The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1861-05-31
From the Bath Daily Tunes.
Another I" Fallen Star"

IOr ever oDccurinS ~, 10 eiu snoa6u'
SEQ once brilliant intellect in ruins is
sad sight. We look upon the brutal sot oil
whom wo have never known in q better
condition, with comparative complacency'
but upon such one whom We have known
to gil an honored place in tile worlds es-
TEEN, VIC look only with emotions Of the
most painful descriptions. 1t occasions no
particular remark to sec even pretty girl.
with fine, flexible voice, and who can rival
the bobolink in the liquid richness Of her
notes, exhibiting herself for sixpence head
to an audience of rowdies, but when some
&" Queen of Song" like Biscaccianti, who
has filed large halls and magnificent thea
tres at dollar q seat. and to whom crowd
ed and jewelled royalty has paid court,
comes down to sing for York shilling in a
California Saloon, all lovers Of song feel like
dropping tear over the falling Of so bright
star. The sacred penman, though in Ian.
guage admitted by most critics to DO very
obscure If not apocryphal, refers to" the
angels which kept not their first estate. but
left their own babitations," being "resery-
ed in everlasting chains unto," &c.
Whatever meaning may be either reveal
cd or concealed beneath such high-wrought
figures, one thing is certain,-that an ex-
IRENE of degradation, shame and dishonor,
as represented Us succeeding to one Of honor
and glory in consequence OF moral detection.
1t is the same principle recognized in the
touching apostropho to ancient Capernaum,
which had been - exalted to heaven, but was
'cast down into hell"
Our mind has been led to reflections like
the foregoing by sweeping the eye hastily
over the columns Of paper to which, for a
long period past, We have turned with pccu-
liar interest, and from which we have. al
ways turned with satisfaction. We refer to
the MAINE (SAco) DmocRAr-a paper in
which we have looked, and not in vain, for
patriotic thoughts, for the exhibition aud
defence of noble principles. for the utter
ances of man who thought more Of his
country than Of his party, and whose soul
spurned all the ordinary shackles by which
puny spirits are held in subseryiancy to the
lowest demands Of party spirit; but, as we
read the last number,-so changed. 80 UNI
patriotic, SO slavishly partizan, 80 fallen
we thought of fallen angels, of extinguished
stars, of intellect in ruins, of beauty bloated
with lust, and OF everything else Of which
wo have ever read or thought exhibiting that
unenviable state to which exalted bodies and
beings descend when !ostled from the pima
Gle on which VIC have been accustomed 10
behold them. A few quotations from long
leader, entitled Three months Of Republic
canism-the Rush of Events" will not be
inappropriate to our purpose
The party (Pres. Lincoln's) in Congress
backed by Abolition forces at home-steadily
refused all compromises by which secession Of
State after State might have been checked; and
by their not-an inch policy seemed all winter
TO be anxious 10 have every southern state Sc
cede, and thus prepare the way for the bloody
conflict into which they are now prccipitating
the country.
Two things in the above arc deserving Of
more notice than we can spare space to give
them. The assertion that any reasonable
by tho late Congress--anything
to which q man could hOnOrabiy submit
would have checked secession is one which
no sensible man would make in the light OF
existing historical facts. The editor Of the
Democrat knows that the secessionists al
always secuted tho idea of being checked by
he knows thatwhen Mr.. Guth-
re's really union proposition passed the
Peace Convention, John Tyler and other
who had been pleading for
left Washington with threat
to carry their states out OF the union. 1t is
perfectly evident that the politicians OF the
John Tyler stripe were acting upon the "rule
or ruin" policy, and practising feint in
the Peace Convention, merely to gain time;
that secession was their grand purpose, to be
ayerted only by the extortion from the Fed
eral Government of terms which would have
been dlsgraceful and humilating to the last
degree. The editor of the Saco Democrat
knows this, and therefore his intimation
that the President is precipitating the coun-
try into bloody conflict is unworthy of an
honorable mind - is worthy only of such
minds us control the Bangor Union. When
our national flag is spit upon and fired at,
when our forts are bombarded, when our
national existence is threatened by rebels,
is it precipitating the nation into bloody
war to refuse tame submission, and to make
a resoute defence Of the nations flag and
honor? Shame on the man who could in
dite such an allegation against an admins
tration which Is acting worthily of the sold
Hickory" spirit, and doing deeds which
command the respect and support OF such
patriots as Douglas, and all other truo men.
But we pass on and give another extract:
The 4th Of March saw Mr.. Lincoln duly in
stalled in ofiice-seven States --seyen stars OF
our constellation not present to shed their
light upon the ceremony.
And whose fault was 1t that 'seven States
had then seeded? Was not all that under o
nominally democratio administration, and
did not that administration, unfortunately
entail upon its successors. a luad which itself
had not even tried to bear? Bro. llanscom
acts unworthily of himself when, in view of
the Charleston and Baltimore Conventions !;
in view of the unholy war made upon Doug
las by nominal democrats for no other pur-
pose than to secure the election Of Mr.. Lin
coin, and in view of oil ho himself has said
Of the base designs Of the conspirators to
control the government by foul means, If 1t
could not be done by fair, when he intimates
that the present administration is justly
with the secession of tho seven
States referred to in the above paragraph
We have no more respect for the present ad-
when considered upon the mcr.
It's of its Chicago platform or its antcccdents.
than has Bro. H., but we would give even
the Devil his due, and we insist that to charge
i with being the cause Of secession is no more
truthful or honorable than it was in the ma
licious Jews to charge their troubles upon
the Naarene whom they crucificd. But we
pass again;
On the l4th of April, the President and his
thought themselves UNSAFE IN
ruE NATIONAL CAPITAL WITHOUT THE PRESENCE
or SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND ARMED
MEN! For these he called upon the States In
accordance with the Constitution and tho laws.
The total and significant omission in the
above of all allusion to the attack upon Fort
Sumter rs the moving spring which prompted
the call for IS 900 armed men, and the inti-
nation that the call was made through fear,
simply to save the Capital. stamps the state
ment with damning inlamy, and does not