The Portland daily press., 1868-09-05
Another Grand Rally at City Hall
GREAT SPEECH BY GOV. HARTMAN
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nonor to that heroic Governor, who has led for
.ne past two years, the Republican hosts of
New Hampshire to victory. aa-.a-..as..-a-
Judge kingsbury was called to the chair. and
oeiore introducing the speaker urged the peo-
PIE 10 10 their duty in the campaign now going
on in the country
Gov. Hartman was received with nerfact
storm Of applause, which lasted several min
utes. saA
The Rebel government, said the speaker, was
organized before the country came into Repub-
lican hands. States had seeded from Dem
ocratic Congress, States which were governed
at home by Democratic principles. 1t was a
Democratic rebellion from beginning to end
He thanked God that from the time the flag
was fired upon, at Fort Sumpter, to the time
the enemy surrendered at AppOmattox Court
House, he had not ceased to denounce the reb-
els and he never should until the principles OF
the rebellion were destroyed.
The speaker had been Democrat before the
war, but the occurrence of war left him but
one course He voted for that honest man,
Abraham Lincoln, in 1864, and was proud of it.
The Democrats declared the war failure, but
the war demonstrated that they were failures
themselves. The war was prolonged by the
sympathy of northern Copperheads. In 1859
Mr.. Jefferson Davis travelled through the North
| and without doubt received encouragement
and support from the leading Democrats of
the North. In support of this fact, we find
leading Democrats of the North writing letters
of friendship and encouragement to the chief
of the rebellion, while he was organizing his
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over Union victories, and cheerful over rebel
success They made war upon nobody except
Abraham Lincoln, and the loyal people OF the
| country.
But the Democracy say that the Southern
States have been too long without representa-
ton in Congress, that they never have been
out of the Union, and that they should be ad-
mitted to representation upon the cessation of
hostilites. But, said the speaker, if they were
in the Union they had the right to send mem
bers to Congress during the tendency of war
when they might have clogged the wheels of
the Government. No one will dare to say that.
Tie Southern States had no right to represen-
tation until the conquering party should give
| permission. al g. .-
| The Constitutional Amendment was a con-
dition more lenient than any ever offered to
conquered rebels. 1t has been adopted by three
fourths of the States of the Union, and the
Southern States are to-day represented in the
Congress of the United States, and if Grant
and Colfax are elected there is no power on
earth which can overturn this legislation. The
Presidents plan has been tried and never will
be tried again; the Congressional plan has been
1 triad nd xuifI q mar,
manent and secure.
There is to be no reputation, and no violation
of the national faith. There is no hurry in tn,
payment of the national debt. Our country il
increasing in resources and population, ant
our children can pay it better than we. Demo
cratic papers and orators are profuse in thei
groans over taxation and expenses. The Dem
ocratic party is the last party in the world to
talk like this. These burdens were incurred
in the suppression Of Democratic rebellion
begun and carried on by members of this same
traitorous party. The State of New Hamp.
shire paid nearly double the amount that Yer
mont expended, solely because Vermont en-
couraged. her sons to enter the army, while
New Hampshire sought to avoid her national
responsibilities The State of Maryland, though
her Democratic Legislature has presented her
account for the payment to her of the value Of
her emancipated slaves, and with Democratic
administration this claim would surely be al
lowed.
The Democratic party is revolutionary par
| ty Frank Blair was nominated for his revo-
lutionary letter to Col. Brodhead, which was
printed as pamphlet, and circulated among
the delegates at New York. The Rebel ele-
ment controlled the convention, and the cam
paign is now being waged by the REBELS, as
the leaders of the canvass
| The speaker had marched with our brave
soldiers through the Southern land, and while
he looked in vain for particle of 81 mpathy
from the white population, he had been aided
on the march by the patriotic black men of the
South. Shall we discard these men now?
Never. We are making progress in this coun-
| try. The abolition of slavery has been accom-
| plished, and from an examination of the sys-
tenn of free labor, we learn at last that a wrong
is blunder, as well as crime.
The Democrats pretend to be great sticklers
for the constitution. But where was this
party during the war? Giving its sympathy
to the Southern rebels, who were seeking to
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founded upon it. Treason at the South, and
sympathy with it at the North, constitute the
great crime of the age t...
Grant, Collax and Victory constitute the
rallying cry of the country, and the loyal PEG.
pie will soon move upon the works of the enc
my, and will accept of nothing but uncon-
ditional surrender.
Too much cannot be said Of the eloquence
and effectiveness of Governor Harriman's
speech. 1t was mastery effort, which held
the audience spell-bound to the very close
Those who came to scott remained to listen
so that when the meeting closed it was
larger than when it began. Gov. Hartman
is a true Republican Knight, whose inspiring
words have many times ere this been the pre-
cursors of victory. His peroration last night
thrilled bis hearers like the blast of trumpet
While he lives and his powers remain unim.
paired We shall never worry about New Hamp
shire, for her people must have hearts harde,
than the granite of her hills if they can resist
the witchery Of his eloquence in behalf of the
right. The Republicans of Maine are indebt
ed to him for his most valuable services in 9
political contest that has now past beyond the
the period Of doubt.