The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-01-26
Correspondence of the Press.

Correspondence of the Press.
The ,cedther = Shipbuilders-"N Stare no
cotton"-Liem. Nichols-Rer. Mr.. Bolles'
Lecture-Ihe Press-Southdrd and COM
paissions-Neo "organ."
BATH, Jan. "a, 1868.
Every one you meet with on the street. first
of all after the usual salutation of courtesy,
remarks upon the weather" the most remark
able and mild, for the season of the year, ever
| known. even to "the Oldest inhabitant" This
city is given largely to ship-building. The
merchant princes" with which the town
abounds, have raised their large crops upon
the ocean burrows which, for a generation,
they have been blowing with their stately
ships. Every splendid mansion-and many OF
them are found in various parts of the town
rests upon keel! Scarcely man of large
means is to be found in the city whose proper
ty has not come to him through the channels
of commerce. Though the cotton ffeighting
business has been destroyed by the war, and
though many noble ships have been sacrificed
to the present rebellion, either by confiscation
in rebel ports, or by destruction by rebel pi-
rates, it is doubtful if ship owners have re-
ceived more satisfactory returns for many
years than they have for the last eighteen
months.
One would suppose that, under such state
OF things, secession would find her sympathiz-
ers in such a city, and that the war for the
suppression OF rebellion and the maintenance
of our flag, would find in every man hearty
and generous supporter. 1t is TO be lamented
that such is not the case. "Nigger on the
brain" is disease to which commercial men
are peculiarly liable, especially that class
OF commercial men who have had to do
with the transportation of cotton. mo slave
no cotton" is a favorite motto with them,
and mo cotton no freight is another almost
as frequently upon their lips. II these
sagacious gentlemen would spend half as
much time in reading standard works upon
the different races of men, the earth's pro-
ductions, the culture of cotton and other
commercial crops, political economy, the
inspiring stimulus that remuneratve wages
afford TO human industry, the natural and OBJ
stinate opposition between free and forced
labor, the inconsistency of basing free institu-
tons on bonded souls and bodies, that they
do in consulting the latest changes in freight
tables, and the fluctuations in the rates of ex-
change; and then if they would spend one
fourth the mental energy in considering how
the institutions of the land may be made to
harmonic with even the tritest notions of a
common brotherhood, and the best instincts
OF the human soul in its best moods, that they
do in denouncing the id abolitionists,-
they would soon learn that the only road TO
permanent and genuine prosperity is that
which runs very close to the line of moral OBJ
legation, and that no commercial or other
prosperity that is built up on the oppression,
the forced sweat, and the extorted servitude
Of the weak and defenceless, can be depended
upon. 1t is to be feared that, with some of
the princely merchants of this city, the Bos-
ton Courier is higher authority than the Gold
en- Rule, aud that King Cotton's mandates
are more imperious, and more reverenced than
the mandates of that other King, whose mis-
sion Yas designed to break every yoke and
let the oppressed 60 free. Its TO be hoped,
however, that the spirit alluded to- does not
arise SO much from disloyalty at heart, as from
mistaken views of cause aud effect.
Lieut.. Nichols of the Maine 10Th whose ar
rest has been alluded to in the columns of the
Press, is citizen of Phipsburg, town joining
this city ON the south. He Is man very
much respected in his native town, and il is
not believed by those who know him best, that
he intended any INSTRUMENTATION, or that he
has any sympathy for the rebels. He is a man
1,f Ri nt,l
read, unusually intelligent, but rather given
to crotchets, and in his views of the proclama-
ton he is generally believed to be conscien-
tlous, though mistaken. He was a Douglas
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS a Jameson Democrat.
but before coming squarely up to the ground
| occupied by Mr. Douglas, he had to be first
satisfied on every point OF the bred Scott de-
cision. This came rather of his peculiarities
and early prejudices in relation to the Dirine
origin of the Democratic party, than OF any
innate respect for the strange fires of late
kindled upon the affairs of Democracy by i'm
| posters and false teachers.
| Rev. Mr.. Bodies OF your city recently gave
his lecture here on Popular Proverbs. 1t took
well, and yet have not seen the first man
| who did not regret his departure from the leg
itimate line OF his lecture, single out and eu-
logic particular popular iavorite 1t might
have been good taste that prompted such a d.
| erosion, but very few OF the hearers could
| "see it in that light"
l find the Press quite extensively read in
| this city, and am told that more copies of It
come through the mail than of any other daily
| paper-more than of all the other daily papers
| in the State combined.
| Mr.. Southland, whose name has already been
mentioned in the Press in connection with
ships chartered for the government has al
ready refunded the commissions he received,
| in some instances at least 1t is curious that
| those in this city who say the most about
Southland, and otenest throw him in the teeth
OF Republicans, are the very Democrats who
have long been associated with him. and who,
WITHIN the last four years, have twice supper
!ed nun on their ticket for the State Senate.
we think Gov. Washburn has been too ready
to conilde in doubtful Democrats. and that the
| government has suffered from having djstrib-
uted too large share of its favors among the
undeserving of that party; but while those of
them who exclaim the loudest against South
ard would have charged ten per cent, where
lie charged only sic. it is doubtful if they
would have been half as ready as he has
been TO disgorge the illgotten gains
Report says the Hallowel Courier. a deci-
dedly secession sheet, is TO be removed 10
this city. Newman the editor of that maya
zine of G,lsities, is now here,it is supposed, to
ascertain the 'ay of the land" "God save