The Portland daily press., 1866-08-29
The Democrats i'm FancuiI HAN.

The Democratic meeting in Boston Saturday
night appears to have been as mild demon
stration as the meeting of like political faith
or rather infidelity-in this city on the same
evening Mr.. Doolittle amused the audience
there, and SO did Mr. Standish, here. Mr.. Blair
emptied the galleries in five minutes after he
began to talk, and SO did Judge Parsons. Judge
Parsonsis not succeeding very well in New
England. In Bangor he Indignantly denied
that he had been member of the Confederate
Congress- By the time he reached Portland it
was ascertained that he was member of the
Alabama legislature which in 1859 declared the
election of Republican President a sufficient
cause for the dissolution of the Union. He
reached Boston in season to meet the Journals
exposure of his subsequent course as a mem
ber of the same legislature during the war
Judge Parsons in the month of August, 1868,
offered resolution of confidence in the "pA-
TRIoTIsM and ability of President Davis" He
was the mover of the law outlawing and con-
demning to death every citizen of Alabama
who should enlist in the Federal army! The
people OF New England are not accustomed to
the sight of such Union men as this. In Bos-
ton they left him talking to bare walls, as our
people here left Mr. Blair after he began to talk
about war. The Democrats have committed
the error of insulting the Republicans whose
alliance they seek, by asking them to indorse
Fernando Wood; Doolittle who was asked to
resign his seat in the Senate, by the legislature
OF his own State; Parsons who was a seces-
sionist before the war; Blair, who was expelled
from President Lincoln's cabinet; Sweat who
sat and voted during the war with Voorhees,.
and Cox, and Brooks and Wood; Pillsbury.
who at the same time was making mischieyous
speeches and doing his little best to retard the
progress of our arms. Can anybody vote for
Pillsbury, and against Chamberlain, who sim
cerely desired the success of the principles for
which our armies fought? Certainly not
SENATOR HowE's COUNSEL. Senator Howe
OF Wisconsin, was welcomed home by his
neighbors of Madison, to whom he made an ad-
dress, concluding with the following printed
words:
Feliow citizens, l have detained you too long
IS fearful apprehension in the public mind
Tn 1mat some great public danger is impending
L nhere IS no danger whatever. The people of
IN Gme United States are masters of the situation.
~; u.e supreme authority is in you. IF you want
thls chore done, you can send representatives
there to do it; but if you don't want it done,
you continue to send such representatives as
you nave had there, and it will not be DONE
ron may rely upon that The President of the
- Emted States cannot coerce the Congress of
tl the gmted States-cannot coerce the people of
me United States. If he tries he will fail in it,
u LII ne attempts by any revolutionary means to
eHect 1T, he will simply become criminal be-
lore the law, and he will cease to be President
q tne United States. That is ALL (Cheers.)
You are masters of the situation. Stand where
you are: Be firm; be resolute; be true to your
tlves in Congress continue to obey that will.
but the President of the United States whom
you made and whom you can unmake, will
soon SOC learn to obey your will. Rest upon that.
Enthusiastic applause.)