The Portland daily press., 1868-09-01

new pOllLlcal ASSOCIATES VINO are dIulcteu VIII
these st. Vitus symptoms? 1t is a maxim i
science that no fact should be accounted 70
by assigning to it cause greater than tha
sufficient to produce it. If the reeiing dnt
tottering is where we have surmised, may i
hot De caused not by a foundation of an.
hiiiu pied upon the head, but only by sin
9'e oF'c6 IN the same superposition?
we perceive the printers have murdered
the happiest figure Of your rhetoric. The
numbskulls make you say: at is no time
to dandy arguments" Bandage is the
word that ii splain enough you mea mt to use
and your ilustratio would have been as an
posite as professional. 1t is no time to ban
ddge aoith arguments, wound round and
round the reeling limbs of agriculture. You
hiSht nave added with equal truth, no time
ior Spt'fts. 10 set the dislocdtion before the
irritation becomes too severe BIZ takinq of
from oppressed manufacture its financial ba-
Sis is the obvious treatment, and if that
alone did not relieve the nervous disturbance
exhibited IN the reeling and totterinq. why
then cooling draught or an anodyne might
restore quiet; alter that the bandages and
spllnts to keep the basis where every good ba
sis should be, at the bottom.
You are right, too, in saying that cit is nc
time to discuss questions of an ante-diluvian
character, which can never arise unless upon
the question of the adoption of a new con
stltutIon." That's just what we want-ne,v
constitutions like those ante -diluvian ances-
tors and uncles of Noah, through which they
were able to live and keep spry till they were
past eight hundred, while we get so confound-
ed ugly and decrepit before we are sixty. 1t is
OF no use to talk about it. 1t is invidious to
lay it to the incapacity of modern doctors
and the inefficiency OF modern drugs. 1t is
only by getting, which we are not likely to,
new constitutions that we can hope to rival
| the longevity, vigor and hlarity of those old
| 'ante-diluuian characters"
The Doctor in view of the confidence plac.
ed in him by the Records, Parrises and other
| Copperheads of the late war, thus expresses
his surprise, because of my known adhesion
to the principles of the Republican party dur
| ing the bloody rebellion through which we
have just passed, and of my lille long inhexi-
bic opposition to human slavery, and to any
party or any measure aiming to extend or
sustain it, Early indoctrinated in the priDci-
pies OF the Declaration OF Independence, and
having living and abiding faith in the jus-
tIce and rectitude OF those principles, early
Joined issue with both the old Wing and
Democratic parties and rather than aid them
in their concessions to the slave power, pre-
ferred to vote with what was deemed des-
picable minority-a scorn and byeword of the
great mass OF the nation. And when in the
progress of events the aggressions OF slavery
became such as to force upon the people of
this country necessity tor the formation of
new party whose foundation and crowninc
stone was opposition to those aggressions,
that party received my most cordial support.
and all who opposed it my most determined
opposition. And still later when by the sue,
cess of that party Abraham Linceln was
placed in the Presidential Chair and the du
ty OF crushing out most unjustifabe anC
wide spread rebellion, wased in the defence
of slavery, was imposed upon his administra
tion, yielded to none in my desire to &C.
complish that object, or in my opposition to
all those whose apathy aud indifference re-
tarded that result, and whose position was
such as seemed to give aid and comfort to the
enemy" r.'r.-
Dr. Garcelon seems to have been rather
nice and exacting about his politics hereto
fore. Eschewing the worldly and temporary
policies OF the great mass OF his countrymen
he places himself "in despicabIe minority
"the scorn and byeword of the nation" But
it seems to us that learned physician, whose
skill and affability put him ahead of all his
competitors and opened for him the hearts,
houses and purses of all the sick people in a
circuit of twenty miles, might bear his share
of such despite and scorn, and never know
what hurt him.
Without intending to boast of such easy
martyrdom the Doctor means to say while
the Democratic party plastered its faith upon
the Constitution as the bond of Union OF the
States, he, in the scorned minority, maintain
ed close adhesion to the Declaration of In
dependence, as the charter of the peoples lib
critics. He knows very well that when the
Old abolitlonist quote the Declaration of In
dependence, he said in his mind only this frag
ment of it: "AU men are created equal
and endowed By their Creator aoith certain
andtend6te rights" &c. When too the con-
servative Wing or Democrat appealed to the
constitution, he never intended to make the
slightest allusion but to this poor clause:-
mo person held to service or labor in one
State under the laws thereof escaping &c.,
To put it in professional, anatomical or as
Pleasant Riderhood expresses il, "boona
hght,' the Democratic party regarded the flu.
gitive slave clause, the running-a,cay part OF
the Constitution, as the very tge legs of the
political bony structure. DIR. Garcelon and
his school, the aboitionists, considered the
Declaration and this nab of it, the very head
and front, the Uranium of the whole political
skeleton. Not to put toe fine point to ii,
the Doctor might say that the whole struggle
of the last thirty years eliminating in the
great war of the rebellion, was the attempt
of the slave aristocracy, with the thigh bones
of the running-away clause in the Constitu-
tuition to beat out the brains Of the popular
liberties covered by the skull of the Declara-
ton of Independence. They did not succeed
though they wrenched the jaw-bone of north
ern greed to help them in the onslaught
The Doctor went for brains as against heels
for head in preference to shins, and he was
right; but now as we cannot take the space
to follow out the discussion which this
queer letter of his suggests and reluctantly
turn from some other gems of rhetoric, we
want to ask him plain question. H.
Why having spent your whole manhood in
vindicating, on behalf of poor iliterate black
men, the equal rights affirmed in the Declar-
alton of Independence, at the very time
when those rights have been awarded more
by the judgments of just God than by any
repentance of their oppressors, do you for
sake the no longer despicable minority whose
early scon you bore, but who now contro
by their just sentiments the liberal hearts o
the great majority of the people, and JON
your fortunes with Wade Hampton, an,
Forrest, and Frank Blair, whose avowed pur.
pose is the overthrow Of State government
built upon the fundamental article of you
life creed, and the remanding to virtual slav
cry of the toling millions, for whose emanci
patton you have been agitain for thirt,
years? ...s. ...r
, Following us you claim universal amnest
and impartial suffrage, the very purpose o
of the heartieSt RanuhlicanS tho CON