The Portland daily press., 1866-08-20
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
YORK COUNTY.
The High Terry Party.

ADFBED HULL. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS hapieigh.
The High Terry Party.
DIR. Leonard Woods, late president of Bow
dom College, has gone to his own place, end
figures in the ornamental capacity Of vice
president of the Philadelphia Convention,
having outstripped such competitors for Cop
perhead honors as even DIR. aSouthside" Ad-
ans and DIR. Lord, sometime president of
Dartmouth College The mistake of these
last named gentlemen was the mistake of Val
landigham; they proclaimed their opinions
too early. Dr. Woods quietly but persist
entity opposed the erasure of Jefferson Davis's
name from the Bowdoin catalogue, where it
stands graced with the complimentary adden-
dunn of LII. d. Quietly but persistently DR..
Woods maintained his own opinions, as he
had right to do He was understood to be
Roman Catholic in religion, and Monarch
list in politics. Whether holding such opin-
ions, it wasiEe1~to remain at the head of a
Protestant urinary for the instruction Of re-
publican youth, is another question, which
DR.. Woods has at last decided in the negative.
1t is the privilege Of any man to hold such
opinions as he finds good. II is the privilege
of any party to advocate such changes in the
form four common government as are deem
ed desirable. But it is of the highest impor-
tance that these opinions and proposed changes
be clearly understood in all their bearings. II
is well settled that the Southern rebellion had
for its main object, not the escape from an OPP
pressive commercial tariff, not the preserva-
ton Of the institution Of slavery, but relief
from irksome association with the democratic
communities OF the North. Everybody remem-
bers how CONTEMPORARY Southerners were
in the habit Of speaking Of 'greasy mechan-
les" and the 'mudsills Of society," Everybody
knows that the structure Of Southern society
was not democratic, and did not foster demo-
cratic opinions. What the Confederacy
would have become 1t is now needless to con-
lecture. 1t was never destined to become
anything but black and dismal failure. But
the childish fancies of many Southern men
and women found utterance. The Rich
mond Presidents wife was LADY Davis" in
the language of the journals Of that city, and
lordlings, dukelets and princekins expectant
walked and dreamed and wrote and talked in
many city and on many remote planta-
ton. ,r
How well Andrew johnson knew all this
Born and bred with these people, scomed and
despised by them, he had fought his way up
from the ranks of the @poor whites" repaying
their aristocratic contempt with all the ener-
getic hatred Of his narrow but intense ma
ture In bis famous speech accepting the Re
publican nomination for the Vice-Presidency,
he said,- aaa. sg .f
The question is whether man is capable of
selfgovernment? hold with Jefferson that
government was made for the convenience of
man, and not man for government The laws
and constitutions were designed as instruments
to promote his welfare. And hence, from this
principle, conclude that governments can
and ought to be changed and amended to con!
form to the wants, to the requirements and
progress Of the people, and the enlightened
sfonists have lost faith in mems capability for
self-government, and feel unfit for the exer-
else of this great right, 90 straight to rebeldon
take Jet. Davis, Beauregard, and Bragg for
your masters, and put their collars on your necks
IL 1t is noticeable that here as always, Mr.
Johnson's feeling is purely personal Not
she opinions they represent, but sthe seces-
sionists" are the objects of his attack. To |
drive these men into rebeldom, not to drive
the opinions out of the men, is the whole
scope of his purpose. A narrow, vindictive
partisan, the President had never the SLIGHT
est claim to craftsmanship.
Still he states the question fairly and intel
ItOnpfIv fpT1o Sc -
capable of self-government" There was new
er Southern fire-eater who would answer
that question in the affirmative. The Demo-
cratic leaders do not believe it. DIR. Woods, |
as monarchist, is welcome accession TO |
their numbers How readily they found him |
out, how fully they agreed with him, how
promptly they employ him as their represen- |
tativel r. oi sfslirs .ar a |
But we have something better than infer
ence, to establish the identity of belief be-
tween the Tories of the South and the Tories
oil the North. 1t is not often that the self
styled Democrats afront our democratic com
munltles by an avowal of their real distrust of
Inc democratic theory of government. In
recent number of the New York World an
3eared the following extract from Mrs LOW. Il
SIS new novel, "Felix Holt.n Felix 10 cd +
lressing what the World calls "a British mob
at British election" 81 Elsgei II
"In my opinion" said Felix, "that was |
true word spoken by your friend, when he |
.ald that the great question was to give
'1pecIs ootsng to do more tos0drd it than do.
want the working men to have power l.
I'M WORKING man myself, and don't want |
Q Q De anytmng else But there are two sorts
ndo what has been done with great exnanse
md labor, to waste and destroy. To he crpaI IN
he weak, to lie and quarrel, and to taIL no;S | {
onous nonsense. That's the sort of posoer Mat
tool or planted potato. Do you thinR rs !
kelly to do much towards governing a oraoe
ountry, and making wise laws, and pfv;nn
,od clothes and shelter to millions of men5
ynorant power comes in the end to the same
hing as wicked power; it makes misery"
The drift of this kind of talk is plain enough.
low far the World agrees to these views of
ne suffrage question might be conjectured {
rom Its felicitous application of the word
mop. to an assembly of voters. But we are
o. leu 10 conjecture. Says the World, COM
ienting on tne passage just quoted,--rr -
NO words can paint more forcibly than these 8
PsSs erp Of sa which
negro suffrage" at the Sn Mt its party Tor :
gainst American civilization, and wh;ct, n ,a
nat cry to be successful, would make it, ~ su
ess the DEATH nel of the happiness freednr
nd progress Of 9 great people. The Tribuns h
ence ofthe South Of power and to REPLACE II '
the control of affairs by the ignorance Of the t