The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-08-18

Will please note now tnat olu
statesman demands equal and exact I.'-eS
all. men. the preseryation of the 0eneisAl saos-
ernment in its whole constitutional vlgor as
tho .o1,oot. ooobor of our peace at home and
- ohooa ah.olute acquiescence in the de-
cisions Of the majority, a jealous care for the
ill. of ELECTION by the people, the honest
,,a -, ont Of our debts and sacred preservation
of tbe public faith, the diffusion of informa-
;tion, freedom Of religion and of the press, with
no rifing of mails by southern democrats, no
destruction of anti-slayery presses by demo-
cratic mobs, and no tearing Of clergymen rom
their pulpits by northern politicians, me
resolution was in these words:
8. Resolyed That the Democracy of Maine do here
reassert ana declare their Fundamental principles OF
action to be SEXUAL and exact justice to an men o.
whatever State or persuasion reigou ~ po M
peace commerce and honest rrienusihp WIN an ma
entan ;n0 alliances with none the support of
the State G3Yernments in all thef Ights as the mosr
competent min stratl9ns Ir our u9esIlc eonceIns
Sasee. fhe T,reseryationot the General Government
IN its whole constitutional vigor as the sheet anchor
ofour peace at home and safety abroad; jealous
20 "a 81 the right of election by the people; mild
and safe corrective Of abuses which are Topped by
the sword Of revolution where peaeeable remedies
ora nm
ions OF the naj5ritythe vital principle Of republics
for which there Is no appeal but to force the vital
principle and immediate parent of despotism; well
disciplined militia, best reliance in peace and 10
the rst moments Of war; the supremacy of the civil
over the military authority; economy in1the public
expense, that labor may be lightly burthehed; the
honest payment Of our debts and sacred preservation
Of the pubic faith; encouragement OF agriculture, and
ofcommercea Its handmsiu; the diffusion 0tinforma-
ton and the arraignment OF all abuses at the bar OF
public opinion; flee ION of religion, freedom OF the
nj pH
habeas corpus and trial by iuries imparIally select
3D." The faithful adherence 60 these principles VIII
perpetuate peace. liberty and safety.
I If the reader is not already overwhelmed
with establishment at these wonderful Mes
meric phenomena, we wish him to look at
one more. The speakers in the convention OF
Tuesday made themselves hoarse In denounc-
ing the men who insist that every free citizen,
untainted by crime, should have the right to
a voice iu choosing the men to rule over him
and in making the laws to which he is to rem
der obedience, and yet the Convention closed
its eyes, opened its mouth ION the old Scotch
principle of "gape, sinner, and swallow"-and
took down, without word or a wrinkle OF
the face or contraction of the muscles, the
sixth resolution, which reads as follows: N
g. Reso5oed, That the ballot is the right of every
American citizen, to be restricted only BY such lii-
tatons as the public safety may require; and that
constitution recognizes the right Of the people OF
each State to prescribe the qualcatons Of electors
power the people of the separate States cOmplis-
ing the Federal Union have rigntfdy exercised from
the origin of the Government 70 the present time.
Here is "negro suffrage" clear up to the hub
for the highest authority now treats the
freedman as a citizen-only it is commended
that the State should provide for its exercise
instead of the general governments state
ment which we have no purpose to quarrel
with OF, controyert. Ik8sra I
Another resolution calls for brief notice.
Andrew johnson has been denounced by the
so-called Democrats of Maine more than any
other man, probably, Gen. Butler alone ex-
cepted- They denounced him as a renegade,
charged him as Governor of Tennessee with
getting up "iron-clad oaths" unknown to the
constitution, and forcing them upon the peop-
lie of that States- requiring them even to ap-
prove Mr. Lineoln's Emancipation proclama-
tion,-and the reader knows how brutally a
few months ago were their slurs and taunts
about his disgraeing the nation on he day of
his Inauguration; and yet, under the Mesmer-
ic Influence to which we have so often refer
red, we find them opening their mouths and
taking down the following:
g. ResoIoed That banishing all minor party consid-
eratons, and acting in the spirit of enlarged anu
lent johnson in the policy which he has ayowed, to
enable the States late in revolt to put their gov
srnments in practical operation, ami in all such
constitutional measures as he may inaugurate to
harmOnize tine country, and restore and cement the
Union Of the States.
Once more and we stop. In that Conven-
ton were those who invoked for President
Lincoln "Zhe fate of Murat and Robespierre,"
or cheered the invocation when put forth by
others; men who danced in glee over his as
sassination, thanked God for it, and dressed
she picture of Booth in evergreen, and yet, UNI
der the "spelr' of the moment, wrought by the
wand ofthe great Mesmerizer, they were made
TO say:
H. ResoJrc That the assassination ofthe late Presi
lent of the United States, act Of unmitigated
5arbarsm alike destructive Co civil government,
lbhorrent to the sentiment OF Christian through
tut the world and receives the most decided reproOa
don of this convention. "a
All the resolutions we have copied-and
with slight amendment we could include the
others--are unexceptionable; precisely such
as the Union men Of Maine stand by and sup
port; precisely such as they with propriety and
perfect consistency might have added, as
supplement-, to their own Convention series.
while they are as discordant with the whole
Tenor, spirit, action and influence of the Dem
ocratic party for the last four years, as an an
gel o. light is from the prince of darkness
in fact, these resolutions, copied above, CON
stituteas Judgment seat,r tried by which the
leaders in the Convention which passed them,
would be consigned to an infamy as profound,
as deep, as dark, as damning as that which
now surrounds the name of Benedict Arnold
or jefferson Davis.
But how came the Convention to pass such
We have more than limited at
the reason already. Under the magic infu-
snce of Messrs. Bion Bradbury and Judge
Rice, the Convention was Mesmerized into
the necessary Condition" to believe white
black and black white; sweet bitter and bitter
sweet. An anecdote of Mr.. Bradbury, pub
lished few years since, is illustrative.
He was trying case in the courts of Wash
ington county. An Irish witness was the
"lion in his path" To get rid of his testimony
was essential to save his client. So in the
cross-examination, Mr.. Bradbury adroitly Piled
the poor fellow, until he was made squarely to
contradict his own direct testimony. Subse-
aueltly the Judge called the attention of the
witness to his contradiction, saying, "just now
you said SO and sO."
"Did I ?" said Pat, @well, yer honor, when
Mlsther Bradbury spoke to me in tones swater
than those OF me own mother, sure. thought
ne aoas me oacn laaoyern l q .4s4
This is it, Mr.. Bradbury, who knows how to
stand as erect as any one on top of sharp
fence, and who is too shrewd politician to
defend treason and disloyalty himself, was
anxious to save his friends from the disgrace
hnf rrxr. oofS nd 1 ~