The Portland daily press., 1870-06-29
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DAILY PRESS.
wednesday, Morning, Jnne 29, 1870.
CORTLAND

The exploits of the Aroostool, delooo,io, in
the Augusta Convention arc recorded by the
editor of the SQnrise with pungency of bu-
NOR that entities ii to recognition as part of
history; and we hope that our readers will
peruse it with as much enjoyment as We have.
The Convention.
1t is historical fact that king of France
with forty thousand men, once marched up
the hill, and then marched down again. 1t
was one of the oratorical hourishes of the great
Daniel Webster, that The vigor OF the war
does not al,cays come up to the high sound
ing terms Of the manifesto" Solomon, or some
one else not less wise, said, "The race is not
always to the swift nor the battle to the
strong; and some novelist has pronounced
"nigeers mighty Onsartin." The expedition
from Aroostook to the late State Convention
reproduced these facts of history, illustrated
this rhetorical flourish, proved the wisdom of
the adaee, and the fact Of some onsartn"
things besides niggers." The delegation from
Aroostook was glorious one. In its ranks
were the veteran Woodbury., the rrepressible
Powers, the incompatible Haskell, the pom
derous Randall, the portly Kelley, the fun-lov-
ing, joking King and Arnold, the loving BROTH
ers, johnson, Perry and Hayden "squire''
Ball, and the tall Hughes. Allen, surnamed
Dudley, who resides at the Castle on-the hill,
Agricultural Dockendorff and Whitcomb, the
father OF Marysvie, the quiet Robinson, the
unpretending Irish, and many others not un-
known to tame, and not less deserving OF a
niche among the renowned. He oil the blue coat
and bright bnitnns-was sso4- there, probably
IRON prudential reasons, rather than from any
impeachment of his valor. The Editor of THE
oUNRisE was not counted among the honored
brave, for his considerate townsmen chose
nj q n mn ~, flnt r..
could better spare, in case of any disastrous
or lamentabe personal result. He, however.
accompanied the expedition as Agent of the
Sanitary and Christian Commissions. TO look
after the dead and wounded, pour the oil of
consolation upon the sorrowing, bind up the
wounds of the broken hearted and grefstrick-
en-, and wipe the tears from the eyes of the
weeping
On Wednesday morning at o'clock this
army OF brave men rendezvoused at the
Point" "a strong, including the skirmishers
who had been sent forward the day before to
reconnoitre and bring on the action. In high
spirits, with many "Hurras for Hersey," they
embarked in the cars, and dsembarked at
Augusta at 10 H. and Immediately forming
in order of battle marched to Granite Hall
and effected an entrance with full and per-
feet ranks, although Perham skirmishers and
videttes were thrown out in al directions,
dSSdlliIS tHclu Win SuOl anu SueIl, anu OCCd-
siOnaly attempting to make them prisoners.
In spite, however, of the fnry of the Perbam
legions, 62 out of the GA of the unterrifed
from Aroostook charged calamity oil their
foes almost at the outset OF the fight, and then
fell back to give other brave and true men a
chance, and before the battle was fiualy over,
the most of them remembered the time worn
couplet,
.'He that fights and runs away
May live to fight another day
took the cars for Bangor. Lightning overlook
them at Watervie, telling them that Perham
had won, and that they had nothing TO do but
to march dO,vn the hill which they had so de-
family marched up in the morning. Contin-
ung on very much after the fashion of the
Bull Run defeat, they arrived in Bangor at
sunset, and found order "reiening in Warsaw"
the city quiet and still as the pause which
precedes natures convulsoDs. Slowly and
sadly they marched through that city of
mourning, took the first tram for Mattawam-
keag, arriving there at ten in the evening,
when putting horse flesh to the test they lett
for the dear homes where are the wives and
little ones of the defeated hosts, and in the
shortest possible time were seated at their
own firesides rejecting upon the uncertainty
of all subunary things!
II was gallant fight, and as gallant a re-
treat, two only of their number being slain,
and one of them had been buried tor one
whole year, only his ghost lowering around
the camp, and that so shadowy and impalpa-
BILE that but for his name being on the roll,
there was no evidence OF his presence.