Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-10-27
A Call TO Patriotic Men.

Editor of the kennebec Journal:
The approaching election will tell whether
the days of 1861 have been forgotten by tn.
people of Maine or not. In 1865, when JEFF
Davis was fleeing from Richmond, when
driven out by the Army of the Potomac, he
was met by friend who asked if the Confed
eracy was not about overthrown, Davis re
piled at seems so. but the principle for
which we fought, is bound to reassert itself
although it may be at some other time and in
some other FORM"
Wade Hampton of South Carolina, who in
1865 was a rebel General and had fought
four years to destroy this government, is now
a member of the United States Senate, in
stead of sleeping four feet under ground
having died at the end of halter, as a Just
punishment for treason and this Wade Hamp-
ton at Staunton, Va, this last summer, in
speech declared, that in this year of our
Lord, 1880, was the time, and the form was
the election of Hancock by the democratic
party, when the principle" which JEFF Da-
Wis spoke of in 1865, was rsasserting itself
Remembering as | write what those who
volunteered to go to war in 1861 were told
BY all our people. cannot believe that a ma
jority Of the voters of Maine will ,on the sec
ond day of November, declare by their bal
lots, that JEFF Davis and Wade Hampton
| were right during the war, or that they are
right now. The issue is squarely made up.
JEFF Davis boastingly, in 1865, declared the
principle for which the rebel States had
fought was bound to rise again, while Wade
Hampton in an appeal to the people of Vir-
ginia, to elect Hancock, declared it was the
principle 'for which Lee and Jackson fought
for four years." Voters of Maine, where do
you wish to record yourselves this year, in
the great political contest. that will as Ger
| tainly result in the election of Garfield as
the world stands till the night Of Tuesday,
November 2nd-with Hampton and JEFF Da
friends from treason from 1861 to 1865.
While burning patriotism and dislike to
Solid South domination set all Ohio and
Indiana ablaze for the republican cause
| everybody who fought copperhead democra-
cy during the war rallied under the republic
can flag; while the same is now true in New
York where the republicans viii have 10000
majority, and will carry New Jersey and Con-
necticut; while the farmers, merchants, la
boring men, mechanics and all classes of
business men are rsllying for the election OF
Gen. Garfield, is there any good cause why
Maine should take different course, and al
lev her vote to be enrolled with Hampton
and JEFF Davis?
Your patriotism says no, and most assured
ly your business interests say no. l know
that the solid South means mischief to our
form of governpens. I have reason to know.
have reason to oppose the solid South. In
the war of rebellion lost three brothers in
tue army, unfolding our flag. when this same
solid South was trying to tear it down in the
interest of treason and under the leadership
of JEFF Davis and Wade Hampton. There
fore have right to make an appeal to the
voters of the State, in whose defence and for
whose honor my brothers gave their lives
So standing guard over their graves, over
which the grass has scarcely grown green, in