Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1855-07-19
" Neutral Papers,"


Several neutral papers In the State are Civ
ing strong symptoms of desire TO go In
earnestly for the Morrill, party. Let demo-
Gratis keep an eye upon these strong advocates
of morality, agriculture, and Morrillism com
bined Bah Times.
That's right. Don't let neutral papers dare
say " their souls are their own III YOU can
help it, which, by the way, we consider ex-
tremely doubtful, in one case at least--odra-
liner Journal
We do not complain about your saying your
soul is your own, if you have got any out
we do speak and shall speak in appropriate
terms of those papers that come before the
public and ask for patronage on the ground of
their neutrality, and then seize upon every
pretext to SANDER the democratic party. Just
raise your flag with the name Of Arson P.
Morrill, upon it-be an open foe, there is some
honor and " soul about that-instead of hold
ing up your neutrality helmet TO ward off the
consequences Of a dastardly blow you strike in
the dark These neutral papers, some of
them, talk with holy horror of. the Part,sdn
press, and they themselves add to the sin of
the bitterest partizanship that Of cowardly de-
ception. Let them only plant themselves
somewhere, and nobody will complain. Show
your colors-let us know openly where you
are No, you won't do it-you want the pat
ronage of democrats for your exceedingly
&c neutral papers. You'll whine about the
duty OF supporting village newspaper in the
ear of democrat, and then you will seize
upon the very first opportunity to Islander
either him or his party in your 50 neutral - or
gan. Out upon such hypocritical neutrality.
The Republican Journal has some excellent
remarks upon this subject from which we copy
the following =
A large number of these papers are edited
BY men who are ambitious TO flesh the maiden
sword of oratory in Morrill, conventions, where
they will stand good chance on account of
the intellectual mediocrity of those bodies
And then they go home and the itch for noto-
riety leads them into long narratives as to the
glory of the occasion, and the precious speech
es they made. But they are all " NEUTRAL"
of course. They are " neutral 'like that very
delicate clergyman at Bangor, who has been
up to his eyes in political Vaccinations, but
who must needs publish sort of card denying
that he has anything to do with politics.
g neutral ~ like Elder Peck, whose oily head
hobs about the Hobbies of every legslature,-
or like Elder Stevens who means to make his
jack by dwelling in those columns once pre-
sided over by the talented Severance, (niraJle
dictu 0-or like Elder Kalloch, who fears that
ministers will be driven out of politics, and
who has been a wire-worker for Morrill, for
long time.
Now, we know not how our democratic
may think about it, but we re-
gard this movement to defeat the democratic
party through these " neutralities " as about
the meanest piont in the tactics of our OPP
ponents. And in future we shall treat it as
such. If these g neutral - papers like the
Gazette, at Rockland, the Banner, at Augusta,
the Gazette, (agricultural.) at Hallowell, the
Journal, at Gardiner, want TO be "counted
in,' let them put up the name of the neutral
Arson p. Morrill,, and come in like men, and
not use their columns under the pretence of
not being partizan papers, to cheat and deceive
the people. Henceforth we shall not fail TO
speak of these papers when occasion may re-
quire, as wolves in sleeps clothing, and as
the organs of clergymen and others who have
thrust themselves into the arena of politics
without proper occasion.
And the Journal might have added to the
list the Lewiston Falls Journal, a savagely
bitter I" neutral ''-and the Portland Tran
script.