The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1868-08-28
POLITICAL.


A st. Louis paper has discovered the exist.
ence Of an armed organization designed to carry
the State Of Missouri for Seymour and Blair.
The system extends through Tennessee, Ken
lucky and other Southern States.
The Chicago Post says that "Gener.l Logan
has returned from . stumping tour In Maine.
whence he brings the most encouraging accounts.
The Copperheads have given out that there
would be an astonishing number Of turncoats
In Maine this fall-which Is true. The lumber
men will all change to tanners"
All Maine Republicans claim to b wide
awake, but We think the credit Of being especi-
ally wide awake must be given to the Republi-
cans Of Penobscot county. The Bangor Wing
speaks Of two large meetings on Saturday, one
at Brewer, addressed by Hon. Hannibel Hamlin,
and the other at Oldtown, addressed by Cress-
well Of Maryland, Charles W. Slack, editor Of
the Boston Commonwealth, and Hon. John A.
Peters. The latter meeting, Q local affair to
which the Bangor Graut Club was invited, was
as large as the "Grand Mass Meeting Of the
Democracy Of Eastern Maine" that welcomed
Pendlcton at Bangor. An interesting feature Of
his meeting was the voluntary firing Of . 81
Lutte by the Oldtown tribe Of Indians, "truly
loyal" people who sent ono-ffth oftheir male
population 10 the war.
An Alabams letter-writer says the. election in
that State will be fercely contested by the Dem
ocrats and will cost thousand lives. Proscrip-
ton has already been carried 50 far that Demo-
cratic tradesmen will not transact business with
Republicans.
The New York Commercial .fdvsrtfser says:
can accounts we hear from the rural districts
in this State indicate the activity Of the friends
Of Grant and ColfaI and the Republican cause.
The old Conservative element Is aroused, and Is
laboring shoulder to shoulder with Radicals"
The late democratic legislature Of Maryland
squandered eight millions Of the State money In
scenes for party ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
Blair has several children, all Of whom will
have to be provided with Offices when they grow
up. Hoatio Seymour is not q parent. nor will
he be apparent after the election.
An exchange speaking Of Seymour's letter
Of acceptance, says: at has the clam my cold
ness Of Uriah Hccp the audacious assumption
Of Chevy slyme, and the hollow hypocrisy Of
Pecksniff."
Ohio sends cheering intelligence. Prominent
men write from Ohio that the Republican ma
jority will be at least $4,000, with gain Of one
member, It being almost certain that Sam. Cary
will be defeated for Congress in the Second Dis
trict,
Ex.President Pierce and General G. T. Beau
regard, Of Southern Confederacy fame, are max
ing tour Of the country in private carriage
and are expected in Pittsaeld soon. The Berk-
shire Eagle says: 1--WE have m ore respect for
Beaurcgard than We have for his travelling
companion"
All Of the Democratic campaign documents
omit Frank Blair's Brodhead letter, and in many
of the States that give large Republican major
tiles, the Democratic State Committee decline to
publish his letter accepting the nomination to the
Vice Presidency.
Judge James Hughes, for many years one Of
the recognized Democratic leaders Of Indiana, Is
about to take the stump for Grant and Colfax.
He Is very sanguinc as to the result Of the con-
test In November, and says Grants majority In
Indiana will DO greater than Lincoln's.
Mr.. vallandinghsm has played the role Of q
martyr SO long that he finds It difficult to get
out Of the tone Of chronic whining. When he
was sereuaded after being nominated Tor Con-
gress, he insisted that he was victim Of his
own ability and popularity, that he did not
wish to 20 to Washington, that he shrunk from
Il, but that he was constrained to yield obedi-
ence, (which might have been his language
whan General Burnside gave him q pass through
the Union lines.
Mr.. John Hall. one Of the West Virginia dele
gates to the New York Convention, does not
complain that the nominations there made are
too weak. but too strong, and he proposes to
support and work for the success Of the republic
can ticket.
Kentucky has not q single daily journal out
side Of Louisville. 1t has just been given co.
900 Democratic majority.
A Washington dispatch says that letters con-
stanty received there from all parts Of the South
leave no doubt that the movement to control the
negro vote through the agency Of landholdcrs
and employers who refuse to hire negro labor
ers voting the Republican ticket, Is assuming
extensive proportions and pcrvading every
State.
The Cleveland (Ohio) Herald says; "Does
anybody suppose Hampton would be bowling
about the South and threatening new rebel
lion II Gen. Grant-the man who gave him his
parole-was PRESIDENT"
A Minneapolis letter says: 1.-THE people Of
Minnesota are good for 10000 majority for
Grant and Colfax."
Ata meeting Of the Rhode Island soldiers
and sailors favorable to the election Of Grant
and Colfa1. Col. Edwin Metoslf, formerly .
Democratic editor Of the Providence Post, said
in reference to his political antecedcnt', that
however strong his party attachments had been.
his affections for his country had always been
stronger, and that after spending several years
Of his life in resisting the rebellion which Wade
Hampton and his associates had carried on he
would not now be made tributary to It's promo