The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-07-08
POLITICAL k0VEMEYTs -sTATE AND coH6REs-
SlONAL ELEc710yS.
MAINE.


MAINE
The State convention Of Maine was hold at Augusta
on the SOth of June. Hon. n S. Iitteheld Of Bridg
ton, selected to preside with the following gentle
men as vice presidents Daniel Frsbee, York Rufus
Soule Cumberland Herman stevens Lincoln Francis
II. Whitman, Oxford Philo Clark, Androscoggin r. w
Dearborn, Sagadahoc Samuel Burslee, Franklin James
Abbott, Kenpebec; s. s. Lucas, Somerset Robert Sar
gent, Waldo; James w. Eaton, Penobscot, James s.
Wiley Pscataqnis r. II Brigham, Hancock 7. P.
Burleigh, Aroostook G.. W. Drisco, Washington.
The conn4ttee also reported the following gentlemen
for secrctari6: A. p Bradbury, Bangor; John L. Hun
ter, Fasming6ale Samuel f. Smith jr Wsasset Chas.
III. Fling, Gondiner =,
The foowiag gentlemen were appointed committee on
resoiutonsf Aroostook, Shepard Cary; Androscoggn,
Charles r. 6estson Cumberland L. ID. M Sweat York,
Horace Bodwol Oxford Alyah Black Franklin, X. s.
Curras; apnacrset, Nathan Fowler Washington, Geo.
Walkse; Hncock, John p. Langdon Piscataquis. JAS.
w Wiley Sa0adahoc, III. W. Owen lincoln, Joseph
Irish ftn6taNt Marceiius Emcry; kcnnebcc Daniel
T. Pike Waldo, Joseph Miller d, sAsssss
Manasseh III. Smith unanimously nominated the
democratic candidate for governor of Maine.
The committee on resolutions reported, through Mr..
Sweat, of Portland, series, which were unanimously
adopted We select the following which relate to nation
al politics:
Resoloed That the democratic party with its half
century of riumphs upon known and fixed principles Of
action, has necessity to change its NAME disguise Its
principles or to get up, by profession merely newborn
zeal for human rights Its past actions the best guar
antee for its future regard of the equal rights of all our
citizens in their persons their property and the pursuit
Of happiness,
Rssolci That re-adopt and re-endorse the platform
of the Cincinnati National Democratic Convention and
that experience fully satisfies us of the wisdom of leav
ing every organized community, whether Territory
State to regulate its own affairs in its own way, subject
only to the Constitution Of the United States.
Resolved, That the final adjustment Of the differences
of opinion among the democratic members of Congress-
in relation to the admission of Kansas into the Union
WAS pacifcatiqn in which there Known no North
South, East West, but happy agreement upon
differences Of opinion in the spirit of brotherhood and
patriotism
Resolpd, That we have confidence in the integrity
ability and patriotism of the President Of the United
States James Buchapan, and that approve of his ad
mnistation in the suppression of fllbusering at the
extreme South in rebukng political cergymen in their
disguised attempts to stir up sectional eaosies at the
North in quoting quasi rebellion in Utah without the
shedding Of blood in sustaining national honor by
promptly sending naval force to punish acts of dsrc
spect to flag in arraying itself against the import
ton of African Asatic apprentices slave trade in
a new form--as countenanced by the British gov
ernment, and under the force of this example. attempt
ed to be revived in in admitting the free State
Of Minnesota into the Union and passing through the
Senate bill to add Oregon to the galaxy Of free States
In spite Of the opposition of the miscaled republican
ators from Maine in eecting salutary economies in the
public service against combinations in Congress and the
votes of the opposition members, who desired to see
waste in order that they might make outcry of extn
vagance and In driving the republican party, while
Abandonment of their sectional issues and
professions for the reenactment of the Missouri Com
PROMISE which has heretofore deceived and distracted the
people
RsoceS That the people have no confidence in a
party which makes professions Of regard for the dignity
of the iaboring men of the North while in the same
breath it protests that African slaves their equals
which extols the Declaration of Independence while it
with extreme powers the police of towns and
cities for the control OF the personal habits of the citizen
and the destruction Of private demands
free Territories while it votes against the admission of
free ShHes-whch boasts of its regard for the Union
while it aims to combine the free against the slave States
the treason Of the Hartford conventonwhich claims to
be opposed to edera supremacy, while it asserts the
absolute power of Congress the people of the Terri
tories which charges the worst of principles upon pot
ical opponents while openly avowng disregard of diff
ferences it invites all shades of opinion to unite together
under the adhesive power Of public plunderwhich
plains of extravagance in the general government while
it makes waste and increases taxes in the
charges the South with hostility to our shipping
when they vote liberal appropriations for its benefit and
furnish freight for its employment-which impudently
asserts that the democracy strengthened by the
agitation of the slavery question, while its only
distinction as party consists in the denunciaton
of the slave States and of all northern men who main-
tain their equalitywhich insults the intelligence of the
people by the false assertion that there is express
grant opower in the constitution the people of the
Territories by reproaching the present administration
for extavagance when it voted the appropriations and
thereby directed the expenditures by referring to
cd corruptions which have been purged by Investigation
while its Mattcsons resigned to escape expulsion and its
Grceleys, its Weeds its Ashmuns, and its Bankses are
complicated with the $S 900 brbe for the reduction
the tariff thereby creating the necessity for loan which
is denounced dangerous national debt in time of
peace which talks about q State policy but limits its
enactments to tho protection of woodpecker and inviting
to violence under the color of abtng nusanceswhich
Processes desire for the settlement of wild lands
while it embaasses the right of suffrage by naturalzed
citizens, "a right n,esina 70 acm and ormae ranfs
only" y tr.
Hon. NJ. Macdonald of Portland Daniel Il. Pike esq.
of Augusta Hon. w b. s. Moor of Watorville and Mar
ceus Emery esq, of Bangor severally addressed the
convention Their speeches able and we'll timed,
and listened TO with marked attention.