The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-09-29
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terward King George the Third tried 10 mir,
| it by corruption. So with the aristocratic
spirit and system In this country. When lee
surrendered Wall street sang Old Hundred
and thought the millennium at hand. But no
man who remembered history, which is
merely human nature displayed, shared that
sweet Illusion. For the maxim that eternal
vigilance is the price of liberty springs from
Ii sne universal experience that the enemy OF
noery Is as crafty as it Is cruel and will
enanse its form as readily and rapidly as the
"eTrl Tn enat tempted st. Anthony.
inefe was tabled river in Greaca which
ouuIniy disappeared in the sand and seemed
Wnoliy loSt. But tar away In Sicily it rose
again undlminlshed and flowed on as before.
30 the cause OF ailstocracy vanished upon the
battle field,-but it reappears in the nol;,ioal
arena. 1t believes that the country. so xears
so oppressed with debt, so strained by Iong
and severe exertion, so vexed by the DELAY OF
pacilication, is like an army fatigued after its
victory, sleeping upon the field, and fatally
exposed to another cunning assault. The
ogre was yesterday a tiger-tO-day he is fox,
but he is always an ogre. The Anti-Ameri-
can, inhuman spirit OF caste and aristocracy
IN TINS country yesterday shouted, "Down
Win the Union in the blood of its defenders"
10 day IL shouts, Up with the constitution
as we understand it," But it is stin the same
old leudal barbarism defying democratic civil
lIZaton.
Gentlemen, this spirit is your peculiar eue-
my. 1t is the foe that has always oppressed
and deg AIDED the farmer 1t is the explana-
ton OF the melancholy fact recorded by the
latest historian OF England that in that coun-
Try the primitive husbandman has long since
merged into the laboring peasantry," and that
the yeoman or small proprietor has almost
wholly disappeared" The total overthrow
of this spirit in this country is essential 10 its
peaceful and prosperous progress. How pow
eriul 1t is, the Late rebellion revealed How
crafty It Is, It's present appeal to the ballot
eox shows! 1t is vast, organized skillful
influence. intrenched in the very weakness
and passions OF human nature. throwing its
whole force in an agricultural country in IA
vor OF ignorance and the degradation OF Ia
Dor. Ten years ago when its iron hand was
feeling among the New England hills tor fI-
gitive slaves, it blighted the farms and dis
9raced the farmer. You spurned that spirit,
but 1t Is not destroyed. You feel its power to-
daV IN every remotest country of New Eng
gland. You hear its voice in every word that
asks you to swindle the public creditor and
to refuse to pay the honest cost OF the war.
ou hear its naughty treason to humanity
and to national peace in the demand that the
Southern laborer be thrust again under its
leet and submitted to its pleasure. Flashing
its reselious sword in our eyes it promises
peace; and throtIng the poor man, ii prates
d fraternity. Aristocracy PLAYED for this
continent aud it has not abandoned the
5ame. Does Onr experience teach US moth
ing? DO you suppose this spirit could pre-
vail and you not suffer? Can labor in half
.he land be disgraced and the laborer imbrut-
ID, and labor and the laborer everywhere not
De degraded? Do we know that the prlnci-
pie OF New England and the mighty North
west has won in the field? The hostile spir-
It is waiting to see. 1t believes that we do
not understand our own victory or that we
are afraid OF it. Had it won, Rooert Toombs
would to day he calling the roll of his slaves
upon Bunker Hill. But since we have con-
luered let US call the roll of lreemsn upon
Robert Toomb's plantation. Let US have
peace by securing and organizing the princi-
,le OF tair play Tor all men which has won
he victory