New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-08-08
DOUGH- down EAST.

| II must be confessed that the " Democracy
Of the State Of Maine dies very hard. IL
seem, 20 have set its obluratc heart upon
departing this life in anything but smell OF
sanctty; and now, when it holds Convictions,
which must DO like . collection of sick folk IN
a hospital, it always passes resolutions which
modern events have rendered ridiculous,
though wc do ut deny that ten years ego they
would have been strictly after the regulation
pattern. The trouble with theie honest gentle
men is. that having all their lives been licking
the feet Of Shareholders, for the sake Of place
and pelf, no severity Of kicking can rid them
of the habit. Officiating, IA tho WestI Indian
doctors inform US, is an incurabe disease
but who would have expected to find the same
odd trouble in the nosology OF Maine Ii is
I'm exceedingly unpleasant business. The con-
temptation OF 1t has an adverse Ia.
nuonco upon the s.oma4ls Of sound men,
Now. In tue midst Of this hot civil
war. il which tho devil is contend.
OF human degradation, TO lpd beings who
wear coats and not petticonts, breecbes aud
not bodlccs, owlishly resolving all sorts Of
flummery in favor OF their iocs, aud sending
little bits Of Bringing sophistry, with their best
compliments, uto the oEemy's camp-it is
dreadful Ii almost converts us 70 The doc
trne Of tie inequality Of The races. They
canuot-these Maine Dough Democrats-bo OF
tho same flesh aud blood with the brave fel-
lows who arc .l.ing our battles. The ways
Of Providence ARE past finding ont. Why in
the uamo OF our Limited reason, are these
gentry free in tie East. whilo respectable
blacks ara slaves IN tie South Aias this
boosted Tthuology is more Of a middle than
ever Ii white skins must thus bctray their
possessor. into sergilliy aud sotii.hness, most
honorable Caucnsiaus will weep that they were
not born as black as night.
Dougl.Dcmocracy- Down-East begins its litilc
batch Of resolutions BY the ayormcat that " the
Union was formed in fraternity aud couces-
sion, and cannot exist in the absence Of that
brotherly spirit" This ia sheer twattle, and
is quite out of place when we are cutting
each others throals. Tho Union was a POI.
lilical compact entered into not without re-
lGctGnce by the Slave States and rather I'M
willingly by some OF the FREQ Slates--not be-.
cause the high contracting parties were scnti.
mentally ia love- Like gIrl Of twelve and n
boy of fourteen, but because the contractors
anticipated mutual advantages from the con-
summation of tho bargain. 1t was not u mcrc
copartnership. The men who conducted tho no.
gotiations--Jay, Monroe, Hamilton, and the
others--were continually, at the period of the
convention aud aiterward, protesting against
the loose notion that merely temporary ar
rangement was contemplated. Anybody who
is in doubt upon this point may
look into The Fsdsralist, passim, and
bis doubts will soon DO resolved. 1t is an i'm
pudent perversion Of History, to say that South
Carolina reserved the right of going out of tho
Union at pleasure. We do not remember that
in oil the debates the least reference was made
to such q contingency. How should there
have been, when it would have made the whole
business ridiculousi Tho trouble, rs We can
tell tho Mainc Democracy, is, that South Caro-
lima aud tho other Rebel States have broken
their plghted word, have dishonesty disre-
gnrded recorded covenants, and havo voided
their rheum upon their own sacred bond. But
oven II this subterfuge were 10 DO admitted in
behalf Of South Carolina or Virginia, Of what
value is it In defense Of Louisiana, which had
nothing to DO With tho original compact, but