The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-09-08

r,ant e..eu? ana the United States govern
ing debt, would by that act rednce the ;ntar-
,oiarpt" upon the bonds and so far renudiate its
ask us to do 10 "hat the Democrats
Mr.. johnson has good daol % - -.
ea1 Vi pc people. II his policy had prevailed wSers
Of now would the people have been aS1,, where wi @
@ press deserves creSit The thirty ninth Con
1lse-that it has remanded this wboIa notning
to the people of this country. 'io question
MIR. Blame then referred to the ;nfar,o...
appropriation for the increase of salaries stat
ing that it was moved in the Senate nv q G ssat-
Reed Riddle, Copperhead from DelaSaI
that it received the full Copperhead vote T.;
the Senate; that it was rejected by the House
but pushed through by Niblack of Indiana
Copperhead, in the committee of Conference
and finally passed by vote of 81 to 30. OF
she 80 votes against it, only out of the AZ in
the House, were Democratic. The Copper
heads need not say much about that abomina-
ton. Mr.. Blaine explained that he himself
was at home on sick leave when the bill came
mp. MI. Lynch voted against it, as did both
our Maine Senators.
Mr.. KimDall then introduced Mr.. Nathan
Webb as the President for the next hour and a
hall, and Mr. Webb presented the Democratic
candidate for governor. Mr.. Pillsbury is
man OF medium hight, rotund figure, dark hair
and eyes and not unpleasing address He be-
gan py tnanking Mr Blaine for the courtesy
at Augusta and in this city. He said he would
take up the argument where Mr. Blaine left
off, and proceeded to argue that no State
could go out OF the Union after it had once
entered. If q riot or civil war occurred in
Maine, whereby the State was deprived of her
civil officers, would that preclude her repre-
sentation in Congress-? The South had never
lost Its right of represention. The seats of the
members from the rebellious States had alway
been kept open for them, when the States re-
turned 10 their allegiance. These rights were
now restored to them, and in order that cleo
tons for Congress might be made it was neo-
essary that some machinery should be act in
motion, and this was what President johnson
had done.
The conditions imposed by the President
emanated from Congress and they had been
complied with by the rebellous States and he-
ing pardoned by the President. the citizens
were restored to all their rights Of citizenship
as as though they had never been guilty at ali
Inc three pills or doses which the President
mad administered to them were prepared by
| Congress. His, Pillsbury's doctrine " as that
| OF the Philadelphia platform, that when a
state IS once in the Union it never can 90 out
| of it. - 81 "1'
| He denied that President johnson attemnt-
| ed to dictate to Congress- The difficulty was
that while Congress claimed that the rebellious
States had no right to be represented the Pres
ident claimed that they had.
In relation to the basis of representation he
stated that the friends of johnson proposed
that representation should be based upon the
voters. But the radicals resisted this, as they
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| manufacturing States, as well as in California
/ where the Chinese are not allowed to vote =
The proposition of the radicals was a zig zao
one, sticking to population, but SO cunningiy
drawn that any State which denies the right Of
suffrage to any class shall suffer in their repre-
sentatlon The radicals cared little for the
rights OF the negro; it was only political power
they desired to effect through that race
He denied that the Democratic party had en-
deayored to disparage the national credit or
was IN 1avor OF repudiating the Federal debt:
and said that the dispatch which was publish
ed lew days since from London, stating that
since the Philadelphia Convention, rebel bonds
mad advanced, had been altered-the word rebel
being substituted for Federal He read from
the resolutions of the Philadelphia Convention
70 prove that they were in favor of maintain
| The Southern States ought not to accent the
TENS proposed to them by Congress. II thew
| do, they never should associate with gentlemen.
ior they would put themselves upon the record
He dwelt some time upon the question of NO.
gro suffrage, the Freedmen's Bureau bill and
the II :. Civil Rights bill placing himself upon the
Philadelphia platform and reading some ~ the
declarations of that body. He COMPLAINED that
Mr.. Blaine, at Augusta, instead of refuting
these principles, turned them into ridicule He
then read from Senator Fessenden's report
l upon the Civil Rights bill
| Mr. Pillsbury then entered into a labored mr.
4 gument 10 show that Congress was wrong in
| not admitting the Representatives and Sena-
| Sors Loh she southern states, and that this was
done for the purpose. of effecting such amend
| ments to the Constitution as could not be car
| ried if those States were represented and al
/ luded to the cases Of johnson of Arkansas and
Maynard and Stokes from Tennessee, loyai
| men, who had done service during the war but
who were denied admission to Congress.
The extra compensation to members of Con-
gress and the altering the oath in the Senate
so as to admit Mr.. Patterson of Tennessee, oc-
| cupied the attention of Mr.. Pillsbury for a
short time, when he branched off and spoke of
the terms "Rebels," and "CopperheadsS which
had been applied to his party. He read from the
hockiand Gazette anu the Bangor Wing, and
| to hear his remarks one would be led to Judge
that he had never made copperhead speech
IN TINS state. He claimed that the proceedings
OF the last Congress were calculated to stir nm
pssa d,ssatsfactlon and disoyalty at the South
| Paid his compliments to Seward and III. Ward
| Beecher, and told of what DR.. Burbank of Lew
lston, had suffered for espousing the cause of
| johnson.
He defended the action of the Democratic
State Convention in relation to taxing u. S.
bonds. He was in favor of their being taxed
because they constituted one-eighth of the
OF the public property Of the United States,
and there should be no discrimination. The
pipe, the tobacco and the match of the Door
man were taxed, and why should not the bonds
| of the rich man be taxed
After alluding to the nomination of johnson
| by the Republicans, who, he said, knew what
his character and principles were when thew
nominated him, he closed by very pretty amos
trophe to the Union.
Mr.: Blaine took the floor to occupy the re-
naming half hour, and charged Pills6ury with
| fairly and squarely backing down from one Of
| the positions he took at Augusta viz: That bis
party was in favor of continuing the test oath
| Il told him., said Mr.. b. "that if he would
prlng me to-day the proceedings of one demo-
cratic body to that effect, would back out.
But after consultation with Judge Rice and
| others last evening, he comes to-day and saws
ne IS IN favor of the test oath only until it
In reference to the action of Con0rass in ra-
| iusing 1or'so long time to admit Messrs
| Stokes and Maynard, of Tennessee Mr. Rla;na
stated tnat 10 was done at the urgent request of
| State should be admitted to Representation nm
States W 'he
| Mr.. Blaine paid his respects to the Pb;,ada,-
| phia Convention, which Mr. P. had lauded 80
| much and on whose platform he stood and
spoke of itin such terms as to evoke the laughter
| of the audience.
He showed the fallacy of Pillsbury's arOu-
| ment about numbering foreigners among our
/ population, and said the same provisions which
applied to negroes would also apply to the
| Chinese in California, or any race that was re-
| fused the right of suffrage.
Mr.. Blaine alluded to the declaration of the
| Chis ago Convention as queer way of showing
| their love for the country, when they declared
| the war failure He gave p. q hit for his eu-
logy upon Beecher, whom for the past ten years
/ the Democratic party had been stigmatizing as
political preacher, but whom, now they grab
up with great joy. He spoke of the nomina-
tions for Congress by the Democrats in this
State. In every district save the first they had
taken the "Bread and Butter" candidates.
Mr. Blaine read from the loyal speeches of
| Andrew johnson, made in his better days,when
he claimed that the government OF the seeded
States should be placed in the hands of loyal
and Union men, and then asked the audience
| present if they were willing that the govern
ment should be placed in the hands of rebels?
| (Shouts of mol never)
Mr. Blaine closed his remarks by relating the
circumstances at Gettysburg, when General
| Chamberlain and the gallant Maine Goth turn
ry; and appealed to voters to 90 forward on