The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-15
What Say the People of Maine 2

from Tie boston Post
On Monday next the voters of our sister
state of Maine will be called upon to decide
not merely question OF local administration,
but indirectly to pass upon the merits of great
national parties and issues. As they will par
ucipate in the first State election which may
De considered to have any political significance
since the naming of candidates for the Presi-
Dental contest, their action upon this occasion
must be regarded as of the highest importance
we trust they realize the weight of responsi-
bility which rests upon them, both as citizens
OF the State and nation, in exercising the right
OF Suffrage, and the far-reaching consequences
either for good or evil, which may hang upon
their popular verdict. They have lately heard
the great political and financial issues of the
day discussed by able men of both parties.
and, II they are not blinded by prejudice or
enslaved by party ties, they will have no diff
Guilty in discriminating between the true aud
the raise, or deciding what is their present
duty to themselves and the country at large
they will bear in mind that, notWithstand-
ing the artful appeals of demagogues who
would keep alive the dying embers of SEQ
uonal strife, the war for the Union is over,
and that the political issues settled by it are
dead beyond the power or hope Of resurrec-
tion; and, moreover, that there ia no party or
clique, representing public sentiment in any
part OF the country, which processes or desires
to revive these issues. If there is any spirit
of disunion or disloyalty to the Constitution
remaining, it is represented mainly by
those Northern radicals who did their best Cor
worst) to precipitate the country into civil
war; who urged its prosecution for the sake of
plunder and party gain rather than national
unity, and who now refuse to acquiesce in any
restoration of that Union that does not subvert
the very foundations of republican government
and guarantee them perpetual lease of power
II there are any remnants of rebellion and
secession still extant and needing to be sub
dued, this is the principal form in which the
loyal people OF the North have got to meet it
at the ballot-box.
With the dead past buried out of sight, the
business in hand relates to the restoration of
political harmony and friendship, to the res
cue Of the nation from ruinous debt and taxa
iion, to the renewed cooperation of those
commercial and industrial forces, which in
the past have given us plenty and prosperity,
and to the building up of those great mate
rial interests in all sections of the country.
which are mutually sustaining and contribute
to the general welfare. These are the living
paramount issues of the day-the matters
which vitally affect the finances, commerce.
and industry of every State in the Union, and
come home to the business, the pockets, and
the families of each and every one of their
people. These are the real questions upon
which our fellow citizens of Maine are to
vote; and we believe they will vote under
standiDgly, notwithstanding the efforts of the
radical mouth-pieces to keep them out of
sight.
Urged by the highest patriotism, fully ap-
preciating the importance of the result of
their action, We are confident the Dems-
cratic and conservative voters of Maine, on
Monday, will so discharge their obligations
to their country as to win its grateful admi-
ration. 80 Il.