The Portland daily press., 1863-08-29

BiOn Bradbury on Party T1es-166l ps. 1863
On the 18th of March 1861, Hon. Bion
Bradbury made speech in the House of Rep
resentatves at Augusta from the printed re-
port of which, carefully revised by himself,
we copy the following extract:
intend to know no party so long the Govern.
in this emergency care for no political organza-
tons or partizan platforms. am for the Union and
Constitution and for the speedy crushing of the re-
bellion.
Mr.. Bradbury was in the legislature on
Union grounds, representing the Republicans
as well as loyal Democrats of Eastport, the
former throwing large majority OF the votes
of the town. He was in favor OF laying aside
party names, and called upon the Republican
party-then in majority of nearly 10000
to abandon its party name and organization,
pedging himself to stand with those who
would take this ground Here is his Ian
guage:
Mr. Speaker, have an invitation to give. invite
you, sir, as q return for your civilty to abandon
your partizan associations. not to join the Democrat
party but to connect yourself with the great party
ofthe Union and the Constitution, composed Of all
loyal men. democrats and republicans. who are for
the government and will stand by and fight for it,
Such was Bion Bradbury in 1861, after
President Lincoln had suspended the habeas
corpus, after he had arrested traitors, after he
had accommodated several Maine Democrats
with lodgings at Fort Lafayette, after he had
issued any amount Of paper money, after he
had done nearly every act which now so clear
ly shows to Mr.. Is. that madness rules the
hour"
Rut do ind -
day? How about the party slack thread.0?
How about his regard for political organiza-
tons and party platforms? We find him now
standing squarely on the declaration that "the
only assurance Of peace and restoration is in
the success of the DEMOCRATIC PARTYw
Truly the '.jack-threads" have become strong,
and party platforms and organizations have
become potent. Mr.. Bradbury no longer ris-
es above party; he no longer ignores "party
ties; he no longer stands ready to join hands
with all loyal men, Democrats and Republi-
cans who are for the government and ",ciu
stand by AND FIGHT FOR IT," but we find
him, "with or withoutaualification opposed to
the car" we find him standing with and act
ing with those ,cho demand the rithdra,ral of
our troops; with those who demand stop to
"this heliish ,car".
Let the voters II Maine think of these
things. Let them remember
l. That while in 1861 Bion Bradbury ig-
nored all party ties and party organizations,
now he finds no assurance Of peace and res
toration only in the success of a mere party
2. That in 1881 Bon Bradbury invoked the
laying aside ofpsrty names and partizan asso-
Citations, and the formation OF party of the
Union; but now when such party has been
formed, and all other parties except the So
called democratic, are merged in it, he is the
standard-bearer of those who oppose it.
3. That in 1861 Bion Bradbury invoked
Union of all those who would "stand by and
tight for" the government; but now he goes
with those who denounce the war, who stg
Matte it as "hellsh," and who demand the
withdrawal of our troops from the army!
A. That in 1861 Bion Bradbury was for fill
ing up the army and for using all means to
crush out the rebellion; but now he is the rep
resentatve man OF those who denounce every
means which the government finds it necessa-
5. That the men who two years since were
denounced by majority of the democratic
party as sympathisers with rebellion, and who
virtually endorsed rebellion by their course in
the State Convention at Augusta, are now
satisfied to make Mr.. Bradbury their standard
bearer
6. That men who in 1851 Indignantly voted
onA Of IL.
might be necessary to enforce the laws and to
put down rebellion, now throw up Their caps
for Bion Bradbury.
Z. That the men who plotted treason at the
Preble House in May, 1861, and were solicit
tous about New England's chance of admis-
sion to jeff Davis Confederacy, are ready to
vote for Bion Bradbury.
8. That the party of which Bloc Bradbury
has become the leader is constant in its Iault-
finding spirit with the government, while it
has not a Word Of expressed condemnation
for armed rebels.
8. That while the Convention of which
Bion Bradbury is the candidate denounces as
unconstitutional nearly every act of the Fed
eral government put forth to crush rebellion
it intimates no unconstitutional act on the
part of the rebels.
10. That the fair inference is that the party
represented by Bion Bradbury regards the
Conscription Act, the suspension of the habeas
corpus, and the arrest of Vallandigham, as vi
olations OF the CONSTITUTIONAL the Confedera-
cy and destructive to its best good, and there
fore opposed to the democratic party.
III. That the party OF which Bion Bradbury
has become the standard-bearer, is in favor of
the Constitution as it is-under JEFF. Davis,
and of the Union as it ,cas under James
Buchanan.
IL. That if Bion Bradbury is loyal man
himself he renrnsenfs n disloval r,rincinIo and