Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1857-10-09

ELLSWORTH. Sept. %. 1857.

turcd here on "Prohi bitiou." last Satur-
day and Sunday to very thin audiences.
Those who went to lear him were most
ly Democrats. The Spiritual Associa-
lion. which is composed of Republicans,
held meeting in room under the Hall
at the same time,-which was tie main
cause of Mr.. Perham's not having
larger audience. Thus does not speak
very we'll for the party that claims all
the temperance and decency. They pre-
fered spiritualism, pronul gated by their
champion - Hodges-to prohibition"
advocated by Perham.
The Republican party earc very little
about temperance; only jus, enough to
get votes. In this town they have a
Republican board of Selectmen, and
utterly refuse to prosecute those whom
they know are selling in open violation
Of the law. While on the other hand,
they have licensed to the full extern, of
the law and yet the law does not COM
pcll them to license any one. When
this law was enacted, the same Select.
men AMI followers said they wanted to
see free rum they wanted to see it
run down the streets. At the last ia.
election, some of these same temperance
me n were seen going up to the ballot
box With drunken man hanging upon
each arm they even went so far as to
go to the houses Of these men who are
in the habit Of getting intoxicated,l the
Sunday night before election, and furnish,
ed them with rum to keep drunk on over
night, and then ''lugged' them up to
the polli the next morning in state of
intoxication. And yet this is the party
that claims all the lecency Bah what
hypocracy! R.
We give the redoubtable "R," the
Deputy Collector of Frenchman's Bay.
and the Ellsworth correspondent of the
Argus. the full benefit of hearing in our
columns, by copying entire his letter Of
the 2sth giving an account of Mr.. Per.
hams temperance lecture in this place.
The remarks of the Editor appended
thereto, we do not publish, as it is only
re-hash of the old charges preferred
against the Republican party by all Of
the Buchanier papers for the past year,
for on- half of the time that is, that
the members of the party are hypocrites,
and care nothing for temperance. The
other half Of the time. these same pa
pers have labored to prove that the Re-
publican party is under the control of
Neal Dow, and is pledged to re-enact
the Maine Law!
1t is rather amusing to hear such CON-
sistent politicians as the Argus Editor
and R.. talk ofhypocracy and straight
forward political action. The one, from
being fast and officious temperance
man, has become the humble apolosis.
for anything that has tendency to
weaken the temperance cause; and from
being free-soler. and joining in letter
of thanks to Republican Representative
to Congress for the part he took against
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise,
and asking him to speak on the subject
in Portland, has become the advocate of
the anti-democratic doctrine, that slavery
is so good an institution, that to extend
and strengthen it. will justify ner
Interpretation Of the Constitution, one
that will permit it to go wherever the
constitution has force. Such a doc
trine, if called democratic would make
the bones of Jefferson shake in his cof-
fin. if sensitiveness belonged to mani
mate matter.
As to r. the hardest thing any
enemy could wish him, is, that one of
the members of the board Of Selectmen
Of Ellsworth. against whom he makes
charges, would draw full length pen
portrait Of him, exhibiting drinking a
a political, and a temperance view OF his
dear consistent self.
1t would puzzle the vivid imagina.
ton Of greater genius than Milton, to
picture CLOVER deep" which this po-
litical worthy has not sounded; and put
to their trumps the whole tribe of Bu-
chaniers, from Quoddy to Puget Sound,
to ind = finer spccim en- Of the class
1--WE cheat to conquer" than "R"
presents in person. The smallest of the
virtues with which he is charged, is 90.
ing electioneering with bottle of rum
in one pocket and temperance tracts in
aaother. And as to the useless virtue,
as he would call it, of telling the truth
politically. why, he ha. pretty much the
same opinion Of its real value in bring
ing success. as one Falstaff had. What
brace of worthless to pra.e about con.
s.steney. and to charge more than half Of
the people Of Maine with being hypo-
crits!