Year: 1870

the statement. 1t could not deny it, for the
facts are known to the Northern people.
and no puny lie of the Standard would
avail to lessen the detestation in which the
true men of the country hold the copper
head Democracy. 1t was traitor TO it .
country in the hour of trial, and no false
hoods can ever make the American peo-
pie forget its treachery or efface the re-
membrance of actions that will ever be
the foulest blot on the pages OF American
history Again we tell the Standard TO
remember these things and not attempt to
place the sins of its party upon innocent
shoulders. If reconstruction should prove
to be a failure it will be owing to the ef-
forts of the copperheads of the North and
to them the guilt belongs.


The Standard calls the men who have
triumphed in the South good and peace
full citizens" and claims fellowship with
them, and declares them to be in full com
munon with the Democratic party OF the
North. That these men have made MUIR



political victories is fact now too well
known to be denied. Even the Standard,
which never acknowledges such truths
until forced to do so. has not dared to de-
ny that the good" peaceful" and
..Christian" Conservatives of North Car
olina, organized bands of secret assassins,
to, by murder and outrage. so terrify the
colored voters, as to carry the State for
the conservative Democracy


If, knowing these facts, it still claims
fellowship with the perpetrators, it en-
dorses their deeds.


If it is OF their party and they Gifts, the
creed of the one must necessarily be the
creed of the other


The following is the creed OF the South
ern Democrats, or "Conservauves, as
laid down by the Mobile 1ribane-one of
the leading Democratic papers of the State
1t says


"If true southern man has any political
status in a national sense, he is Democrat
The only men at the North with whose
views he honestly comedies, are those who
during the war were called 'coppcrheads,
and who since the war have protested and
voted against all the enactments OF Il cor
rupt Congress. The true Democrat be-
lieves that the reconstruction law ought
to be oyerthrown at the point of the Fed
eral bayonet if necessary, and that the
negro should be deprived of the right of
suffrage illegally conferred upon him.


"When we abandon these principles we
abandon the Democratic party and with it
the forlorn hope of restoring the govern
ment as ii WdS."


This is the political creed of the men
with whom the Standard claims fellow
ship-consequcntly it is the creed of the
Democratic party of Maine.


To "restore the government as it Was"
means to restore slarery and to do away
with all the results of the war To this,
the Democratic party of Maine, according
to the Standards own ayowal, is pledged
And the above must also be the principles
of the gentlemen nominated for Office by
the Democrats and concerning whose in
tense loyalty they have so much to say
even while their papers lose no opportuni-
ty of showing their hatred to everything
loyal by distorting it into a term of re-
proach, as is done in the last article of the
Standard


Now that the Democrats have, through
their organ, SO plainly and Enthusiastically
declared their purposes, no future sophis-
tries or open falsehoods can avail them.
They stand confessed before the world as
traitors, not only to the government, but
to their own people


The Southern Democrats or "Conserva-
vatives." declare that the only men
in the North with whom they can
affiliate are the copperheads, and the
Standard declares its principles and
those of its party by claiming these unre-
pentent rebels as being in full fellowship
with the Democratic party of the North.
Let the patriotic people of Mainc,a State in
which there is hardly a family which was
notrepresented by some brave soldier fight
ing for the preservation of the government,
remember this declaration of the organ
of the copperheads of Maine. Let every
honest man in the State. reflect upon its
words, and remember that vote for the
nominees of such party is u direct inju-
ry to the nation and an insult to the heroic
men who have given their lives to preserve
it. I