The Portland daily press., 1863-09-12
A frank but Humsl,atins Confession.

- Aonh Dus AAuuAAAhnShu8 SOuhccosOns
In his speech in the City Hal, on Thursday
evening, Mr.. Bion Bradbury, the Democratic
nominee for Governor, confessed : indeed he
stated explicitly-that, his party friends had
not felt called upon to denounce secession, to
condemn the rebels, OF to censure the traitors
who are now warning against our Government.
Mr.. b. was understood to justify this "serene
indifference"-t this fiddling, Neroke, while
our national edfice is on fre-on the ground
that the Union party have not denounced the
abolitionists! .Bion has the "nigger on the
brain" in its most malignant type.
Don't Mr.. Bradbury remember how anxious
he was year and half ago to forget all past
difierences-all political antecedents, and know
men only for their present status their pres
ent devotion to the Union? Does he forget
how his chum at the City Hall-the "foul-
monthed" Gould-was the first at the extra
session OF the legislature to respond to Gov
ernor Washburn's noble words.-that he would
hold that man wanting in patriotism, who, in
crisis like the present, should know any diff
ference in men because of their political ante
himself 20 seize upon this suggestion Of Gov.
Washburn, and to incorporate it into his reso-
lutions offered in the House of Representatives
in March, 1862?
But now Mr.. Bon Bradbury requires, as
the condition precedent Of his condemnation
of treason, that Union men should denounce
abolition. He requires, before he can denounce
the traitors, that the Union party shall de-
nounce the abolitonists! Unfortunate Bion!
Don't he know that aboltionists are now the
most intensified Union men? Don't he know
that they believe what he preached year and
a half ago, that events are abolishing slavery
faster than they ever dreamed of? Don't he
know that aboltionists- even those who, like
Garrison, were once disunionists because they
thought slavery was upheld by the Constitution
--now believe the Constitution is the great char
ter of freedom, and that to uphold it and the
Union of which it is the bond, is the best SER
vice they can perform not only for their bleed.
ing country but also for their bond brother?
Bion, il you don't know these things, you are
still 10 the darkness Of past ignorance. The
abolitionist is now Union man, fighting for
the union. aud to require his denunciaiion is
to make distinctions among loyal men on ac-
count of their political antecedents, and shows
that he who does so is "wanting in patriot
ISM"
Mr.. Bion Bradbury will not denounce 4
traitor because Union men do not denounce
the abotionists. We draw the following in
ferences:
!. That Mr.. Bion Bradbury would not hang
Jetl. Davis unless he could sandwich him be-
tween Charles Sumner and Wsndell Phillips!
2. That Mr.. Bion Bradbury thinks it as great
a sin to desire the freedom Of the slaves, as it
is to break up the best human government on
earth.
3. That Mr.. Bion Bradbury can see no dif-
ference in criminality between the man who
strives to "break every yoke and let the OPP
pressed go free; who seeks to open the prison
doors aud give deliverance to the captives, and
he who deliberately sets to work to subvert
the Constitution of his country, and to raze to
the ground the National edifce erected by his
fathers and cemented with their best blood.
4. That Mr.. Bion Bradbury thinks demo-
cratic traitor is worthy Of higher regard than
Union aboitionst, as he would make the
condemnation of the latter the condition on
which he would denounce the former.
3. That Mr.. Bion Bradbury respects rebel
with his gun aimed at the heart of the nation
shooting down our sons and brotheis-more
than he does an abolitionist who is laboring to
save his country that Liberty may continue to
have a home.
O. That Mr.. Bion Bradbury can see nothing
in Liberty that is preferable to slavery.
Z. That Mr.. Bion Bradbury is not tit to be
Governor of free State and that the people
will SO render their verdict on Monday next.