The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-08-04
A Palitieal RumbIehee.

A Canadian gentleman with whom we re-
Gently conversed made this very striking re-
mark "Among our people those who desire
the triumph of the great experiment of self
government in North America and who are
therefore friendly to the United States are in
variably friendly to the Republican party and
desire its success: on the other hand, those
who are hostile to popular government and
would exult in the overthrow of the Great
Republic are .favO rably disposed toward the
Democrats and would rejoice in the election of
Seymour and Blair" t..,......
In saying this the Canadian gentleman but
gave expression to a fact of which all of us
have been conscious. The Republican party
is identical with the United States. 1t is the
embodiment of the true democratic principle
The Republican party and the United States
are convertible terms.
These reflections are suggested by speech
to which we listened on Saturday evening
from e. o. Perrin, New York Democratic
carpet-bagger from Tennessee. We propose to
make political capital" out of Mr.. Perrin, so
far as man of so attenuated moral substance
is susceptible of conversion into anything val
liable. His speech was, first. co,oardly, second
menddcious, third, basely, grossly and brutally
dnti-dsmocrdtic. 1t was in the spirit of ultra
TOryism that defends with jealous care the
class privileges of the English arstocracy and
denies relief to the down-trodden people of
Ireland,
Step this way, Mr.. Perrin, and be analysed
You did visit Maine with Douglas in 1860, it is
true. that eminent gentleman having permit
ted You to accompany him in his to ur, thereby
vi Foc
of the co-partnership of the elephant and the
bumblebee. Nature made you on purpose to
act as toady in ordinary, to be, in other words,
Boswell of the baser sort to an American
politician Having become source of annoy
ance and irritation to the good people of the
Atlantic coast the good Mr.. johnson, in mo-
ment of phlanthropc emotion, nominated
you for Chief Justice of Utah, thinking you
good enough at any rate to sit in judgment on
what are popularity known as the 'blarsted
Mormons." But when your name came up
for confirmation, even the bowels of compass
sion of stern Senators were moved toward
people already cursed with polygamy.. SO you
were rejected, and, being man of hardly any
specific gravity, the force of the election gave
you sufficient horizontal impulse to send you
here, did you think it was Bowery mob, ripe
for the sacking of "nigger" orphan asylums
and the massacre of "nigger" children that you
were to address? 1t seems so. Your remarks
were no further profound than they took that
character from your comments on the thick
ness of the negro's lips; no further eloquent
than from an appeal to the brutality and cru
city of the lowest natures, exciting their feroc-
ity toward men weaker than themselves; no
further patriotic than from an attempt to rem
der still heavier the burdens of the nations
poorest poor. t-Hd
In all this Mr.. Perrin did not hesitate to re-
sort to the basest falsehoods, especially in re-
lation to the Freedmen's Bureau. In the fit
full mazes of his bumblebee existence has he
never learned that the funds of the Bureau
have gone to the support of the INDECENT
whites as well as blacks, and that the former
got more than their half? Does he suppose
that Bowery speech is calculated to win the
intelligent people of Maine to the support of
the Democratic ticket? I .-