The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1855-05-11
II A. From hs Portland Advertiser.
Democratic State OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
of Lamentations.

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with their signatures, the State Committee
feel compelled TO issue long aud doleful
address TO nobody in particular upon nc
particular point. A par, Of it sounds like a
solilOquy, and the res, Oft "tears a person
10 ta,,ersn with somewhat confused ma.
Lightly. Thinking our readers may enjoy
so novel manifesto, we shall proceed 10
give several extracts. 1t opens with the
following
soRRowFuL KEYNOTE.
at cannot be disguised that the Conven.
lion will assemble under circumstances less
suspicious 10 the democracy Of the Stale
than those which have hitherto attended
most OF its similar conventions.
The beauty Of this is its simple and obvi-
Gus truth. II the writer had stopped here,
his address would have been faultless and
have impaired all its really useful iniorma-
ton, withou, any Of the errors which dis
figure its remaining portions. But grief
once started, is in danger Of increasing and
becoming indiscriminate So we are sum-
moned TO look upon
PHOSPHATE STATE.
"That the State is PROSTATE, to-day, be-
fore the power Of such dynasty, does not,
il will be conceded, lessen the Importance oil
the objects sought to be accomplished by the
Convention, nor render less imperative the
duties Of freemen, who have hitherto concur
red in political sentiment, or trho nor pro.
pose 10 cooperate in political action, to pro
mote tho permanent interests Of tho State
and to assert and maintain its true position
and dignity as constituent portion of the
great coniederacy Of States"
We call attention to the line in Italics
Who are those that are expected to contrib.
ute their action without their sentiments-tC
give their votes and pocket their views =
Any fusion squinted at here' However
"that the State is PROSTATE to-day is ht
great announcement of this paragraph, and
one really important, IL true. Have oul
readers seen any signs Of this prostration =
Our finances are in healthy condition, leg
islation has cost US less than during any
former year for long time, our moral, So
cial and educational progress will compare
with that Of any sister State--what then
(rather irko, then,) is Frustrated! The
fact is, the old line democracy is still full o.
its fossil egotism and thinks, with Louis XIV,
am the State which accounts for The
above assertion. This will DO evident in the
PRosIRArioy DEFINED.
"The most untoward events have befallcn
the democratic party in the North, within
the past few months, weakening its organi-
zation, paralyzing its energies and circum-
scribing its usefulness. IL has indeed been
most inglOriously beaten back from the high
vantage ground OF its recent position, and
for the time obliged to retreat from the con
flict alike to recruit its dropping spirits and
numbers
True as the gospel and very we'll stated.
There is this good thing about our old friends
they are down, and they are willing to &c.
knowledge it. Who can refuse them, then,
the melancholy boon Of lancying that others
are in the same prcdicament, for
MISERY LOVES COMPANY.
1.-THE like and more fatal still have been
The fortunes Of the wing party"
AS they proceed to intimate, though. that
their discontinue is but for season, and
that it is their purpose to charge upon the
foo whenever and wherever it shall offer
opportunity would mention the Sec
Ond Monday of September next at the polls,
as time and place every way convenient to
US. Possibly, that may not give them suf-
fcient time to recruit their " dropping spirits
and numbers especially tho latter.
Nuns THE WORD.
"It would be useless to recount the
causes which, near or remote, have led to
results so disastrous, so far as those results
may be traced to specific influences. Nor
shall we attemptit. al might no, concur
therein, should re do so, Needing the prac.
teal lesson taught by the general condition
Of political affairs, the obvious duty, on oil
hands, is, TO deal ieith the present a, ,rs find
IT.
This discloses pretty state Of things
They are PROSTATE plainly-but how it oil
happened, and who struck the blow, are
things that must not be talked about, for no
two have the same opinions! If they had
preserved their consistency, and defeat had
come from outside influences there would
have been no occasion for this seusitivcncss
1t looks, therefore, as il the blow had been
suicidal-aud hence the past must DO iSnOr.
ed, and new principles adopted to suit the
hour. And this is the old line democracy
-wiping out. its records, and profcssedly
setting up anew as the party of cxpedients
No wonder The Committee close tho exposi.
tory part Of their document here, and spend
the rest of their force in misreprescnting and
abusing the state of public opinion. We
shall here put several extracts together
with their own italics, under the head Of
DESPERATE LAMENTATIONS.
"At real or iancied grievances, a political
furore has taken possession of the public
mind in the North, and in its mad phrensy,
il proposes, no, restoration merely Of the
right lost or impaired, but in the bitterness
Of the bittercst spirit Of retaliation, it repu.
dates the soundest and most uncontrovcrted
principles of political action ut endsavors
TO incucatc in the free States OF this Union,
a sentiment Of vengeance towards the slave
States under whose dominion and power
the people must inevitably gather harvest
of every rGrisiy and species Of tdnciieisni, re-
hgious Intolerance, STRIFE for Vengeance BE-
tirscn classes" II encourages in the popular
mind STRIFE Of vengeance upon the real or
supposed destIoyers OF the public tranquility.
IL makes inaammatory appeals to classes u
that melting and Strengthening tho senti.
ments OF vengeance in the Masses" sc.
Was ever such specimen Of POLITICAL by
drophobia witnessed bcrorc' ltwould seem
that when word didn't instantly occur to
tho Committee, they used 90 t,enCednoc - n,