Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-05-06


der the caption, A Worse offender thar
jeff Davis it says;
The Augusta (Me) Journal, Senator Blaine,
home organ fairly dances with joy through a
leading editorial of nearly column over JEFF
Davis's letter TO the confederate monument dedl
Gated at VI aeon. Ga, last week. "Ihe real voice
of the Solid South" this boody->htt organ has
the supreme impotence to style document
which has met absolutely no popular response.
With still more outrageous disregard for facts,
this stilrer-up of strife declares at "his sentl
meat, meet with the warmcst approval bv the
southern papers" southern journal might with
equal truth attempt to incite IT. section against
the other by declaring thHt the wild cries iui ven
geance to which Wendell Philips occasionally
gives utterauce meet with the warmest approval
by the northern papers. There are Of course
bourbon papers in the south a well a. the North,
but the representative organs OF southern oplp-
ion-.uch papers the Richmond Val State,
the Raleigh y. c. News, the Charleston 6. & ;
News and Courier, the Atlanta Gal Constitution.
the Augusta ga Chronicle aud Constitutional
ist, the Memphis Tenn Avalanche the New
Orleans La PicavUne and Imcs-s0 far from
warmly approving" what JEFF Davis SAID, have
passed il by With utter silence Jah ID laws letter
only appeared 10 saturday morning papers, an &
the Aug usta journal. though n0minalIy issued on
Wednesday must 20 to press Tuesday, il
reaches tins office Wednesday forenoon. The
newspapers of Saturday ~ only the nearer south
ern States could by any possibility reach Augusta
before the editorial ia question must have been
written. The Journal must therefore have been
almost entirely ignorant Of the tone OF the south
ern press when 1t made this statement, while what
ever the mails could have brought 1t absolutely
disproved the charge In other words It delIber-
ately lied to it, readers, aud lied purely for parti
san purposes, in the hone Of stirring up the ,mold
erpg ashes of sectional fires for the benefit OF the
republican party in the approaching campaign
One feels sort OF conemptuous pity for the
soured old man who wrote that letter, but no
rieht-mnded person can entertain any other feel.
ing than that of utter loathing Tor the Maine
editor who thus lends his pen to the devil sh work
OF sowing fal.ehood-, in the hope Of resping far
Their bitter fruits Of sectional hatred.
The above will at once be recognized
as the work Of northern doughlace en-
gagged in his accustomed business OF mis-
leading his readers, and preparing them
for full surrender of the government in
1881 to the rebels. The Springfield Re
publican was ostensibly Il Hayes paper in
1876, but was exceedingly DESTROYS thai
Tilden should be elected. 1t pretends now
we believe to be republican, rs its name
implies, but is doing all it can to destroy
the republican party and bring in the day
OF ex-Coniederate rule in this country
Ii accuses US of falsehoOd because we
said jeff Davis 5 letter spoke The real SEN
timent of the South. To make good thi.
charge it asserts that the letter "has met
absolutely no popular response. On the
same day on which we saw the article in
the Republican pronouncing US II liar we
saw the following paragraph in one Of our
exchanges
FRAMED printed copies % JEFF
DAVIS MACON LETTER are being sohi
IN THE SOUTH for ten ccntS."
II that paragraph be true, and we pre-
sumo it is, and the half not told-there is
popular response" to the letter in
the South. A fact like this is significant
of the real popularity OF the letter. 1t is
far better test than anything a leading
ex-rebel or ex-rebel organ north or south
may say about the matter
Again we are accused of falsehood be-
cause we said JEFF Dayis's sentiments
meet with the warmest approval by south
ern papers, and to prove this the Republi-
can labors to convince its readers that no
Southern paper could have reached thi,
Office between the time the letter was read
at Macon and the publication Of our arti-
Gle. As matter OF fact we saw this let
ter extoled in the highest terms in the
southern press several days before it was
delivered, and if the Springfield editor did
not see it he must have been LIND or not
attending to his business
The Republican names list of papers
which 1t considers representative papers
of the South. We suppose the Rtpubli.
can would claim that in its politics it is a
representative paper OF the North, but
there are not many outside of that office
who would agree with it; how much then
is its Judgment worth about other pa
pers or popular sentiment North or South /?
But we have seen no paper yet in the
South Of any kind which has repudiated
the JEFF Davis letter or spoken dsrespect.
fully of it. and we doubt very much if any
one has. The papers know that he spoke
the sentiments of the South, and they will
not dispute them. Possibly some may say
his letter was impolilc in these DAYS OF
surface Cancellation, but beyond that they
will not go. To show how the letter was
treated at Macon, we copy the following
from the Macon Telegraph Of April 27tb .
"Col. j. B. Fort introduced Mr.. ]. l. s.,,.
bury, Jr., the gentleman selected to read the l,te,
of ex-PIesideut Jefferson Davis. Mr.. Ssnl.h"r'
rose aud in an eloquent manner read nNF 1t
THE GRAkDEST LETTERS EVER PTNNLi,
By HUMAN HAND. The selection Of The ,o.,L
was peculiarly felicitous. 10 d voice rpodplst.5
TO great perfection and IN a manner that .hov.oJ
h0D DEEPLY the reader feH the sehttnneats Of oI,,g
ing patr iot.sn Of the gJeGt Iresident II la,
ysderdcy Mr.. salisbury executed the trust AZ
signed;"
The Montgomery Gala } Advertiser ais,
quotes with great enthusiasm the lette
concerning ''the immortal Lost Cause, - Al
it calls it. 1t says: The cause for whicI
our glorious Confederates died needs n
penitential plea. 1t was righteous caus
sealed by as noble blood as was eve