The Portland daily press., 1879-11-01
SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER
Boston journal.
An Appalling Outrage.


The people of the State of Maine can have
had no idea of the utter wretchedness OF their
condition until they were kindly enlightened
by the Globe Commissioner, VINO telis MS tale
of woe at such prodgious length this morning
1T Is. pitiable to reflect that we have here, III
our own New England, State whose people
have been entirely given over TO inc oppfess-
ors: and the distress of the situation is height
ened rather than lessened by the fact that the
unhappy pol ulation have been living along in
ignorance of their wretched plight. We meet
neople. now and then, who reside in that dew
astated State, and to all outward appearance,
tney are as happy and cheerful as average men
and womer, aud yet they have been all the
time under the heel of the ,oppressor, and it is
the Globe Commissioner who, after weeks OF
industry, has found it out We have the word
of that excellent man that Justice has been
Knocked" in them, because Democratic lawyers,
on account of their political Opinions, have
been placed under ban by the courts, and
some Of these unfortunates ''haye become alb
solutely impoverished" through these depress-
inc evils We have the same high authority
for the statement that there have been COM
mitted in Maine some OF the most high
handed outrages perpetrated in modern civil
times" These are probably not as bad as those
perpetrated in modern military times-what-
ever these may be-but they are bad enough.
Moreover the victims of these outrages afore-
said have become $50 imbued with theSprlt
Of fright" that they have been unwilling to
make their statement, and justices of the
peace have refused, through sheer terror, to
administer the oath to them.
This introduction paves the way to the har-
rowing disclosures which follow. The courage
Gus Globe Commissioner has picked his way,
cautiously and in disguise, about the terror
ridden State and has picked up some thrilling
incidents of the late campaign which--to the
two or three hundred people in the State OF
Maine who read the Globe-will be as marvel
Gus as one of Verne's romances We have not
space enough at command to quote at any
length from the Commissioners recital OF out
RACES but keeping in mind the Old injunction,
"3y one know all,' we select one of the most
pathetic We beg our readers to hold their
breath for moment while they peruse this
simple but graphic story of horrible political
outrage, perpetraied in this very year of our
Lord, right here in New England Says the
Globe Commissioner:
stance Of this is found in the of man who was
Sunday-school teacher in Androscoggin county.
His class was taken away from him for no other
reason than that he was a Democrat.
Men, brethren, fathers, has it come to this?
Are ,our Sunday-sehool classes to be deprived
of the instruction and example of their Demo-
cratic teachers? Picture the scene, if you can;
fill in all the narrowing details. Imagine two
Republican deacons, provided with swlvels
and small arms, standing guard over that Sun
day-school class, while two other Republican
Deacons, heavily ACQUIRED, lead the Demo-
cratic teacher down the aisle and Republic
can parson waits at the door to speed his exit
This is an outrage which must fill every patron
of Bascoms grocery with horror. A Democrat
can exist without office, without money, and
perhaps, in extreme cases, even without WINS
KEY but when it comes to robbing him of his
Sunday-school class it is time for tyrants to
tremble. Let the Republican despots in the
State of Maine beware!