Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-06-09
Qailp Aennsbet suurnal.
Augusta, Monday MOrn'g, June 8, 1879.
Stirring up the War Feeling.

StITrinS up the war Feeling.
The Ohio democratic platform is COM
pound of greenbackism and toadyism to
the confederate South The former ingre-
dent is intended TO subserve the purpose
of drawing to the support of Ewing lib
eral quota of the greenback party; the
latter is designed to hold hard money dem
ocrats. One resolution reads as follows
THAT the efforts of the republican party
Ito open and keep alive the war feeling
between the North and South are to be
condemned by every lover of the coun-
try" This is very cool proposition tor a
democratic convention to make just at the
present time, with the extra session not
yet closed. The extra session has done
more to rekindle the war feeling between
the North and South than any other agency
for years If plan had been specially
devised tor that purpose it could not have
accomplished more in that direction than
the extra session has effected The Con-
federate Brigadiers announced when it
opened that their turn had come to take
charge Of Legislation. and proceeded to
business by removing Union soldiers from
positions under the control of the Senate
and filing them with men who fought in
the Rebel army. The republicans very
naturally disliked to see the men who had
fought for the country turned out of doors
at the Capitol to make room for those who
had fought against it. and resisted the
change as they best could. Their protests
against it are considered highly improper
by northern doughfaces and are some of
what they call the ''efforts of the republican
party to open and keep alive the war
feeling" We presume the Ohio demo
erats are fully persuaded that the republ-
can senators should have joined in turn
ing the loyal soldiers out and have well
coined the rebels to the places vacated
with great demonstrations of joy.
Another Of the methods by which the re-
publicans in Congress have stirred up the
old war feeling, is through the opposition
they have been compelled to make to the
attempt Of the Confederate Brigadiers to
strip the President of his prerogative I'M
der the threat of stopping the wheels of
government if he refused to sign the APP
preparation bills as prepared by them
Their purpose was clearly revolutionary
they filled the halls of Congress with the
same sort of disloyal speeches as were ut
tered there in 1861; they clustered and
bullied and defended the Lost Cause and
boosted that they were going to wipe out
all the legislation which arose from the wal
and put things where they were before the
war. The northern doughfaces endorsed all
this as they endorsed turning out the Union
boys to put Rebels in their places, but the
republicans resisted with all the eloquence
and power they possessed, and this is one
OF the reasons why they are accused by
the Ohio democratic platform OF max
ing efforts ''to open and keep alive the
war feeling between the North and the
South" According to the ideas of dem
ocratic doughfaces our republican senators
and representatives ought to have kept
their seats in peace and permitted the
Confederate Brigadiers to say and do what
ever they pleased without remonstrance,
and they could not then have been accused
of stirring up the war feeling. If there is
anything Copperhead democracy dislikes
it is the old war feeling. They hate it as
the devil hates holy water. And no won
der they are opposed to a revival of it.
But had it not been for the extra session
the war feeling would not have been so
aroused as it Is all over the North, and who
but the democrats are responsible for the
extra session.? The republicans
sought to avoid it. but the democrats
would have it, and if has produced re-
vival of the war feeling they and not the
republicans are the responsible authors of
the very thing of which they complain.
If they don't like it they don't mend the
matter by whining about it, They would
do better to accept all the responsibility
that belongs to them, send home their
Confederate allies at Washington, and
close up the extra session as quick as pos
sible.
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