The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-04-04

must be set at work-the brain must be rack
ed, to seek out or invent errors in the rulers,
or to torture their very merits into vices and
crimes In a time like this, when all the ener-
gies of the Governors and the governed are
hardly sufficient to meet the emergency, what
a burden or hindrance must be party of this
sort, imposed upon an administration. For
one, he said, he could sympathize with no such
opposition to the conductors of this war for
our institutions. His duty, he said, seemed to
him plain-and he doubted not a large portion
of our citizens who had formerly opposed the
administration thought with hint was to
unite with those who are giving an unreserved
and hearty support of the men that were lend
| ing their efforts to crush this rebellion; and
he was, he said, with them, heart and soul, now
and always to the bitter it may be, but he
trusted and prayed the glorious end.
Mr. McCobb's remarks were frequently
broken in upon by enthusiastic applause.
Thomas E. Twtchell, Esq, was chosen Sec
rotary Of the meeting.
Elisha Trowbrdge, Esq, as Chairman OF the
Nominating Committee, announced the unani-
nous nomination, by the committee, Of Jacob
| Mcclellan, ESQ.,, as the candidate for Mayor,
and Benjamin Kingsbury, Jr., Esq, as Munich
pal Judge.
The Chairman put the question upon accept
| ing the report, and ii was unanimously adopt
ed, with applause.
The band then played "The Star Spangled
Banner
The Chair announced Hon. Josiah H. Drum
mond as the first speaker. Mr.. Drummond
alluded to the meeting which was held in the
hall one year ago, when pledges were made to
sustain the government, and they also voted
to support our present candidate for Mayor,
Mr.. Mcclellan, for Mayor then. Why are they
not here now? They then pretended to be in
favor of supporting the administration in its
measures to put down the rebellion. Now
they qualify their support by saying they are
in favor of supporting the administration in
all its constitutional measures TO put down
the rebellion!
Mr.. Drummond alluded to some of the
charges brought against the administration in
its management of the war, and clearly refut-
ed the charges which had been brought against
it, by those who were for seeking peace with
the rebels, at the expense of every high and
honorable motive which had impelled the
North to resent the insults OF the South in
firing upon the American flag and committing
treason.
Abiding to the coming election, he said
here was a common ground for all good and
true men to stand upon. He had no doubt
that on Tuesday next we should send to Wash
ing.on another evidence of the patriotism of
Portland, and that we should never give up or
hold back, until the stars and stripes fioated
over an undivided nation.
Mr. Drummond took his seat amid great
applause, and the band then played patriotic
air.
Hon. Charles Holden was the next speaker.
The importance Of this meeting might be felt
when il was known that whisperings had gone
abroad that the city of Portland would not
return a loyal Mayor next Tuesday, and some
alarm had been felt in Augusta and other
places that this would be the case. He had
repealed such ISLANDERS, and told them that the
telegraph on Tuesday next would send forth
the tidings that Portland was still true and
loyal. He paid high compliment to the can
didate for Mayor, and thought he was pre-em-
inenty the man for the office; also TO Mr..
Kingsbury, the candidate for Judge, who had
impaled the representative from Westbrook on
his spear, and who would be elected next
Tuesday by a majority OF hundreds. 1t re-
manned for each man TO do his duty, and vic
tory would be won on Tuesday next ZAP
plause.)
Mr.. Kingsbury was the next speaker. He
was announced as Judge Kingsbury by the
Chairman. / am no Judge, said Mr.. K, the
Chairman has made slight mistake. I"Never
mind" cried a voice, 1--WE will make that all
right Tuesday next.
Some three years ago, said Mr.. X, a City
election was not Of much consequence except
among the outs and ins, and after the election
was over every one went about his business,
the election having no potency to give it sig
nihcance. He spoke of his acquaintance with
Capt. Mcclellan, and spoke of his earnestness
in opposing the rebellion, his hatred of the
traitors and their sympathizers at the North.
He, Capt. Mel, would hang every traitor at
the South. l, said Mr.. K, would not go quite
SO far as that. would I'LL our prisons and jails
with the traitors and make them do work that
a dead man cannot do. would make them
pay, by their work, portion of the expenses
of the war they have inaugurated and thrust
upon us. Mr.. X. said he believed, as firmly as
he believed in his God, that the end of this
great rebellion was approaching, and that we
should soon again see thirty-fve States in the
Union.
The Chairman then introduced to the audi
Leis Barker, Esq, of Penobscot County, as a
"lye democrat. man who had voted the
Jameson ticket from the start, until, like some
others, finding the platform was not wide
enough, he stepped over on to the other side,
where there was platform wide enough for
the whole world.
Mr.. Barker was received as he arose to
speak, with enthusiastic and long-continued
applause. We intended to give a running,
though necessarily imperfect report of his re-
marks, but from our brief notes, snaiched only
at intervals, we find it impossible to do him
anything like justice. He claimed to be
loyal Democat, Democrat who voted for the
gallant Jameson at the very last State election,
and he regretted that so many who started with
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