The Portland daily press., 1862-06-23
Monday Morning, June 23, 1862.
EPUBLICAN NOMINATION.
FOR GOVERNOR,
ABNER COBURN,
A Word of Introduction.
OF sKowHEGAN

In starting new DAILY and Weekly paper
In the city of Portland 1t will not be deemed
egotistical, or an offence against good taste, If
we monopolize single column in Familiarity
introducing the new enterprise to that public
whose favor it will seek to merit, and without
which success would be an impossibility. II
is not deemed necessary to make explanations
or to offer apologies for the establishment of
such paper as it Is proposed to make the
PRESS. 1t is enough to feel that the public
sentiment Of the State demands it; that a pat
riotic and generous public will sustain it, To
the Prospectus in another column the reader
Is referred for the general plan upon which the
PRESS will be conducted, and for the distinct
i've principles to the promotion of which its
energies will be consecrated In that Pros
pectus :" an earnest, cordial and generous sup
port is pledged to the administration of Abra-
ham Lincoln. This language was not care
lessly used to signify anything or nothing as
might suit the freak of the moment; to indi-
cate warm and generous heart-sympathy, or
to cover that degree of faint praise" with
which politicians too often damn their friends.
but 1t was intended to express only that hear
fy, whole-souled, unreserved support, to which
an incorruptibly honest man is ever entitled.
In his patriotic efforts to discharge his whole
duty, and to preserve inviolate the rich legacy
OF freedom purchased by our fathers, and for
the time being entrusted to his custody. Sucb
man is the present Chief Magistrate. He
needs no fulsome laudation at our hands. for
his works best show forth his praises. He was
called to the Executive Chair of the nation
when the omnous clouds of civil war were
gathering blackness in the Southern horizon:
when several States of that Union which he
was bound by an oath to preserve were array
ed In open hostility to his constitutional au-
thority; without friend in those States upon
whose integrity he could implicitly depend:
with spirit Of rancor and party jealousy per-
vading even the loyal States, the depth, inten-
sity and extent of which could scarcely be CAL
culated; with distrust and fear everywhere
prevailing; with nearly every office, even in
tne non-seceded States, filed by men of doubt
fui loyalty, yet, In the brief period of fifteen
months we find the government exhibiting an
energy that gives the lie to all the caiumnies
OF Its enemies; an army whose gigantic opera
tons, matchless victories and perfect discipline
challenges the admiration Of Europe; a navy
that, by Its series of brilliant achievements.
has carried dismay to the courts of the chief
maritime nations of the earth, and yet. with all
this display OF authority and power necessary
to crush the most gigantic rebellion known to
history, involving expenditures of almost fabu
lous extent, the credit of the country is main
tanned, its bonds are sought by the capitalists
Of the world, and its securities, even at pre-
MUM, are regarded as safe and profitable in
vestinents for capital The fact here simply
adverted to Is Of itself a triumphant vindica-
ton of the wisdom of that general policy
which has marked the administration of Abra-
ham Lincoln, and affords to our mind an am
pie reason for yielding to it cordial and gem
erous support.
The Press has no new fires to kindle upon
the altars of patriotism. Its object is not to
encourage experiments, but rather to bring
back the government from its wanderings to
the substantial principles of the fathers of the
Republic. With Mr.. Jefferson, while advocat-
ing the most sacred respect for the Constitu-
tion, il will insist at all times upon the preser-
walton OF that time-honored charter of liberty,
and it will never be guilty of the insane folly
of sacrificing IL to blind reverence for mere
forms. When our fathers ordained the Con-
stitution they intended it for perpetual bond
of union, more perfect" than the old Con-
federation; and we know of no means neces-
In ..l
tion to which resort may not be had when it is
assailed and threatened with overthrow. If
exhibitions of deprayity are made which the
trainers Of the Constitution seem never to have
deemed possible, and exigencies arise which
they never contemplated and against which
they provided no remedies, are we to fold our
hands and see the fair fabric Of government
razed to the earth, the temple of Liberty sack
ed and its goddess trampled in the dust, as the
throne of France has often been by an infiiria-
ted Partisan mob, and expect to find excuse in
the fact that the Constitution authorizes no
adequate remedy for such evils? Away with
all such transparent nonsense The trainers
of the Constitution doubtless supposed they
were entrusting their work to wise posteri-
ty;-a posterity that would honor and pre-
serve 1t, and wherein 1t Is silent in relation to
ways and means needfii to its own preserva-
tion, they supposed the good sense of after
generations would supply the deficiency
When Mr.. Jefferson discovered that Louisiana
had become a great national necessity. but
found no grant of power in the Constitution
by which to acquire it, he took the sensible
view that public necessity implied not only the
right but the po,cer to maintain such right:
and, acting upon this idea, he purchased that
territory, on the ground, as he himself has ex-
pressed 1t, that If the authority was not to be
found In the Constitution it must be found
outside of fit,-that the great Northwest should
be enabled to reach the ocean on the natural
current of its own waters without asking the
consent, or paying tribute to, foreign prince.
In Mr.. Jeffersons course, thus briefly alluded
to, we discover the idea upon which the Execu-
tive should act. He is to see to il that the
Constitution is faithfully observed and inyiola-
bly, preserved. If assaled the assalant must
be repulsed. If armed resistance is made to
it, that resistance must be disarmed and If
the President of the United States, through
blind regard for forms, should omit to use ann
means absolutely necessary to preserve the
Constitution, and without the adoption of
5ob that Cnn.t;tux;,c ..o.II