The Portland daily press., 1871-10-20
.5bAILY PRESS.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1871.
What Was said at Bangor and Done al
Gloucester.
PORTLAND.

WI hat was SHhN --~N 49, =
Gloucester.
If ever the urgent necessity of the ratifica-
ton OF the treaty of Washington was made
clear it was on Wednesday. On that day the
Chief rulers of the two countries sat AMIGA
bly, down to meat in each others company.
Gen. Grant expressed his sense of the pacific
tendency of the work just completed IN terms
whose admirable brevity" the Governor
General did well to commend. On his part.
my Lord Lisgar was so full of kindly feeling
toward the country of his entertainers that
he was obliged to talk without any trace of
the traditional British reserve. and to recall
those palmy days of Reyerdy johnson when
he used to make speeches after corporation
dinner. And our nearest peigbbor. Wilmot
OF New Brunswick, was almost ready to sine
Nanc Dtnatttis in his great Joy to see the nup-
tias OF the contiguous States at whose be.
trothal he has assisted almost quarter of a
century ago. And as for his illusions 10 The
American flag-why, one would think that
the Governor of New Brunswick was Fourth
Of July orator! Gov. Perham who by the
way I1dhtS all eACtlI6ub lnpltoSiOu ny hIo
modest good sense on public occasions, also
took his share in the international love feast,
and all the speakers that followed feryently
blessed the union effected by the iron rail.
And at about that very hour, if our re-
ports are true, the hostile fleets of England
aud the United States were confronting each
other off the coast, ard an American vessel,
illegally taken by our citizens from the Off
GERS OF the British crown, fed into Gloucester
hal Dor under cover, we might almost say, OF
the guns of our fleet That night there was
great rejoicing in the "nursery of American
seamen" The bells rang, the tar barrels blazed
and cheer on cheer went up,-but not be-
cause OF the determination of Grant and Lis
gar, not because, in the language OF Secretary
Robson, 1.-TWO nations of Anglo Saxon blood
are now united" The Gloucester rejoicines
were all because hostile movement against
one of these Anglo Saxon races had just
been successfully contaminated by the other
at the very hour when the Commander
in Chief of the American navy was laying
his glowing rhetorical Tribute on the altar of
international harmony. r.f.u
Till the treaty of Washington is given full
effect by the legislation of Canada and the
other British provinces, as well as by the
United States, it is unhappily true that al
appearances of stable friendship are delusive
The reciprocal courtesies of our public men
and those of Canada are extremely pleasant
and edifying. They Indicate the undoubted
desire of the people of both countries for
genuine friendship. But mean While Butler
inspired fanatics are bring cling us face 10 face
with war. Happily, the danger that imme-
diately threatened on Wednesday is now tenn
porarly passed. But the situation is critical
The Gloucester people have once tasted the
sweets OF victory, and, led by their Congress.
man, will soon be marching to new conquests
IT is exasperating to find that the Demo
cratic papers are GU in full cry, as usual
against the Presidents proclamation suspend
ing the writ OF hdbeds corpus in certain re
bAllious counties of South Carolina. 1t is
criminal excess of nsincerity for them to al
feet to regard the proclaim alton as merely tn,
dictate OF political expediency. They seen
Incapable OF realizing that the well atteste6
fact of persistence by the Ku-Klux in MAIN
ing and killing unoffending persons affords oc.
casion for anything more than mild protest
Yet the fact of the existence of the Ku-Klus
and of their outrages is as well attested as
anything in history. They have been con.
victed By the score in North Carolina. Since
the Presidents proclamation, of which com
paint is made, thirty of the South Carolina
Ku Kiux have voluntarily come into Spartans
burg and surrendered themselves. A Wash
ington dispatch says that Chalmers Butler O
Newberry county was held in $4,000 bail a
Columbia, on Monday, for trial before Judg
Bond, in November, for participation in
midnight outrage on Edmond Chalmers. /;
- prominent coored Republican Of the sam,
coes~+E- Chalmers was taken from his house
one night rn-A August last, having first been
shot and dangerously wounded. knocked
down, given five hundred lashes and left to,
dead. Several of the Ku-Klux coianad i,
the Albany penitentiary have lately beo,me
very humble, and profess willingness to dis
close Ill they know of the order and its evl
works.