The Portland daily press., 1870-09-16
TIL Il PR ESS.
F'iday Morning, September le. 1870.


We have bravely fought and nobly won an
other glorious victory upon the baltle-helds
of political warfare. In some respects this
contest was somewhat different from any
which have recently transpred,i in tbat we
had to struggle against the grossest treachery
within cur own ranks and conquer against
appeals to the lowest prejudices made by men
whose eacerness to obtain position had blind
ed them to every nobler consideration But
the triumphis complete. The people of York
county have shown themselves superior to
the narrow, selfish, sectional views promul-
gated by someswho aspired to be the leaders of
constituency that desires none of their lead
ing, and which, we venture to predict, will
neuer submit itself to their control or guild
ance. The passionate appeals Of aspiring in
dvduals were the same in spirit and lharac
ter Though infinitely meaner and upon
much smaller theatre) as those which fired
the heart OF the South and arrayed it against
the North, plunging us into civil war. Here
the attempt was to array one county
against another by cap-trap talk about rights
and their invasion and a bold assumption that
somebody had made agreements as to whom
the people should select for Congress, or at
least as to the locality of his ha6tation,
whereas no such agreement was ever really
made. 1t could never have any existence ex-
cept by law or by common consent, ii being
evident there is no such statute, and every
reader will know for himself at least that he
never heard OF, nor participated in, any such
bargain for, or barterins Of, positions, and
ought to believe that his neighbor is equally
innocent Of such improper trade until better
proof of the negotiation is adduced than any
yet gwen.
IT'S true that no bloody issue was probable
in this setting county against county such as
resulted from infaming section against Sec
ton of our common country; but ill-feeling
and lasting jealousy would have been the in
eyitab,e consequence had success. crowned
these ilI,ju6ged and illy-intended efforts to de-
feat suitable and competent nominee who
was put in the field by a convention acting in
r~ponse to the wishes of those who sent del
egates to it and in strict accordance las our
State committee unanimously declared with
all the usases of the party. Human life might
not have been at stake but, so far as these
two counties were concerned, all the cherish
ed principles OF the Republican paftr-were
hazarded by the course pursued by disap-
pointed Office seekers and their followers and
hasty friends That is to say, everything
these men could do to jeopardize them was
done; treason has done his worst"
"malice domestic" "cannot touch us
further" and the only reason Why there was
no danger to our patty and the principles it
represents is because the great mass of Re-
pub!icans, who care nothing about persons
when weighed against these principles, deter
mined to vildicate their political opinions at
the polls and themselves from the reproach of
holding them only upon the loaves-and-fshes
basis. Hence York County, after all the eff
fort to pervert its judgment, comes out
sound to the core, giving majority to Mr..
Lynch as well as to the other nominees of
the Republicans This is indeed a great vic
tory-in its results more consequence than
any stricken feld-for the wisest of men has
said, HE that is slow to anger is better than
the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than
he that taketh city," All honor to the very
many-the large majority of the York county
Republicans who kept an equable temper, an
unmovedj judgment and ruled spirit in this
contest and gave us such victory.