The Portland daily press., 1868-09-19

1t is cheering to read the comments CT 'h'
various Union papers of the State on Jus io
suit Of the recent political contest. ~
ton in this State within our recoHec'ion eN'r
carried so much joy to so many neaf'S' 'S 'na'
of Monday last.
Ana what is true within the State holds
oood in other States One universal shout of
ov from one end of the Union to the other,
has gone up, in thanksgiving for that great
v;ctorv. We copy below, from a few of the
Maine papers, extracts from the comments of
the editors. To copy the whole would require
columns of ROOM The Bangor Wing says:
The election OF yesterday has gladdened
the heart of every friend of Freedom and of
Equal Rights. The Seymour and Blair De-
mocracy have met with Waterloo defeat ana
the voice of Maine will go forth as the herald
of victory to our friends in the Middle and
Western States and will render CERTAIN the
election of Grant and ColiaX in November
Republicans of Bangor have given maglfi-
cent majority, and gam OF over 3O0 from last
year.
At Pennington, on the evening of the cleo
ton, says the Chronicle ian excited and exult-
ant crowd gathered about the Telegraph office,
as the wires began to tell the glorious results
from different parts of the State. The Grant
and Colfax club held an enthusiastic meeting
IN tile Court House, which was packed solid
Judge May was called upon, and made stir
ring speech, in which he eloquenty congratu-
lated his hearers upon the noble work Maine
had accomplished. He was followed by Hon.
r. Goodenow. and Mr.. Morrill,, just elected to
Congress by 5000 majority. Dispatches were
from time to time brought in and read, which
were received with renewed cheers"
The Bath Times exclaims.
Glory enough for one day! The people are
indeed "trooly loil." They have spoken in
language that needs no Interpreter. They
have proclaimed their fidelity to the republic
and to Republican institutions. They have
declared that free speech, free schools, a free
press and free men, are essential elements in
the American system and must be maintain
ed. They have declared that the law-making
power of this country resides in the legis ative,
and that the party which sneers at CONGRESS and
endeavors to usurp its functions sneers at and
endeavors to destroy government that is "of
the people," They have declared that their
own Ulysses 5. Grant must be the next Presi-
dent, and that peace and good government
must be established throughout the whole
land.
riey have pronounced Judgment on the
record" of Gov" Pillsbury, a Judgment
which the defeated party must themselves
has covered herself with glory.
The Somerset Reporter says:
The Republicans of Maine have fought
great battle and won signal and glorious vic
tory. 1t is overwhelming, and the surprise of
the Democracy is only eqaalled by their dis
may Never was the Democracy so thorough
ly organized, never So reckless in statement
or IL measures to carry out their ends The
Whiskey Ring and Tammany Hall have fur
n'shed large amounts of money; but of no
avail
These are all we have room for to. day from
Maine papers. We will add few from pa
pers out of the State. The Portsmouth On. H.
Chronicle breaks forth in this jubiant strain:
The Republicans of the loyal old Pine Tree
State have moved on the enemys works, and
the figures show the grand result. They have
administered crushing blow to the northern
wing of the rebel army, aud to-day glad Ie-
joiciDgs will be heard ali over the land, from
the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, while the
Southern loyalsts will doubly rejoice over the
brilliant victory by their brethren, and
the security it affords them from the bitter
prosecutions of their foes, who have SO sadly
harrassed them under the encouragement
given by Andrew Johnson Maine has most
eloquently responded to the demands upon her
loyalty.
The Providence Or. I) journal loses no
time in uttering its glad voice on the ele elton.
Maine does not disappoint US. Responsive to
the voice from the Green Mountains, she rolls
up Republican majority of twenty thousand
or more, rousing gain over her eleven thou
sand majority OF last year. The Geographic
dispatches show how universal has been the
popular reputation of the reorganized rebel
Democracy. Almost every town heard from
gives an emphatic Republican gain. In those
sections and among those classes where the
Democratic orators made their most ear
nest appeals, their relative loss seems
most marked and overwhelming. The
lumbermen of Bangor, the shipW rights
of Bath, the cotton-spinners of Lew
iston and SaGo, the mechanics of Portland,
and the small farmers everywhere, have set
their seal of condemnation upon the political
hereses promulgated by Peadleton and Cox
and Ewing and Perrin; and have indicated
their intention to honor patriotic loyalty and
make treason odious, by giving a majority of
at least thirty thousand for Grant and Colfax
when once more they come to the polls in No
vember to crown the good work they have so
anspiciously begun. All honor to the true, re-
liable, unhinching sons OF Maine!