The Portland daily press., 1868-08-31
Political NOfea.

The New York Tribune SAYS that John
Allen, "the wickedest man in New York.
will shortly take the stump for Seymour and
Blair in company with Brick Pomeroy.
Gen. John l.. Logan is now working for the
good cause with his usual efficiency in South
ern Illinois.
Eighteen members of the "White Boys in
Blue" at Muncie, Ind have become disguised
with the organization and Joined the Eight
ing Boys in Blue" Four members of the
same organization in Anderson, Ind, pursued
the same course.
A. 81. Stephens now denies that he ever
amendment, or approved any of the recon-
struction measures whatever.
A vote was taken on board the steamer car
rying passengers from Washington and Balti-
more to the scene of the late fight between
Sam Collyer and Billy Edwards, resulting as
follows:
For Seymour and Blair, sS For Grant and
Colfax,4.
Judge A. w. G.. Carter, for many years
prominent Democratic politician in Cincinna-
ii, has abandoned that organization, and signi-
y
campaign for Grant and Colfax.
Senator Patterson of New Hampshire and
Hor. Hannibal Hamlin will speak at Repub-
lcan meeting in Dover, Piscataquis county, on
Thursday next, Sept. Sd.
At the Sagadahoc County Republican Con-
vention Friday the following nominations
were made. Senator, j. P. Morse of Bath /;
Register of Probate, Elijah Upton of Bath;
County Commissioner, r. w. Adams of West
Bath; sheriff, Henry M. Bovey OF Bath.
Where is DR.. Garcelon? Up to this time
VIII have not seen any response to Hon. Wash.
ington Gilbert's request for a Consultation" !"
The DIR. isn't afraid is he?
A prominent member of the Chicago Board
| of Trade has publicly announced his desire tc
bet any sum from 5000 to S25 600 that Grant
and Colfax will be next President and Vice
President of the United States, and has offer
ed to wait ten days for taker, but has found
no person ready to accept his terms.
| In an article on Resistance to Reconstruc-
tiOn," the Old Guard states the Democratic
policy as follows:
General Blair has declared it to be the duty
OF the President to use the whole force of the
army and navy to stop and overthrow such a
revolution. Among men of plain common
sense, such proposition is so self-evident
that we cannot without difficulty, imagine
anybody, to entertain a different view.
The following from the Charleston Mercury
respecting railroad charters granted by the
present South Carolina Legislature, shows
that the Southern Democrats are in earnest IN
their determination to overthrow the whole re-
| construction system:
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their legislative capacity, as they aoM meet ere
| long, will resent this conduct in a way that
| will be felt by roads outside of the State; and
| they will condemn those within the State in a
way that Will cost them dear, as corporations
and individuals. Any charter or grant issued
byi these negroes is Of no effect 1t is totally
| void bears with it no authority and coufers
no powers. Any man or corporation acting
under them is liable for damage or trespass to
to the full extent of theilaw. And that law will
very shortly be enforced to the letter. We say
to these gentlemen that their policy is the
most short-sighted possible. Nothing that
they could possibly do will so prejudice the OBJ
jects they have in view, as the simple fact that
they have so far ignored the position of the
State, and the rights of the people, as to come
before these negroes to ask for grants that the
State of South Carolina can alone make with
in her own limits.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Cemmer-
cial, after detailing his conversations in Ken
lucky with various politicians, says:
As a summary of what saw and heard in
Kentucky, can only say, that if the people
over there mean anything at all by their talk,
they mean fight, and, in the event of Demo
cratic victory, will inaugurate it at once
They seem to be desperate over the loss of sla-
| very and political power in the nation, and
they now feel like doing what they did lot in
1861, going into the fight as a State as well as
individuals. .. ~..rt.. ....r,
The following has been received from lead
ing Republican in Natchez, Miss:
The Seymour-Blair doctrine is fully accept
ed here Not day passes but some one,
white or black, is assassinated Strange to
say the murdered persons are always Repub-
cans, while the murderers are ALWAYS rebel
Democrats; and still more strange, perhaps, is
the fact that the rebel press, with one accord,
declare these acts to be always committed in
self-detence. Every assassin is taken before a
rebel magistrate, and always released.on straw
bail. i state most emphatically, without fear
of contradiction, that OF the thousands OF freed
men and Union men who have been murdered
since the war, not one of the murderers has
been punished by q rebel jury, and they are
the only kind we have in this State. They do
not stand in the fear of the law. When they
murder loyal man, they have no lear of be-
ing brought to condign punishment. Hence,
they murder Unfortunately as their brutal
passions dictate G.. e -