The Portland daily press., 1866-08-25
An Indignant Remonsirnnce.

| 1--WE have received the following communica-
ton which we print in full, notwithstanding
the offensive character of some of the senti-
mcnts, for the sake of the lesson it conveys.
TO THE EDIToR OF THE PRESS
STR:-I am democrat Twas born one. /
was q democrat before was a man. All my
cousins, uncles and aunts, and brothers and sis
tiers, father and mother, grandfather and grand
mother are or We're democrats. My grandfath-
| er who fought through the Revolution was q
| democrat of the Jeffersonian School and lived
| to see that proud day when cast my first vote
for the god of his and my idolatry, Andrew
Jackson. An every election, great or small, 1
nave voted for true blue, dyed-in-th
| democrat. have been constant attendant on
democratic eaucuses and conventions and have
read the Eastern Argus and the Boston Post all
| my life. Next to my God, love my party, and
next to my Bible, 1 revere the glorious princi-
| pies 1T had always represented. 1 am proud
and justly proud of the splendid record of my
party, under whose continuous rule the puny
three millions of1776 have swelled to the thirty
millions OF 1866 under whose wise administra-
ton this country has risen from mere coloni-
al outpost of civilization to the most formidable
power of the globe, under whose sagacious
counsels the scattered and distracted commu-
mites of the old confederation have been bound
and consolidated into a Union whose power to
resist the combined hostility of internal foes
and external enemies has proved it the strong
est government on the face of the earth. Sir, /
love my party with devotion that knows no
bounds. abhor and shun a bolter as ! would
traitor. l never split a ticket nor voted for
any other than regular nominee. 1 have al
ways gone with my party, even when / could
not fully persuade myself of the propriety of
its immediate policy, because trusted that all
would come out right in the end though there
might be some mistakes, and believed that
the nation depended on the unbroken integri-
.ty of the democratic party, the fond mother and
faithful nurse of the nation. / believe that if
6nm0orafiC lie hod lo6 fha
could have been avoided and slavery would
have been in great part abolished. believe
that if those insane men of the South had fol-
lowed Mr.. Johnson's advice and retained their
seats in the congress of the United States they
would have tied Mr.. Lincoln's hands as effectu-
ally as the present congress ties Mr.. Johnson's.
believe that after the war commenced if the
principles of the democratic party had prevailed.
it could have been ended in half the time and
with all that is desirable of the present results
Although consider the doctrines and acts of
the present dominant party ruinous and des-
an .hst N b bne ngeSs asgfee yet 90 not
administration for the The Sf fs people, and the
sun tv nv ~ thaf Can or will carry out those
oay n.y P1a.y enough now under cloud, Will
p.nt,ioIiy esin the ascendency The old, time
Lons1vs -tsntoc ~ oc.stic party can never die
or of nv disa devott1o9l u 9lys Xa sQps idea Mr. Edit
Jot,he recent shameful proceedings in Phila-
of ,sn irresponsible, self.appointed body
Oa OH men who .h Ee bad the audacity to pretend to
srado nff s its nrinc;r tried organization and to
fees which few political oeggarly set Of d Oh
| for two years. Has it come to fhi.a N A. the
sense and the intelligence of the Ameifcsn peo-
| pie and the devotion of the Democratic masses
| to be insulted by this monstrous and insolsnt
assumption, that parcel of trading politicians
| of every shade of opinion, from black aboli-
| ZIONIST to rank secessionist, can assemble to-
| gether in big barn, and, by stringing to-
| gether set of truisms, and going through some
| fourth rate stage performances, then, and there
bargain, sell and convey the great Democratic
| party, its name, organization and voters to
bastard concern of their own creation? New
| er since the election of Lincoln have so de-
| SPARED of the people. Not that believe that
4 thieying crew will realize their fond anticipa-
| tions, but it is bad sign that any body of men
| can be found, who imagine that the Democrat
ic masses viii be delpded by such an impudent
| farce, No gentlemen. There is some sense
and virtue vet left In the people. You have
stolen our newspapers and some OF our leaders
and you have thereby paralyzed our organza-
ton But the newspapers viii soon be asham-
ed OF swallowing dirt, the offices will disap-
near as time flies on and the leaders will by
and-by be glad to come back into the old Dem
ocratic party and take such back seats as the
| people may choose to assign them. Sirs, there
| is a people behind you, an intelligent, think-
ing, devoted people They will tel you that
the old Democratic party has not lived and
ruled for seventy years to hex the shoes Of that
that military tyrant, who built the CoDstitu-
ton of the State of Tennessee on q foundation
of bayonets, and, by excluding voters from the
| polls at his own will, elected himself and his
| friends into all the fat offices; and who now,
being accidental President Of the United
| States, (God save the markD has the incredi-
Bile yapity to suppose that he can wheedle the
old Democratic party into the support of any
RIDICULOUS nonsense he may choose to spout
from afr. Stewards manuscript and call it
| Statesman dip. No, gentlemen, you have pi ov-
ed that athe So0ls are not all dead yet" The
| neonia will sbo, .aou that thero is something
besides fools VET left You insult us by asking
us to transfer our alIecia uee from the old DEM
ocratic party, to a single anu s,h. ;has ma9
Andrew johnson. You are a. .,y.e iii coInS
full of joy and whiskey. The II. SS IN 81 .o,e ths
when you u>will cry out in your 81, .o,, 90 a,,S s
frowning spirits of Jefferson and Mao IA S', =
Jackson, and Marcy and Silas Wright ~
host of great and good men of the past pass q"
fore your guilty vision. There lis no shame III
| you, but there is the capacity for terror; and
when, perhaps not many months hence, you
contemplate the great crime, and, what is
worse, the irremediable blunder you have COM
| mitted, YOU will pale before the virtuous indio-
nation of betrayed constituency. Oh that
| had pen of fire to scorn you as you deserved
Oh that 1 had any medium but black repub-
lican sheet to hold you up to the dctestation of
the public and the scorn of the party You
have, temporarily, betrayed Not day should
pass but your quivering flesh should feel my
| lash. Not an hour of undisturbed sleep should
you have until you should have abandoned
yo1r gilded calf and returned to the ancient
| fold. If the Editor of the Press will publish
this, he will give an old and tried enemy the
satisfaction of speaking his mind" hope
| to have the opportunity of heaping Goals of
fire on his head in the same way, as soon as the
traitors and lickspittles are weeded out of the
| Democratic party. H. .
A DEMOCRAT OF 1928.