The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-09-01

ilSftcuieHI upon tucse srtitb qutstlollS' Aoub
SO long as they feel afraid to Withdraw their
hands from their Old Mothers grasp and to go
alone, their councils will be distracted, their
courage faltering and their enterprise Earal-
yzed. The spirit of the age demands indie
pendent action, and the Canadians will ere
long become convinced of the fact and go
ahead in the race that is set before them.
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| PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS.
| The religious reader need not start back
from this caption; we do not propose to tread
on his theological eorns or to interfere in any
way with the mooted questions suggested by
the creeds of religious men. We refer to am
other kind Of saints--the slater day saints
Of the Copperhead church.
Whatever views may obtain in theological
circles touching questions of final perseverance,
it is very evident that the Copperhead saints
know of and recognize no sin that can dis
Qualify an individual for the benefit, of full
communion, or the felicities of the highest
political heaven, except the sin Of believing
that, Of one blood God hath made all the ma
tiOns and peoples of the earth, and that
bright, intelligent, loyal negro is as trustwor-
thy as a stultifed, besotted, disloyal white
Cppperhead.
. If there is any other fatal sin .of.1wliiclD
Cppperhead may be guilty or into which he
may fall, we have never heard Of it. The sin
of becoming an abohtionist is the sin of sins;
the sin that hath no forgiveness; the sin
the commission of which leads to everlasting
| infamy; the sin for which no redemption has
been provided. Hasn't this sin alone excluded
forever from the loving and wide-embracing
arms of the mother political church, such
men as Benz. F. Butler, Joe. Hooker, Daniel
s. Dickinson and John A. Logan Has it
not, in this State, excluded from the pale of
salvation such men as Samuel Cony, John A
Peters and others, once bright and shining
lights in the Democratic communion VIII
such sanity spirits as v. d. Paris, N. S. Lit
tiefeld, David Dunn and E. F. Pillsbury ever
consent to receive back, into fraterna rela-
tons, any man, once Democrat, who has
sinned against this highest, hottest, and chief
test revelation to Copperhead prophets, teach
erS and apostles
Who can point to any other offence in the
whole calender sin, the commission of which
by a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat or an eleventh
hour and fifty-ninth minute Copperhead, win
eAdanger his salvation, or even SO far affect
his standing in the Copperhead church that
repentance, confession, and promise of amend
ment are deemed necessary +? If there be
such an. offence we have been unable to dis
cover its name in our reading of Democratic
papers, which, we suppose, are to be consulted
in order to find the true, unadulterated Cop
psrhead Confession of Faith.
We have been led to these remarks and to
PROFOUND these questions, by rejecting upon
facts, sayings and doings disclosed by the pass
ing hour. In 1851 the only States in the
Union that had been regarded as reliably Dem
ocratic, either voted against the constitutional
authority of the Government and took up
arms to make treason success, or they were
prevented from so doing by Federal bayonets.
The truth of this statement is undeniable. y
But to-day, those States, having failed in
their purpose to break up the Union, are well
coined back by copperhead politicians, as DEM
ocrdttc Stotesf 1t was stated the other day in
State Convention, by one of the chosen spil,-
lis CD on that occasion, that when the people
of the South laid down their arms and took
the oath of allegiance, they fell back upon
Democratic principles, and are now ready to
uphold the Democratic party No penitence,
no confession, no probation, no works are re-
quired. Once in grace always in grace, is the
idea with these slater day saints.D 1t is with
them as short and direct step from treason
in arms to Democracy in faith and practice, as
1t IS from cattle car to a luxurious passenger
train Z; showing beyond caviI that, before the
judgment-seat of modern Democracy treason
is sin-if sin at all-of far lighter shade than
abolitionism, and that the traitor whose hands
are red with the blood of loyal men-our sons
and brothers-and whose fingers have been
clutched al the nations throat, is better fitted
to enter copperhead church and a copper
head heaven than the most loyal man who
chances to believe that all men are equal be-
fore Gods law, and should be before human
law.
A few months ago G. T.. Vallandighari was
a fugitive in the dominions of JEFF. Davis.
having been sent within the rebel lines for
treason, and for utilization with the enemies of
his country. Within two weeks, without repent
ance or one word Of confession of sin, we have
heard from him in the Ohio Democratic State
convention, as one Of its chief and honored
speakers, counselling the faithful, and drop
rti ~ instruction from his lips like apples from
0i,o 'iee oi sodom, his Democracy unimpeach-
% anu ms illness for fellowship and the high
es' honors unaifectedl In fact, so long ago as
last August, while yet he ,vas -, az ha,, IS
the Government for treaso,,
hanging over him from which he. soual,t 70 es-
cape, liable momentarily to be se;1a5 4, = t,,o-
officers of the law, he was to be TONI ! ON M
cage, at the highest tribunal know, ~
Democratic party, making one Of tho ~ '.lo
tee which was to frame the ftndamental
ty law or platform! Do not these tbings 81 ~
that no extent of treason can defle a modo,.,
Democrat, or leave an offensive odor rpon H.
garments? attf
So it is. While one sin alone is unforgiv-
able, and he who commits it is deemed worthy
of death,--the sin of believing in the doctrines
of the Declaration Of Independence,-in spite
of all other sins and offenses, the REGIMENTS of
Democratic grace are forever safe and ,o;41