Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1855-08-24
OLD SERIES. VOL. %, NO. 80.


to thcse que,tions' Answers the public
would have and ought 10 have. The time
for twaddlers and doughfaccs had gone by.
Every man and every party, who fllter- at
this tremendous cri.s. shouldbc cut down
without mercy. II there was ever TO he such
thing as a North, It was now or never.
" Arcaic, arise. or ., fcrrrcr fal,H."
Mr.. w, then rad the hfth resolution
adopted by the Democratic State Convention
at Augusta on the 2lst instant -
g. R,,olrsd. That the National Admins
tHtion Nv H. faithful execution of the laws
Nv 10 adherence 10 the Constitution hy its
admirable foreign policy and Wv H. rrsolutc
maintenance of the old landmarks Of the
Democratic party. will command the respect
and support ~ all true men. hLy'ng wrfsr-
stood fldi hp spproral of NE National ID
miHiIrdiion S crprtHrc Of No cpiHiaH ~ re-
iai,c1 10 ne r'p,ai ef ne MitioHri ComYro-
nisc.
Mr. W, said he always respected talent,
as matter Of intellectual contemplation.
In Speaking or writing, real yigor was man
if,stcl by comprc,singa good deal into
small space. Tried by this tcst, tho author
of this resolution was entitled 10 high crc,lit,
for rarely, II ever, had Mr.. W, known tolc
crowded int, - small compass 80 many
and such enormous lies. " Faithful sIecl.
non ofhr ia,r''" For three months. the
territory or Kansas had been oycrrun BY
armed rutTians, and reaccablc citizens liycl
there this day m terror for their property
and their lives. The invasion Of that Terri.
tory in the month of March, had brrn open.
" planned in public meetings in Missouri,
during the whole prc,iou. winter. where
was the President ~ Washington, deaf.
dumb, struck with an official paralysis, never
.cnlin. musk.t or a man IN the support
~ GOV. Rccdcr, and AZ thls moment trump
ing up prr,eStS 10 remove Gov. Rcclsr, from
his post, - that the hGllcs from Missouri
may rrisu unoppns"landarsolutely' supreme.
-" .iSnrrrV, f,r1cn r,i-y" Diithismcan
the bomharlmcnt Of Grrytown' The Con
ference at O,tenl' The appointment of
S,ule, The Galslon Treaty, with its ten
millions for piece ~ territory absolutely
worthless in its,lf, and which dos roi con.
tain even the railroad route 10 the Pacific,
which WI. the pretended motive or IT, nc-
qui,iton3 " R,'ohis ulinindnos of No old
ian1-narl' ef hs d,1'orraiio party" Wa'
thi. intended, as 10 Pe'-on', or as TO things ?
\, T., persons, dil 4, mcan the appointment
orCalcb Cushing 70 a sat in the Cabinet
\, to tbing., did i, mean the abandonment
or every single c..rn,ial plank II the Bilti.
more PLATFORM
Mr. W. uil that imrudcncr had desrccs
In rlcdr hands, it was mere imT"riincncc.
~ other timc-, Il assumes greater proper
,ion.. AMI sometimes, as in thi, resolution,
It even approached the magnificent Aui the
sublime.
Tho -oo,haycr. or ancien, Rome found 1t
no easy task to look each other in the face.
while they practicrd their mummorics upon
,hc people. The lasc VIM. Goblet uscl 'hi'
languas, in reference - ono ofhi' nuiago-
nists
"H E,d, and Tincr hnihe h,d, ana h
lrrr that ilr0r that h hsd, and J Hor that
+ h. lrar Ma, ! Ilnor hat h. 6oi."
Mr Cohh,tt was not scholar, but the
application Of the EXTREMIST risor Of meta
phy.ic. would f,il to detcc, 1aw. or an
omission. in this statement or complete, mu-
tual aud rcciprocating con.ciousncss of a
ial.chood between the party uitcrins Il, and
the party to whom !, was addressed. Upon
the whole, It might be taken as the hest pos
.ihle description or the mental operations Of
the gentlemen at augusta, when they de-
yi.cd and adopted this resolution.
The Convention at Augusta, alter laulinc
the administration, took occasion to say that
they express no opinion m r,'a',oa 10 h'
rpoa' erhe Missouri Compromi,s'" The
South ought not to ask anything more than
this OF their northern adjuncts, and probably
would not The south hai committed a
great Outrage, and was proceeding as rapidly
as possible to appropriate the fruits Of it.
n the North remained silent and offered no
resistance, the South would, doubtless, be
entirely satisfied.
The gentlemen at Augusta expressed "no
opinion " in reference To the repeal of the
Missouri Comprcmisc. It was not conceiv-
able that they had no opinion, in reference
to matter daily forced upon the attention
Of every reading man in the community.
Clearly they had an opinion, but did not ,'e
Ct 10 express II, and thi. might be for ono Of
two reasons. Ir,hcir opinion was unhyor'
able to the measure, they suppressed It lcst
they might offend the President. lfthcir
opinion was favorable, they Suppressed It.,
lest they might offend the people Of Maine.
It was clear that they intended to cheat
somebody; precisely whom. might he doubt
full To such miserable shns had the once
proud and gallant democracy Of Maine been
reduced
IL is we'll known that the last sentence OF
the resolution, was put on as sarider to pro-
pitiale small minority Of the Convention
The resolution, without this last sentence,
was adopted in the Committee on resolutions
by vote Of Is to /, and II may be presumed
that about that proportion of the conven-
ton itself. would have preferred The re'olu.
ton without the rider. Maniiestly, the
rider altered nothing, or il anything, for the