Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-03-03

the people feel that they have chosen him for Gov
ernor and there is scarcely respectable minority
that would seriously question his right to the posi-
ton. Packard and his associates have ho sub |
stantial support in this State.
Ia South Carolina the m alter presents no sort of
difficulty. The canvass of all the votes showed
that the Republican Electors had a majority, |
while Hampton and the democratic candidates for
States officers elected. The Courts sustained
this as the legal CANVASS; the people consider
this the legal canvas; the people consider
Hampton their Governor, and declsre they VIII
not support any other by the payment oil taxes
Boston GLOBE.
Ii would be difficult with the same Aum-
Der of words to comprehend and express
more ialsehood, more moral treason,
more utter brutality, more wanton insult
to the better instincts and christian con-
victions of the better portion of the Ameri-
can people, than is contained and i'm
piled in the above lines from an editorial
in Boston contemporary, the whole OF
which is In like vein aud spirit. In the
light of recent and passing events all pa
trotic and humane persons who read that
and similar declarations, must be moved
or otter adherence. A heather Greek or
Roman of two thousand years ago would
loath and despse the sentiments ii
breathes. and Mohawk or Sioux savage
would turn from it with unutterable scorn.
But we copy SO much of this Boston
newspaper article as we have above,
chiefly as aflording an opportunity to ex-
press our emphatic dissent from much that
has recently been flying in the air.
One of the brutal falsehoods is in This
declaration. 1.-The people did defeat Pack
ard and his associates on the Republican
ticket" The people did no such thing
BY violence, by murder. by armed terror
ism. sworn to by overwhelming testimony,
five strong Republican Parishes were made
to appear to vote against Packard, and
this minority of outrage and violence did
not and does not count against and over
throw the Republican majority in said
Parishes. Similar bull-dozing in other
Parishes illegally and falsely tried to make
it appear that Packard was voted down and
Nichols voted up. but it is bitter satire on
words to call results achieved by violence
and terrorism the voice of the people.
''7he sentiment Of The State is behind
Nichols Packard and his
associates hare no substantial support in
the State. This is the old slaveocriic cry
that "colored men have no rights that
white men are bound to respect" This is
the voice Of doughfaces of the days of Fill
more, Pierce and Buchanan, declaring that
none but slaveholding lawyers, merchants
and slavery and treason defending clergy
men represent the opinions and interests
of the South. If it was sickening toady-
ism to use such language in ante-war days.
1t is beastly nonsense to repeat it now.
The men who voted Cor Packard perform
most of the labor which produce the cot
ton, the sugar, the rice and the corn of
Louisiana-their sweat, tears and blood
have created most of the material pros.
perity of the State--they chiefly earned
the hundreds of millions that were ex-
pended in rebellion against the Union, and
f,ed the mouths of the clergymen, the
bishops. aud the lawyers who now assume
10 speak for the whole people of Louisiana,
as they did in the days OF slavery and the
auction-bl
And because Packard has not the sup
port Of these quoadam pro-slavery politi-
clans, these goddess clergymen who sought
TO sanctfy treason, this oligarchy of con.
spirators, therefore he has no popular
support.
And the shameless brutality of the Bos-
ton newspaper is quite as strong in re-
spect to South Carolina. Unarmed by vio-
lence and terrorism large majority OF the
people of South Carolina would vote the
Republican ticket. Even after the shock
Ing massacre OF July lead by Butcher But
ler-the Inauguration of the Wade Hamp-
ton campaign, carried forward to Novem-
Der by the armed rifle regiments. in ut
TOR defiance of the Constitution of the
Uuion and the laws of the State--even in
spite of this organized treason with Its
ramifcations throughout the State, Cham
berlain received majority of the votes,
outside Of the two strong Republican
counties where the Butcher Batter rifle
regiments bull-dozed large majority of
the voters. Chamberlain by the strongest
Democratic testimony has managed
the affairs OF the State with sig
nal ability and honesty. Not
stain is upon his Executive record. The
men who give South Carolina nearly all
the material prosperity she has-men WHO
till her fields, who do not think industry
dishonorable, who are thirsting for knowl-
edge in her schools. who never uttered
hostile word when the Government was
10 utmost peril, whose lips never breathed
the prayer of treason, whose hands were |
never lifted against our hungeIi1g, starry
ing, suffering soldiers in their years of |