The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1855-08-24

man could follow for living, would be
going round and getting into bed to warm
for other folks Laughter.) And thir
,he hardest business our whig friends wi
have to do, is that Of warming the beds
tho Hunker Democrats. (Great applau
and lnughter.) How is 1t that they cannt
and will not break away from party whic
is thus endeavoring to use them! Let IN
read q paragraph or two from an address
the Democratic State Convention In l8l!
(The paragraphs were read expressive {
the determination Of the democratic part
to make decided stand against the er
croachments of slavery We are with 20,
fellow democrats in oil that you here say
We demand halt. That is precisely wher
the Republican party stand to-day. Th
only question which was before the countr
in lS41, is the question which is before Il
now. The questions Of Tariff, OF Interna
Improvements, or q National Bank, are no
before the country now; and here, upon tn
only questions of the day, the Republican
party stand to-day upon precisely the SAM
platform on which the democratic party O
the north stood in lS47 and 40, and all th,
years for the last twenty years. And 81
also in regard to the whig platform.
But what say the democrats in thei
platform this yeaIl
Resolved, That the administration by
lis faithful execution Of the laws-V sup
po.e that has reference 10 the execution o
the laws 10 regard to The rights Of the cili
zens OF Kansas. )-by It's a9herance 10 The
Constituiion-(The Constitution" here
undoubtedly means the MesiIla Valley
'realy. .)-by lis admirable foreign policy
(Tha, relers TO Mr.. Soule's Congress at o..
lend, and the bombardment OF GreyiOwn
Lauhler and by its adhesion 10 the land.
marks Of the Democratic party" The
Missouri Compromise was one of the land
marks Of The Democratic patty and we
nave seen The mode IN which they maintain
their landmarks; and then 90 on 10 say
that this is ;, expressive Of no opinion in
'elalon 10 The repeal ofihe Missouri Com.
promise. That is the resuli-the conclu-
sion They have no opinion in regard Ia
the repsal Of the Missouri Compromise,
that great measure Of the administration
that leading measure Of Mr.. Piercs's gov
erment, a measure about which everybody
in the whole country is talking, and which
at once give character 10 The administration
-,hep have no opinion 10 express in regard
10 il. Wha, does il mean! Is il possible
lha, they can have SO little regard for the
welfare of their party as 10 have formed no
opinion in rega.d TO its leading aud most
measure, or is it that they
have an opinion and arc afraid 10 express
IL Very great applause Who are ,hoy
afraid Of! Tho free people Of Maine or a
lyranical oligarchy in the South : [ Renewed
applause. What position 10 be in =
Either that they have no opinion, Or, II
they have, lhey are choked and dare no,
express it. Continued applausel
Democrats will you go with these men
You have opinions and you are not afraid
10 express Them anywhere (cheers.) No
opinion! What business have they 10 be
a party If they have no opinion. What
Iish, have lney'to givel No light at all.
They are sculking about with dark lanterns
and have no light 10 give wha,ever.-
These men know well enough that none
Of US can do anything which would imply
that we are not true to ourselves. We can
none OF us afford 10 do anything but what
We know 10 be right. We SEQ cur duty
plainly and we must do il. They may call
US traitors or wha, else they please; let
hem DO so; we can afford 10 be yilified
and misrepresenied, but we canno, afford
to do what we know is wrong and what we
have always said is wrong, and we pont
DO it,-lhat is more. (Great Applause.)
Blu, !, is said this year is not an important
year-that we may this year attend to
State matters, and leave these questions Of
National interest alone. Is is not so.
regard our action this year as being Of rs
much importance as it was last year, and
more important, perhaps, than 1t will bc
next year; for on what we do in 1855 de-
pends in gieat measure what we will do
10 1856; and not only so, but it depends in
a great degree on what Maine may do this
year. rs to what will be done in other States
IN 1856. As we put the ball in motion, so
il will GO rolling to the end. Let Maine
triumph nobly this year as she will VERY
great applause let her elect Morrill, as her
Governor by 10000 majority as she will ire
newed applause,) let her do that-let the
word be sent to Ohio. and let Ohio respond
with her 100, 900 majority for Chase, and
Indiana and Illinois will do likewise; and
hen let the influence of these triumphs re.
turn to the Empire State, and the Old Bay
State in November-let the North be swept
now and we may be sure that in 1856 a
Northern Republican President will be cleo.
ted and that is result which will DO in
no small measure influenced by this meet
ing IN Portland to day, and by the vote OF
Maine on the 10th Of September next
That done the State Legislatures will be
so that during the first Congress
Ut The next Presidency we shall have all the
branches OF the government, and will thus DO
enabled to make slavery sectional and free.
dom national us it should be (Applause. -
Bu, let us break down now,-let Wells DO
elected or Morrill, defeated-no matter how
and what will you hear Why it will
go abroad swilter than if on the wings of the
wind, that Maine is breaking down-that
Maine Is sustaining the Pierce abministra.
oohioSibSy w csa'Oty
umphant, that the representatives Of Maine
have been rebuked, and that Moses McDo-
uald has been sustained. That will be the
word, and you all know it. Every slavery
sustaining democrat, every Southern sheet,
and every bunker newspaper will DO ringing
the changes incessantly on the assertion that
Maine has taken the back track aud what
will be the result Why you know very
we'll that il must be anything but auspicious.
How will your representatives feel whom
you elected because Of their determination
not to uphold the Nebraska measure, when
they are told by Southern men tha, they are
misrepresenting their constituents What
can they do! How can they have any
heart to repeal the Missouri Coppromisc,
when they are every moment liable to be
told that they are acting contrary to the
wishes OF their constituents / trust, then
that we shall have with us all Of the true
men OF the State that W hen the matter Is
fairly understood, every right minded man
will be on our side, as we expect tho grea.
majority to be.
Now, my friends, we have suffered in the
past because we have not been sufficiently
firm in the maintenance Of our principles
We have been 50 weak in this respect as to
induce the South to believe that any draft