The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-02-05

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Tuesday Morning. February s, 1867.
every Like a Wh.Ic.o

"a. MI. Nallandigham is like whale in resnect
to the necessity of his nature, after temnorarv
submersion, to come to the surface and blow :
How his spouting was summarily suuelchad
in Philadelphia last summer, readers well re-
member. How he threatened to deluye the
convention, or at least to turn on the stream
of his eloquence from the balcony Of his hotel
in violation of all the proprieties of the occa-
sion; how he finally plunged out of sight to
the great relief of Mr.. Doolitte and others,
and what silent and stagnant expanse the
convention thereupon become; how Dean
Richmond damned it to no purpose, there
being absolutely no water-power in the mo-
tionless mass, and the elections were quite un-
affected by his engineering feats-surely it is
unnecessary to recall these circumstances of
Mr.. Vallandigham's last public appearance
- We have his own word for 1t that since that
time he has been devoting his time exclusive.
ly to his profession. He has reappeared to
make this statement and some others in the
columns of the New York Day-Book. The
Day-Book is an excellent medium for the pub
lication of Mr.. Vallandigham's views. Mr..
Vallandigham is the Last of the Democrats
that is of the Democratic "statesmen'' who
advocated slavery as good thing in ITSELF
The breed is nearly extinct, though its place
in society is occupied by race of ''Conserva.
tives" almost as Objectionable. What Mr..
Vallandigham Is among statesmen the Day
Book is among newspapers. Before the war
fho noy.RnoE hnlfllxy o,,1
Gated the reduction of white laborers at the
North 10 slavery, using these identical words: !
Sell the parents OF these children into sLnu- |
cry. Let our legislature pass law, that who |
ever will take these parents and take care of |
them and their offspring, in sickness and in |
health-feed them, clothe them and house |
them-shaN be legally entitled to their services: |
and let the same legislature decree, that who |
ever receives these parents and their children |
and obtains their services, shall take care of |
them as long as they shall hUe.
The very last number of the same Day.
Book attributes the suffering at the South to
the overthrow Of the patriarchal system, and
suggests as suitable alleviation of that dis
tress a restoration of slavery. When our ar
my is instructed in the tactics of the Macedo- |
nian phalanx, W, shall be likely to see Amer
ican society reorganized upon the principle Of |
slavery. 1t is to this obsolete Day Book that
Mr.. Valandigham naturally writes.
What he writes is this saaaH a
The pulpit, the tract, the society, the lecture,
the fair, the banquet, the magazine, the al |
manac, the pictorial art, science, music, poetry,
amuse or move mankind, we must |
no longer surrender to our enemies trust |
no Democratic family will permit the poison
Ous and pestilent publications of Republican
jsm," so-called, to cross their threshold no mat
ter under what name or form they may come
This is scheme worthy of Mr.. Vallandig-
hams genius. Such poisonous publications as
the North American Review, the Atlantic
Monthly, the Nation and the Tribune, are to
be put in the index prohibitory of this DEM
ocratic Pope Clement v. We are to be as
founded by the ecclesiastical thunder of Dem
ocratic Parson Nasbys; the Tract Society is
to be brought back to its old allegiance; the
Knights OF the Golden Circle are to resume
their incantations; Democratic lectures viii
be read to limited audiences; fairs must be
held for the relief Of Democratic exiles; the
of the New York Board of Aller-
dermen are to be extensively copied; the Old
Guard, the Democratic almanac and a host of
Democratic novels illustrated by Democratic
cuts, ana or Dss.laoratic songs set to Demo-
cratic music, are to take the place OF the pois-
onous publications aforesaid. Democratic
science must mean the manly art of boxing.
Among the appliances which instruct, amuse
and myve mankind" must be included Dem
,cratic school-books, playing cards and rail
.oads. We have no doubt then when all this
S accomplished, when the moral and intellec-
tual forces of the nation are engaged on the
Democratic side as they now are on the Re
publican side, the Democratic party will win
and not before. So long as these forces are
surrendered" to use Mr.. Vauandigham's ex-
preston, to the Republican party, or speaking
correctly, so long as the policy Of the Republi-
IAN party commends itself to the best and the
ablest men in the country, the Democratic
minority will be likely to remain minority.