The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-10-26
DAILY PRESS.
PORTLAND.
Friday Morning. October rs, 1866
The Prospect i'm New York.

IT, is said that Mayor Hoffman, like Harold
Transome has had his sensibilities slightly
wounded in the course OF his political life, by
the proceedings of his friends. A most re-
spectable young man, as young men 90, he
was nevertheless elected mayor of New York
almost solely by the employment OF disrepu-
table means al which he winked very hard
john Morrissey, whose name and fame are
preserved in the annals of the American prize
ring and who has since passed through the
itermediate degradation of professional gam
bling, has at last fallen SO low as to become a
candidate for Democratic nomination for
Congress, which he will probably receive. Ii
he gets the nomination, he will be elected
and will assume the leadership OF the
Democratic party in the next congress,
az there is now good prospect OF JACK
Rogcrs's defeat This Morrissey has promised
that the custom house and post office OF New
York, supplemented by private liberality, shall
furnish cool million to secure Hoffman's
election. People who believe In the invinci-
bic efficacy of greenbacks may therefore count
New York as Democratic State.
There are some drawbacks, however, and
among them Hoffman himself What Judi
cial blindness induced the Democratic con-
vention to throw aside such man as General
Dix and take up Hoffman, passes the wisdom
of man 10 comprehend. Perhaps the most
plausible conjecture is that with a mournful
presage of defeat, that gallant company chose
to go down with their flag flying and pass in
to history as Copperheads first, last and al
ways Dean Richmond, if he had lived,
would never have consented to this suicide,
but his mild persuasions were not heard at
Albany. 1t was at Sing Sing, just before the
last Presidential election, that Mr.. Hoffman
said publicly that volunteering stopped when
Lincoln declared for an abolition policy"
He said also that "Lincoln was as great a
traitor to the Constitution as Jefferson Davis
"a remark which was greeted by his hearers
with yocilerous applause. He said also that
the Southern people were entitled to sympa-
thy" and that 'the war was carried on for
the subiugaton OF five millions of people,.
He said also this: "If Tennessee is Lot al
Iowed to vote in the Electoral College, and
Lincoln should be elected, | would advise rev.
olution and reSistanceto the government, and
you may know which side to find me on"
Such words have proved fatal to the political
ambition Of other men, and notably in tie
cases Of Mr. E. f. PIlsbuIy of Maine and Mr..
Hester Clymer of Pennsylvania. Mr.. Hoff-
man will find them very hard load TO carry.
Immediately after the nomination at Albany,
Democrats were heard to say that there isn't
much chance this year, and a party of dele
gates who were offering to back their candi-
dates with large bets, were blutfed by quiet
gentleman who told them that if they would
call at his Office their bets would be taken.
One OF them offered to lay $50 to s25 that il
wouldn't be done, and his offer was accepted
on the spot. The rest withdrew.
The Republican majority on the vote for
Secretary OF State, was 27,S57. The Demo-
cratic majority in New York was 24,4S9.
Even if HoHman's friends should by naturali-
cation and other activies give him 10000 ma
jority in New York, which is liberal allow
ancf, his defeat is assured
II we consider the Congressional delegation,
II plC-Cub SOnSIcSS ~ AZ "
10 LIZ, counting Raymond Oh both sides, as is
proper The only districts ia which the Re-
publican majority was less than 1000 in 1864
are the Third, Sixth (Raymonds) Twelfth,
and Eighteenth. The Democratic districts in
which the majority was less than 1000, are the
Eleventh and Thirteenth. The canvass is net
Yet sufficiently advanced to justify any pre-
dictions with reference to these doubtful dis
tficts. 1t Raymond is replaced by Demo-
crat, we shall be no worse off. Horace Gree
Ley has been nominated in the Fourth dis
trict, which includes the Five Points and is
isTetrieyably Democratic. Yet even here we
note that Democratic club of young men
wearied and disguised with 'fammany manage
ment is in open revolt and is Dsing its intlu-
ence for Fenton and Greeley. The most re-
lnarkabe sign of the times however comes
from Minnesota, where Gov. Seymour has
been spending the summer and talking very
freely. Here is what he st. Paul Press say
concerning his latest utterances:
He made no secret of his opinion willie here
that no Democrat can subscribe to the Phila-
delphia platform without qualification, or with
ty in all his past course. Still less did he make
any secret of his conviction TINT the Republican
party ooere bound to by an immense maj
ority IN Neao York and every Northern State
Moreover, Gov. Seymour declared in the pres
ence of several prominent gentlemen in this
city, that he knew, of his own knowledge that
the most prominent and influential statesmen
of the South were in favor of negro suffrage,
and he hiDlseJ iods in fdUor Of it, He further
stated that he in favor of the constitutional
amendment us a basis OF restoration, that the
South and the country ought to dcceptit and that
prominent Southern men were willing to ac-
cept it as a basis of restoration.
What will Gov. Seymour's friends say to
that! 1t was not enough that the weather
cock of the Herald had become stationary
pointing straight Down East; il was not
enough that the Times was out OF joint and
could not be got lack into the Democratic
socket; it was not enough that the rejoicing
over Henry Ward Beecher had been suddenly
turned into bowls of anguish but here comes
Governor Seymour, Democrat of the Demo-
Gratis, slandering the sacred Philadelphia plat
form-what is worse, predicting Republican
victory--worse yet, declaring in favor of the
constitutional observation-disclosures of all and
unuttcrably discouraging, pronouncing for
negro suflrage EFT tn, Seymour! The Gov
ernoI knows good deal more about New
York politics than we do, and if he thinks the
Republican party is bound to prevail by an
immense majority, we dare say it will.
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