The Portland daily press., 1868-10-29

As might have been expected, Frank Blair
is only made more obstinate by the attempt of
the World and Seymour to bluff him off. In
his speech at Chicago, Wednesday evening, he
said:
1 say that it is the duty Of the President to
trdn,ple these tdaos IN the dust because they are
unconstitutional and have been so decided by
the Supreme Court of the United States.
do not take back one syllable that uttered
upon that subject.
The New York Democrat also lifts up the
standard of its party as follows:
But the Brodhead letter is the great STUN
bling block in the path of the World men,
What have they to do with that? Did not the
the face of the Brodhead letter-dye, and be-
cause Of it? Then ,oho are they, pretending to
be Democrats, achO haze the right, or aoho ,ciH
dare, to go back Of the action Of the ConuentionP
The doctrines of the Brodhead letter acre sub
stdntially embodied in the platform, and are the
policy Of the Democratic party. Had not this
and other parts of the platform been assailed
by the traitors and knayes of our ranks, we
should have succeeded in the October elections,
and the Presidential canvass would have been
reduced to certainty.
The reason why Rosecrans does not go to
Mexico has been discovered. The Times
Washington dispatch says that he has admit
ted in recent conversation the certainty of
General Grants election and added that with
General Grants Inauguration his term as min
lister to Mexico would undoubtedly cease con-
sequently it would hardly be worth while for
him to go to Mexico and be recalled so soon
and he did not think he would go at all.
A new Republican paper called the State
Journal has been started in Richmond.
30 N...~ r r
of Missouri, another of "the seven," is strong
Grant man.
Edmund Quincy has written an anti Butler
letter.
Gen. Cary, who was defeated for Congress
by the Republican candidate in the Cincinna-
ii district, has now gone over to the Democra-
cy and has therefore lost all power to deceive
the workingmen further.
Reports from all parts of Wisconsin are
most encouraging. Never before were so ma
ny Republican meetings held, and never SO
we'll attended Immense mass meetings are
being held in all parts of the State, and neigh
borhood meetings in every county. Present
prospects are that if the Republicans keep on
working till election the majority for Grant
and Colfax will be 10000.
The Lynchburg, (Va) Republican, in view
of recent articles in the New York World and
of the speeches of Mr.. j. @. Adams, declares
that the nomination of Democratic ticket
was useless as to the South, and that no help
is to come to it from Federal sources, Except
through the magnanimity of Gen. Grant"
There are some indications of November
session of Congress. Parties interested in
revenue matters are writing to Congressman,
urging session on November 10, for business.
They desire modification of the internal
revenue law at the earliest practicable mo-
ment.
The Republicans of Lewiston hold the clos
ing meeting of the campaign ON Friday eve
ming.
The Brennan Banner, a Rebel organ in
Texas, prints, ON the LIST inst, letter from its
New Orleans correspondent, whom it indorses
as $50 situated as to be thoroughly posted in
matters whereof he writes" and says: eff no
fight occurs prior to election, there will be one
on election day. Every car
pet-bagger and scalawag incendary is known;
and, when the struggle comes, they will reap
the whirlwind as surely as they have sown the
wind. Their days are mum bered.
The Democrats of New York having plan
ned to arrest Inspectors and Supervisors of
elections next Tuesday and harrass them with
writs of mandamus, the Republicans have
taken measures to have Judges from the coun-
try in attendance who will release them on
writs of hdbeds corpus.
There is to be grand Republican meeting
at Augusta, Saturday evening, which will be
addressed by Attorney General Frye. Mr.
Frye speaks at Bath Friday evening.
General Grants "silence is golden" Gener-
al Blair's garrulity is coppery. Each candi-
date exhibits his true metal.
Gen. G.. H. Hale, of the Alabama Legisla-
ture, who lost seventy five slaves, with other
property, by the war, comes out for Grant and
Colfax.
The Democrats of the Essex district are
coming rapidly to the support of Gen. Butler
according to the Newburyport Herald, which
ought to be good authority.
Six seats in the Forty-first Congress will
certainly be contested; those of Moffatt, Read
ing and Foster in Pennsylvania, Strader and
Hoag of Ohio and Voorhees, in Indiana, all
Democrats.
The Chicago Tribune says of Seymour's
speech in that city:-"The speech was weak in
conception, weak in argument, weak in wit,
weak in delivery, and weak all over. 1t was
unworthy of Seymour's reputation, unworthy
OF the occasion and the audience"
An exchange thinks that August Belmont,
rushing off to Europe after signing the last
big Democratic address about the "big fight"
"unbroken ranks" and all that, must have
initiated the militia captain who exhorted his
command on the eve of battle thus :-"Sol-
diers, you see the foe advancing; when danger
comes near let every man take care of himself.
Being little lame, uess I'll start now"
Notwithstanding the immense outside pres
sure against Butler, it is becoming every day
more certain that he will win.