The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-07-26

OF inducing the people to think it honorable
andjust partially to repudiate the national
debt, takes advantage ofits position as mere
| spectator of the labors OF its opponents in
saving republican institutions from destruc-
tion, to misrepresent and belle all the meas.
ures adopted in pursuance of the great end.
| "A persistent effort is made to fasten upon the
Repubiiean party the responsibility for the
debt itself. This is as if all the criminals in
the State of Maine should band together to
resist the laws, and then claim that the gov
emment that subdued the revolt should give
place to themselves because large expendi-
ture OF money had been necessary in over
| coming them The war was commenced and
fought through by Southern repudiators un-
der the guidance of the Mississippi repudia-
tor, JEFF. Davis, 1t would have been brought
to close in half the time it actually ragged,
and with less than half the expense, If the
Northern repudiators had not given moral
and even material support to the traitors,
and damaged the national credit by decrying
the stability of the government
This has been demonstrated over and over
again, but the readers of Democratic news
papers never find the facts Of the case in the
columns of these delectable sheets. They find
instead statements of the annual expenditure
under defilnct Democratic presidents in time
of peace, which have about as much relevancy
as the annual budget his Majesty, the King
Of Dahomey. "a They find heart-rendering
descriptions of the military despotisms which
interfere with the pastime of fogging and
shooting negroes, formerly in vogue among
the chivalrous sons of the sunny South They
find appeals to their selfshness, their appe-
tites and their passions, but none to their
patriotism or sense of right. -l
Eminent philosophers declare that nations
as well as individuals may so mad. Suppose
in fit of temporary, insanity the American
people should restore the Democratic party to
power, what would be done2 Since 1864 we
have no authoritative. declaration OF their
principles. Then, if we remember right, they
pronounced the war a failure, and wanted to
surrender at discretion to the South. What
they haye since regarded as fitting measures
Public policy can only be gathered from the
declarations of their representative men, and
the resolutions passed at Their. STATE conven-
tions. Il is of little, practical importance
what they believe or what they would do, but
lest any should be led to suppose from their
constant fault finding that they know exactly
how to organize a paradise, where they aver
that their opponents are organizing some
thing very different, we propose togive brief
summary of their present creed. A3A1.l iis,,
E To begin with local matters, they are dead
ly foes to 'shmptua1y laws" So are many OF
the opposite party, indeed, especially when
the offensive enactment takes the form of
liquor law But the hostility of members of
the two parties to restrictions upon the sale
of Intoxicating beverage finds very different
methods olexpression. In case of the Dem
ocrats il assumes the form of active rum prop
agandism, while Republicans, for the most
part, confue themselves to moral resistance
to prohbitory legislation which infiicts pun
'ishments which seem to them 'dsproportion-
ate to offences committed in contravention of
its provisions. Hence we are authorized to
assume that free liquor would be one of the
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blessings incident to a restoration Of, the old
regime. "a n, E.yb.,,,2 .atd, II o,4 llit.d '-
nlmany of the States impartial suffrage is
the question before the people. What it is
proper to do in relation to this matter none
but repudiatorH can,vdoubt. Yet through
out the b land - the Democraey ii has
declared itself iunalterably nih opposed
to negro suffrage Is this democracy OF
intensified Brahminical aristocracy9 In CAL
ifornia the spirit of caste has demanded the
exclusion OF the Chinese from the State. sd
It is very difficult to determine exactly how
they would deal with the rebel States if they
had jurisdiction in the matter. 1t is certain
that they would place the loyal people under
control Of the disloyaL They would restore
slavery too, either under the old designation,
or under one expressly contrived to conceal
its true character President johnson and
Charles O'Conner, the latter in express terms
and the former in a more guarded and indi-
rect manner, declare that slavery has never
been legally abolished. For proof Of this we
refer to O'Conner's letter to the Maryland
Constitutional Convention and to Johnson's
last veto message. avy ,ada.ug unito.s 40 II
uti As for the taxation of bonds, no explana-
ton has yetbeen afforded which renders it at
allclear how it can be effected without a
breach OF good faith and honesty on the part
of the government which would in future pre-
clude it from negotiating loans, whatever
might be its necessities or its dangers. So far
as it car, be done rishtfully and SO far asit is
expedient it finds support among Republican
in all the States, but so far as it is affected
with the least taint of repudiation they re-
ject it with disgust, ls4gtea ri DIV, l,s. q
1.-THE advocacy Of pnrestrained liquor yend-
ing, cdisloyalty, reputation, class privileges
and slavery itself entities the Democracy of
the United States tocontrol the government,
is time that vigorous efforts were made to dis
cover that Mysterious island in the Pacific III
order that it may be colonized by civilized peo-
pie who understand what are the requisites
Of free government. No Republican, who is
in the enjoyment of his usual health, has the
slightest apprehension OF defeat in the coming
State or national campaigns; but ifupon such
issues as these defeat should come, the usual
retirement Of Salt River would not be sufii-
cient removal from the scene Of disaster.
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| ENo-JoQUE.-Mr. Hinton Rowan Helper ap-
pears to have gone stark, staring mad. His
latest folly is the writing OF letter to the ed
itor Of the New York World, protesting
against the Misrepresentation which, he says,
some Of the papers are making in reference to
his book, Said book he declares, is not a
aBlack Book" in any ser Sc, as is proved by
the fact thatit contains two chapters (among