The Portland daily press., 1862-08-05

lots of others like the above, whether in the
Halls of Congress or the walks of private life
men, who in word, seek to carry on the
war only to overthrow slavery, nerer to restore
the Union.
queerly coming from man claiming great 10y
ty for the Union. Think of putting John A.
Andrews man of whole and generous soul
into the same class with JEFF. Davis, because
Mr.. Andrew believes God hath made of one
blood all nations of men to dwell upon all the
face of the earth, and thus believing, like an
honest, earnest man, is willing and anxious to
see every yoke broken and the oppressed al
lowed to go free! But Mr.. Tenney, in the ex-
treme hatred of his soul for every man who
thinks more of universal freedom than of Affi-
can slavery, cannot refer to Gov. Andrew with
out blending fasehood and SANDER with
his spite. Gov Andrew never intimated that
"hs State would not raise troops unless Hun
ter's policy was carried out" and none but
base calumniators will ever utter that SANDER
after having carefully read what Gov Andrew
did say. No man has acted more promptly
than Gov. Andrew. He has acted so as to
challenge the admiration of even political foes,
but still he must be abused, and offered as a
fitting make-weght for JEFF. Davis, to pull at
the same rope, while his only sin is that he be-
lieves human bondage moral, political and
social curse, and is honest enough to act in
harmony with his opinions.
Charles Sumner, too, a man ofextreme views,
cf;oa Ia no
near losing his life at the hands ola chivalrous
bully, is the counterpart of rebel because he
believes in the "barbarism of slavery"
And then, too, Henry Wilson is another man
fit to swing in company with rebels; and all
because he thinks liberty is worth preserving
while slavery is fit only for destruction. And
Mr.. Wilson is not allowed to escape without
malignant falsehood hurled after him,-that he
declared few weeks since we had 10000
too many men, and put stop to recruiting"
the ink is scarcely dry which recorded Mr..
Wilson's emphatic denial of ever having made
such statement, and yet is hurled at him
as though it was true. Mr.. Wilson has stated
what he did say, and candid opposition jour
mails have had the manliness to stand corrected;
but not so the Brunswick Telegraph.
Geo. d. Prentice of the Louisville Journal is
one Of the men for whom the Telegraph has
expressed great respect, and he has said that
you may mark that man as secessionist who
stands ready to hurl the charge of abolition
against. those who are laboring to put down
the rebellion. We commend his remarks upon
this point to the man OF the Telegraph.
While we are upon this matter of abolition,
word may not be out of place in relation to a
sentiment that seems to be developing in DIFF
ferent parts of the country. We allude to that
spirit recently indicated by Ex-Gov. Wicklifie,
in Indiana, which refuses to sustain the gov
eminent except upon condition that negro sla-
very shall be protected, or at least, shall re-
ceive no harm. That heavy old man is re-
ported to have declared that he was in favor
of sustaining the Union If slavery could be let
alone. Slavery was made superior to the Con-
stitution, the Union, or popular liberty! and
this before democratic assemblage Of thou
sands, in the capital of free State; and doubt
less it was applauded to the echo by the SYM
pathizing crowd; and yet the same men who
extol WicklifIe for his loyalty are ready to
cruelty Wendell Phillips because he can see
nothing worth preserving in Union that pro-
tects and preserves slavery. A Union without
slave would be political hell for such men
slavery without Union would be a very at
tractive heaven!
Now we do not hesitate to say that any man,
North or South, who prefers dissolution and
slavery to Union and no slavery, is not only
as lad as the most arrant secessionist, but he
is base traitor, with heart as black as the
ace of spades.
And we would like to know why it is. at the
present junction, that large proportion OF all
the democratic conventions make it the bur
den of their resolutions TO bolster up this rot
ten, whitening and doomed curse ofour Amer
lean institutions? If its peculiar friends are
disposed by their own follies, to put it to death,
why hold them back? Why not allow them to
do so? Take the resolutions of almost any re-
cent democratic convention, and while their
support of the government is contingent is
made to depend upon the strict constitutional
ity of the governments acts, and perhaps its
perfect noninterference with slavery, their re-
spect for slavery and their disposition to see it
out of all trouble, are perfectly unfettered by
conditions, and full, explicit and unmistakable
in their tone. Why is it? Echo answers, why?