Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-04-25

threatened catastrophe.
| That they apprehend the true char
acter and extent of their obligations,
| is manifest from the prompt and Wig
| orouS measures which they have
| adopted for. the preservation of the
government in this hour of EXTREMIST
peril.
The President Of the United States
| in virtue of the authority with which
| he is clothed by the Constitution and
| laws Of Congress, has called upon all
the states that We're not in Migrant re-
| bollion, fer a portion of the militia
| thereof to aid him in suppressing the
| existing combinations and in enforcing
| the laws of the United States.
| A requisition for regiment to serve
as infantry or rileman, has been made
upon me as COMMANDMENTS Chief of the,
militia OF this state ana it can scarce
| y be doubted that other acquisitions
| VIII he made hereafter. An early dem
| onstration of the loyalty determine
ton and power of the country may DC
| among the most efficient, economical
ard humane methods Of suppressing
| the rebellion which flagitious men have
| instisated and restoring the govern
| liltIt To tile pSdtFIui t-AtftlSS III It's
/ legitimate functions.
| GIere follow references to the requs-
itien for militia and to the men and
| money needed to carry on the war, and
| the message continues):
Gentlemen OF the Senate and OF tire
| House of Representatives All of us
even the Wisest and most far-seeing-
| have failed to perceive clearly the in
| tentioQs. or to understand fully the
| movements, of the malign spirits who
| have dominated the policy of a large
number Of the Southern states for
many Yeas. For years, as recent de-
velopments have shown, they have
been labCring with one object and plot
ting to one end-the subversion of the
government. To accomplish this cher
ished purpose, they have made the
election Of a President Of the United
States in opposition to the candidate
of their choice, the occasion for plung-
ing these states into a rebellion the
most ineXcusable and wicked of which
the annals OF the race afford any ex
ample, because ii is an uprising against
a government from which they have
received nothing but benefits and IA
Vors-a government the most wise.
just, benefeient. and the best adapted
to promote the prosperity and happi-
Hess II the people, that the world has
ever seen. For SO years it had been the |
defence. the protection, the pride and |
the glory Gf a people the most prosper4 |
oas, cantented, and the best governed, |
the most secure in all the relations of |
life. the freest and happiest beneath |
the sun. It's success and power were |
accomplished and conspicuous facts |
its name. its flag, its prestige as the |
advanced column of civilization and !
freedom, We're known, respected and |
honorcd by all the nations. and to be I
an American citizen was a distinction I
and ar honor in every court and |
among c&orv civilized people upon the +
globe
Tna idea of secession being rem |
edy for real or faneied evils under
the government-the great heresy |
that underlies the Southern rebellion,
must be rebuke1. exploded. exter- /
minated-for ii acknowledged and sub |
nitted 10. there is an end OF this |
government and the Great Republic |
will live only in History. The safe |
guards. the protection. the encourage
ments afforded b.! It wise and power
full government viii be withdrawn or
rem y ed, for the work Of disintesra-
ton onee begun under Il construction |
Of The Constitution which permits it, |
there is no union OF the remaining !
states Of a permanent or practical |
value. If one state MAY withdraw !,
from the Union at its pleasure an |
9th may do the same thing, and |
another. and so from beirg Il COM |
menWealth of states, with ore con- |
stitution, one government. one destiny. |
the American people Will BIZ divided, it |
is possible, INTO many Jealous and !
conflicting parts. into states dis |
severed. discordant, belligerem." t.
be rent with civil feud and drench- |
ed it may be. with fraternal blood
Rather than 4 calamity So dire and
dreadful should befall our country, |
in which would be inperillcd So much |
that we have. and enjoy and So much
that W9 hope for our children let
the loyal states exhaust every re-
source they possess. and every just
eNp"dient upon which they can lay
hold,-and let us al resolve. with the
calm celebration that behts tine &C.
casiOn. that in no event, Sc, long rs
we live, shall it be contaminated.
Perhaps there are no actions or
events permitted by the Almighty that
are wholly ana altogether evil, and
this strange and unnatural rebellion
demonstrates and develops the de-
voted and undying patriotism of orr
people. The loyal states Of this Union,
but yesterday broken by parties and
factions, today stand as one nan on
the hallowed ground of the Const;-
tuition, and present an exhibition of
true grandeur and moral sublimity,
that viii illumine tho pathway of
mankind through endless generations.
III m" inaugural address delivered
but 4 few months ago, remarked
without fear that / could err In what
| said. that in such contingency
as has now arrived
we know thai our own State.
whose attachment 10 the Union has
been avouched not only b. words but
by werks--by sacrifices such as she
alone of all the states hats been called
to n.eke, even by the disuembermen,