Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-07-07
From the Bangor Wing and Courier.
Despisable Campaign SANDER.
Pillsbury at his Dirty Work.
ATTEMPTING To BLAcKEN SOLDIER s
RECORD.

ATTEMPTING TO BLAcKES SOLDIERS
RECORD.
Eben +. Pillsbury, in the vile sheet that
has traduced every loyal soldier or citizen
from Abraham Lincon's time to the present
has started his campaign in his usual nasty
manner, by lying and abusive attack upon
the record Of the republican candidate as a
virulence Of Pillsbury are stamped all over
the Islander that he prints, and it will recol
as his boomerangs have done before, upon his
own contemplate head.
Daniel +. Davis the republican candidate
for governor, wa, but 20 years of age when
he left an academy TO enlist as private SOL
der under the national flag He has made
no claim to military distinction, and even the
enthusiasm of his friends in the republican
convention went no farther than to invest him
with the rank of a cavalry corporal and the
credit due loyal and faithful soldier. If
Eben Pillsbury thinks that the humble rank
Of q youthful soldier is a cause of reproaeh
he will be likely to get an answer to his in
suit from the tens of thousands of Maine pat
riots who stood in line of battle with their
muskets for their only insignia of rank.
But Pillsbury resorts to explicit and abu-
sive Islander in expressing his rage because
the great republican party OF Maine has TAX
en- a soldier from the ranks for its standard
bearer in the State compaign. We shall cite
a few ofthe most outrageous falsehOods for the
purpose Of stamping them into the ground.
Pillsbury asserts that from the date of his en-
listment until his final discharge Mr.. Davis
rfn nd ipa !nr "a 70 ha
in the city of Washington The statement is
an unmitigated lie!
Pillsbury asserts that Mr.. Davis received
bounties aggregating one thousand dollars.
The statement is an unmitgated lie
Pillsbury asserts that Immediately upon
receiving orders into active service Mr..
Davis made a pretext of illness with cow
arlly desire to avoid fighting. The state
ment is an unmitigated lie!
Pillsbury asserts that ''he Mr.. Davis) was
never in any engagement at ALL" The state
ment is atrociously false -
The sole pretext upon which this monstrous
series of falsehoods is strung, is the fact that
Mr.. Davis, after participating in some of the
most arduous service of the war in cavalry
raids under Kautz that have become historic
and that furnished more fighting than Eben
Pillsbury would stomach, had the misfortune
like thousands of other good men and true to
contract CHROME disease from wnlch ne SUI
fered for years after the war.
Eben Pillsbury proposes to put a stigma
and reprOach upon every soldier who was
stricken down in the field by an enemy more
feared by our army than rebel soldiers, and
the conductor of the Maine Standard would
brand the name Of coward even upon the
head-stones over the remains of those who
came home from Libby and Andersonville to
die lingering death from disease.
Eben Pillsbury has again made a fatal blum
der in his malice.
Daniel Y. Davis was a brave, honorable,
faithful soldier. There is no stain of reprOach
upon his record. He faced and fought the
enemies of his country on horseback and on
foot in bloody contests that are now a part of
history, and in which he helped to bear the
bodies of his dead comrades from the battle
field. If il was q dishOnOr to fight with the
First District of Columbia Cavalry day after
day in Virginia, nj Reams Station, in the as
ssult on Petersburg and elsew here. then Pills
bury can attack Mr.. Davis record. His
comrades throughout the State, however will
not be likely to accept Pillsbury's opinion in
the matter.
his military service. He has never bcasted
Of it, or thought that he WAS entitled to spe-
cial credit for doing his duty But when he
is thus wantonly assailcd by Copperhead
Islander his comrades with whom he has
shared the privations and perils of the march
and field will not remain silent. Mr..
Eben Pillsbury will rue the day when he as
sailed the honor of a cavalry corporal, before
this campaign is over
Mr.. Davis received $50 State bounty and
$500 local bounty, nothing more, when he
left his home, n poor boy in his twentieth
year. Does Eben Pillsbury propose to in
suit every patriot soldier Of Maine who
accepted similar freely offered aid for the
benefit of fathers, wives or children left
behind? In doing it he takes a big con-
tract, rs the soldiers Of Maine will teach
him.
Our inadvertent error in an article written
in the hurry Of the night after a great con
vention, in stating that Mr.. Davis remained
with his regiment until mustered out fur.
nishes no excuse for the bold ISLANDERS of the
Standard, and its infantile echo, the Com
mercial. That he was compelled by sick.
ness to spend the latter portion Of his enlist
ment in hospital with disease contracted by
exposure and OverwOrk amid the swamps and
forests of Virginia. would never be though,
of as a discredit by any one but Pills
bury.
We ought to thank Pillsbury for this veno.
nous assault. 1t reminds the soldiers OF
Maine Of that undying hatred with which he
followed them during the war; and which
pursues them with unfinished malice four
teen years after their victory at Appomattox.
The soldiers will answer Eben P.llsbury loud
enough for him to hear.
A Greemback Delegate on the
Greenback Senatorial Candi.
dates.
To the Greenbaek Voters Of Kenne5ee county
As a delegate to the county convention, Al
Gardiner, Saturday, for one wish to inform
the greenback voters Of Kennebec county
whom you are askedto vote for as Senators, ant
how II came about? Mr.. d. II. Thing Of Mt
Vernon, (the first man nominated,) learning
some three months ago that his name was t.
be left of the republican ticket as County
Commissioner Gan Office he is now holding,
went to work to have his name placed upor
the greenback ticket. His first move was t.