The Portland daily press., 1871-07-01
For <sOvcrnOr:
Sidney ssgsHAW
il~& OF PARIS.


Ones sympathies are naturally excited in
Mr. Kimballs behalf on account of the ex-
treme difficulty he must find in giving the
platform on which he is placed a rational
construction. One imagiues him rejecting
with distracted air whether he is to "ie
pait," and if so whittier and how whether
he shall give most prominence to his submis-
sion to the Constitution of the United States
or to his 'denuncation of tue means by
which it became the supreme law of the
land"-whether he shall come out strongest
in favor of ignoring dead issues" or in favor
OF the "strict construction" of the Constitu-
ton which means revival of the deadest of
dead issues, State rights and secession.
But those who feel such apprehension do
not know Mr.. Kimball. Gan print is open TO
him. as it was to Mr.. Boffin. He is not on
ly able to thread the mazes of the first Au-
gosta resolution without inducing mental ver-
tigo, but he is able himself to evolve from the
depths of his own consciousness resolutions
equally lucid and coherent. In the winter of
1861. when the mutterngs OF coming war
were daily growing louder, Mr.. Kimball was
member of our board of Alderman. There
being at that time Democratic majority in
the city government, Mr.. Kimball felt it his
duty to take hand in saving the Union.
Taking advantage of casual meeting of the
two branches of the City Council he offered
the following resolutions. The Portland Id
vertiser of Jan. I'd, 1861, says that in intro
fuaiu,r fho Int NT.
"portentous of the alarm he exhibited" The
words in italics were erased before the pas
sage of the resolutions which we are glad TO
lay before our readers both as an explanation
OF Mr.. Kimball's gnion-saving theories and
as an evidence OF the terse, lucid English and
the luminous ideas we may expect to find in
his state papers when he becomes our Chief
Magistrate:
Whereas, The citizens OF large and important
porfio5 o. our common country, are alarmed and
excited beyond all precedent. Citizens OF States
connectei with US by ties as strong any that ever
dld-or IN toe nature OF human affairs, ever can
connect people OF different political commune
ties and by such alarm and excitement the lounda-
IONS OF Inc best government on earth is shaken to
its very centre centre If not already broken and
shattered Into discordant fragments, and
Whereas, Great alarm is now being felt by the
Union men in all parts OF the country, that civil
Inc unlawful acts OF some of the S'aies-upless
the States who first transgressed upon The C,nstitu
ton OF our country shall Immediately put them.
selves Alright by promptly repairing such wrongs.
as earnestly recommended by the most influential
men and papers OF boih political parties
BE 81 therefore, ResOtOed That it is the great
ana solemn duty Of the government of each and
erefy State Tor this State) 10 look the evil s now
threatening us fully in the IA e, and see il any por-
IONS OF the sreat wrongs now exciting betw zen the
North aud South can be laid To their charge TO see
to see IT any o. The laws Of Their respectiee States
Constitution and il so, it is the first Gnty they owe
TO the citz ms OF every State in the Union that such
laws should be promptly repealed, not because of
zens to The Union.
Reso!Ued, That we for the Union as our fathers
made IL; thatswe are in favor under all circum-
stances Win eacn and every provision OF the Con
stltuiion Of our country, OF rendering exact and
equal justice to the citizens OF each and eyery State
of the Union. ~ ~
And we ale there ere Internationally opposed to
the Personal Liberty Bills 80 called. Believing
them to be unconstitutional, Dischievous in tbei.
tendencies nncatted for unjust and insuit;no to The
Greens Of a large portion Of our common country
we tntreiore earnestly aud respectfully request The
members q the State Legislature from The city to
use all honorable means to reIeal the so called per
s0nai Liberty Bill passed in 1855