The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-09-13
Fhs Pres. oa ..e saaine EIcriion

uf5'1 From the hcston Traveller, Sept. H.
In brief, the Democratic party in Maine has
taken Its seventeenth smashing from ths hands
on the Republicans, counting Presidential ell
,ectonS as well Us annual electiOns,--and the
last looks very like a smash up. We do nos
say the Maine Democrats will abandon the
field, but we assert that they have made the
last OF their fights into which anything like
hope could enter. Any future action of theirs
must be of the most hopeless nature. They are
reduced to the same weak, helpless, hopeless
pitiful state as that which was known to the.
Wings of New Hampshire for many years, and
from which those Wings never could emerge.
The people of Maine have decided that they
will have nothing TO do with Democracy SO long
as that has any thing to do with slavery and
slayeocrats, traitors and treason.
From the Boston Transcript, Sept H.
We especially congratulate two men, of whom
Maine may well be proud ON this victory in
their State, namely, William Pitt Fessenden,
the Chairman of the Congressional Committee
on Reconstruction whose masterly report
against the Presidents policy made him spec
lally the official traitor to Johnsonian treas
on, and Hannibal Hamlin, who flung the COM
mission Of the most lucrative Office in New
England into the face Of the apOstate giver,
and then threw himself heart and soul into OPP
position TO his policy end designs. Both of these
men have their reward in the overwhelming
testimony which their State has just given 10
Their integrity as well as to their intelligence.
IfNDlu IicSS sept Ii.I
NELL WELL! Maine has spoken Her YER
dict is more decisive than it was last year We
did think that the President, with the whole
power of his administration and his tremen-
dous patronage, all welded for the copperhead
candidates, would have some effect But his
alliance is damage to Them Last year, when
the opposition let the election go by default,
the Republican majority was about 23OOO-
Now, when they have put forth their strength
and have been backed by the administration,
the Randall convention, the New York Her
aid, and Times, the travelling speeches of the
President and Mr.. Seward, the Presidents de-
nuncation traitors of all who do not agree
with him, the republican majority is about 30
600! Where is the johnson strength? What
have the copperheads got in exchange for their
principles?
From the New York Tribune Sept Ill
Maine is third State that, since Andrew
johnson left the Union party, has ut the polls
refused to follow his treachery She has more
emphatically rebuked it than Connecticut or
Vermont, having had far more reason than the
former to appreciate its extent. Since Gov
Hawley was elected against the determined
opposition of the Executive the country has
been taught-by massaeres in the South, by
the political union of Rebels and Copperheads,
by the Convention of Southern Loyalsts, anl
by the speeches of Mr. JohnsOn-a lesson Of
which these victories are the results Not even
the defeat of Mcclellan, not even the election
and reelection of Republican Governors la
every NOrLneTn Stlte, were more SlgnIllcans
of the people than this grand victory in Maine
From the Washington Chronicle, Sept II.
GLORIOUS MAINE! We have sufficient re-
turns from Maine TO make it certain that the
Republicans have achieved an unprecedented
victory The State is walled about with Gus
tom-houses on a coast Of four hundred miles in
extent, and the whole interior swarms with Of
ticials, yet behold the RESULT A Republican
Governor, six Republican Congressman, major
tiles in both branches of the Legislature, large
enough To be considered as practically unani-
nous, with gains almost everywhere This is
glory enough for one day e--'