Eastern times., 1855-09-06

ON MONDAY NEXT, you viii have
an opportunity to redeem the State. Too long
have the people been subjected to a rule more
arbitrary and despotc than ever disgraced a
State. Fanaticsm and disunion have reigned
rampant in all departments of the government.
Unjust and oppressive laws have been enacted,
and corruption has stalked forth in open day
light. Rank TRAITORS TO THE UNION
have been imported among to enable the
present rotten Morrill, Dynasty to hold on to
their power a little longer. We have been dis
graced by class legislation, for the ben
eft of the the few and the injury of the many
laws imposing burdens on particular por-
tions of our fellow citizens have been enacted
banded conspirators have attacked our State
Treasury, and while the State under the
necessity Of borrowing two hundred thousand
dollars. to pay the interest and debt already
matured. Sixty Thousand Dollars
are demanded from exhausted treasury to
foster scctarian institutions of learn
ing.
Rank AbOlitiOnism has been the
gpidfng genius of our political history for
wear past and dark and damning JcSuitiSm
has brought forward its minions from their
stealthy retreats to fill our Offices and invade
our personal and constitutional rights
Laws were passed by our last legislature which
would tear asunder the bands of this blessed
Union, trample on the Constitution, and over
throw a government which was consecrated to
Freedom in the prayers and tears and blood of
patriots. The whole tendency of tie poGt-
ical party now.in power in the State, as ex-
hibited in their reckless measures and malad-
ministration of public affairs, in their triding
with human rights and human life, is in one
direction exclusively. and that is towards the
eruelties and enormities of disuaniOn and
civil wal!
The reality of our political condition in this
State for year past, is enough to rouse every
man who loves his country and his race. to
thought and action. We should struggle for
the maintenance of the vital doctrines of the
ConstitutIon-for the enactment of just and
equal laws, which shall not put one class
Of citizens above their operation. and hold an
other class subject to their most severe penal,
teed rights-for holding our public funds
above the reach of favori,ism and sectarianism
for preservation of the State disconnected
from the Church-for honesty, justice and
freedom.
DEMOCRATS, are you ready for action
Are you prepared to move in solid mass against
the continuance of the numerous evils under
which we suffers Move you must. or the
Republic is lost. Under the dark shadow of
tremendous evils, in times gone by, the Dem
ocratic Party has brought the country safely
out of danger. The old doctrines of the sa-
eredness of the Constitution and the Union,
doctrines taught by the fathers Of the Republic.
must be maintained.
Democrats of Maine /! on you the eyes of
the whole Union are turned. You are expect
ed to strangle the tra,orous isms and bea: down
their hydra heads on Monday next. viii you
not do it "As goes Maine, so goes the Union"
We entreat of you, in the words of the gallant
Lawrence, "DoN'T GIVE UP THE-sHIP."
Brother Democrats, do your duty. and the
country is safe. Fight together, shoulder to
shoulder. Let the name of our noble leader,
Samuel Wells, the best man in the State,
stimulate you to duty. Work like Men i'm
earnest, and deperd upon it Glorious
Vict0rv awaits you. The State will be re-
dee med-the Union will be pre-
served-and the glad note of Triumph
I'm Maine will reverberate through the land,
to the consolation and JOY of every true friend
of the Constitution, the Country and the
World.