The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-02-13

Dare to be true; nothing can need lie;
| A fault which needs it most grows two thereby.
| The tonnage of Maine has fallen off between
| June 80, 1859, and june 80 1866 to the enor-
nous amount IF 465372 tons, or almost two
thirds; it having been at tue former date $780,
$40 tons, and at the latter date only pa 1853
| tons-a decline in value estimated at fourteen
millions of dollars! Such has been the fright
4 ful havoc made with this great interest of
Maine by the stupid legislation of Congress-
| Yet that body will do nothng.-Easter75 Ar
| gus o 81. ,5s.srreat IL -aH .sfs
| We have to remind the Argus again that
provision renting all duties on imported
shipbuilding materials was in the tariff bill be-
fore the Thirty ninth Congress- two years ago,
| and that the solid Democratic vote of both
houses was thrown az inst that bill. Further
more, the '.frightful havoc" IN the shipping of
Maine is not a result of Congressional legisia
| ton but of the Democratic rebellion
This nation is ruled at the present time nv
the most internal set of seoundrels and politi-
cal demagogues which ever afflicted a country
since the world began. History presents no
such spectacle. Madness and fanaticism rule
the hour. The people are crushed under the
heel OF a despotism more CALLING and ruthless
than ever prevailed in Austria or rejgned in
the dominions of the Sublime Porte. Nearly
every right guaranteed them under the Coz
sututon has been taken away, and we are I'M
uer d nniHGary ueSpOJlSu, or as near 1T as VIII
famous Congress dares to go towards it for
fear OF Revolution. Biddeford Democrat -
Whence does Congress derive its power?
From the people. 1t is the people acting
through Congress, who are restoring order at
the South, re-adiusting and tightening the
burden of taxation and maintaining against
all corners the inviolability of the national
faith. If this be .despoism" make the most
Off.
This account of what passed between us at
the cabinet meeting on the 18th inst. widely
differs from that contained in your commune
cation, for it shows that instead OF. having
stated our conversations as given in the letter
which has made this reply necessary, YOU adj
mlsted that my recital of them was entirely
accurate. Sincerely anxious, however, to be
correct in my statements, / have to-day read
this narrative Of what occurred on the 18th in
slant to the members of the cabinet who were
then present; they. acifhot exception agree in
its accuracy. Johnson to Grant.
1t now appears that the cabinet is divided,
Welles and Randall agreeing with ;the lPres-
ident, but Seward and Browning
with Grant, and accordingly that the Presi-
dent, though Sincerely anxious" didn't sue
coed in being entirely accurate. McCulloeh
is on the fence.
The Portland Press denies that the Constab-
ulary law has cost 1.-THE people" 100000 as we
stated week or TWO age. The salaries of the
Constable and his deputies amounted to S17,-
000.s To which must be added fees of lnaeis-
trates, of witnesses, of counsel, to omit men
ton of the large number of cases that have
been taken to the Supreme Court, where even
case can't be entered without cost, and eve
~ step taken adds cost in W ay Of charges and
fees, and all comes out of tax-payers' pockets
directly or indirectly. When we remember
that there are sixteen counties, Mr. Press, and
by carefully estimating the expenses, it will be
perceived that $4,000 is a low estimate. We
refer to Mr.: Hale's speech, remembering that
he is Radfcal-Ndchids Union.
This reckoning proceeds on the untenable
supposition that there would have been no
prosecutions under the liquor law if there had
been no State police. But suppose TO please
the Union, we leave the matter to Mr. Hale
Mr.. Hale said, in his speech of the 23d of Jan
uary, When the costs of liquor resolutions
are added up it will be found that instead of
S25, 900 the expense of the constabulary amounts
to more than $60,oo0,"- leaving, it appears, a
margin of about forty .thoasand dollars for the
inagina ion of the Union to riot in.
The people distrust this man Grant His Iu-
pllcty to the President to say the least, was
dishonorable. His silence IS suspicious No
well meaning man, no generous man, no truly
great man Is merely silent statue! Plotteis,
conspiratorS, designing men, ambitious men,
keep their lips carefully sealed. cE aNe
3 We don't know to whom this paragraph be-
longs. We copied it week ago from a lead
ing article in the Belfast Journal Since that
time we have seen it in the Bangor Democrat,
credited to the Hudson IN w Gazette Grants
"duplicity" has been pretty we'll explained
since it was written. As to his silence, will
some of these noisy gentlemen have the GOOD.
ness to inform US at, what period of his life
Washington was in the habit of making
sp eches.