The Portland daily press., 1867-03-27
DAILY PRESS.
PORTLAND.
Wednesday Morning, March 81, 1857.
Lost thele Influence,
PORTLAND

Inv '"oie vi tic anePneru boy who cried
wolf in sport, till his cry ceased to have
effect, and so TIE flock fell aprey to the raven
| our beast because of his previous false alarms.
seems to have been paralleled in the case of
the Northern Democratic journals in their in
fluence upon the South. The papers in the
latter locality complain of being deceived by
the stale cry of"Land hop raised by their
Northern contemporaries on the eve OF i'm
portant elections, and suggest that such en-
couragng exclamations have had no other
effect at the South than to deceive and then
disgust those for whose encouragement they
were indulged in.
We copy from the Richmond Times-in-
tensely southern-what has already appeared
in these columns, to show precisely what we
mean. Speaking of the New Hampshire
election, that paper says:
The result is another radical victory suffi-
Gently Say sweeping to show that Congress still
holds an impregnable position with the north
ern masses. The Democratic Journals shout
Land Ho n very often, but we cannot discover
anything but inhospitable coral reefs and
Ireacnerous sand banks. Our unfortunate
northern friends are made excessively happy
by the occasional election in some village OF a
democratic coroner, alderman or mayor This
excessive thankfulness for small favors denotes
the extreme poverty of the conservative party
When great paper like The New York World
throws up its hat and devotes leader to the
triumph of Coroner Squink, of the town of
Iomahawk, and tells us how no triumphantly
bore aloft the banner of conservatism by "a ma
lorlty OF eight we are reminded of the cry of
tne 1rut sellers OF fConstantinoplc-In the name
Of the Prophet.Jfgs.
yu
The Times is sensible, and fully appreciates
the value of Northern Democratic predic-
tons OF political victories. The hit at the tex
cessive happiness of our friends and neigh
bors over the occasional election in some vii
lage OF Democratic coroner, alderman or
mayor is keenly satirical, and especially so
at the present juncture, when he whole party
press Of our State can find no crumb from
which to extract comfort except the election of
their ticket in Biddeford, where they have long
held sway, and where nothing better was ex-
pected by the friends of freedom and the
country. This little two-penuy victory,
in small city almost unknown except
in manufacturing circles, is Leralded as the
Jewel in Ethiop's ear" and the newly elected
mayor-a very yoatng man one might know
from his hiSh-falutin, sophomore style-faps
his spread-eagle wings over the event as the
most signal sign of promise since the flag of
modern Democracy trailed in the dust at the
surrender of Lee and Johnston; and his
piece, spoken before the two boards of the
city government, is taken up by the papers
OF the State and published with as much gus
to as Barnum would sieze upon double
headed calf or hen with two rows of teeth.
1t is gratifying to know that the work of
bamboozling the South with such nonsense is
about played out. The intelligent people of
that sunny region have been cheated many
times by similar encouraging calculations and
predictions, but the day is about closed when
the thimble-rigging politicians of the North
can deceive and fool them in such matters.
The South, beyond all question, was ep-
couraged to rebel and take up arms in 81, to
large extent-to an absolutely controlling
extent-by the expected aid of Northern
Democrats. This aid, it was found out, with
slight exceptions, was all manifested in talk
and in political resolving, while keeping at
safe distance from the din of battle and the
smell of gunpowder. Not only was the
South encouraged to commence the fight, but |
she was also encouraged to continue it, against |
all reasonable hope of success, by the attitude |
and expressed sympathy of her friends at the |
North. 1--WE cannot go South to fight for
you," virtually said the Northern Democracy,
but we will not fight against you; we will
throw distractions in the way of those who
would fight you, and what is more and better
still, we will fight your battle in the North at
the polls, and get the power into our hands,
raise the Democratic party again to power,
and then we will meet you on terms of old
restore the Union as it ,vas when
you wore spurs and we wore saddles, and a
general love feast and rejoicing shall be the re-
suit" fEs5s-
The poor, deluded South listened for awhile
to such stuff, till her substance was eaten up,
till her young men drenched the soil with
their blood and till absolute ruin stared them
all in the face; then she discovered the delu-
sion and, wisely making virtue of necessity,
laid down her arms, ready to accept such
terms as the conquerors might dictate.
True, under the manipulations of treach-
erous executive, she has been again bam-
boozled for season, but the cheat is becom-
ing transparent, and, determined to be cheat
ed no longer, she is preparing to do what she /
should have done year and half ago.
submit as gracefully as possible to the fate to |
which in the progress of the age she has in |
evtably been brought.