The Portland daily press., 1880-09-13
MONDAY MORNING, SEPT. IS.

loping md few lusty AMI innocent rebel yells
would 30 for Columbia? The entire atmos-
phere of shat beautiful city might be purified
by the ex oulsion of the last Radio ! there.
The South Carolina Republicans are so easily,
SO thoroughly and so much intlmldated That
it's as good as fox chase to get out alter them.
A Rad is funny enough any way you take hlm,
but when he's scared he's enough to make
even a Yankee laugh. We have had diver
sion enough, however, over this much abused,
bulliozed party, and sit would doubtless give
forth no worse an odor dead than living, its
speedy extinction is contamination devoutly
to be wished for. The Intimidation process is
all-sufficient for this determination A very
little fright, and the average Rad is "dead all
over Try the experiment next Tuesday
All that is necessary is to ride about in small
groups and look pretty savage; if any of "the
faithful are near they fall like ripe corn be-
fore the reaper.
SECESSION NOT REVOLUTION.
[Meriden OIiss) Mercury, Aug. 2S,l
The chairman of our committee has COM
mitted the canvass to the proposition that 'se-
cession was revolutionary and folly" To ad-
init that is to half condone the wrongs the
Republican party has inflicted npon the peo-
pie of the South, and still further contemplate
a remembrance which makes the South solid
and binds us together to oppose it. To
admit it is to admit that Jefferson Davis de-
served to be hanged upon that ''sour apple
tree," and only was saved by the magnanimity
and forgiveness of the conquerors. To admit
it is to confess that every willing Confederate
neck might rightfully have been claimed by
the halter. To admit it is to admit that Andy
johnson uttered aspatriotic sentiment when he
said TRAITORS must be punished and treason
made odious." 1t is to admit that the punish
has aan snAi pfnA
ton, carpet baggery! negro supremacy, plum
der, spoiation and all-has been deserved and
that we get off well in saving our necks. 1t is
in fine, to admit that we have no just and rea-
Sonable cause to oppose and vote against the
Republican party. 1t is to knock our plat
form from under us. 1t is to take away our
cause and make as appear ridiculous and fool
ish IS mere restless faction making causeless
opposition. Convince us that secession was
revolutionary and folly and you take away the
backbone, which stiffens men to stand up and
oppose the Republican party to the bitter end
:. 1t was not the doctrine we held to when
we committed the acts of secession. We held
that it was regular, peacelble and coDstitu-
tional to secede.
If the canvass is to be run to- tine tune the
honorable chairman has raised and invites the
people to help him sing, we are glad he has
postponed the barbecue. For one, we can't eat
campaign dinner with a lie on our lips-we
prefer to strarve rather than pass our food
;
and the more if he bellies himself, his truth,
his honor. And now, the barbecue being post
poned and disposed of, we are at a loss to de-
termine what use to make of the Meridian
Hancock and English Club that invited the
honorable chairman to write that address.
However, we have concluded to give this adj
vice: If they are going to rest under the doc
trine the honorable chairman has announced
for them, and by their authority they might,
in imitation Of Judas, who betrayed the Mas
TO- afro - \ fhn ~,
go and hang themselves as the decentest thing
they can now do. We shall be glad to
know that the Hancock and English Club has
gone glimmering. like the barbecue, never to
be seen or heard of again of men, if the odor
of that putrescent address they procured from
the honorable chairman is not declared from
their skirts. AS to the honorable chairman,
after this miserable and disgusting tdU1 pas,
we are clear that he should bore him a gimlet
hole in the ground and crawl into it. In his
growing small by degrees and beautifully less
and very small hole will hide him.
AN APOLOGY FOR HANcocK's LOYALTY.
From the Me idian (lss.) Mercury. Aug, q 1901
A Norristown (Pa) gen leman wac recently Wis
tied Washington. says that Benjamin f. Hancock,
the generals fail her, was notorious copperhead.
and in 1861. when the soldiers of Montgomery
were preparing for the war, he refused to permit
any soldier to cross the bridge the Schuylkill
in which he was stakeholder, without the payment
he personally closed the gates, and when argued
with by the soldiers without effect, they quietly
opened them aud marched through, quietly inform
i him that they we're marching to battle for the
Union, and were entitled to this consideration, tC
which the old man objected. Republican Exchange
Hurrah for old. Benjamin Hancock! He
stood on principle and private right until over.
powered by force. When these soldiers told
him they were marching to battle for the
Union" he knew it was lie, and that they
were marching to battle to destroy the Union
and establish government of force. He knew
they were marching to turn their bayonets
against people who had never harmed them
for the exercise of a constitutional right, and
his soul revolted at the injustice, surprising the
story to be true. 1t is true the son marched
with these soldiers against the better judy
ment and better heart of the father, but he
was soldier by profession and obeyed orders
from discipline and habit. If he hadn't been
asoldier no doubt he would have been the sor
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