Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1855-08-23

| Cidts WcIc thrust dSiue, tutiE pctitiouo uiotC-
garded, and the entire State was and is to this
day, controlled by men appointed as Crosby
| wings, because they and their friends, TO re-
tain Office, were suddenly changed to Morrill,
democrats or republicans. The ms were kept
in on copdilion they would join tho fusion
party, and the outs-democrais who bore the
brunt of the political baule-were reckIessly
thrust aside as unworthy of any Office in the
| gift Of the Governor. But how does the mat
ter stand in the present campaign! What is
Gov. Morriil's position touching the paltry of
fees within his gift 1t is this, am told by
reliable authority. The Crosby wings in of
fee, are all for Morrill, now-they sell their
birthrght for mess of pottage, and expect to
be retained !; and the outsiders-the true Nor
rlIl democrats--are told that if Gov. Morrill,
is reelected this fall, by their exertions, as he
was last year, every Crosby tchig IN the STATE
| shall be removed, and Morrill, democrats shall
be appointed Now, if this is the game, hun
dreds are destined to be badly cheated. Either
the men now in Office will be scattered, il
Morrill, be elected, or the Morrill, democrats
cheated last year, will receive their reward.
One-half of the whole, at all events, are sure
to suffer grievous disappointment, if fusionisni
prevails in the ensuing election. Present APP
pearances however, indicate to every reflect
ing mind, that the discordant elements Of the
| fusion party will be sundered this fall its no
party platform will tumble to pieces, and the
platform Of Democracy will rise in its place,
bearing up the manly form of Samuel Wells,
the iurist, the scholar, the gentleman and the
democrat, whose only guide is the Constitution
of our country, and whose banner is that of
the stars and stripes, inscribed with the mem
orable motto of Andrew Jacksonville I'm
ion-it must be preserved"
But turn back to the question, what did
the last Legislature do for the people! They
actually destroyed all that was valuable in the
Maine law which we labored for years TO Sc
cure passed two three acts multiplying the
provisions of the Constitution, and attempted
TO pass others, authorizing the dissection of
the bodies of the friendless, and appropriating
$50, 900 worth of land to sectarion institutions
TO secure the union of portion of the clergy
in an assault upon the Union In the latter
schemes they failed, but in their effort to pun
sh the rumseller, and. exterminate the traffic,
they have enacted law which eronerdtcs the
rumseller from all punishment for the time
being, and encourages the traffic in rum all
over the State. Not satisfied to let well
enough alone, wishing to secure some hobby
| for the present campaign, they have ruthless
1853, signed by Cows. Hubbard and Crosby,
and passed law that is comparatively worth
less-so poor and inefficient,
There's none so poor to do it reverence
This is sad reflection for temperance men.
4 1t grows out of the fact that men have been
sent 10 the Legislature to make our laws who
are wholly incompetent to the task or indffer-
ent upon the nature Of their duties. And this
proves that certain leading temperance men
have sorely injured the cause Of temperance by
dragging it into party politics, and asking all
I temperance men TO abandon their several po-
litical organizations and to Join fusion party
in order to secure prohibtory law. One
would think from the manner in which the
temperance cause has been. subsidized to ele-
vate demagogues TO office, that the democratic
/ party and whg party were each opposed to
all law on the subject, and yet the former gave
us the laws of 46 and 81, and the latter the
| law of '53-the best laws we ever had, with
out hesitation. But things have changed
1t is not enough that we get good law, we
must elevate certain men to Office on the pre-
tence that the cause of temperance demands
4 it, and the cause Of abolition or Tree soIllsm
| also. Knowing that Gov. Morrill, was nomi-
mated by the Temperance Convention at Ban
I gor, as the exponent of the Maine law, and
that a Maine law legislature $50 called) was
elected, / looked with anxiety for good law
I last winter, and one which would obvlatc the
exceptions contained in the opinion of the Sq-
preme Court Of Massachusetts. 1t was rea-
sonable TO expect that eue friends of temper
ance would pass such law. But what did we
behold A erifcalion Of Pope's couple;, that
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread -
\ Men Of all parties, on the fusion principle,
/ rushed into Office enacted a law; repealed
/ all former laws, adjourned and went home
/ And what was the law they passed. One Of
the most miserable and deceptUe idlcS erer enact
/ ed an our .Stdtet And yet the Governor IN
willingly approved il, and the Rev. editor o:
the Temperance Journal extolledit to the skies
in his paper last spring, declaring 1t was well
calculated TO accomplish its design, and as
sorting that he had not seen the first man in
favor of prohibition, who was opposed to the
law of 1855, and that il was the duty of every
sincere temperance man to sustain the law by
his influence and vote.
Now, my friends, claim TO be sincere
and devoted friend to the temperance reform,
and have been so for years and assure you
that from the first moment read that law up
~ tue pICScHt liilC, nave dluCu IL do Ouo
of the most useless and inefficient d,0s that ,oert
ecer passed IN our STATE, and one calculated to
weaken and retard the temperance reform
That this was the design of its trainers, dc
not believe but do say, that no party should
ever be elevated TO power so utterly regardless;
of the rights of temperance men, and 50 indif
ferent to the provisions of a penal statute, a;
the fusion party in the last legislature. AnC
| am satisfied now, if l never was before, tina
it is only by the election of the distinguished
gentleman who has recently addressed you
Judge Wells as Chief Magistrate of this
State, that you will secure law satisfactory
to the people Of Maine, and in conformity tC
our State Constitution. Judge Wells, gentle
men, is an hopest man, who has been true tt
principle all his life long. Even his politica
opponents praise him day after day. He says
he is in favor Of constitutional law TO prohib
it the rum traffic in this State. What more
do you want! You would not have him say
he favors an unconstitutional law-such law
as that of last year1 1t would not be fair to
ask it, for the supporters Of Morrill, do moi
dare to support or endorse it now-not they
They rode the Maine law hobby last year, and
then destroyed as good liquor law as ever
existed with few exceptions.) Now that we
need good law, that issue is abandoned, and
we are surrounded with abolition lecturers,
crying out against the people and institutions
of the southern states, because they arc cursed