The Portland daily press., 1872-06-19

we might as well give up, and settle down in
the insignificance to which we were from all
eternity predestined." In particular, when
the building of fifty miles more of road will
give us access to 10000 people in N. ID. d
VT, to 125,00O more on the western exten-
sion of the road in Canada and New York,
will give us access to the Great Lakes, better
access to Chicago and the west; and above
all. connection with the vast system of Can
adam railways, and through them a hold up
ON the business of the interior Do
minion-is it the part of sanity for us to
do nothing more? The immense territory
ON the northwest of the Great Lakes, in
Manitoba, Swan river, Saskatchewan, Eng
fish river, and Lesser Slave Lake districts, as
fine wheat land as the sun shines upon, and
soon to have millions of population, will find
at Portland its nearest point of approach to
the Atlantic. Upon this territory Montreal
is now laying her hand, and Montreal looks
to Portland for winter harbor. Whether re-
gardedin point ofthrough business or local bust
ness, of returns at once prompt and perma-
nent, there is no enterprise to which Port
land can address herself to be compared in
promise with the p and o. r. r.
1T is of no particular consequence-but
does the Belfast Journal happen to have
private and special Atlantic cable of its own q
or has it set up medium" in its editorial
rooms? If not, how does it feel authorized
to maintain its position that the eleven
prominent men, it named "are in sympa-
thy with the Liberal Republican movements"
Mr.. Talbot went to Europe before the Blairs
Convention at Cincinnati was held, and his
last recorded utterances excited no reasonable
anticipation that he would favor it in any
event. No one can doubt how so red-hot a
free trader would have received the nomina-
ton of Greeley, had he been as favorably dis
posed toward Cincinnati in the beginning as
David A. Wells, Edward Atkinson and Viii
liam Cullen Bryant. The express disclaimer
of Col. Lang makes no sort of impression on
the Journal, and the circumstances of ex-
Gov Williams and Judge Danforth pass
all unheeded. Really, if men are to be drag
ged, nolens rotens, into sympathy with the
Liberal Republican movement" in this sum-
mary way, white hats will soon command
premium. We decline to grapple with the
Journals new list, We can only express our
mild regret. There is George Woods, Esq,
one of the Belfast assessors" for instance.
Has George really gone over to the enemy?
We haven't the pleasure of Georges ac-
quaintance, in fact we fear that his reputa-
ton is mainly local, as well as that of Hiram
and Charles and Albert and Erastus and
John, but Judging from our past experience
of these Greeley lists, we have the liveliest
faith that the most of them will say that they
are no such persons.
OUR Democratic friends at Bangor, nearly
every man of them, We'd with his fellow in
shouting the praises of Horace Greeley
There we find the old guard who couldn't
vote for Douglas in 1860, the Marcellus
Emerys, the Madigans, the Richards, the
Treats, the Hudsons rivalling the young
Democracy in their reclamation of loudest
praise for Mr.. Greeley. The day of Pen
ticost was something in its way, but was a
mere trife compared with the miraculous
changein the Maine Democracy. The change
between Saul the Pharisee and Paul the
Apostle was not greater than the protested
change of the Democratic leaders at Bangor.
1t is amusing to see the Bourbons of Maine
kiss the hand that for years has made them
writhe under such stripes as these:
Point wherever you will to an election district
which you will pronounce morally rotten
giUen up IN great part to debduchery and Uice,
ochoSe Uoters SubSist mainly bg keeping policy
offices, gambling houses, grog shops and darker
dens Of inJdnay-dnd that district wall be found
giving large majority for the Democratic
party n What is the instinct the syna-
pathetic chord which attaches them SO uni
formly to that party?
We don't imagine that the Bangor leaders
like the dose, but they are assured by the past
that any man who has belonged to the DEM
ocratic party, so infamous has been its record
for twenty years, is sure of defeat. ''Bred
rim" said fervid African preacher, ''dah
am two ways; de one leads to sure perdition,
and the odder to swift destruction, which will
We take ?" The Maine Democracy have tried
the first until they are desperate. They now
propose in their hopelessness to try the other