The Portland daily press., 1884-11-25

me correct legal position of the Greenoacks will be
arrived at sooner later, and to this complerioR
must tce at last They are not 'lawful money" :"
as Congress enacts that then shall be,-they are
merely promises to pay that money-We trust that
the opinion will be carefully read, and still more
carefully studied"
From the columns of the Patriot it appears
that Mr.. Pillsbury was not only busy in writ
ing and publishing such dangerous senti-
ments as have been quoted, but he
was also on the stump inculcating the same
pernicious principles. In the Patriot OF June
Goth, 1868, We find the following in leading
editorial giving an account of a series Of anti
war meetings in franklin county:
THE next day. Saturday, there was mass meet
ing at Kingf Id Village and. like the Others there
cd many political meetings at KiDgield but none of
them ever compared with this one in numbers and
enthusiasm. Thore seems to be an universal feeling
that zoe hare suffered enough from the niSruie Of
abolition fanatics, and determination to fleet a
change ~ the management Of public affairs. Ladies
ana gentlemen were there from every town within a
range of twenty miles. Hon. r. X j. Porter pre-
sided. Speeches were made by Mr. Pillsbury of
Farminglon, and H. L. Whitcomb, Esq, of Phil
hps II was one OF the best political meetings we
ever attended,"
A few days after, as is we'll known, riotous
resistance to the authority of the United
OAoeoo ohOnC Sub III AiuRu5lus 1du MI
Pillsbury's writings in the Patriot, and his
violent harangues on the stump, anything to
do With melting that riot? He can auswer
And SO can everybody else!
During the whole of the year 1868 Mr.. Pills
bury's assaults on the government were in
tensely bitter.-The whole tendency of his
editorial efforts was to bring the national
administration into contempt and odum, and
to prevent the government raising men and
money to prosecute the war for the suppression
of the rebellion. Had Mr.. PiIlsbury shout
dered musket and Joined the rebel ranks,
his influence wonld have been harmless COM
pared with that which he continually exereed
through the columns of his paper When it
was absolutely necessary for the government to
raise men by drafting Mr.. Pllsbury sought
continually to paralyzs its efforts. For in.
stance, in his paper of Oct. 23 he writes as
follows:
"Another proclamation of the President will be
found under the teegraphic head calling for 300
600 in addition to th ose req ured under exist
ing orders. his is necessary measure under the
present administration policy. y = Let those
who believe in the policy redeem their pledges and
answer this call Tor more men,
These who did not believe in the policy of
Mr. Lincoln were thus urged not to support
the war.
In another issue, referring to the draft, Mr..
Pillsbury wrote thus menacingy:
THE people have been patient, forbearing and
long suffering. but their patience is about aoorn
out"
In another issue, just after the triumph of
Vickshurg, Mr.. Pillsbury wrote thus:
"This War Farce is carried on unrelentingly and
systematically. and question is reciurocalV
of Life and Death.'
That is, you have as much right to fight
against the government as the government has
to demand that you fight for it,
In another issue Mr.. Pillsbury wrote thus:
"Ths inscription is a fair specimen of abolition
wisdom, and ii the people do not TURN OUT the
CRAZY INCOMPETENlS, S, conscription after con-
scripuon will come upon u.s.
The "crazy incompetents, whom MIR. Pills.
bury urged the "peope" to ''turn ont" were
Abraham Lincoln and his adgisers. The
turn out" was OF course to be by violence, for
no presidential election was to occur for nearly
year and half, and that could not affect a
conscription to take place at the date of Mr..
Pillsbury's writing.
In another issue Mr.. Pillshury denounced
tconscription" as "a policy resorted to oraly bu
ton must be enforced By the iron hand of mill
tdry poDer."
This, OF course, meant that the draft should
not be peacefully submitted to, but that ''if
enforced" it must in Mr.. Pillsbury's iudg-
ment be ''by the iron hand of military power"
Not satisfied with doing all he could to bring
the draft into odium, and thus prevent the
government getting men to recrat and rein
forca its armies, Mr.. Pillsbury continued his
assault on that great and good man, Abraham
Lincoln, in the most indecent and violent
style. In one article he thus wrote:
"Alas that Lincoln had rot been CONSUMED to in
Jany and forgetfn fntness before he succeeded in
drenchiDg the land in blood and ongerting our free
government into military despotsm."
Not satisfied with this style of denunciation,
Mr.. Pillsbury resorted to indecent ribaldry,
seeking in this way to bring Mr.. Lincoln into
public contempt. Thus, in one of his issues,
he wrote:
sSome writing from Washington soon after
Lincoln arrived there in his Scotch cap and cloak
jack and sand hill crane. We thought at the
time IL was harsh judgment, but there was more
truth than poetry IL The description, after all.1
In another issue, noticing the remark of a
friend Of Mr.. Lincoln, that the illustrious
President would ''shine brighter aud brighter
in history" Mr., Pilsbury published in the Pa
triot that the eulogist must mean that kind of
"shins" described by John Randolph ''qoher8
he shines and stinks and stinks and shines like
rotten mdckereE By moonlight"
In his assaults on the public credit, depre-
eating the greenback currency, Mr. Pllbury
reached q climax in his issue OF Sept 25, 1868.
The same paper contained an account of Rose
Grams defeat at Chckamauga, in which the
worst phase was given to the Union side; it
contained also an account OF the Sudden and
alarming advance of gold in New York, Of
course involving serions arrangement of Fed
eral finances. Accompanying these items OF
dispiriting news, Mr.. Pillsbury published the
following editorial article, giving the italics
just as they are here printed:
eff our subscribers have any loose shin-pLastere
shall take such trash yet in payment for the Patriot
Better pass them while they are good"
1t is man with such record as this
that the Democracy of Maine, regenerated
they tell us by twenty years of wandering in
the wilderness, hug to their bosoms in their
hour OF triumph. He is their "idol son."