Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1855-12-28
vALEDIcr0RY.

II til the present number Of the .imt
rioaa the firm Of CHANry & Moo
esas.s 70 be Its publishers and with TIL
number We close our labors as its Editor
oar entire interest. including the sub
ssEpt'on list and all due theteon, rcserv
ing only the sans due on advertising.
having been disposed Of to y. X. SAW
YER, Ae will hereafter continue the 4
7'erica1 As It's Editor and Publisher.
Tic multiplicity of reasons and cir
c''alstances which have combined to pro
4a1e this change. cannot all he set fortl
II the brief space which we have allottet
for this article: vet we deem this suit
able occasion for making public some
things which can alone Justify us for the
course We have thought proper to pur.
sic.
1t IS now more than two years since
the commencement OF difficulties between
Bapst and the School Committee, and
our espousing the side of the latter
During that campaign We strove rattle,
as an American than party man nor
was It until several months after that we
first heard Of such thing as Know
Nothing Having written several let
tiers to Boston and New York, and fail
ing to obtain the desired information in
reference to the nondescript called Know
Nothing. We finally went to Boston on
purpose to join the order On our re-
turn we found an organization in full
blast IN Fliswo-.h a-a mo -.o-~ 49, r
ter elected a delegate to the State Coun-
Gil. The delegates met and formed a
State organization. We had the honor
of being elected one Of its officers. and OF
being appointed deputy for this County.
How well and how faithfully We dis
charged the duties Of the latter Office.
NAV be inferred from the fact. that, like
those Of old. we started withou; purse
or scrip. and. during all summer. lee
tured and organized in almost every
town. The result was. Hancock took
the rank OF Banner County in the State.
We were subsequently chosen a dele
gate to the National Council, and at
tended its Session in Cincinnati in Nov.
1854. In Feb, last, the leading Adolf
tionis;s, backed up by swarm Of old
Fogies, Jack Catholics, and disappointed
Office seekers, the most of whom had
smuggled themselves into the order, sue
ceeded in whecdling the Matte Ameri-
cans into signing call for Republican
Convention. We resisted this movements;
from the vary first, although We did not
fully comprehend all the mischief likely
TO rcsul, from il. We knew that some
o; the leading men in that Convention
had freely contributed their money for
the purchase Of a gold watch for Bapst,
and that circumstance alone afforded suf-
ncient reason for refusing to fellowship
with them. Indeed. we could not CO.
operate with such men without violating
the spirit OF an ohligation-one which We
intend saeredly 10 Keep through life.
Here commenced the first breach be-
tween US and party which owed its
prosperity more to our individual excr
tons than to any other person in the
State. On our part it was a difference
of opinion with the lcadcrs--an honest
difcrence-onc in which we were sus-
tanned by more than seven-eighths of the
members OF the order in this County.
This il no idle assertion. but tact
which can be proved by written evidence
still in our possession.
As the campaign advanced, we bccanx
more and moro convinced that the Re-
publieans aimed at success, even at the
price of crushing out the American party.
Therefore we doubled our diligence in
trying to defeat the denomination of Nor.
ri. Week after week We told our read
ers that certain defeat awaited the party
if Morrill, should be endorsed. Time has
proved that what the Republicans Their
styled IS rash, hot-headed editorials, ,
we're only words Of truth and soberness
On our part it was neither prophecy MOI
guese work; but simple. plain reasoning
such as might have been escorted TO BY
school boy.
! Our opposition to Morrill, and the Re