The Portland daily press., 1868-09-03


ham Lincoln and his cabinet and bis soldiers,
and not at all the high-toned gentlemen who
were engaged in an attempt to divide the
country into two parts. Then Mr.. Cox
said: @ b Hf '.
Gentlemen, New England orator. Iris
tram Burgess, once said, that 1--WE were sur
rounded, protected, and secured by our Con
stltutlon, from the power and violence of the
world, as some wealthy regions are, by their
own barriers, sheltered from the rayages of
Tue ocean. But small, invldious. perseyer-
ing reptile may, unseen, bore through the
ioitiest ana bToadest mound The water fol-
lows lts path, silently and inperceptibly AT
nrst, untll at length breach is made: and
the ocean rushing in, tiocks and herds, and
men, are swept away by the delure."
PURITANIsM is THE REPTILE. which bas
been boring into the mound, which is tbe
Constitution (cheers) and this civil war comes
in like the deyouring sea! Its rushing tide of
devastation will not be stayed until the rep
tile is crushed and the mound rebuilt.
Then follow large number OF vitupera-
tive sentences all ridiculing and denouncing
view England, as the home of all those ideas
that disturb the peace OF mankind. At last
he excites SO much ''enthusiasmn amono the
Hibernians in his audience that they cxcla;m
"Put her out~ meaning that New EnaIaod
should be excluded from the Union as an un-
tit associate for the chivalrous South. f
The next point is queer one which Gov.
Seymour and all other Copperhead dena-
gosues make as We'll as Cox. When a consti-
tutional provision is supposed to be favorable
to the success of treason and the paralyzing
OF the government, such provision is by no
means to be spoken Of disparagingly. IT be-
comes Immediately sacred. But if there Is
another provision which has nothing of that
kind to recommend it, its folly and injustice
become at once subjects of Copperhead com
ment. Mr.. Cox said:
Mr. Beecher has boasted that God has Civ
en- the Yankee that intelligence that knows
how to turn to gold all it. touches. Laugh
ter 1t is his insatiate cupidity, mingled
with his PuritaniSm, which is now making
men study the new Census: which makes
New York wonder why, with less popula-
tion, New England has twelve Senators TO her
two! Ohio, too, ponders the fact that her
population is greater, by ABS 294, than five
New england States, yet they have ten Sena-
tors while she has twol
Now we submit, in view OF Cox's senti-
ments above expressed, il the Democrats
nave not made mistake in sending him to
New England, like the one that the govern
ment would make in sending George Francis
Train as minister to England at time when
ii was desirable to conciliate that country
This peripatetic "Sunset" Cox PROPOSES TO
DEPRIVE MAINE AND THE OTHER NEW
ENGLAND STATES OF THEIR EQUAL REPRE-
sENTATIoN IN THE SENATE, when the con-
stitution itself declares that even an amend
ment would not effect that purpose unless the
States consent.
But let us go on with quotations, which
carry with them their own comment and rem
der any from us unnecessary:
New England fanaticism and speculation
have made disunion! New England stands
in the way of reunion! PERISH NEW
ENGLAND, that the Union may live =
(GIeat cheering and a voice, We've had
enough OF her, There is a legend related of
st. Lawrence. AS he lay on the gridiron,
conscious that he was sufficiently done on
one side, he requested the cooks, if not too
inconvenieDt, to turn him over and do him
on the other. | fear the West will never be
canonized if it requires such double sacrifices
to reach the sanity calendar.
The people of New England who have
been accustomed to attach some little blame
to Hon. Jefferson Davis and Lieut. General
Robert E. Lee and their associates for dis
union and war, Cox says are themselves to
blame. He does not anywhere speak of sub
DUNG the Southern revolt, but does say. eff
she New Fngland) is not driven from the
Union, SHE WILL BE HUMILIATED IN IT.n
But Mr.. Cox wakes eloquent in his abuse:
speak of that ruling element, which even
before it reached our shores, while it was in
exile in Holland, while it ruled in early days
at Plymouth and at Boston, and which has
since been distributed all over our country.
presents always the same selfish, pharisaicai
egotistic and intOerant type of character.
We find it in our politics to-day, as the Tu-
dors found it three hundred years ago, ever
meddllng for harm; and yet seeking its own
safety by concessions, but never concedine
anything for the welfare of others, unless.
thereby, it could help itself in larger mea
sure. daughter and cheers.)
Ii we are to take their own account of
themselves, as for instance, when garnished
with the rhetoric of Bancroft, one might in
fer that they deserved the eulogy of Macau-
ley, and that every petty presby ter was the
vice regent of the Most High, specially an
nointed to reproach mankind with its short
comings. (Laughter.) The truth is, that their
history, as written by themselves has been
CLOSED with falsehood. Investigation is fast
rubbing OIL the lacquer, and the rotten frame
work OF their ethics and politics is beginning
10 appear. 1t they are ever permitted to
write the annals OF this present war. the
truth will never appear. (Laughter.) But so
momentouS conflict as this has awakened
better minds; and in the history which pos
terity will read, the PuIitans viii play the
part OF intermeddling destructives, self-will-
ed and intoerant, beyond any characters yet
known to history. H
The Bowery boys liked the following deli
cious utterances, as will be seen from the re-
porters notes: @ ...
Look at the votes in Congress on nv mo-
tion yesterday to lay on the table resolution
by Thaddeus Stevens (hisses) to raise 10000
martial negroes. lHisses). Why, one would
judge from that that the white race in this
country, like the Yankees calf, was "pretty
nearly Gin eout." Great laughter; voice,
"They want to get the niggers cheap, SO that
they won't have the trouble to colonize
them" 1 cannot see any special differ
euce between the republicanism that sustains
emancipation proclamatIons and the real old
genuine Congo Abolitionism. Cheers.l They
are two separate links of the same sausage
made out of the same original dog. IGreat
and continued applause and loud laughter.l
Mr.. Cox is especially felicitous in abusing
our great ancestors that came over in the
Mayfower, digging up all the stale slander
concerning them that the most careful re-
search could bring to light. He says:
Before they (the Puritans) left England,
King James said of them, we doubt not with
some truth, that they were pests in the
church and commonwealth. When the May
flower and the Speedwel were on the sea
with their freight OF Pilgrims, the same per-
versity among themselves occurred. Their
own historian, Elliott, Up. 57,) says, "That
these vessels contained the Pilgrim wheat
sitted from the three Kingdoms; but" he
says, "that it needed sitting once or twice
more" Laughter One OF their leaders
said: "Our voyage hther from Holland to
Dartmouth,) hath been as full of crosses as
ourselves of creokedness." lLauShter.l La
ter, in 1861, he again said, what was no
doubt true, "that they were yoked with some
i'll conditioned people, who will never do
good, but corrupt and abuse Others" Oliver,
in his history, proves that the captain of the
Mayfower was bribed by the Duteh, who had
settlements in that vicinity, not to land the
Pilgrims in or near the Hudson, where they
intended to settle. Laughter, and a voice,
"thats true" If there are any praying
Knickerbockers here [elies of plenty, and
laughterl l hope that may not be consider
ed intrusive upon spiritual concerns, il sug-
gest that it is not to late, even yet, to give
thanks for their pious fraud which led to this