The Portland daily press., 1868-02-12
DAILY PRESS.
PORTLAND.
Wednesday Morning, February l2, 1868.
Ehc Invasion of New Hampshire

E.he Invasion of New Hampshire
Hon. E. F. Pillsbury has shut up his law
office and thrown down his Standard at Au-
gusta and gone to the front in New Uamp-
shire. Wherever few granite Democrats
are gathered together, there is Pillsbury in
the midst of them. His associates are John
| 81. George Of Concord, II. Clay Dean of Iowa,
and "Dud" Clay of Gardiner in this State.
But this is only skirmish line. The big guns
are in reserve. Jerry Black and Dan Voor-
hees are expected to take part in the cam
paign. From representations made in Dem
eeratic papers there viii soon be, at the very
least, ten Democratic stump speakers of sur
| prising ability and unequaled oratorical powers
to every square mile of territory; so that If
there should be a sudden end very marked
fall Of temperature in the neigbborhood of
the White Mountains, Democracy would b,
ieaderless for generation, the great captains
having all periShed on some "blaell Friday" in
New Hampshire. Doolittle, Hendricks, Black
and VOORHEES, would re-appear during the next
thaw in statuesque attitudes, one arm grace
fully supporting the LETT coat tail, the other
elevated at an angle of from ninety to forty
five degrees, according to the fight of the
American bird at the instant OF congelation,
and the lips in the position of forming the
word Constitution
Not SO Mr.. Pillsbury. He has speciality.
Like ali great artists, he avoids any attempt
at versatility, bat concentrates his whole soul
upon single great purpose. To him whom
kindly fate has permitted to listen to
the dreamy transcendentalism Of Daniel
Pratt it need not be told that that luminous
orator introduces at appropriate intervals
what he calls his "leaping gesture" This is
Daniels speciality. II the interest OF the au-
dience lags for moment, his quick eye de-
tects it; he quietly says: "Ladies and gentle
men, shall now introduce my leaping ges-
ture"-and leaps accordingly from four to six
feet across the rostrun, according to the in
spilation of the moment. Mr. PilIsbury's
method is equally simple: "Ladies and gen.
tlemen shall now tell my story Of the pen
knives" Then he tells how on day body
ofunresenc-ate Congressman drew penkniyes,
sponges and everything that the wants OF
man at the Congressional stage of exfra-total
depravity could desire-all under the name OF
stationery. This is Mr. Pilsbury's alpha AID
omega. The telegraph and mail always as.
sure US that Pillsbury spoke on finance .
they always mean that he told the penknife
story. 1t is true that incidental to the main
topic Is some discussion of the question OF
bond-taxation, of the extravaganza Of the
Radicals and of the unloveiY nature OF Con-
gress. But all his arguments and statements
have been answered and refuted over and
over again, and their reiteration can hardly
be seriously intended. It has again and
again been proved to him that his own party
Is solely responsible for the debt which
he regards as SO oppressive; that all the re-
trenchment measures that have been taken
since the war have been suggested bv Rad,.
Gals; that in every instance where his own
party has kept or regained the ascendapcy
extravaganza and corruption have attained an
unprecedented developement; and that un-
der the DemOcSatie administration before the
war, the ordinary expenses OF the government
were greater than the present Congress viii
make appropriations for. Therefore Mr.
Plllsbury must OF necessity stick pretty close
" to the penlnives, suppressng the runner,
for the correctness of which we do not vouch,
that on the occasion referred to the Demo-
cratic members, by way of commutation OF
stationery, took not1,aS bud S0ElS-