Daily Kennebec journal., 1879-03-08

to fee from his country in female apparel
The battle cry upon the Union side for four
years, was, "We'll hang JEFF Davis to a sour
apple tree" No one was even weak enough
for moment to suppose that when caught,
any thing save death as traitor and felon
awaited him.
For deeds of cruelty, for acts of inhuman
treatment, no warfare records a parallel.
JEFF Davis was the prime factor and chief
perpetrator Of all this infamy. No other
Government of earth would have saved his
life, and to draw it mildly, we believe this
Government seriously blundered by its lem
iency to the wicked, perjured old traitor.
Still he might have lived in seclusion and
perhaps never done much harm; but those
who were followers with him in treason, are
back occupying seats in Congress, max
ing laws for the country they would have de-
stroyed, and only a few days since, in the
United States Senate, Lamar Of Mississippi
took occasion to pronounce a eulogy upon
JEFF Davis, in which he stated that he was TO
be placed side by side with Washington |!
We conclude that even the mildest kind of
loyalty must have for once thanked God for
the presence of Senator Chandler of Michi-
gan in the Senate on that occasion, for new
er was humanity more completely excoriated
than was Lamar and his associates by the old
Roman from Michigan.
The purpose of the leading politicians Of
the South is plainly shown now, and the time
for action should not be delayed upon the
part of loyal people. Lamar and his like,
have thrown down the gauntlet. They mean
to rally the South under the idea that they
were right and the North wrong during the
late war; hence they select the President Of
the late Confederacy as the man of all Others
whose character and craftsmanship is to be
held up to the rising generation for an ex-
ample. Well so let it be, and under this
sign the loyal North will again conquer
matters relating to the war. "Bloody Shirt"
shrieked from traitorous mouths, and
sometimes re-echoed by conservative, dough-
faced men at the North has kept the republi-
can party in many localities silent to such an
extent that it has almost been regarded as
wrong to say anything in praise Of the course
the Union people took in the struggle. At
the same time the Southern leaders have on
all occasions lost no opportunity to boast of
what they did, and to keep up the idea among
the people, that their cause was just They
teach this to the rising generation, and do
everything in their power to cause them to
hate the general government, while they in
culcate in their minds the most ultra Of States
Rights notions.
The course for loyal people to pursue is
plain. Let the cry of Lamar be heralded
over the North, let there be organization
everywhere, let the spirit Of 1861 once more
be aroused, and such a victory will be rolled
up as will teach pardoned traitors that to for
give is one thing, but to forget is another.
The republican party is forced to the rally
ing cry by Lamar and his allies, that cry be-
ing, ''the rights of citizenship everywhere
throughout our borders" II fthere are States
at the South with republican majorities by a
fair vote, let US see to it that such States are
organized, and this vote honestly cast at all
future elections. Forcwarned is forearmed.
Will we act in season? LOYALTY.