The Portland daily press., 1868-10-13
Terms $500 per amnaa's, in adrauce
not have been prosperous and happy. TIL

not have been prosperous and happy. The
reply is this:
do not know. You do. Tell me WIN
No man can tell in that matter what would
have been the result. My I tber once said TO
me at table: "Henry, came very near mar
rying Nancy Eaton. VI had married her IN
stead oil your mother. would you be you 2"
Now, for anybody to go back and take the
vast complex question as it stood in 1866, and
undertake 20 say If it had been all different
rom what 1t Was, we should have very differ
eht Things from what we have, Is idle.
MI Beecher's brilliant peroration was as
follows:
Now If with such platforms before this
American people, one radiant with all the ell
ements of true liberty, and the other retro
gressive, looking back toward Babylon and
kgypt-if with these two men as candidates,
the one representing all that is young, all that
is Tree, all that is advancing, all that Is true
and noble; and the other retrogressive, timid,
time serving-if, with these candidates before
the American people-the same people that
carried the country through the war-f you
choose the wrong one, had almost said 1
should lose faith in democracy. But | lose
no iaith in the common people. This people
are going to complete the work they have be-
gun. They are discerning they know both
measures aud men, and whatever IN v take
place in the city OF New York or in the city
OF Brooklyn. l believe that ere four more
weeks shall have rolled away, the voice OF this
nation, speaking scarcely less sublime than
the thunder OF that voice which sounded from
Sinai; no whit less sublime than that voice
which sounds on either shore OF this conti-
nent-the voice OF the multitude of the wa
ters-will declare for liberty impartial, uni
versal-tor Liberty and tor Grant,
The Southern Opinion is for the war again
in spite OF Wade Hamptons account of the
universal peace desires of the Sou,h. 1t
says:-
We repeat in substance what we have shown
in the foregoing REMARKS hat this probe In
will have 10 be decided by arms if net decided
at the polls in November by the election Of
Seymour and BLAIR. Ballots are cheaper Than
blood and elections better than battles. But
il Grant be chosen, and we 40 not misjudge
him and his policy then the disciplined cohorts
Of the South must be DadrshGLed once more anu
the issue Will b., shall while OF black men
rule the South? When that issue comes 10
the last argument, reposed in the musket
muzzle and the bayoners point, where will
the poor negro be?
Gen. Van Zaudt has withdrawn the use of
his name as a candidate for Congress in the
Providence District of Rhode Island.
Gen. Steedman recently addressed aDemo-
crat meeting at New Orleans, at which there
were two Significant transparencies. Ou one
was, $50 home, you carpetbsgeer." On the
other, mo internal revenue" The satire on
loyalty was complete, oteedman being car
pet-bagger and collector OF internal revenue.
Gen. Blair has stated in letter, which has
been circulated freely among his friends, that,
unless 1.-THE Democracy carry Pennsylvania BY
a large majority next meek, Sc, mour C Mot be
eected." The General adds: "In view Of the
possibility of defeat, the, Democracy must car
ry the State"
1t seems that Secretary McCulloch il not, in
opinion. in harmony with the Democratic plat
form, Tor he has written to a business house in
New York city in reply to the inquiry "if
there is any doubt about the United States
bonds, sizes of 1881, being paid in gold, princi-
pal and interest" The Secretary says it has
been the invariable practice of the governments
to pay both the principal and interest of its
notes in coin, and he knows of no reason why
a different course should now be pursued.