New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-02
June %, 1850.
MAINE CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION
SPEECHES OF HAMLIN AND WAsaBuRN.

On Wednesday the returning Was iugtoo Congress
sio al d. legation from Maipe received Portland
with real enthusiasm. In response 10 the welcoming
steeCh MIR. Hamn spoke ~ follows:
SIR: In behalf of tie slaine delegation you will
receive sincere snd grfetul IA kno %ledgment for
the kind AID generous tcrte IN whi you have spoken
OF Their offcla acts And through you wolld al,o
tenrer to friends pres who have glveu u
co dial welc Ine, our Lear lest thanks It was always
plea to get away from The cares and tolls ncid ntL
10 Coz lie, and To return 10 the comforts Nd
euiuyn.e Is OF hUne-t0 uiuge with the people IF the
State, aid 10 brea the pune air as IL comes invigorat
ing from our mouI talns and our hi s. But was
do bly, grateful thus Ia return when welcomed by
fiieids smiles, and genial hearts How we'll h t-ust
r. il then hao been discharged il not for him
{, say but he could i'll truth AIS ri that all aud each
Lad ,bdravord faithfully aud honestly "a do their
" hole duty 10 the State well 10 all others Some
tn b, I'D thought The cares, the tolls aud perplexi
ties incident public life not fdLy preth.ted
by al. In all the reotih of bf-, in all professions
an occuI ATOMS each could b~st uudersr-nI the
la ass' ns and perll les that surround hm. But
this generous re,.p uou ample compensation FIR
all M Was above all. OF The III rted t-rps ia which
yop lave spoken o my colleague Of the House Mr..
Washbum) 10 reply Is necessity Az iatr hour
in he Cay yea will ieur troai hin. lie will give tho
re- son for the faith within him, and upon which we
will b, ar hiu on 10 triumph in su III Sep e Dber
next. He r. GREETED mu thai his hOnored aud dis
iii guir cd colleague Mr. Fesstn, EN- not present
TO receive the VALUATIONS OF his freI d. and neigh
lors TO which le neatly entitled, and
which would have. been 30 cordially aud trut fully
given But lie MAS ne esssTly detained by "A GATED
Executive :. ssion OF he Seratr after he hal AZ eel
Ia he with us. wi only add th Al he is ~urtny Of all
YOU have said. OF hi nsli he had only q reply that,
whatever might lie lis pos ton in 'hr ulu e, whether
Ice that Of def at, il would be BIS earnest
eudeavor thvt superior TO men should receive
40 q, trinent a, hi- hands.
On Ibe evening OF the day, at a meeting of the
Portland Republican Club, Mr. Isuin again spoke
in substance as follows:
He raid Il at he reoced 10 the res that burned
50 bright, III lSJ6u Maine, sl burning brightly to-
night Those loud plaudis Tired ms blood and,
said ie AN " ith sou agiih Ia the contest. No roll
ing raiIits luXuIaIi soi is ours j" Maine but in
thosc elements viii make stare, L. thukiug reading,
intelligent men, Maine stands Wi bout PEER among
Der sisters of the Union. lie went ou thd
WIZ ou duty 10 inN estgate The principles unln viii h
our Government Is founded ana ad mustered. Little
ttan three years ago the present AdHlnls'r ton
found your Treasury full, with surplus OF nearly
Twenty millions of dollars to-day thes. millions have
only been squandeTed, but national debt incurred
ct than S6h 600, 000 The rule NAV 10 applied 70
Govern EMS ia well as 10 individuals thtt be WAC
! lives beyond bis income lives on the means OF
oh ers, ard the Republicans Of TIE House sought 70
r, ed, this by a revising of the revenue laws. The
! duties under the tariff of ioi6 were about q per
| cent, which under last year imports would give
about seventy illiops revenue. The p eseut tar
| i'll being H. 10 IL per cent yields forty to hfy
millions while the Government as nov administered
slei DIS seventy millions. Mr.. Hamln then went on TO
eho that The bill passed medium measure, fixed
st bou n yer G. IT. but il killed by the uoD-acton
of tie :. nate He then spoke OF the attempts 10 forse
Kansas in under Constitution she never made, AID
WHEN che asAtdlO come In they found she had not the