The Portland daily press., 1869-03-25
THE PR SS.
Thursday Morning, March %, 1859.


Members of the Cabinet was Appointed; A
Thrilling Confession, a Lover Shoots his
Sweetheart and Attempts to Commit Suicide;
What is Fitness in Marriage; An Eccentric
Character; Letter from Lewiston; Gleanings
and Gossip.
Fourth Page-Homeward, by Carl Spencer;
A New York Adventure; French Anecdotes,
the Younger Dumas and the Parrot
TGE RHODE ISLAND MONEY BAG.-It would
be the most unnatural thing in the world for
the Argus to take less favorable view than it
does OF Senator Spragus' recent manifestations
of his true character. There are three things
which he has said in his speeches, either in
plain terms or in language sufficiently clear 10
make misunderstanding impossible, that
commend him TO the Democracy everywhere
First he looks with distrust and stern dis
approval upon any means devised to strength
en- the national credit.
Second. he regards slavery as the basis upon
which the former industrial prosperity of the
country rested
Third, he looks upon our democratic institu-
tons as a failure, though he has not yet be-
come sufficiently courageous to indicate that
substitute for them which to him would seem
most desirable.
Why should not the Democracy, a party
whose central idea was for many years the
perpetuation of a narrowing aristocracy, be
pleased with the monarchical tendencies OF
the Rhode Island millionaire, with his aristo-
cratic deficiency of brains and his high-toned
self assertion and imperiousness?
How much of statesman this Senatorial
STRIPPING is may be gathered from his last mot,
when introducing petition for woman suf-
frage, Tuesday. On that occasion he remark
ed in an apologize tone-with that affected
air Of Indifference and Of languid contempt
for everything except his own personal
interest and feelings that is character
istic of the effete scions of the British
aristocraey-that as sin his deliberate judg-
ment the voters of this country have less to
do with the management Of government
affairs than other people he could see no great
harm in granting the prayer of the petition
ersl Indeedl 1t must be the women and
children then that at present control the des-
TIMES of the nation. But why does Mr..
Spragne, by offering to woman the ballot, pro-
pose to deprive the management of public
affairs of the only adult intellect that is now
engaged in it9 Are we to be left wholly to
the babes and sucklings then? If the ballot
is the thing which deprives American citizens
Of all real influence in political affairs
though the proposition does seem to be para
doxical in the highest degres-every extension
of the franchise is one step toward an oil
garchy. But as Mr.. Sprague does not like a
Republic, perhaps it is this same oligarchy
that he desires, and his woman suffrage pro-
ject is only cover for an ulterior purpose
which with diabolical ingenuity he strives to
reach by indirect paths. For his services in
this behalf he will no doubt be created
under the new regime viceroy of Rhode
Island, Duke of Augusta and Earl of
South Carolina. he will adorn his manly
person with orders and ribbons and the glitter
ing 6Jioux of nobility, and every Coppsrhead,
ex-rebel and sx-slavedriver from the st. Croix
to the Gulf shall make daily genufexious to
the lordling, say Good morrow, sweet Lord, +"
and wear his livery