Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1854-06-30


according 10 It's voice the owners leh the Hall
Of the House Of Representatives before tho
final vote OF nomination was taken.
Was tha, "bol,ing" or was that "isgulsr"
democracy Upon this came cali fors
Mass Convention to nominate a candidate for
Gov. 10 save the party, the leaders profess.
ING 10 have gone behind the oracle and to
have found the .ibYllihe leaves responsive tn
tho CALI Another new test ~ democracy
now rolled over fho wheel, and all who op.
posed the call, sustained Hubbard, were pro-
seribed, and the new party styled themselves
lAe "hberal party" claimed to dictate De.
mOcracy in opposing the Maine Law and
boiling the nomination Of every Democrat
who sustained il. This was Irregular" de.
mocracy thsn and The an,eeeden, Of "rcgu-
lar democracy now.
The nCmina,iop ofMr. Pilsbury removed
all doubt that fIis appendix had becomc an ar.
iielc and in fact the leading article in tho
creed, when those who held tho faith in lis
pTistins parity, could no longer "bsw down
In the house OF Rimmon, the idol" bot
placed in the hands Of the nominee Of this
Couven,ion, the standard under which they
had long rallied and whose inscriptions have
been preserved unsullicd, while under hi'
care.
Ga rolled thi. new machine and its wire.
answered to the touch in every County aud
town throughout The State and so Ingenious
and perfect was the operation ,ha, when the
people overPowered its action in their Priml-
~ meetings, in the choice Of delegates, 4
double set at once rolled ou, and thus in CON
veniion the fraud was eonsummated. Such
was Irregular" democracy, in opposition to
democracy itself Next came the "Nation.
al attachment, by the Washington Union,
and rcgulatedby tho Secretary ofihoTrca,urJ.
The Liberal Pres did no, readily adopt this
appendage, though like blind birds they open,
ed their mouths on the arrival Of every mes.
,cnger from Washington, until BY suppl.
meniary wadding, they were able TO swallow
Nebraska and Kansas, thus becoming thor.
ouehly NaGOHaE:,d Such j, "NaiiOnal
Democracy" made Irregular"
Around me in this Hall to-day, are those,
who, when frs, entered the arena of Pol,i.
cal action. were eknoNIcdged leaders and
oracles of democracy Steering my frail
bark in your wake. It never occurred TO mo
that tcmpes,,, rocks or shoals would arrest
nv course. You have continued to receive
the confidence and honors ofthe people in the
exercise of high aud imPortan, offices Of
trust, aud you come here today IN assert and
cndcayor to maintain the same principles IN
the snppor, Of which you earned that conf.
dence and received those hono,, and conf.
denlly NAV We look to tn, sour~c Of tha, con.
6dsncc to repeal the srrsrs heaPcd upon US
as 'he eleven thousand party.
"a little lcasen leaSencth the whole lump
and instead Of discouragement in view Of elsv.
en- thousand We only wonder that 50 many
were then ound who would not "bow the
Knee to Baal." 1t required courage then to
act, as elrh one knew not bu, he was acting
aloae. There was no time fur concert willis
To the new tangled notions OF "lberal' dem
ocracy. eleven thousand spontaneously an.
swered, No. We now understand each 9th
er. lave now laid common platform in the
resolutions Of today. II these resoltes End
response in bat ! | 900 hearts, va may we'll
despair. iIui not 90. Three times eleven
thousand to your nomination to-day will an
swer-ayc-so We will have it /, and the hills
and mountain tops will resound in answering
echo TO the plain, below-ASsoS =. MoRRILt
for Governor.
Gird on the aruor Of liberty, equal rights,
Justice, temperance and humanity aud when
yon sun whose bright relucent rays are j'ss
now bursting from his cloudy seat shall throw
its diiIusiye ligti'over your dwellings on tie
second Monday Of September next, remem.
her the motto Of the great Nelson flung TO
breeze on the morning Of his last renowned
battle, substituting Maine for England -
"Maine expects every man to do his duty"
Mr. President, We have this day resolved
"iha, We are willing that the South shall
have every right they can fairly claim under
the Constitution. But when they demand
tha, slavery shall be installed over freedom
lid insist upon fllsifying the democratic
creed, abrogating the acknowledged prinri-
Piles Of the constitution and reversing the set
tied principles Of the government for the sols
pufpn,e Of extending the area Of ,lavctyi'o
as to establish and perpetha,o u; stpremaey
We should be false 10 The principles OF FREQ
dom II We did no, meet il with determined
opposition.
Will no, this resolves NEE, the unqualified
appreciation Of etsty man in New Englsnd-
in the free States, event Such has been the
voice Of Maine Such is her voice now, Gov.
Dana her organ said 40. And no les, today.
then in 1917, yea much more, ",he ssnti-
men, Of the free States is profound, sincere.
and almost universal, ,ha, the influence OF
slavery upon productive energy ia like the
blight of mildew, that il is 4 moral and socisl
evil, that it does violence 10 the rights Of man
as thinking, teasthns and responsible be-
ing" This is the voice Of Maine, yea OF
New England, now. The expression Of iha,
sentiment il unmisiskable, and me, with but
slight opposition in the last Legislature Of this
State, its opponents IN numerical strength,