The Portland daily press., 1868-08-11
Gen. Butler Makes a Personal ExpIn-
milton.


In q speech to his constituents delivered at
Gloucester, Mass, on Saturday, Gen. Butler
made the following personal explanation:
My enemies, your enemies and the enemies
of the country, as a means of sowing dissen-
sions in the republican ranks, have told you
that, because of person al differences upon mil
itary questions heretofore existing between the
General of the Armies, whom you selected as
your candidate for President, and myself, that
L should swerve from that path of loyalty to
the republican party and to the country which
L had marked out for myself at the beginning
of this contest seven years ago. and refuse to
support that party in the coming election or at
least one of its nominees.
These slanderers mistake their man. Ishall
go as began. When the first hostile gun was
fired at the flag OF the Union in 81, marched
among the earliest at the head of the men of
Essex and Massachusetts for the suppression
of the rebellion, and, until the country is res
tored to that place and prosperous tranquil
to which it is her destiny to enjoy, 1 shall still
march on with the men OF Essex and Mas
sachusetts fighting the enemies of my country
whenever and wherever found.
Not content, however, with their SANDERS,
finding that had never wavered in my sup
port of the principles of the republican party
they next maligned both General Grant and
myself by asserting that, to achieve some sup
posed personal advantage to each, an improper
ami unworthy agreement as to personal diff
cultles, some bargain such as they would have
made had they been in our places, had been
patched up between us, alike disgraceful to us
both. take pleasure in declaring to you,
fellow-citzens, as well in behalf of General
Grant as myself that nothing of the kind has
taken place. difference in social life, mere
ly, arising from misunderstanding, has been
the subject of mutually satisfactory explana-
ton. No more; no less. shall advocate the
election OF Gen. Grant as the man selected by
my party, whose patriotism, energy and sue
cess at the head of the armies of the United
States, N destroying the rebellion in arms,
give satisfactory assurance that he will be able,
at the bead OF the Government, to resist this
new phase of the rebellion transferred to civil
life; and his administration devoted to such
patriotic work shall have the same cordial and
hearty support from me that it would have
were he my dearest personal friend
However great or however varied the temp
tatlon to do otherwise, were it a thousand
times ten thousand stronger than any SANDER
ers have imagined it might have been, the
nomination made and the platform of princi-
pies enunciated at New York, echoed and re-
echoed by those whO for seven years of war
and peril, have been the persistent enemies of
the country, would have determined nv ac-
ton. In all the light in which 1 am capable of
viewing this contest, no lover of his country
can doubt as to his place. To meet this rebel
lion in its outset broke all ties of party allie
glance, endeared from the teachings of youth
and by tine reflections of manhood, to enter
the service of the country to maintain her
unity, " sustain her integrity, to uphold and
defend her Constitution in its true spirit of
freedom and equality of rights to all-and, in
my ripper age, after seven years of endeavor to
the best of my ability in her behalf, cannot
falter now. The issue is made up. Loyalty
on the one side, rebellion and treason on the
other.
No true man can hesitate The North will
again rise up as one man. The soldiers of the
republic will march once more together to the
rescue. The principles we have fought for
shall never be dishonored. The flag we have
loved and reverenced shall never trail in the
dust The cause of liberty, our cause the
cause of the country, the cause of the on.
pressed millions throughout the world, as In
the past, so in the future, shall triumph more
and more forever.
A MIDNIGHT MISSION IN York COUNTY
We learn from perfectly reliable source that
the Democrats of York County, afraid "to face
the music" before the people, do not intend to
rely much upon p ublic meetings in that vicin-
ity. In lieu of speeches and the usual meth
DDS of political prosely tism they will organize
bands of missionaries, fellows who are adopts
in the demagogue arts, whose business it will
be to make personal appeals to the ignorant
and unwary. This is undoubtedly their best
policy. They never gained anything in the
world by joining issue with their opponent.
Ind going into fair and square discussion be-
ore the people. They are afraid. They do
not like to have light and darkness contrasted
lnde ROUTE so favorable circumstances for insti-
Luting comparison. So their Jacobites-men
VINO are in favor Questioning the old Tory regime
d class privilege and pro-slavery aris,ocracy-
VIII sneak around in the night. If they can
nnd selfish narrow minded bigot, they will
nfiame those disagreeable feelings bv telling
him the stale Democratic falsehoods. II thew
ind a rascal, they are sure of making him a
Democratic voter. Honest and patriotic men
VIII attend the public meetings, read the news |
papers, investigate political questions for them
selves and vote the Republican ticket.
An Excited EcIizabefhan.
"A correspondent residing in Cape Elizabeth
who is not SO well acquainted as we are with
The altitude, the length and the breadth of the
Argus mendacity, gets excited over it, and re-
yards It's statements, Monday morning, in ref
,rence to the proceedings Of the Cape Eliz-
lbeth Republicans on Saturday as exception
lily atrocious. He says that if Satan had en-
;ered that office, and spent Sunday in diabol-
cal Vaccinations, the father of lies himself
"oulu nave failed to do his work so well as 1t
was done for him with his indirect inspiration
our correspondent AYERS, and he is corrobor-
ated by every person we have seen who attend
I'd the meeting Saturday evening, that what
he Argus speaks of as the tail end of a |
mall meeting" was the largest public gather
ng ever cen in that town without anv excen-
ion whatever. The flag raising at the end of |
Portland bridge spoken of by the Argus as "a
izzle" was altogether private affair." The
dag was purchased and raised by Mr.. Fowler
aone' though it is fully as large as the public |
seymour and Blair flag purchased by the joint
lunuS OF the Democrats at that place.
Ihe Tennessee election occurs dav after To-
morrow Inc majority for Brownlow, Repub-
lican, last year was $4,000.