The Union and journal., 1870-05-20
BIDDEroRD. Me-, MAY 20. 1870.
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milk OF its human kindness seems TO have
been turned to perpetual whey. Unwise-
ly as we think for harmony, IL apparently
strives to foster and retain the bitterness
OF that contest, and keep alive discoriant
elements that bode perpetual evil. lifts
true but concealed design is to benefit one
man by doing all IL can to break up the
republican party in this State, that is
one thing; but IL il desires the good and
success of the party of the country mt
heart. that Is another thing, bit the two
things seem To be disnnitcd In It's columns.
Here. rs we truly believe we should.
we wish 10 disconncct Senator Morrill,
from. any countenance Of or participation
in these attempts TO revive animosities of
the past. which were legitimate only un-
ii! the majority had decided the contest.
If one side more than another had and
has right TO feel aggrievcd at the action
of the minority, il is the supporters OF
Mr.. Hamlin. For while we never heard
breathed by any OF our associates the least
wortl against Senator Morril, IL is notori-
ous that some Of his prominent supporters
(without his sanction) disgraceiully Mt.
tackled Mr.. Hamlin, both In public and in
private, and such course has not entire
ly ceased to this day; and the men who,
in this State. have arf unrelenting political
feeling towards their associates, are some
Of the supporters Of Mr.. Morrill, in 1868.
Such matter is of serious considera-
ton rs to how far such association is val
liable. When it comes to pass that A
cannot DO allowed the same liberty to act
politically rs B claims the right of oxcr-
cising, il is time for A TO consider who ID
is who hounds him down for the exercise
of his Judgment, and when II comes to
that fight arises with tho chances that B
goes under rs he ought. We SEQ no rca-
son that should induce some few restless
individuals to again measure strength
with those who. did not think rs they did
two years since.
These sentiments which are entertained
by some, are yet entertained by only
few, and by no means are TO be charged
to n general account. They arc develop
ed by the very violent attacks upon air.
Blaine, which do not come frorq any of
those who supported Mr.. Hsmlin, rs
would. perhaps, be the natural case, since
Mr.. Blaine supported MIR. Morrill,. but
from the oppone,lts of Mr.. Hamlin. The
serious charge is made that Mr.. Blaine
was professcdly for Morrill, and secretly
for Hamlin, and Is proved by the fact that
Morrill, did not Get all the votes he esti-
mated With unlimited power to ''sling
ink to prove the charge against Mr..
Blaine. not one iota Of evidence or infer
encc is produced TO slibstanthto the
charge. save that Mr.. IIamlin was elect
cd and Mr.. Morrill, was not! Ii goes for
nothing that the kennebec delegation
where Mr.. Blaine must have had some
strength to have divided. hal ho been SO
disposed. went solid for Morrill,; nothing
that Hamlin felt Blainc'S strength against
him; nothing that every man of IIamlin's
Old Guard regarded Blaine rs their enc
my and shadowed his footsteps, and moth
ing that Mr.. Morrill, never hal any sus-
picions of Blaine's pcriidy o., and in u
letter published elsewhere repu,listes tho
idea, BY u certain few MIR. Blaine is
considered dangerous man because he is
u formidable man in the State, and he
must be killed Cir with lies and bounding
down.
Will u pay We donot write this arti-
Gle to defend Mr.. Blaine or aid him for the
Senatorship; for he is not n candidate and
If he were we might not support him.
But there Is n lesson arising from the cir
cumSt,nccs that we might look ut, If we
dil not commit ii. We know there is, u
growing disposition among the people. to
think less and less Of men rs men. The
day for Wcbsters and Clays has gone by.
The distance between representative men
and tho people represented, Is lesscning
each year, the gap closing up, and no man
stands out 50 prominent as men were
rated twenty and thirty years ago. We
call no man Madison or Benton, not
because we do not have them, but because
there arc more OF them than of yore.
But while men rs men disconnected
from their principles, aro growing less
and less each day in the public estima-
tion. that public who do not nourish anil
foster their great men, waste their opPor-
tunities. Many State would have n To-
cal and State pride If II could furnish TO
the nation the third oilicer.in the Govern
ment Instead Of seeking 10 cry him
down, following him with threatning
cmscs, hampcring him with weights. ply
ing the public with base insinnations rs
insubstantial as the fabric Of vision and
that disappointed one. and inucndoes
that do not merit the dignity Of n defense,
many q State would strengthen his hands
and defend him from all aspersions. know
Ing rs they truly should know. that in
thus acting they were honoring themselves
and rearing for themselves and their State
monument, like Virginia, the mother
Of Prcsidents.r y more enduring than brass.
Next To our pride Of Country should be
our State and town pride, and Of what
does a State consist II not In its ycoman.
ry and representative men ?
1t Is for such reasons that we are sorry
TO see the ungcncrous and unmeri,cd at
tacks upon Speaker Blaine that have aP-
pcarcd in the columns of our cotcmporlry