Eastern times., 1855-11-08
eastern Gimes.
BATH, NOVEMBER 8, 1866.
Massachusetts,.

~ Is dIouScu, anu tHucu NdiudOie pOltlcal lrutn
has been spread before the masses IN the DEM
ocratic gatherings.
Hon. JOHN S. WELLS, of New Hampshire,
(brother of the next Governor of Maine,)
the other day.
MIR. Wells made neat allusion to Bunker
Hill and the monument, and then stated what
he regarded as the cardinal principles OF The
democracy-those of equal rights--and pro-
ceeded TO apply them to the qnesuons OF ,'N
day. No sketch could do justice 70 MS eio-
quent and effective speech. lie Claimed 'he
a,,entiop of ,be audience for about an hour
He delineated the character and tendencies of
the geographical party; enlarged on the vast
benefits of union to Massachusetts and New
England, and the impossibility of forming a
new Union, if the present should be rent asun-
der; exposed the utter groundlessness of the
alarms raised as to foreign influence by an ar
raw of facts overwhelming in their conclusions I;
analyzed the nature and debasing influences of
the secret order, dwelt on the anti-American
and tyrannical character of prohibitory or
Maine liquor law legislation on the position
in which the good old state of Massachusetts
stood before the country. In the course OF that
strain of remarks, he remarked on the manly
character of the contests between The wings
and democrats, and the contrasts afforded by
the present antagonists; how democrats had
opposed that son of New Hampshire, Daniel
Webster. but how in his (Mr. Wells') opinion,
Daniel Webster, if alive, would be found
shifting know nothingism or disunionism.
This eloquent strain, heightened in effect by
pointing to the Webster picture, brought the
audience to their feet. He closed by urging
the importance OF this election to Massachu-
sets.
EDWARD RIDDLE, Esq, U. S. Commission
er to thez orld's Fair in London, spoke at
Walthani%
Mr. Riddle said that if he had, when the oc-
casion required, stood up for his country on a
foreign soil, so he was now equally ready to
stand up for its best interests, now that his
''foot was on his native heath He now de-
fined his position. The whig party only ex-
listed in history. 1t died with Daniel Web
sier, being stabbed through him by the whig
national convention, which selected another
individual as candidate for the presidency
There was now, he said, but one party in the
country capable of keeping it upon an honora-
BILE standing among nations. AS for Massa-
chuseits, she had fallen into the hands of
combination of all the weak or wild isms of
the day; compulsory teetotalism, aboitionism
and know nothingism, which fed itself upon
dread of foreigners and horror of Catholics
BY means of this combination Legislature had
heen sent 10 the State House which proved 10
be one Heterogeneous mass of corruption from
beginning to end. Some one near the door
responded TO this remark by very distinct
hiss, to which Mr.. Riddle replied, g Precise
ly, that was one of their MEMBERSHIPS. y
The hisser being thus slenced, Mr. Riddle
proceeded to say that the legislature scarcely
contained man capable of drafting bill the
daily records of their doings exhibited their
disgraceful ignorance, and the most shameful
matters found place in the files. MIR. Riddle
also adverted to the Maine law and the perso-
nal liberty law, as proofs of the hypocrisy and
disunion spirit of the horde who had crept into
the halls Of legislation. For the present can
vass Gov. Gardner had agreed TO swallow
whatever the aboiitionists might prepare, if
accompanied by nomination for reelection.
Touching on the Kansas question, he said he
stood upon the democratic principle of letting
every state regulate its own affairs at the bal
lot box, and all would end we'll.
CHARLES A. WEIGH, Esq, made an elo-
quent speech at the meeting in Waltham-
The hall was crowded to its utmost capacity
by the democrats of Waltham and vicinity
Mr.. Welch said the legislature of Massa-
chusetts had placed the STATE in an attitude of
hostility 10 the constitution of the United
States, by enacting law making it criminal
for the citizens of Massachusetts to obey the
constitution. As parties now stood, it depend
ed on the democratic party of the state to say
whether that law should remain or be blotted
out. To this duty the democratic party in this
commonwealth would be held by the great
de nocratic party of the Union. He would
not doubt that the democracy of Massachusetts,
would keep in line with the democracy Of the
Union; the party of success; the party of
great craftsmanship; the party whose dstinc-
tive, vet comprehensive measures, however
much opposed while pending, had always at
the end received the appreciation of the whole
nation. Not one of those great measures had
been carried through without meeting even
more violent opposition than now assail
ing the present democratic administration
The purchase of Louisiana reused against that
apostle of democracy, Thomas jefferson, an
opposition greater, wilder and stronger than
that now waged against the administration
The c1omor against Jefferson, compared with
the present, was as the roar of the African
lion to that of the lion of ''Snug, the joiner"
And what now is the public voice in regard to
that great democratic act 1t was found in
commerce, trade and manufactures, increased
hundred fold in consequence of that purchase
A thousand ships, bllih By northern mechanics,
ocned by northern merchants, manned by north
ern seamen, Uindicdted the policy Of that measure.
If our democratic fathers had been alarmed by
the deuunciatons of their day, whose prosper
ity would have been checked, who would
have been the loser, but the people of the
north! So it was with the late war with
Mexico, and so it will be with the results
flowing from it. The future increased pros
perity of the country will be attributed justly
to the acquisition of the territory obtained
through that war; The history of the country
sholcs that the democracy, in hines past, has al
iO0ys been right in disregarding the alarms and
otac7ies Of their days. But such kind Of oppo-
stion was being constantly renewed, in the
face of all experience. Surely it was time, he
said, for the north 10 give up their contempt-
Bile local prejuGices. For The democracy of
the north there would be no doubt as TO the
course they would desire TO pursue Let them
now, as heretofore, throw their influence in
favor of national measures, openly and boldly
Their only hope of success was in openly pro-
posing and boldly adhering to national meas
ures, when opposed by local prejudces. Let
them keep their eyes steadily on the principle
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