The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-09-22


banks have been established under the act of
| Congress OF 1868, or about one per day since
the organization of the first in June last.
Have you heard from Mane?' is an
ugly question for Copperheads in other States.
They hate Union victories in the field and at
the ballot-box. Poor fellows! They must bear
it as best they may for more of the same sort
are coming.
Ig| The Portsmouth States and Union
says 'the election in Maine has gone against
the Constitution and Union" 1t has gone de-
cidedly against jeff Davis and his armed
hordes, and we suppose, therefore, that Davis
IL Co. are the friends of, and are fighting to
maintain, the Constitution and Union.
Sg- Henry Clay, in discussing the nullif-
cation question, said-"Let me tell you there's
| an inevitable consequence of civil war, in its
effect upon South Carolina; she has certain
description of persons recognized as property,
south OF the Potomac and west of the Missis-
sippi Which ,oould be no longer recognized
as such"
.I- "When war begins, whether civil or
foreign, said Henry Clay in his notification
speech, mo human foresight is competent to
foresee when, or how, or where it is to term-
nate. But when civil war shall be lighted
up in the bosom of our land, and armies are
marching, and commanders are winning their
victories, and fleets are in motion on our coast,
tell me il you can-tell me if any human being
can tell its duration"
s- We are indebted to Rev. JOHN G. AID
ANS, of Providence, for beautiful pamphlet
copy of his 4th of July oration delivered be-
fore, and published by order of, the city Gov
eminent of that city, ON our last National An
niversary. 1t is q production every way
worthy of the head and the heart Ct its pa
triotic and Christian author.
rp- No democrat can declare himself I'M
conditionally loyal to the Government, and
express a willingness to use all possible means
to crush rebellion and to uphold the Govern
ment, without affecting his standing in the
party. Party fellowship hinges on conditional
loyalty, and conditional loyalty is but another
name for unconditional treason.
% In another column will be found the
mercantile card of J. A. Davis & Co., Chicago,
ILL.,, to which attention is invited. This firm
have greatly enlarged their business, having
having opened connection with Milwaukee,
where they have branch house. Our mer-
chants will do well to give them a call when
in the flour and provision markets of the
west.
sg- McMasters of the Freeman's Journal
is canvassing Ohio in favor of Vallandigham.
In recent speech at Cincinnati he denounced
New England, and took open secession ground,
arguing that "the people of Ohio have a right
to abolish their relations with any State or
States whatever and at the same time
eulogized JEFF. Davis as statesman of the
highest order.
Gr The Argus consoles itself with the re-
Election that, because there are fifty odd thou
sand copperheads in the State, therefore it is
not disloyal. Following the same rule, if you
increase one drunkard by forty thousand you
convert him into sober man! Multiply crime
to destroy it-this is the Argus theory If
forty thousand combine to commit murder
the act becomes virtue! Then will JEFF. Da-
Wis, Floyd and the jew Benjamin all be saved,
all shine in the highest heaven of patriotism.
Eg- President Woods, of Bowdoin College,
voted the full-hedged copperhead ticket. Does
it follow that the college has a copper head?
DR.. Woods. we understand, listened attentively
to the whole of f. o. j. Smiths late speech in
Brunswick, and complimented it as the ablest
political discourse ever delivered in the town.
We are not aware that the learned gentleman
ever allowed himself to mix in Union meet
ing, so that his means of judging of the relative
merits OF speeches may not be so perfect as
his knowledge of Greek roots.
~ The Advertiser exalts and eulogizes
Waldoboro', and suggests that it is an attrac-
tive place for a patriot like the editor of that
sheet, to find a congenial atmosphere. We
doubt, should the editor referred to propose to
emigrate thther, if public meeting of the
citizens would be called to dissuade him from
his purpose. Perhaps they might think the
atmosphere of Thomaston more appropriate,
but they will make no special objection to
his removal to the goodly old town of low
Dutchmen and sour-krout
sY-Ex-President Pierce in letter to JEFF.
Davis, dated January 6, 1860, said, "Without
discussing the question of right-of abstract
power 10 Seceue, nave never DeueNeu That
actual disruption OF the Union can occar
without blood; and if through the madness of
Northern Abolitionists that dire calamity
must come, the fighting will not be along Ma
son and Dxon's line merely. 1t will be with
in our own borders, in our own streets, be-
tween the two classes OF citizens to whom i
have referred. Those who defy law and scout
constitutional obligations, will, if we ever reach
the arbitrament of arms, find occupation
enough at home.'
sg- There is probably no case of fraud
that has occurred in this State in many years
that was so unexpected to our people as that
for which Mr.. Edwin Noyes was arrested
on Saturday. With an ample income, with
the confidence of the corporation by which he
was employed-and all creation besides-with
pleasant family whose happiness was identi-
fled with his character and course of conduct
with none of the ordinary incentives to
fraud, it is mystery, and will ever remain
such, why he should allow himself to be gull
ty of transaction that has involved himself
and family in permanent sorrow.
Ig- The ingratitude of republics is proven
bal. A new illustration has been given. The
democrats claim that they alone can save the
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