The Portland daily press., 1869-08-16

The Republicans Of Mississippi Are organic
ing with great energy, and are getting hearty
help from the honest Democrats, who do not
see why, now that both the parties stand ON
the same platform, they should not cooperate
with the one most capable of fulfilling their
promises.
In the late Alabama election many leading
men, who voted for Seymour and Blair, broke
away from the Democratic organization and
took part with the Republicans.
Tennessee advices state that Mr.. Stokes is
determined to contest the legality of the late
election. Senter's register allowed fifteen
hundred disfranchised rebels to vote in Mont
gomery county alone.
The impudent letter of District Attorney
Adams of Mississippi to President Grant,on ac-
count of the latter's failure to support the
Dent faction, is conlusiye proof of the support
which tina Executive is giving to the Radicals
of the South
The prohibitionsts of Massachusetts meet in
State Convention in fremont Temple to-mor-
row.
Now that Pendleton is the candidate for
Governor of the Ohio Democrats, they frankly
avow their determination to prosecute the
campaign on the basis of payment of the Uni
ted States bonds in greenbacks and resistance
to the fifteenth Amendment.
The political tendencies plainly disclosed by
the President within the last two weeks make
it difficult to conceive how anyone could ever
have suspected that we were to have two An
drew Johnsons in succession. Gen. Grant is
true to his promises-true as he was when he
made the VOW that he would straDgle rebel
lion.
Gerritt Smith in recent discussion of the
temperance question says that prohibitory
laws cannot be enforced till we have govern
ments different from those with which "the
world is generally cursed
The Belfast Journal brings out its ROSTERS
to crow over the Tennessee and Kentucky
elections. The Argus, with a juster apprecia-
ton of the situation, publishes prose elegies
on the demise of the Democratic party.
The Democrats have obtained such absolute
control of the Tennessee Legislature that they
already begin TO boast of what they will do.
One of the members elect from the Memphis
District, on being seren AIDED on Saturday
evening, declared that he was for Andy John
son, reputation, and taxation of bonds, and
what was the greatest and grandest privi-
leges of all" he should vote fol letting into
the ballot box one hundred thousand ex rebels,
the best citizens in the State. Senter's chief
organ, the Nashville Press and Times, now be,
gins to perceive that thelpresent constitution
will be overthrown, and tho work of recon
struction partially or wholly undone, and it
cries out in its alarm, sThe Federal Govern
ment must intervene in the most decided man
ner."
The Buffalo Courier says the vote on the
new constitution of New York State will not
be party question.
Tennessee is in state of political excitement
over the Senatorial election. Ethelidge will
take strong ground against johnson.
The Attorney General has decided that the
test oath must be enforced upon members of
the Virginia Legislature by Gen. Candy. This
insures the Republicans two United States
Senators.
Gov Hoffman, the Democratic Governor of
New York, threatened to place the district
where the employees of the Erie and Albany
and Susquehanna roads had their difficulty
under martial law. Hoffman wants to be Pres
ident in 1872, and it is little singular that he
and his supporters have relied for their strength
with the people upon denunciations of similar
action, under the pressure of far greater dan
ger, on the part of Southern military COM
manders. ss4As