The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-08-28
7D1Fr1ou1rrEs m HANoooK COUNTY.

DIFFICULTIES IN HANCOCK COUNTY.
1t is to be deeply regretted that the ELS
worth Am@scdn, the Republican Union pa
per in Hancock county, should be laoor,ns
zealously to defeat the election of PAlshEh !" :.
PERRY, Esq, the Union nominee lor oierA u
the Courts IN that county 30 iai aS we can
l,ar, ovo,, from, the 4nserieaa's own columns,
A. porrv ,voo nominated with ordinary fair
moss and according to party usage. The Con-
nan1t;oo,, that nominated him embraced the
leading Union men of the county There APP
aears to have been two parties in the Conven-
lion, and there was a divided sentiment in re-
lltlon to the right Of certain members to seats
whowere admitted, as well as in relation to
the exclusion Of one who was denied the right
to represent a plantation of which he is not a
resident; but Notwithstanding all these lhihSSs'
it seems TO us the rule that prevailed is the one
usually adopted in similar conventions IN oth-
ar counties; and had different RUE prevalied
--sueh rule as was commended for by the dis
eontented party-it could not have changed
Ehe practical result The nominations would
AVE been the same, for aught we can discover
to the contrary. Hf1 ~ af3f WIZ f
A full ticket was put In nomination. MIR.
Perry received 43 votes against 81 for all 9TH
ars, and no exceptions appear to have been
taken on the spot to the fairness Of his nomi-
nation. Since then another convention or
meeting has been held, called by no authoriz-
ed committee, and by this meeting another
man has been put in nomination in opposition
to Mr.. Perry. The gentleman nominated
Mr. Hadlock- lis no doubt a respectable, patri-
otto and worthy man, of unimpeachable integ-
rity and loyalty, and had he received the regu-
lar nomination we should have deprecated his
defeat, or any opposition to him ON the part of
Union men, as much as we should deprecate
thetlefeat Of Mr.. Perry, who has been thus
nominated. M0NAF XXI Isl on I
We know that the people Of Hancock Coun-
ty are abundantly competent TO manage their
! own affairs, and we shall not assume to die
Eate to them what they shall do in any respect.
But being interested in common With them,
IN the prosperity Of the loyal cause in thiA
country, they will not think it strange that we;
and the Union men generally in the State, wit
ness with deep concern a movement calcula
tad not merely to defeat Mr.. Perry (who is one
Of the best officers and truest men in the
STATE but tosecare the election.of pro-slav-
cry Democrat in his place, and thus. to create
division in the loyal ranks in that county,
which will be nearly certain to throw it into
she hands Of the copperheads for years to
come The happening of such an event in
that staunchestEhd truest of all the counties,
the one whose star, even in the storm and
night of 1855, when those of every other coun-
ty ia the State were obscured, shone brightly
and steadily to encourage and to cheer the
faithful and true7heafted in the hour of their
temporary defeat,-is what the loyal people OF
Maine, with one heart, hope may be averted. /
We conjure our friends, therefore, in the
name and for the good Aef a common cause
that is dear tous all, to suspend indefinitely
heir divisions, and with one heart give uni
ed and efficient support to the loyal cause Of
the State and nation.
/ Our friends in that county who feel aggriev-
ed, and whose grievances have been expressed
IN this discordant nomination, may rest as
'ured, no matter what their motives, or how
pure their intentions, that the Union men OF
The State feel that they viii be responsible for
whatever Of injury comes to the Union canse
in that county; and we trust they will not per
sist in course Which can result only in disas-
ter, unless they are prepared to defend the act
and bear its full responsibility II