The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-05-31
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swindle and the reasonable administration of
Buchanan.
After the re suit of the first ballot the name
of Gov. Cobur was withdrawn, and though
on the second ,allot the vote for Judge Cony
was nearly un ,nimous, did not have the
pleasure of casting vote for him, because
when the vote was taken was absent from
the hall engaged as a member Of the Com
mittee on Resolutions. Had the name
Of Mr.. Coburn not been withdrawn I
should have felt that my duty to him and
his friends was fully discharged with the first
ballot, and cheerfully have voted for Mr.. Cony,
he having already received large plurality,
thus indicating Enthusiastically the popular will
OF the convention. The almost unparalleled
majorities with which Gov Cony has been
elected for three consecutive years, and the fe-
hcitous manner in which he has administered
the affairs of the State, surely ought to salts
fy reasonable men of the wisdom of the poll
cy which led to his nomination, and to vindi-
cate the judgment and sagacity of those gen.
tlemen who predicted that such course
would strengthen the Union cause in Maine,
and give increased efficiency to her example.
As fast, and think may claim consist
ent, practical friend of Gov Coburn, who
urged his denomination and worked to secure
it, l sincerely regret that any one who then
acted and sympathized with me in that effort,
should be SO ungenerous aud SO untrue to
facts as to insinuate that he was crowded off
the track by intrigue, and confess to feelings
closely bordering on the indignant when re-
fleet that any Republican OF Union man
should feel called upon, either to crafty re-
sentiment or 10 promote a sinister purpose, to
insinuate that such man as SAMUEL E.
SPRING ever let himself down to so base
level as to intrigue for his own nomination.
Those who harbor even the shadow of such a
thought don't know the man. know, so far
as the Bangor movement referred to is con-
cerned, that nothing could be further from
the truth. / have known Mr.. SPRING init
mately for four years, and politically think
have shared largely in his confidence, and
know-as well as fallible man may know the
motives of his fellow-man-that the kind of
ambition for place or Office that has in it the
slightest alloy of baseness, never found lodg-
ment in his soul. ,aa sa r =
This article is already longer than could
desire, and yet ask indulgence for very
few words more. That Mr.. Spring may be
nominated at the approaching Convention at
Bangor, is my sincere desire, because such a
nomination would be one eminently fit to be
made, and he would make chief magistrate
of whom the State would have just reason to
be proud. True, he is not a soldier; he is
not even member of any of the learned pro-
fessions; I think he has never reveled in
academic halls or travelled in the higher paths
OF literary life; but he is MAN; man of
heart as well as head one who can think and
feel at the same time; a selfmade, self-reliant
man, the architect of his own fortune, an in
corruptible merchant, a generous, philanthropy
ic citizen, from whose door the deserving poor
never turn empty away, whose eye never fails
to glisten in the presence of human sorrow
and whose hand is never withheld when hui
man ministry can afford aid.
Sure am no soldier of Maine, who knows
and understands SAMUEL E. SPRING, will
withhold support from him because he did not,
during our late bloody struggle, wear the dec
orations of the field. OF the cause for which
younger men perilled life and fortune, Mr.
SPRING was ever generous supporter. In
all good works for the soldier in The field, for
his family in the humble cottage, for the
wounded hero in the hospital, or for the fam
lilies Of the slain, he was ever in the front
rank. His labors for the Sanitary Commits
sion were unceasing, while his contributions
were never withheld-were always munifcent
Prudent in his personal expenses, simple in his
habits of life, economical in his family, yet
for years, I am credibly informed, his expend-
itures have nearly if not quite kept even pace
with his liberal income, six-tenths of the
whole outlay having been to promote the va
rious philanthropies- name is legion
which have been born of the terrible ordeal
through which our country has passed, and
from which she has SO gloriously emerged.
SPURwINK.
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