The Portland daily press., 1871-08-17
NEW YORK.

--- NEW YORK.
PrOmpt sale of the New Loan.
NEW YORK, Jay Cooke, McCulioch & Go
| seiegtaph from London to day that all tDt
ponos OF the lew loan, $3O0,000000, assigned
ny ,,i, secretary Boutwell, to the European mark,
VIII De subscribed for almost Immediately.
AeexrnPhic Communication with Japan
Geographic communication between this
oly anu Japan was established to-day. Mes
sases were transmitted thither from London
"no answers returned this afternoon
.rl ... Criminal
commissioner Shields to-day discharged
Hf1p.. omith, OF the American ship Ne Plus
onfa ior alleged assault on his first mate. and
neia ~ S2OoO bail Barry, the first mate OF the
snip Comet, tor cruel treatment to sailors.
Highly Improper.
JOSIAH Newman. prominent Methodist of
Newtown, Long Island, eoped on Monday
Wild Wild C0rnela Strong, taking $500 and leaving
woo, the remainder of his property for the
support of his wife and three small children.
| Contract Awarded SO Maine.
ALBANY, Aug. 16.-The contract for the
stOue for the new Capitol has been awarded to
John r. Briggs The stone will come from
their quarry at Yarmouth Me The bid ag-
gregated 1887 900, and the highest bid was
| Speaker Blaine SereUaded---His Speech
| ON the Occasion.
| SARATOGA. Aug IS -Speaker Blaine was
| serenaded at Grand Union Hotel this evening,
| 10 600 people being present. Enthusiastic ap-
plause greeted Mr.. Blame, who was introduced
| by A. Sackett, OF Saratoga, and spoke as fol-
| lows: taa FTP
| Gentlemen-To so much of this ovation as
| may be personal to myself | tender you my
| most grateful thanks. l came hfher, as you
all did, to enjoy rest and recreation ana Inc In
| vigoration of this most delightful resort, and L
val on hnf tha
broken by this vast concourse OF people Tor the
mere purpose of paying personal compliment
to So humble an individual as myself. Hold
ing, DIS do at present, position OF RESPONSE
billty in connection with our National Gov
ernment am forced to infer that the mere
TACT OF your assembling is an invitation for me
| 10 speak to you, however, briefly, upon the po-
htical questions and issues of the hour, and
YET al the very outset gentlemen, feel COM
pelied to say that there never seemed to me to
De a time, in our history when there was less
heed OF speech, or when the facts of public
record carried with them, as patent ito every
one, SO fully their own argument and enforced
80 clearly their own conclusions. Two great
parties, between whom the American people
divide their sympathy and their support, must
be Judged, not by their professions, but by their
acts "here each is in authority. The Republi-
cans are In full honor at Washington and the
democrats bear uDdisputed sway in New York.
Need draw the picture which this brace of
FACTS suggests to every intelligent mind? In
Washington, every dollar that can be saved
above the current expenses is faithfully applied
to the reduction of the National debt. In New
York every dollar that can be raised or wrung
from the taxpayers above the current expenses
is faithfully applied to the benefit OF a private
ring OF politician spectators. In Washington
we have witnessed with amaEement and ad-
miratiOn the payment of our national debt at a
rate of $10O, 600 900 per annum. In New York
we have seen, with CONSERVATION and alarm,
an increase of the municipal debt at such
rate as would involve, at no long period, the
bankruptcy and ruin even of that gigantic me-
tropos with its immense resources and its
fabulous wealth. 1t seems but yesterday that
Gen. Grant was inaugurated, and yet in the
brief period that has since elapsed $3.50, 600, 900
of our debt have been paid, a sum equal to
more than one-eight of our entire bonded debt
as its exists at this hour: and this payment, be
it remembered, has been made while taxes
were repealed that were yielding $8O,0OO,OOO
per annum when Gen. Grant came into power.
Look at New York city during the same peri
3D. Its bonded debt increased to such NAM
moth extent that the authorities dare not con-
TESS its actual amount. Tax levies, all the
while, are heaped up beyond the imagination
OF honest men, and a scale of corrupt eXpendi-
ture is maintained that challenges the creduli
ty OF even those who are best acquainted with
the audacity of Tammany Hail. L do not de-
sIre gentlemen, to be understood as ma king a
random and reckless charge, nculpating every
Democrat in the land and holding him respon-
s,bie for the cOrrnptionS in New York. l have
too much respect for individual members of
that party, and trust, L may say, that have
too many friends within the ranks of that
party to permit me to make so unjust an accu-
sation; but this do say, and l address it es-
pecially to honest Democrats, that the source
OF the power aud CONT Olling guidance of that
party are in just such hands as have been
guilty of the gross frauds recently exposed in
New York. Without the aid and leadership
Of Tammany it would be impossible for the
Democrats to carry the State of New York,
and without the State of New York their
chance in the Presidential contest of 1872
would not be worth reckoning, and they we'll
know it. go further, gentlemen, and aver
that the power of Tammany, with it's money
in the North and power and terrorism in the
South, are the weapons relied upon by the
Democratic leaders to carry the National con-
test next year; and if it were not for this we
should have absolute peace throughout the |
length and breadth of the land. Why, L ask,
is there not as mach supremacy of law, as
much civil order and as thorough protection
of life and property in the South to-day as
in the North? Why there more disturbance
between the Potomac and Rio Grande than
there is between the Potomac and st. Law
renee? / answer, simply because it s not for
the interest of the De mOcratic party to have it
SO. l answer, simply because it is the interest
OF the Democratic party that such a condition
OF affairs shall be maintained in the South as
shall prevent fair, full and unrestrained vote
OF the whole people, and l do not charge this
responsibility wholly upon the Democratic
party in the Southern States.
They are The immediate actors but the re-
spOnSble endorSers are in the North.
II la the North, the Democratic marty to-
day, sincerely, honestly and earnestly willed
IL, there would be an end at once OF Ku-Klux
o GUY nay, gentlemen as in the older time,
ten righteous men might have turned the
wrath OF God from the doomed CITY of the plain
so this day and this hour, l believe could
name ten leading asplrants for the Presiden-
tial nomination of the De mocracy, whose unit
ed and righteous appeals for peace in the
South would produce peace in the South. and
this brings to the test the sincerity OF the ne W
departure. And what is the new departure?
Why, certain constitutional amendments be-
ing adjudged necessary to secure the full fruits
OF our victory over the Rebellion, and these
amendments having been regularly adopted
by the reqisite two-thirds in both branches of
Congress and the ratification of three -fourtbs
of the States, the Democracy refused to abide
by them. -
In several instances, every Democratic
member of Congress voted against the resolu-
tons in the House, declaring these amend
ments to be of binding force. The last vote of
the kind being given so lately, think as April
of the present year; but the late Mr. Valap-
dighaIn and few others discovering that this
attitude of the Democracy was incipient Re-
bellion, called halt and the party In the
North generally obeyed, resolving that upon
the whole they would agree to submit to the
law abiding spirit being so unequal with that
party and the sensation of constitutional obedi-
ence SO novel with them, that with the keen
ness of wit and reactive sarcasm, apparently
not appreciated by themselves, they. with one
consent, called "new departure" but we
must be pardoned for a little incredulity as to
the full sincerity of the new departure until
we see it bear fruit When every man in the
United States enjoys his full right to prosperi-
ty, his full protection to person and his undis-
turbed, unmenaced right of suffrage, and all
this by the cooperation of the Democracy, we
will begin to have some faith in the purity and
sincerity of the sudden conversion of that par
ty. "r
Until then we will pray and hope for the
best, and yet all the while be tortured with dis.
trust. In illustration of my feelings YOU will
pardon me il l narrate homespuh anecdote
which came to my lips when the Maine De-
mocracy made their new departure. A pious
old deacon of the Freewll Baptist Church had
scapegrace son who gave him vast deal of
trouble and who after years of m 'sconduct and
bad morals ran off aud Was unheard of for
several years, but finally when the old gentle
man was we'll advanced in life aud his proper-
ty had to be disposed of, the son turned up,
protesting to be thoroughly reformed man
and an exemplary member of the church The