The Portland daily press., 1862-08-25

members that John Babson, and Henry HUd-
son, and Marcellus Emery, and kindred patri-
ot spirits, constituted the committee, in the lab
oratory of whose brains, HE resolutions were
compounded!
We have Published in the columns of the
Press extracts from Gen. Andersons speech in
the convention that nominated Mr.. Bradbury
but the reader will pardon us if we reproduce
very brief sentence:
say that this whole war is owing to the adj
ministration, and the men that placed it in
power; that it arose from them; that they
brought on the war by their unconstitutional
measures. They brought the war upon us by
the platform upon which they selected their
men, which refused to a certain portion of the
country, rights which belonged to it. They
have carried on that war against the laws, and
against the rights of this country. The lead
ers have been stepped in fraud and corruption,
from the time they were placed in Office until
the present day; when some of their officers
have become too notoriously corrupt-they
have transported them from one office to anoth-
er, and the President, in his good hearted i'm
becility, stands up, and says, gentlemen. take
it all on myself" The President shows that
his weakness is only equalled by his good ma
ture. That may be treason, if so, make the
most of it,
We have copied the above from Mr.. Brad
bury's voucher, for the purpose of contrasting
it with an extract from Mr.. b. himself 1t
will be seen that Anderson charges the cause
of the war upon the administration, and those
who placed itn power-upon the denial to the
South of the "rights ghich belonged to it,.
In the speech Of Mr.. Bradbury, accompanying,
the foregoing resolve offered by him i'm the
Legislature, as we find that speech published
in the Augusta Age, corrected by himself, we
find the following:
Il am for the Union, with or without slavery.
Give me back the old Constitution, the old
Government, all the States, old and new, the
old flag, with no stripe erased, no star OBJ
scured, under which for more than eighty years
we have grown rich. powerful, and great.-and
am willing to take them though the local
and national guarantees of slavery remain un-
changed. l will go further, and say that if
this rebellion be not, speedily crushed. il the
conspirators against the Government obsti-
nately protract this war, if as our armies move
southwark military necessity strikes the fetters
from the bondmen of rebels, it will occasion
me no regret. y | intend to know no
party SO long as the Government is in peril
Party ties are the merest jack-thread in this
great emergency. i care for no political Or
ganizations or partizan platforms. / am for
the Union and the Constitution, and for the
speedy crushing of the rebellion. / desire
nothing better for myself than to stand as a
loyal Democrat, with other loyal Democrats of
the land, upon the proud position. they have as
sumed
In closing this article it may be proper to
add that, as member of the Charleston Con-
vention, Mr.. Bradbury voted persistently
against granting to the South what Mr.. An
derson is pleased to term the ''rights which
belonged to it," by which he means nothing
more or less than the right to force their slay-
cry upon the free territories, in opposition to
the bona fide settlers in those territories. and
to claim the interference and protection of the
Federal government for their slave property.
in contravention of the majority will of the
people. This is precisely what Anderson, as
| Breckenridge man, claimed for the South as
right" the denial of which, he asserts, caused
the war.-and for this Mr.. Bradbury voted
just as much as did any Republican in Maine.
As we said few days since, Anderson's Ian
guage was an insult to the people of Maine =
language of which even those who acted with
him were ashamed; and which even the Ar
gus has not found, and will not find, it conve-
nient to copy.
Putting all things together, it is evident that
a grand game of cheat is intended The Dem
ocratic party is to be united upon the basis of
mutual surrender,-theBreckin surren-
dering their men, and taking up candidates
from their former foemen, and the former
L.. q. IL.
surrendering their principles, and adopting
i those of the Breckenridge party. Will Pc
tiers, and Blake, and Jewett, and Fuller and
their associates, come into the arrangement ?
Nous rerrons