Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1855-08-09
Somerset County.

The cause Of 'sfusion'' is decidedly on the
wane in !, Somerst county, A correspondent
of the Spectator, writing from Norridgewock,
says -
g 1t is well known toNmany of your read
ers, that for good many years | have trained
and done duty as private, under the glorious
old banner of Democracy, always at'my post
in times of danger, ready 10 take up arms
against error and the enemy.
have to confess, however, that by the arch
cunning Of demagogues and deep treason of
pretended friends, was induced last wear to
desert that so often-triumphant Democratic
Flag, and to waver in the discharge of my
duty, by giving aid TO the enemy-and for that
offence, now bow my head low in humilia-
ton and shame, and would fain do penance for
that grand error of the HEAD mot the hearty
and my earnest desire is, that may live to
erase the tarnish which that false step has
brought upon my political character.
y
The great interest felt for the cause of
temperance and the cry of political corruption
In the two old parties which was rung last
year from the rostrum, the stump, and the sa-
cred desk, and by men, too, whom l consid-
cred honest, and with whom | had worked
shoulder to shoulder, in the democratic ranks,
was made to operate upon my mind.
My minister ,cds the londeSt to shout of any
=
/ speak by the record and know what saw
and l doubt not that hundreds and thousands
hare seen their folly as hare, and nert Sep
tenl6er aciH redeem heir once good ndme-,cdsh
out The Stigma that rests upon it, and rush to
the battle ground, under the glorious old BAN
ner, determined 10 conquer or de- llI
~ l.. d. j."
The ministers are at work again this
year in Somerset county. But the trap does
not work SO well as it did, judging from the
Spectator g
IT Works WELL. At Scion, where the
Rev. d. b. Randall, PREsIDING ELDER of the
METHODIST CHURCH, DESIGNATED the Sab
bath, by making Fusion ELEcTIoNEER1NG
SPEEcH, serenity Democratic Campaign papers
have been subscribed for the past week-with
an assurance that there was more to come
yet. So send along your political Priests
1t Works Well
The Spectator also gives the following spec
linen Of electioneering onthe Sabbath
THE WAY THEY DO 1T. We learn from
SOoN thdty at Il nlCtUOOlSt Ll6GliUg,
in the Grove, near the Eaton School House,
in Soldn, last Sabbath, two of the leaders of
the Arson P. Morrill, dynasty, from Scion vii
lage, appeared in the afternoon, and were ac-
tive in getting names. to call for a political
meeting.
1t may also be proper to state that there was
preaching, by the same denomination, in the
meeting house, at Scion village on that day
What morality What virtue!! M
Remember s'HISS"
We copy still further from the Spectator,
which is published at North Anson: -
Morrill, and his Fusion dynasty are doomed.
One correspondent says, we will give Merrill
JESSIE, In our town-another saws thirty in
this town, who voted for Morrill, last year.
have already come out against him, and still
COMING.
We have cheering news from all parts OF
the State
We have received large additions to our
Campaign list the last week. Yet there is
room. Some towns are yet behind. Send
along the names.