The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-08-31

BooTHBAY, August 26, 1868.
Mr.. EDIToR,-A sojouIner of several
weeks in this section of our State, as he says
through the columns OF the Daily Argus-is-
sue of the 21st inst over the initials U. S.
A. which, from careful examination of his
letter we presume, means Unreliable Scurril-
GUS Animadverter, has been making strange
discoveries in relation to the political status
of this town, which the inhabitants are un-
able to see through the naked eye. sfass O..
have also been sojourning and observing,
and at the risk of periling my chances of a
Democratic election to Congress, l dare to
call in question some of the statements made
by Unreliable S. Animadverter.
1t is true, as he observes that the people Of
this town, politically, are not unlike those in
other localities in our good old Republican
State. 1t is also true that, during the great
stuggle for the maintenance of noble prnci-
pies which our country has just passe
through, while many Maine Rebels, and
mean spirited souls were counting the casual
tiles of war for their own mercenary gain,
the treasure of this town was liberally
given to help swell the war fund and
large proportion of its noblest sons
We're Drawing the hardships of war on South
ern fields. The widows weeds, the fatherless
children, and the sorrowing parents now give
evidence here, as well as in other patriotic To-
cal.ties,of the truth of his assertion. But. al
though the people of Boothbay are not less
willing to forgive and love their enemies than
other Christian communities, 10 is not true
that they have so far abandoned the princi-
pies for which they fought az to give political
preferment to those who sympathized with
the hellish schemes of rebellion, over those
who stood fearlessly by the flag and its de-
tenders. No! the soldiers and Union loving
men of Boothbay mean to fight it ont on the
line drawn by their cherished leader Ulysses
S. Grant. q dg rs.fisf ssra4 .'sif f.tfes.r .tfo
The principal object which the sojourning
u. S. A., seems to have had in writ
ing his letter, was to misrepresent the meet
ing which was held here on the evening of
the 18th inst. .,and the speaker Walcott Ham
lin Esq, of N. ii.
lnere Is power IN the name OF Hamlln in
onr own State as well as in New Hampshire.
But alas! what is there in name? The
Democrats, too, have their Hamlins; and it
came about on this evening, that while the
Republican Hamlin was eloquently address,
ing an enthusiastic meeting and endeavor-
ing to arrest from the errors OF their way
few respectable Democrats who had come up
to hear him, the Sheriff was obliged to call
on few aw-abiding citizens to assist him in
arrestnga Democratic Hamln for crimes un-
known to the Republicans. The Democratic
Hamlin in irons proved to be speaker, too,
and as he was carried by the speakers stand
1.-THE street through which he was taken lying
in that direction) he insisted on making Dem
ocratic speeches which with a short notice
would have undoubtedly called out more
Democrats than did the able and high toned
address of Mr.. Walcott Hamlin, who for
once might have been ashamed OF his name.
.a bus .a. nr1 ID SoJoURNER H.