The Portland daily press., 1862-08-25
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Nothing like the "eternal fitness of things, !,
in politics as in other departments of life and
activity. We have already published the reso-
lutions of the Convention that nominated Hon.
Bion Bradbury for Governor, and referred to
the fact that Gen. Anderson, in reply to Mr..
Boynton of Bangor, distinctivcly avouched
that Mr.. B. would accept the nomination, on
the basis Of the Convention resolutions, with
out modification or qualification The con-
cluson of those resolutions is as follows:
And we utterly condemn and denounce the repeat
ed and gross violation by the Executive of the United
States of the said rights thus secured by the Consi
tuition; and we also utterly rcpudate and condemn
the monstrous dogma that in time of the Consti
tuition is suspended, its powers in any respect
larged beyond the letter and true meaning of that n
strument. That We view with indignation and alarm
the illegal and unconstitutional seizure and mprson-
ment, for alleged political offences, of citizens
without judicial process in States where such process
Is unobstruced, but by Executive order by telegraph
or otherwise, and call upon all who uphold the Tn
ion the Constitution and the laws unite with us
in denouncing and repelling such fragrant violation
ofthe State and Federal Constitutions and tyrann.
cal infracton of the rights and liberties of American
citizens.
Let it be borne in mind that all the acts here
complained of were committed by President
Lincoln-if committed at all-prior TO the LIST
of january last, on which day the Legislature
of the State assembled at Augusta. 1t was
before that time that the habeas corpus was
suspended in relation to the traitor Merriam, at
Baltimore; it was long before then that Bob
Elliot and c. f. Sargent were sent to Fort
Lafayette; it was before then that the Consti-
tuition was alleged, by such men as controlled
the late Convention, to have been suspended,
III a
March last, any one has charged the Execu-
tive with adding new acts of usurpation or
crime to the catalogue of his alleged "tyran-
snical infraction of the rights asd liberties of
American citizens"
Now, having looked at one side of the leaf,
we ask the reader to turn it over and look at
the other side. The Convention that passed
the resolution quoted above, nominated Mr..
Bradbury for Governor, placed him upon that
resolution as his platform, and, together with
the platform-the one made for and fitted to
the other-now commend him to the people Of
Maine for their sufifages at the polls. Looking
at the other side of the leaf, we find this same
Mr. Bradbury, whose action in the legislature
Gen. Anderson commended, within five davs OF
the close of the session, Offering for the adop-
tion of the House Of Representatives the fol-
lowing resolution:
80 Resotred, That the people of Maine repose an un-
wavcring confidence in the ability integrity and pat-
riotism of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United
States and, while fully approving of the policy by
which he has thus far been guided in the conduct OF
the existing war. they pledge themselves TO rally
around and sustain his Administration in the prompt
and vigorous employment of all legitimate means and
measures now demanded which may hereafter be
demanded by the exigences of the hour, for the
speedy and thorough suppression of this Rebellion,
and the complete vndicaion of the authority of the
Constitution and Laws
Now has Mr.. Bradbury changed his position
since last March? Gen. Anderson distinctly
avowed In the Convention that he had not
Was the Convention itself honest in its reso-
lutions of hostility to the Administration ?
Who can doubt it, if he calls TO mind the ma
terial Of which the body was composed and re-