The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1862-07-22
Grand Patriotic Rally in Brunswick.

On Saturday afternoon the citizens ofBruns-
wick, assembled in very large numbers-some
say from 10000 to 1,500-in the Depot of the
Ken. & Port. Railroad, to take council togeth-
er on questions Of duty in relation to the war
and the demands of the country.
At o'clock the meeting was called TO order
by A. c. Robbins. Esq, on whose motion Prof.
Z. Whittlesey was called to the chair. Prof
W., in thanking his fellow citizens for the
casion, gave utterance to sentiments of patriot
ism and devotion TO the cause of his country
which were creditable alike to his head and
his heart. Prayer was offered by Rev. Geo.
4. Adams, ID. d., after which Prof. Chamber
lain, Of Bowdoin College, was introduced as
the first speaker.
Prof. c. spoke with great power and effect,
and was frequently interrupted by the most
generous applause. But the feature of the oc-
casion was the speech of Gen. o. o. HOWARD,
the hero of Fair Oaks, who, ihsagh suffering
from the loss of an arm on that bloody feld.re-
fuses to seek relief in quiet inactivity, but in
cessantly, day after day, is addressing crowds
of people, now in Oxford, anon in Penobscot,
then in Somerset, and before the close of the
week in Cumberland and Sagadahoc, stirring
up the minds of the people, and awakening a
feeling of enthusiasm wherever he goes, and
quickening resolves on the part of the people
that, cost what it may of treasure or of blood,
the government shall be sustained in its pres
ent confict-the most uncalled for, the most
unprovoked, and the most inexcusable and
wicked, of any that has ever been known in
the worlds history, finding full parallel only
in the vivid poetic Imagination of Milton, in
his story of the rebellion in Heaven, for partic-
ipation in which, poetry being taken for liter
al truth, arch angels fell from the heights of
glory to the depths of eternal infamy and per-
dition.
Gen. Howard, as everywhere else, spoke
signal for perfect storm of applause, which
broke forth from time to time at the utterance
of nearly every patriotic sentiment
Brunswick is one ofthe towns in the State
in which secession has found more sympathy
than it should, and in which there is believed
has men in her midst who, having on quarter
decks above which floated the stars and stripes,
coined all the money they possess, would now
see the stars torn from that flag and its stripes
erased rather than lose cotton freight, and
whose countenances seem never so much
wreathed in smiles as when reverses cover our
arms, and who, while pretending great rever-
ence for the Constitution and the Union. seem
willing to see the one subverted and the other
destroyed by rebellion rather than both should
be indicated by an administration not of their
choice. These are the men who never can
find a word of condemnation for secession
without also finding an apology for it in north
ern anti-slavery feeling; who always make the
North responsible for all our national calami-
ties, and who while speaking of our Southern
brethren" in the most melting tones of chris
tan kindness, can find no epithets sufficiently
bitter and denunciatory to express their deep
hatred of every one who don't think slavery
good institution. To their consistent minds, a
free negro is a Gerry deuil; but catch him in
his native jungles, transplant him TO a South
ern plantation, and with the lash compel him
to handle 'the shovel and the hoe" and this
low-fronted, small-brained, curly headed, thick
Tipped, 1at-nosed family connection of the
gorilla-according to their estimate-so often
sive in his freedom, becomes TRANSPORTED, and
shines with respondent light, when that light
is well mixed with ertorted grease and sweat.
and they worship him as a god Brunswick
has too much of this feeling; for if but single
individual cherishes it, there is altogether too
much for one town, however large il may be-
But Brunswick will do her duty. She is
blessed with large preponderance of the
truest of men, who will not allow their good
name and that of their beautiful town to be
dimmed by draft. If necessary, large boun-
ties will be offered to induce enlistments to
make up her quota, and then the property of
the carpcrs and croakers and fault-finders will