The Portland daily press., 1866-06-22

the heads Of rebels and those who sympathlz-
ed with them in the North. During Mr.. Lin
coins administration Mr.. Randall went up as
far as the farthest for making "treason odious,"
for universal freedom, for rejection Of all COM
promises and all efforts at Cancellation; he
gained almost a national reputation by his ell
oquent advocacy of the Union cause. But,
President Lincoln passed to his home, Mr..
johnson took his place; the FIRST Asst. P. M.
Gen. believed that "the powers that be are or
dained of God" and-he simply changed party.
He accepted "my policy" he organized the
"Bread and Butter Brigade" he became its
Generalissimo, and re shall regard him in
his present exalted position. ThurlOw Weed
and Dean Richmond, Doolittle and Delano,
Cowan and Dixon, hold inferior positions un-
der the Presidency of Randall even Lorin p.
Hanscom and John l.. Swift, the editors of
the renowned Washington Republican, are
but the mouth pieces of Randall! Should he
not then, er oticio, claim our first notice?
Now let us regard the policy which Mr..
Randall approves and intends to carry out Of
course, firstly, he has his own particular "axe
to grind;" there was time when he was a
candidate for the office of U. S. Senator from
Wisconsin, and in the caucus he came very
near beating his competitors, because he was
a good fellow, could make a good speech, and
because he had done good service to the par
ty in his State; at that time he was a member
Of the ruling party, but he has the vanity to
believe that it was less because of his political
character and position than of his personal
qualifications that he was earnestly supported
by good and true men, and now he blindly be-
leves that the same men will forget their par
ty ties and obligations, forget even the prlnci-
pies on which they have heretofore relied for
success, and at the call of his penny-trumpet-
voice rally to the support of the President OF
the National Union Club, orthe General of the
Bread and Butter Brigade. The Governor
sees through one or more glasses very darkly,
he will be struck by lightning twice before he
is elected to the U. S. Senate. even should he
carry out his threat OF stumping the State OF
Wisconsin under the johnson banner, in
scribed with the motto "My policy OF no poll
cy."
The subordinate officers of the d. & b. Bri-
gade are less reticent than their General and
they will show you by statistics how they hope
to secure their beloved commanders success.
They say there are SO many Howe men, SO
many Randall men, so many Democrats and
so many to represent doubtful districts. Now
we will take the Randall men to start with and
add to them the Democrats and carry all the
doubtful districts on the promise that we will
defeat McIndoe the Republican representative
and give the Democrats his District. Eure-
ka!
1t is needless to say that this game cannot
possibly win, and it is only worthy of COM
ment as showing the dni,nus of the johnson
party which bases its entire hope OF even local
support upon the proceeds of its sale to the
Democratic party, Precisely. What do you
hope to accomplish asked Bread and
Butter Brigade man, well paid clerk in the
Land Warrant Office, a few days ago, and he
answered that in the next Congress they ex-
pected to have seven additional Democratic
ACmpCAo uom 1NCW az AOeoO ANC hoAAA
Ohio, three from Indiana &C., so that the
whole purpose ofthe organization seems to be
to defeat Republicans and elect Democrats
This same garrulous subordinate also told me
that they expected to throw the State Govern
1nent fNew York into the hands of the Dem
ocracy, and it is well known that promising
quarrel is already going on between Weed
Seward and Raymond on the one side and
the friends of Gov. Fenton on the other. II
this quarrel continues until the meeting of the
conventions it is likely to result as the John
son men hope.
So Ex-Governor Present First Asst. p. M
General, the eloquentgentlemen from Wiscon-
sin, the lifelong enemy of pro-slavery Demo
cracy, is at the head of an organization which
has for its object simply the defeat Of Repub-
cans and the election ofDemocrats IF novel
ty really has charms Gov. Randall must be de-
lighted in the admiring society of Voorhees,
Cox, Vallandigham, Garrett Davis, the Woods
and the Seymours who are just as good John
son men as himself After the next fall cleo
tions, the General of the B. &. b. Brigade will
do well to ponder over the maxim 'Whom the
gods would destroy they first make mad"
Washington, 10, 1866.