The Portland daily press., 1866-08-27
THE DEMOCRATIC MEETING.
Montgomery Blair Threatens thc
Nog'tE eDith CiUu Var.
Alarming Revolutionary Doctrines Pro-
rauignsed.
STARTLING nEvELArIoxs.

The second izzle of tho copper, johnson par
ty took place at Deering Hall on Saturday
evening. The attendance was very thin. s..
z. Strout, Esq, was chosen chairman, and the
speaking was opened by youth from the rural
districts, named Swasey, who gave rehash
OF choice editorials from the New York World,
and News on the main questions of the day..
While he was relating the story of the New
Orleans riot, as published from the Times of
that city, whose editor was in Washington, as
Stunning to telegraph the Presidents instruc-
tions to the rebels, the Hon. Montgomery
Blair was announced, and the youthful aspir-
ant for publcscontempt retired amid great ap-
plause. A i.eii
Mr.. Blair then stepped forward and com
menced his hnrang1n. During the first half
hour he was q good deal interrupted by per-
sons rising and leaving the room. The truth
was that his lecture was very uninterestng, as
he was simply repeating the platitudes of his
predecessors of the previous evening, and, the
principal part ofthe audience having been salts
fed by gazing on the grabbed features of the ex-
Postmaster General, went homo satisfied.
They will never know what they lost No
verbatim report of certain passages in that
speech win ever be printed in any Democratic
paper. They dare not do it, Our readers
must be content with such an abstract Of the
remarks of Mr.. Blair as can be made from
memory and from few hasty notes jotted
down at the time. The harangue was the
most offensive and deliberate insult ever ad-
dressed to Portland audience The annals
OF public meetings contain nothing like it,
Even when Senator Benjamin, in 1856, flushed
with the generous hospitality of one of his CO.
laborers, declared to the people of Portland
that Kansas must and should be slave State,
and used other language so offensive that the
Argus dared not print it the next morning
the feelings of our people were not SO outraged
as they were Saturday night by the threats, the
bullying and the downright mistatements Of
the Hon. Montgomery Blair loiai4 .rii.s
He said that the breaking up of Government
by denying representation to ten of the States
OF the Union leads as certainly to war as Sc
cession itself; that it was only another form Of
secession, and, if continued, would inevitably
produce civil war at the North. He advised
his hearers to concentrate all their energies on
the election Of Representative. He said the
radicals had now 100 members out of 240, the
number when all the States were represented
that they could not get that number again.
that if the johnson party would rally to the
support of conservative principles it would, with
the aid of the Representatives of the Southern
States, control q majority of Congress. But
he said, the radicals will not admit these mem.
bers from the South They aciu then join scil
the Northern Democrats and set up By them
selUes as the true Congress, and THE PREsI
| DENT WILL RECOGNIZE THEM AS THE TRUE
| CONGRESS- OF THE UNITED STATES The
Rump will then impeach the President ant
elect another. We shall then have two Presi
dents and two Congresses and this ensures
civil war in every town and county through
out the North while the South win be uni
on the question. The only aoay to ayoid blood
shed is to accede to the demands of the Soutl
and support the policy Of the President If tn,
course of the radicals was not checked, if the,
were permitted to carry out their policy, th,
streets of Portland would run with blood, ant
a devastation, to which that of the South wa
nothing, would overwhelm the entire North.
Having fred off this volley of threats ant
abuse Mr.. Blair proceeded to entertain the au
4
family. He alluded to himself frequently,
not more so, as member of Mr.. Lincoln'
cabinet and modestly assumed to have beel
the only member thereof whose views an,
opinions were in strict accord with those of th
illustrious martyr. He gave us to understan
that if it hadn't been for him and Lincoln, tn
country would have gone to the dogs long age
He said he was the only member of the Cabi
net in favor of garrisoning Fort Sumter. HI
said that those Southern men who attended
the Philadelphia convention, such as A. Il
Stephens, Orr, Parsons, &C., were the onl,
Union men of the South, and that the other
who proposed to hold convention on the 8
of September there, wero the original seces
ioaists; that such men as Parson Brownlov
Maynard and Stokes of Tennessee, Thomas j
Durant of New Orleans, Gov. Hamilton {
Texas and others of the same character, wer
originally responsible fer the rebellion; tha
Gov. Hamilton, after he was commissions
Military Governor Of Texas, put his commi.
sion In his pocket and staid about Washingto
and never went to Texas at all, until after tn
surrender of Lee. The reverse is notoriousl
the fact After having made a number OF de q
hberate misstatements similar to the above IN
speaker went into a detailed biography Q
Frank Blair of Missouri and for augnt w
know, he may be- talking about the Blair fami
ly yet. r 49flr ,5-e,is r,