The Portland daily press., 1868-08-28
Doctor 6areeion and Chief Jastice,

II > Chase.
The,A Argus printsa letter from Dr.. Garcelon,
Democrats nominee for Congress in the Sec
ond District, with this heading, in large type:
"He thinks with Chief Justice Chase that the
time has come for all who love their country
to band together against the Jacobins!"
The coupling of these names is suggestive.
The Cbiet Justice Chase and the Doctor both
have been, land still claim to be- earnest anti
slavery men! The Doctor proposes to admin
lister with impartial suffrage, the antidote of
unveral amnesty, while the Chief Justice
makes, if possible, little more sure of nipping
the thing in the bud by leaving the question
to the Rebel States. They are both in favor
OF the prohibitory law, but against enforcing
| 1T! The Chief Justice was candidate tor the
| Republican nomination for the Presidency.
| The Doctor was candidate, two years ago,
for the Republican nomination for Congress
in the Second District. They alike failed in
getting nomination, and they alike threw
themselves into the Democracy "Hep me,
Cassius, or sink!" Mr.. Chase said plainly
by the curt dispatch to the New Y York conven-
ton, that he could stand upon the platform
they had adopted. The Doctor writes long
letter, in which he labors to wriggle from one
platform to the other.
| Now the parallel begins tc fail. The Doctor
| got something for his pains; while the Che
| Justice lost both nominations and got very
much soled The Chief Justice, trying to sit
upon two stools, falls ignominiously between
The Doctor will fall the same way if he con
tinues to write tortuous letters. He is for i'm
| AL o,,J,
adopts platform that drops the first and holds
to the last. If he loves the slave as he did, ant
hates rebellion, as he was wont, why not stay
with the party that holds to the first and drops
the last? Then, how do his new friends like t.
be told that "their apathy and indifference re
tarded the crushing out of the rebellion" ant
that "their position was such as seemed to Civ
aid and comfort to the enemy?"
Has the Doctor been working with the Re
publicans these years and doesn't see that hi
present position is giving aid and comfort t.
the same enemy, or does his yearning fo
place blind his eyes to everything but tina
seat he sees, distance lending enchantment t
the view, in the Capitol?
The Doctor says he left the Republicans be
cause" their destructive measures had been NOR
than accomplished, when by the action of Con
gress, an act had been placed on the statut
book to protect all persons in the United State
in their civil rights, and furnish them means q
education" The Doctor thinks they had ac
complshed their mission when they had pass
ed laws indicating the rights of the slave, an
that it was the business of the laws to execut
themselves. Is this the way the Doctor prat
tices medicine? If he gives a dose doesn't h
wait to see how it works, and stand ready
give another if the symptoms vary, or the med
icine fails to operate? Does he fling his pa
tient recipe and run? To be sure, if his fee
are not forthcoming, he may decline furthe
attendance; but let him say so, and not deser
the sick man after the first visit, and tell hin
his cure is more than accomplished" whe
he has only left him bit of paper, wthou
stopping to see whether he lives or dies! l
he doesn't stand by his sick friends longer thai
this he will soon lcse patients and practice
If the Doctor had said he left the Republican
party because they refused to send him to Con
gress and thought he would try the other par
ty who did not refuse to place him on thei
ticket, he would have told the truth, withou
fOundering or circumlocution.