The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-07-22
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The people of the first Maine Congressional
district have felt so well satisfied with Mr..
Lynch as their Representative in Congress
that they have already sent him to Washing
ton two terms in succession aud have conclud-
ed to send him third. There is something in
his history, the manner in which he has raised
himself to his present position from humble life
and the ability and honesty he has displayed
in Congress, that has proved rather attractive
to them, but a Democratic paper has been
looking him up and finds that out of pure ma
Lightly and depravity he has done some unac-
countable things. This paper begs the people
of the first district to remember that Mr. Lynch
"has just voted in Congress against taxing the
income on bonds" In another article it in
diets him for introducing bill for relieving
the shipping interest, a bill for the resumption
of specie payments and another for the discon-
tinuance of the Charleston Navy Yard and its
removal to Kittery! Whether the people of
this district will endure these outrages the
Biddeford Democrat thinks very doubtful. but
other parties are very strongly of the opinion
that in the last three cases Mr.. Lynch acted
wisely and for the best interest of his consttu-
ents, while if he had acted with Butler, Ste
VEINS, Cobb, Pike and the Democrats on the
bond question he would have been ignored by
every honest man in the district as recreant to
the purest and noblest principles of his party
and as false to the fundamental ideas of nine
teenth century civilization. Sd rs.s rH.4
The same paper that we have already cited
affords us still further amusement indulging
in the following negro minstrel travesty of the
Declaration of Independence: "He has voted
for keeping States out of the Union; he has
voted for keeping up the Freedmen's Bureau;
he has voted for keeping an enormous standing
army in tho South; he has voted for keeping
up an almost useless navy; he has voted for
all the schemes OF Indian Bureau plunderng;
he has voted against taxing the bonds, thus
saying to poor men, you must continue to pay
all the taxes; and he was the only member of
Congress from Maine who originally voted to
impeach the President, a revolutionary scheme
which cost the Government over one hundred
millions of dollars!" What an efficient ally of
Mr.. Lynch the Democrat is! 1t suggests q
recapitulation of many of the best things Mr..
Lynch ever did, and an arraignment of the
Democratic party for opposing his action.
Within few weeks he has voted for the resto-
ration of seven States to the Union and the
consequent Dfthdraaoal of military force there
from. Every Democrat in Congress voted the
other way. He has voted for the absolute dis
continuance of the Freedmen's Bureau on the
LIST of January 1869. He has not voted for
keeping mp an almost useless navy" or for
any plundering scheme whatever. His course
on the impeachment question is heartily en-
dorsed by his constituents and that "revolu-
tionary scheme" cost almost one hundredh of
the sum mentioned by the Democrat.
The Republican majority in this district on
a. full vote with no disturbing influences or To-
cal discussions is nearly four thousand. There
is at any time reliable majority of at least three
thousand when national issues are paramount
With all the apathy and with the reduced vote
OF last fall, the majority was nearly thirteen
hundred. This reduced majority, instead of
occasioning any feeling of dependency, will
only excite determination on the part of Re-
publicans to bury surely and deep the oppo-
nents of the wise and patriotic measures which
have received the vote of their Representative
Opposed to their patriotic efforts will be per-
haps the money of Cha les A. Shaw, but money
cannot buy so many votes by at least a hun
bred per cent. in this district as it can in New
York city. We beg leave to suggest to Mr..
Shaw that New York would undoubtedly re-
turn him in place of Morrissey who is now re- |
garded as politically unsound by his consttu- |
ents. +--'. fHl Atf.a