The Portland daily press., 1866-09-13
bO1i.

The Advertiser is in sackcloth and ashes,-
if refuses to be comtoried. The result of the
election has exceeded its worst anticpations
oil calamity. It's astonshment is nearly equal
tc its grief, and it casts about in ever direc-
ton for some cause to which result so unex-
pected by it may oe attributed. Finally it be-
lieves it has struck the root of the matter in
the failure Of the administration to make more
use OF the official guiilotine. Hear it,:
The people talked acknowledgement
ly OF the Presidents course in dealing with the
South and the Union;-b they did not see,
they did not feel-they were not made to APP
preoiate that there was living, real, undaunt-
ed and determined administration of the Fed
eral government in this State. They saw that
the pettest office-holder-the internal revenue
men-the custom house officers-tide walters,
postnasters and officers of every grade carried
their heads haughtlly, and talked defiantly of
executive measures, without lear of harm to
themselves, in their positions-and that threats
unexecuted, Of removals, only BETRAYED the
fears and feebleness of the powers that be, and
proportiona5ly inspired their oppOsers with
courage So an administration that is seen in
efficient to protect itself and its own support
ers, can never win, and can never merit the
confidence of the people.
1t is plain that our contemporary is not
fully in the counc lis OF the higher powers. He
may possibly get a hint of the policy which
has actuated them by a careful perusal of the
following account furnished by Mr.. Nasty Of
the deliberations which preceded the depar-
turc Of the Presidential party on their late star
ring tour. Mr.. Nasty acted as Chaplain to the
parry: ifa.e
There wuz then a lively discussion ez to the
propriety before the procession started, of re-
moving all the Federal ofiis-holders on the pro-
posed route, and appintin men who believed
in us, johnson, Beecher and mel that we
might be shoOr Nv a sootable recepshun at each
pint at which we wuz to stop. The annointed
wuz in favor Nv it. See he +" them ez WON'T
support my polisy shan't eat my bread and
butter" Randall and Doolittle chimed in, for
IT'S got TO be part OF their religion to assent
10 whatever the President seq, but mildly
protested. l owe a duty to the party and am
determined to do il. ~
Most High,' seq /, "a settin hen witch is
t aay MAKES no fnss-cut its head off and it
Hops about for q while lively. Lincoln's OILS
holders are settin-hens. They don't iiIfa VOC
nor yoor policy, but while they are or tfIeir
nests they will keep moderately o,1iet Cnt
on thelr heaos ana they will squirt their blood
into your face. Ez to bein enshoord of ~ \
ception at each point you need fsar ,ntI;n ~
Calkerlatln moderately, there are ~ Lost
twenty-five or thirty patriots who feel q cam
Ior every ONCE ID your disposal. So long Yoor
Highnis, ez them offisis is held lest Sgh.va
they kin see EN-, and they don't know wich :
to git EN-, 700 may depend upon the entire en-
thoosasm NV each, individyOoally and collec
tveiy. In short, eli there's ofises in town
ana 700 make the appointments 700 hev Sc
koored supporters-till 700 make the APP
to fit em.' >f0o'
Inc resident agreed with me that until af-
ter thetrip the suhotine shood stop.
"The best-laid schemes % mice an men
gang aft agley" melancholy fact certainly.
but one from which there is no escaping. The
Advertiser however calls loudly upon Mr.
johnson not to forget those post-oficas which
were promised to mis- "down-trodlen support
ers in this State" 1t is not their fault that
the blind Radicals refused to be bought, and
oli neighbor sees no good reason why they
sr'ud loss their reward. We don't think
'ley Will lose it-such as it is.