The Portland daily press., 1862-10-06
For the Press,



The "imperiousp editor who has recently
thrust himself into public notice, through the
columns of his own special organ, as the unen-
enviable champion Of negro slavery and
Southern rights" and has, with characteristic
assurance, given his affirmative answer to the
scrptural interrogatory thou the
ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the do
minion thereof in the earth ?" and who has set
up the "ebony idol" for his worship, and with
all the zeal of crusader is laboring to "blot
out" all those who worship the strange god Of
"abolitionism," since he abjured all connection
with political parties, and became an "inde-
pendent" no-party politician, reserving himself
as "balance of power" to be cast into the po-
ltical scale in favor of first one party and then
another, as 'justice" requires, has given the
cal gymnastics, that would make even the "In-
da rubber man. feel stiff. For the last two
years his political career has been as crooked
as the "fbrous ramifcations" of his personal
interests, and his opinions and convictions"
upon the great national questions that have ag-
itfiitu puuiiC nave s5ohC Nhshi5
es accordingly.
Tne Leopard changing his spots, and the
Ethiopian his skin, would be a poor "show"
compared with what this expounder Of the
"rules of heaven" has done with his princi-
Piles. The "beauty of (hisl holiness" is best
seen and appreciated in the light of his own
record. As an illustration, in 1856 he address,
ed letter to Republican Committee, which
was read at meeting held in this city, TO rat
ify the nominations of Fremont and Dayton,
in which, after assuring them of his cordial
and earnest sympathies," he said: "The slave
powers have already exacted too much of the
North. They are like spoiled children, already
INDUCED far too much by the North, in exac-
tons. The North have been insuted upon
each floor in Congress for years" and then ac-
themselves TO be bought and sold in the mar
ket, like slaves" and citing Pierce, Gushing
and Others, a. illustrations, and alluding to the
South's using "the pistol, the horse-whip and
their guttd percha canes, upon the persons
and backs Of ireenen, regardless Of station and
almost OF sex and age, as they do upon their
slaves with the declaration, 1--WE win make
you submit he Indignantly asks, "What has
not this imperious temperament Of the South,
demanded In behalf Of their slavery al the
hands Of the free States, ever since the early
articles Of confederation, dawning with the
revolution OF l7T6? What has not the tame
ness and subserviency Of the North yielded to
this slave power during the same period?" He
then adds-"I almost sicken, rs read our po-
litcal history. But let me recapitulate a few
outlines from which eloquence might preach
sermons, and over which the patriotism of
freeman might weep tears Of humiliated pride,
resldened with blood fresh from the heart
He then 'recapitulates" the "odious demands
and unjust exactions" of the South, and the
"tame submissions" of the "lreemen of the
North" from the signing of the Declaration of
Independence down TO the date OF his writing,
picturing with words glowing with indignation,
the spectacle of the "Inanaced victim, never
allowed trial by jury to test his right to the
free use of his own limbs and labor, and to the
utterance OF his own souls griefs," being
marched back under the guns of the freemen
Of old Massachusetts, into slavery, "upon the
demand Of one Of these negro slave hunters of
the Southw After some further "recapitula-
tions," he closes his letter boldly and defiantly
as follows:
"Gentlemen-These are some of the points
in our political history, as a nation, and as
Union oil States, that the North and free States,
..f &tx
consider and adjust. 1--we are to submit Tor a
longer period to these humiliatng exactions,
let us call ourselves the white slaves OF the
South, that we may not, by our lower relative
degradation, dishonor the black slaves of that
imperions population"
But If we are not to submit longer to such
Infamous demands upon our subserviency and
love of peace, let the freemen of the North,and
the wives, and sons and daughters of these
freemen awaken themselves TO the just dignity
of their position and their strength in the Un-
ion, and demand the recognition of our rights,
and tender their readiness to encounter any
alternative the South may ask for, to test con-
fiicting claims for superiority. If we must
have white slaves in the Union, let the issue
be made for determining whether the North,o
the South, shall constitute that white slavery"
Now this stickler for Estate Constitutions"
and institutions" and the rights of the rebels
in the midst Of the present gigantic rebellion,
is furnishing the rebels proof that there still
exists at the North, some subservient lovers of
peace, who will "tamely submit" as soon as
their masters can furnish them with an oppor-
tunity.
This loud mouthed, political exhorter, and
freedom shrieker" Of 1856, seems since to
have become wonderfully impressed with the
"Dicinity" of that peculiar institution" which
he then declared had become "less respected
by the world at large" as its "horrors became
more and more apparent"
His recent affected zeal for the preservation
of the "Constitution as it is" from the destroy
ing "dbotitionists," furnishes fitting llustra-
tion of the truth of a remark once made by
one of Americas purest and abIest statesmen,
whose language he has recently attempted TO
distort into support of his special pleadings
in behalf of the rebels, but whose brilliant his
tory is living and impershable denial of all
his ungodly theories-John Quincy Adams,
who once declared in his place in Congress
that 1.-THE great men of the Revolution were
abolitionists," and if any man denied it he
would prove it, and also said, "every man in
this country has right to be an abolitionist,
and that ia being so he oflends no law, but, in
my opinion, obeys the most sacred of all laws"
made this remark
There are, sir, some men in the world who