While Grant was
before Vicksburg, Chattanooga and Petersburg
while Morton was laboring single handed and
alone to raise the money necessary to pay the in
terest due ON the Indiana State debt, to save her
credit and to equip and put into the field her quota
for the defence Of the nation, which the democrat.
c Legislature, backed by Hendricks and Kerr
had refused to do, thus leaving the State defence
less and its integrity impesched-while Chandler
was sending to the field for the defence of our
country companies battalons, and even whole
regiments of men, clothed and their families cared
for at his own expense; where was Marcellus
Emery L. F. Pillsbury, Senator Eaton. Bill Allen,
in short the whole democratic organization
Emery was talking treason so bold that the DEM
ocrats of Bangor sent to the Governor to have him
arrested and sent to Fort Lafayette-Pillsbury was
sitting under the shadow Of old Mount Blue max
ing mouths at the good Lincoln, and applyingjto
him epithets, so coarse, vulgar and indecent that
due regard for decency forbds their repetition
here,-Eaton was praying for the assassination of
our Maine boys il they attempted to cross the soil
Of Conn, in their march to defend the nation throt-
tied by treason--and the democratic party at Chi
uni
treason in twenty resolutions. AS then they voted
the Union soldier failure by resolving his recall
from the field SO to-day they vote him failure by
removing him manned and crippled, from places of
trust-puttng in his place able bodied rebels,
perchance the same men who shot away his limbs
Such the men, such the party, that presumes to
SANDER both the living and the dead. Such its
estimate and reward of patriotism.
Grant, Morton and Chandler, doubtless, have
faults. Who has not But with all these, their
names will remain fresh in the grateful remem-
brance Of their countrymen, as foremost among
those who deserve we'll Of their country for hay
ing in her hour of trial and peril served her with
fdelity-while their maligners will be forgotten,
their names nnnamed--only rs some searcher
among the tombs NAV perchance read them on
the r head stones. SCRATCH.
Of Senator Morton's anti State-rights resou-
tons and the counter solutions offered by Mr..
Mcdonald, the Utica On. ~ Herald says
"Senator McDonalds attitude forces q contest
over the Confederate and the national principle.
Senator Morton understood the leading democrats
of the North yet to deny national unity. lit was
not rhetorical flourish which lie embodied in his
resolutions He felt that by political strategy the
heresies which uEderlay the rebellion again assail
our system. From his own State appears the
champion of these heiesies, the devils advocate
who is Jealous in his maintenance of them. The
very spirit which prompts thoughtful men to dep
reca,e interference by the National Government
in local questions. and appeal to the bayonet in
petty affairs, will be aroused to indignation by
such denial of national existence, by such infideli
ty to the decisions Of the war;"
We think the coming Judge Gardner must have
been born on the lower side Of Lime street
instead Of the upper; at least one Of his ancestors
owned where John Woodman now resides, and
the deed runs back to Gardners title. 1t is not so
material, however, the fact that Mr.. Gardner is
Of this town, and hence, if other facts did not
verify it, should take it for granted that Gov.
CASTOR had made very wise selection. When
the family removed from here, it was to the State
Of Maine, and we think to the town Of Gardiner
ON the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Herald.