The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-08-22


ardor of those required to brave perils and
make sacrifices for the National cause?
vi. We have charged that, when, in 1868,
Lees army was advancing triumphant into
Pennsylvania, and the fate of the Union
seemed TO hang by a thread, Gov. Seymour
prepared and brought to this city an eabor-
ate Fourth of July address which studiously
and peTsistently held up to reprobation
President Lincoln and his Cabinet as the
chief assailants and most formidable enemies
OF our rights and liberties, taunted them with
their reverses and disappointments, and no.
wise lntimated that the Rebel governments
aid armies were our chief national peril.
After some variations on this theme, he
continued his appeal to Republicans in these
words:
We only ask that you shall give to us that
which you claim for yourselves, and that which
every ireemian, and every man who respects
himself, VIII have-treedom of speech, the
right to exercise all the franchises conferred
py lhe Constitution upon American citizens.
Viii applause j Can you safelydeny US these?
;f frny ln you not trample upon our own rights
lSt;o use 10 lsten? Do you not create rev.
ol"t!on wneh you say that your persons nav
De rlghtfuliy seized, your property copfiseatei
your homes entered? Are uo,t nnf or,1oo;,
yoursetoes, your o,cn interests, to as great ner2
as that Nth Uhich you threaten us' Renen'.
repolltonoru doct;no " uJ n,,ht tueasomao!e and
be proclaimed 6y a mob as 1geH as bJ o6rera o''
ment [Applause1
To-day, the great masses of Conservatives
who still battle for time honored principles of
government. amid remuneration, contumely,
anu abuse, are the only barriers that stand be-
tween this Government and its own destsuc-
zion. If we should acquiesce in the doctrine
that, in times of war, constitutions are sus-
pepded and laws have lost their force then Wa
shond accept doctrine that the yery right
bv which this Government administers its
power has lost its virtue of material power
When men accept despotisn, they may hare a
gle then will not be, Shall we have constitn.
tional liberty? But having accented the doc
tripe that the Constitution has lost its force
eyery instinct of personal ambition erer1J in
stinct of personal secrity, aciU lead men to nut
themselves under the protection of that po,oer
achich then suppose most conaDetent to ouord
their persons.
These covert threats of mob violence and
State secession were the palpable overture to
the negro-killing, house -sackipo. orphan-asy-
lum-burnng outbreak that soon followed
That outbreak was the fulfiment of Thay-
er's threat that. if the North would have civil
war it should be inaugurated on her own
soil. But Tor Lees defeat at GETTYSBURG. and
Pemberton's surrender to Grant at Vicks-
burg, and Banks's capture of Fort Hudson.
all proyidentially vouchsafed us at this criti-
cal time. our cutters would have run shoe
deep in blood, and our city probably been
burned by our domestic Rebels The disas-
ters of their Southern comnatriots blasted
their homes and meas,lrablv naraIvzed their
arms
WIr W. o.
We nave 'na'Seu 'n@t ooV' Hey ihoui
cohlilS W our city "h'ie tne D'oody heoei III,
ots were IN progress, ana at once surrounded
W n6
the Citv Uo,l stans - ,;ste,' ,u
cd them as tolIows. ~ "''"' "0o'
'"' 80 ''0"''
horo assure to nb you my ieiiowcltizens' that am
lCheers.] l wish to inform you that / have
sent my Adiutant-G General to Was shington to
confer with the authorities there, and to have
this draft suspended and stopped. Vocifer-
Gus cheers.
Here vou 600 that Sevmorr commonds
b;n,soIf &c tha Sal IS a, - -, ~, Lna-,,so
he ,s,os Sn;, one y, '.ieee
81 d III - ~ -, ene Ui a'o sup
P w ~ M oon0 ni' AuJu'"ns, ,OeheIal W
asnlhstou Ior Ihe purpose. iney wanted
~ heiP ehe hepels, auu stopping the uralt was
exactly IN their line.
IN. We have charged that Gov. Seymour
appealed to President Lincoln to stop the
draft, as though it were an act of wanton
needless. tyranical exaction. and not a sterr
necessity reOurpd for the national SalvafiOD-
sav;nn.
lt is Deheved by al tedst one nay me people
OF me t9ydt states that the consumption act
wnlch tney are called upon TO obey because 1t
Is on tne statute-Dook, IS IN asey caotdtaon
Me supreme conStstuta0nM tdU.
ao nor dweIl upon wnat 6eileye would De the
csonsequences 81 vlolent, harsn polley, before
the constltutlona'lty OF the act Is tested. You
can y, sean the future as Well as j; 1he temper
" We people to-ddy you can feddsIy tedTn.
President Lincoln, thus abusivnly ap-
preached, calmly and sweetly replied fol-
lows:
do not object to abide the decision of the
United states Supreme ooaf., o. IS She ;,,asss
thereof, on the constIt9tionaiity OF the draft
Ia" law. In Iaee snouIa oe Wiling TO 1aellltate
insa tha .. H. ~ oano. consent 70
are copiena;no % With % an anen,S UUhane wh e n
derstand driyes every able. bod;ed ,oan he .. n
reach into his ranks, very much as a butcher
drives bulocks into slaughter pen. No time
is wasted, no argument is used. This pro-
duces an army which will soon turn upon our
now victorious soldiers already in the field, if
hA hxrR how