Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-08-15
More Democratic EulOgy q
Rebels

The democratic leaders and papers OF
Maine. emboldened by having Presiden-
tial ticket nominated by and devoted to
the representatives of the Confederate
cause, begin to show forth more decided
ly their ''true inwardness' as regards the
late rebellion and its ruling spirits.
A few days ago the organ edited by the
chairman of the democratic State com
mittee, the Maine Standard. defended
the South for sending leading ex-rebels to
Congress as senators and representatives,
in the following language: Don't people
"desire to select their ABLEsT and BEST
"men to represent them IN PEACE as well
"as IN WAR? Do sensible people expect
1.-THE South to ignore their GREAT MEN
land NATURAL LEADERS and elect
unknown, inferior men, who were too
weak to be chosen leaders in war, or too
"cowardly to serve as SUCH?
Following this burst of admiration tor
the leading ex-rebels from the head CEN
tire of the democratic party in Maine came
the eulogy of General Roberts, the late
democratic candidate for Governor, of the
rebel General, Robert Z. Lee. And now
we find the Bangor Commercial, in an
editorial with the heading Peace" and
very suggestive ofthe peace democracy OF
1864 and the peace resolution adopted in
q, cot;onaI 4 ia convention nF at
year, endorsing and defending General
Roberts Portland eulogy of the traitor
General, and even charging it by addi
tional adulatory sentiments from the edi-
tors own pen. From that article we
make the following extract:
"Now what does all this signify Isfhe par
ended? or are we still in a state of war; GEN.
ROBERTS SPOKE WORDS OF TRUTH AND
EVEN OF WISE CRAFTSMANSHIP WE
MAY SAY. Are animositics between the North
and South to be kept alive forerer. Are we never
to have peace Gen. Roberts expressed the hope
that the time would come when the Union Sol
der would respect the character aud devotion Of
Gen Lee. Was it that sentiment of his brief
speech that called forth the Kisses and insults of
the patriot soldiers gathered there, that were
aimed at the speaker
Gen. Lee was representative man of the South.
If his character and devotion can never be re-
spected by Northern soldiers, then shall we look
in vain for any elements of character among the
millions of the South who directly or indirectly
engaged in the war, which can ever receive their
respect, and a restoration of a union of feeling
between the North and South is as remote to-day
as it was fifteen years ago.
II should be remembered that GEN. LEE,
with the OTHER GREAT MILITARY CAP
TAINS OF THE WORLD, is dead. His char
acter has been passed upon by the civilized world,
and he has been assigned high and honorable
place in history. His character and place as a
| soldier cannot be affected by any acts of the
Maine Soldiers Association
How many of the people of Maine are
going to endorse and defend and eulogize
Robert f. Lee and other great traitors
against the government, by following the
leaders of the democratic party and voting
the democratic tcketp The 18th of Sep
TENDER next will tell the story. We trust
| it will give no comfort to jeff Davis, no
support to the cause of Tilden and Hen.
bricks, the candidates of the party which
eulogizes and defends the arch rebels who
were responsible for the horrors of the
prison pens of the South.