Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-07-25

the assaling party who has been called upor
to give bonds to keep the peace. The digni
, fed ef-respect which it was both the right
and the duty of the Democratic party to
maintain has been surrendered at the demand
of radical adversaries whose falsehoods should
not have had feathers weight in delbera-
tive body of representative democrats. We
say this in sorrow, not in anger With
| great respect in general for the average wis
dom of our State Conventions, as embodied
| in their platforms, and desire to harmonic
opinion and conciliate opposition, we are
| nevertheless constrained to say that a more
| hopeless case for such treatment has seldom,
if ever, come to our knowledge.
We have no doubt that the Journal ielt
severely the "humiliation'' inflicted upon
the party and we judge that it was not
alone. The Bangor Democrat took the
bitter cup in silence. Words were una
| bic to express its Indignation. Pcnobscot
county fought the new departure to the
last in convention, denouncing it, holding
it up to contempt, and we think the oppo-
sition there has been increased rather
than weakened. Such is the feeling in the
eastern part of the State among the de-
mocracy; that in the western part is
equally as hostile. We take the following
from the Biddciord Democrat as an exam
pie.
If the Democratic party can go into power
in 1872, we fear no evil from what has been
done. But we dislike the very term of NEW
departure" in the sense it has been used, and
1t seems to us, a mere clap-trap idea of
combined few to favor certain plans that have
been in vogue for years.
We concur in the main, with the following
from the speech of Mr. McCook, the candi-
date for Governor of Ohio. He said:
LET me speak now upon the fifteenth
which confers the right of suffrage upon the
blacks. 1t was no legitimate consequence of
secession, but it was passed in the exgency
OF political party that they might control as
much in Ohio as in these States in the South.
(Applause.) ! opposed it, as l did the Four
teenth, from the beginning, and | have no
regrets over the opposition. l was conscious
then that l was right; l am conscious still
We do not object particularly to negro suf
frage, If any State wants it. Every State |
will probably give that experiment fair trial, |
before they propose a change. But if the |
are as represented by Mr. Me- |
Cook, if they divest the States of powers rec |
ognized in the Tenth Amendment, and tend |
to the Capitalization of all power in the |
Federal Government, and sanction the ku- |
lilux and enforcement laws, we would not |
accept them as having our |
approval the same as the remainder Of the |
Constitution; and at the next breath resolve |
that we are unutterably opposed to all attempts
at Capitalization ana consolidation of power
in the hands of the General Government, to
the Ku-klux and enforcement or election
laws, provided for, it is commended, in the
very amendments we accept Such incon-
sistency only subjects us to ri.iicule and con-
tempt, while the opposition rejoice in the
hope that Democracy will divide on the
same
In view of the new departure Mr.. Kim
ball cannot fatter himself with the pros
pect of a very large vote this year. His
silence upon the matter will not conceal
his position upon the new departure.
which he had better avowed and thus re-
ceived the credit due to Il fearless Aecla-
ration OF opinion.