The Portland daily press., 1863-07-03
UNION NOMINATION.
The ConventiOn-the CrOwd-the Candi-
date-the Confidence of the People.

The recent Union State Convention at Ban
por was in many respects a remarkable one.
No similar gathering of delegate conven-
tion has ever begun to compare with 1t In
numbers or in the weight of character which
II represented II was noble outpouring OF
the loyal men Of the State, forgetful of all past
differences. and determined to vindicate the
honor Of the State and to bury copperhead-
ism, and all that opposes the authority of the
Government in its efforts to put down the re-
bellion and intestine war, in one common
grave. The basis of representation adopted
by the State Committee was such as to allow
of very large convention, and then the quail
ity of the weather, the season of the year and
the accommodating spirit exhibited by railroad
and steamboat managers, added to the patri-
otto impulses of the people of the State, all
combined TO make this the largest and most
august and commanding assemblage ever con-
vened in the State in response to political
call. We confess to most agreeable sur
prise in the personnel of the convention.
We supposed few Of the loyal Democrats of
the lastyear and the year before, would be
meet ard greet them in such large numbers.
There we met men whom We had known for
long years only as demonstration we had
met in the last democratic convention we ever
attended, and of whose disconnection from
that party we had never heard until we re-
ceived the gratifying announcement from
their own lips. There was Col. Porter, an old
- -
Waldo, the honest, jealous, impetuous, invin-
chile Jewett, who in the Dana Convention at
Augusta in 1861, when the stars and stripes
were sneered at as he was speaking, off coat,
rolled up sleeves, and exclaimed that he was
as ready and as willing to die in defending
that flags honor against rebels in Maine as on
the SACRED soip' of Virginia; Sprague and
Starr of Knox, whose names have been famil-
lar as household words in democratic cir
cles; Converse of Lincoln, a gentlemanly,
courteous, dignifed and straightforward
leader of that county in days past; Dr. Simon
ton of Waldo, who was one of the Breckin-
ridge leaders in 1860; billiard of Penobscot,
Cobb of Cumberland, who has been petted by
the democracy Of this city, and borne their
flag on to victory; Strickland Of Androscog-
gin, whose zeal has been known and. COM
mended In all the churches of the democratic
faith, and last, though not least, CoNY of Ken
nebec, who has received full share of hon.
ors from the Democratic party in its better
days, when honesty was a commentator, and
who never betrayed trust, dishonered him
self, or embezzeled the funds placed in his Gus
tody, besides hosts of others whose names we
feK Ba ne room 70 enumerate, all fwhom, real
Mi1lfe Of thelr farmer qs r grea leaders
sis In our affairs there can be but two parties,
patriots and traitors, have wisely determined
to combine their efforts with those of other
loyal men, and stand shoulder to shoulder with
those who give an unconditional support to
the Union and an unwavering and persistent
support to all the measures of the Govern
ment necessary to maintain its authority, to
defend its flag, to crush out rebellion and to
bring the leaders in the present revoltto prop
er and exemplary punishment.
: We have attended good many conventions
heretofore, but we have never been in one char
acterized by such perfect good feeling and
upanimity of purpose. We have known DEM
ocratic can didates nominated by reclamation
to conceal divisions, the movers being afraid
to let the ballot-box tell its own story, but we
have never known convention in which,
with diversity of views relating to candidates,
all appeared so anxious to know and do only
what would give the greatest success to efforts
to bring all loyal men into perfect harmony
It was In the exercise of this spirit that AB-
NER CoBURS-as honest chief magistrate
As ever filed the executive chair of the State,
and man of undisputed business capacity
nobly and periodically declined allowing his
name to form any barrier to the most perfect
unity, and waving all priority and precedence
growing out of his position and past usage,
wished to be regarded on perfect equality
with other and untried men,
1t was evident before the convention was
called to order, that there was wide spread
disposition to so act as to place the State in
line with Ohio and other loyal states, and TO
bring forward man whose antecedents should
afford evidence of the sincerity Of the propos-
al to know no difference between loyal men
on account Of previous political affiliations
We are confident this feeling was not in res
ponse to any demand, expressed or implied,
on the part of loyal democrats. The loyal
democrats who had come into the convention
came as brothers in common cause, asking
no special consideration, but ready to act in
harmony with and to sustain the doings of the
convention. They came as men of honor, de-
handing no high rank, no front seat, no con-
spicuous position; not asking to have any flag
struck or lowered to accommodate them, but
as patriots who meant to make their blows tell
in fighting rebellion and rebelion's sympathiz-
ers, and they found men who were willing to
meet them on the broad platform of patriot
ism and progress, and TO share with them the
fortunes as well as misfortunes of a common
cause.
THE CROWD
Bangor never had her capacity to stake in'
strangers more thoroughly tested. The hotel
accommodations were exhausted the day be-
fore the convention assembled. When the
long train Of cars from the west arrived the
multitude of passengers-mostly delegates
made dash for the Bangor House, whose am
pie rooms had been all taken up. We were OF
a large company that made as short a cut as
possible for the Exchange, not doubling that
in its broad dimensions would be found plenty