Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-26
Northern DOughfaceS.

The race of northern doughfaces is not
yet extinct. They appear at every nation
al election, the same submissive, meek
followers of the arrogant South. Before
the rebellion they defended and eulogized
the institution of Slavery. looked up to the
political leaders of the South as the en-
bodiment OF ell the craftsmanship of the
country, and the common slave masters as
the very pink and perfection of the human
race. Whatever the South asked for the
doughfaces were ready to grant, even to
the making of Slavery the chief corner
stone of the national government.
The stern lessons OF the war. which
lowered the crests of the naughty southern
arstocrats so that they were willing al
last to acknowledge the superiority OF the
despised mechanics. laborers and farmers
OF the North, did not extinguish the race o,
northern doughfaces. Through the wal
they sympaihized with the rebels. praised
their valor and reioiced when they gained
advantages over the Union army. Wher
the war ended they chung to the battered
and tatiered remnants of rebeldom as the
hope of the democratic party. They la
mented the destruction of the Southern
Conicderaey. They wept over the failure
of Secession. They extoled the proves
of Lee, the wisdom of JEFF Davis, and pro-
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butcher. They pleaded to have the rebel
States restored at once. after their surren-
der to all the relations in the Union which
they had voluntarily, ruthlessly and with
out justification or cause broken when
they took up arms against the govern
ment. They could scarcely wait for tn,
rebel brigadiers to exchange the habili-
ments of war for those of peace bctor,
showing them the way to Congress and
pointing out that there was n chance for
them to capture the White House and
"get even" with the despised Yankees.
| Northern doughfaces have justified and
defended every crime that Southern demo
Gratis have committed. They saw our
brave Northern boys subjected to the
| cruelties of Andersonville and Libby
prisons and said it was good enough for
them. served them right for enlisting in
an abolition war. They have had evil
dence upon evidence placed before them
of the massacre. the hanging and shoot
ing, the whipping. the outraging in all
ways of black and white republicans in
the South for no offence except that they
We're republicans aud desired to exercise
the privilege of expressing their political
sentiments as is proper and lawful in this
country. but they deny the whole
or. if they admit anything charge
the blame entirely upon the victims OF
Southern intolerance and prescription.
They bring prominent actors in some OF
the most bloody and barbarous scenes in
the rebellion into these Northern
States to advocate the election Of Hancock
and English. but think republicans and
greenbackers have no right to speak their
political sentiments in Alabama, and de-
serve richly to be mobbed and driven out
if they attempt it. See the immense
fraud in the late Alabama election In a
free vote and fair count the republicans
and greenbacksrs have Il majority in that
State, but the result as declared is a DEM
ocratic majority OF some 100000. And
not democratic paper in the North has
honesty or spirit enough to denounce such
u giant fraud.
The doughface democracy of the North