The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-08-16
Ion Joseph HOWARD

| HON. JOSEFd hOW ALL
no nominated for Governor by acclamation
The motion was carried, and Judge Howard
was declared the Democratic nominee for Gov
ernor for the year ensuing.
Messrs. N. S. Littlefield, r. ID. Rice and G.
P. Kimball were appointed a committee to ap-
prise Judge Howard of his nomination:
Judge Rice, on call, took the platform, and
made speech of much power, which was evil
IDENTIFY not in harmony with the strong set of
the current in the hail. He said for four years
the government had been affording an illustra-
ton of its power to put down civil war, to
suppress rebellion and to defeat armed trea-
son. He had never doubted the right or the
duty OF the government to do this, regardless
of cost in treasure and blood, or to use all the
force needful to secure this result; and he
thanked God the government had done its du-
ty, that civil war was put down, and that
henceforth one country is to be ours forever.
1t was remarkable that these utterances of
Judge Rice elected very faint or no response.
They fell dead; evidently were not in harmo-
ny with the spirit of the occasion. When the
Judge touched taxation, and more than init
mated that the government should lightly es-
TEEN its pledges made during the war, then
the audience became yociferous. The speaker,
however, disclaimed all disposition to suggest
any form of reputation, but intimated very
distinctly that in some way the evil of unequal
taxation, to which he referred, might be reach
ed legally and in good faith, though he did not
state in clear terms how this can be DONE
We regretted that the honorable gentleman
did not go further and make his meaning more
explicit, because we are quite sure, if he viii
suggest clearly legal, just and honorable mode
ofreaching this evil, he will find many besides
his style of democrats to join him; but he will
hardly accomplish his purpose by low black
guardism aimed at the men who took the gov
eminent securities and paid their money for
them, while he and such as he shook their
heads ominously, and suggested that the gov
eminent was all going to smash, and that its
bonds would be worth no more than SO much
waste paper. The Gd captGndum appeals of
Mr.. Rice did much, very much, to lessen the eff
feet of the better portions of his speech. Per-
haps he deemed it necessary to throw such a
tub to the whale of disloyalty still foundering
and blowing in the sea of demo cratic politics.
Judge Rice was followed by an infnitessi-
NAL specimen from some portion of Kennebec,
who took especial pains to pay his respects to
us, probably hoping to get his name into these
columns, but he will be disappointed We
shall not coil ol1r oo1mnc or ineulf <7ooo,,f
readers, by printing the name of so worthless
a blackguard and liar; fellow who tried to sell
himself to the Union party for a situation in
one of the departments at Augusta, but being
refused, became blatant Democratic spouter
The use made of such fellows by the democrat
come little else than the small end of the tail
of the rebellion, lashing and singing itself in
its last expiring agonies.
Mr.. Pillsbury, President of the Convention,
rejoiced that as one of the results of the war,
slavery is dead. He never believed in the right
ofproperty in man. He had been in false
position, so had his party, and he rvj0icod that
in this regard he and his party were relieved
He made other remarks, but from our position,
nearly behind him, we could not distinctly UNI
derstand his remarks, but from what we could
gather from occasional words, though opposed
to slavery, Mr. Pillsbury rejoices in heart as
full of hatred and bitterness against men who
are unfortunately of dark skin, as it is of zeal
for the party whose only mission seems to be
to hedge about the right of suffrage lest it
should become extended, and to erect barri-
ers against the progress Of the great ideas of
Humanity and Equal Rights.
One speaker spoke distinctly of the demo-
cratic States of the South, said when the war
ended the people settled back on democratic
principles, and that those States were now
democratic States. Precious confession
The following resolution was passed:
ResoIped That this Convention cordially endorse
the nomination of Hon. Joseph Howard for Governor
ofthe State and will make all honorable efforts to Sc
cure his election. Na
Votes ofthanks were passed to railroad and
steamboat companies for their liberality; loud
calls were made for Macdonald, Bradbury,
SWEET, Emery and others, some of whom re-
sponded, and at half-past four p. M. the Con-
Vention adjourned sine die.