The Portland daily press., 1872-08-16
BY TELEGRAPH.
MATTERS In MAINE.
THE GREELEY EXCURSION
Speech at Brunswick and Augusta.

AUGUSTA, Aug. 15.-Mr Greeley left Port
land at A. NJ. on a special train via the Maine
Central Railroad for Augusta, accompanied by
Hon. c. P. Kimball, A. X. Shurtleff, Enoch
Knight, VIM. G. Twombly, C. H. Haskell
Chas II. Chase and Others AT all the stopping
places along the route dense crowds were col.
iected, all struggling to get glimpse of the
Presidential candidate:
At Freeport Mr.. Greeley came upon the plat
form of the car and shook hands with the peo-
pie. On his arrival at Brunswick he was
greeted with deafening cheers and music, and
IN response to the calls of the people appeared
and was introduced by Hon. VIM. r. Field and
| said:
Ladies and Gentlemen: should be clad if /
had time to visit this town with its eminent
seminary of learning and the renowned soldier
who SO worthly directs its energies and guards
It's honor. L say wish had time to make Il
longer visit for though am not stranger to
your town doubtless am to many of your peo-
pie came among you before when the COM
pany which surrounded me was fewer than it is
now but am unchanged in mind and purpose,
softened somewhat, l trust, by life protracted
and hardened by the work given me but still es-
sentially the same man that I was then. Not
withstanding the carcatures with which you
have been abundantly inundated, you find that
l still preserve something of the human form.
L thank you for this kind welcome and will no
longer tax your attention.
AT Gardiner he was met by Committee of
Reception from Augusta, consisting of Col 7.
s. Lang, Judge Rice, N. WHITEHEAD, Capt Thos
Smith, Summer Barton, Hon. Daniel Williams,
cx-Mayor of Augusta At Richmond and at
Hallowell his appearance brought forth enthus-
iastic cheers from the crowd and Mr. Greeley
went up on the platform of the station and
shook all cordially by the hand.
Arriving at Augusta at LAB an immense
crowd had assembled there being at least four
thousand people in the depot and in the streets
near by. Carriages were awaiting and amid
the cheers of the multitude and the firing of
salutes procession of carriages proceeded by
two bands OF music and a cavalcade of one hun
dred and fifty horsemen proceeded to the house
of Col Thomas S. Lang with whom Mr.
Greeley dined. After dining he proceeded to
the balcony of the Cushnoc House which had
been decorated with flags, &C., and arranged
for public speaking.
AT the mass meeting held in front of the
Cushnoc House this afternoon, the people were
addressed for nearly an hour by Hon. Leonard
SWEET of Chicago, on the political topics of the
day. Mr.. Greeley was then introduced and
spoke as follows: .
Fellow Citizens-Ladies and Gentlen,en:-I
am the guest of the authorities of the city, That
reason alone would have prevented me from
making political Speech but moreover had
no intention of making such speech when
came here am a journalist, 1 have always
been journalist, and in that occupation have
earned all that have spent and the little have
kept l expect to live by that profession as long
as have living to earn. rtHs
thank you sincerely for the cordial, the
muniticent support which the people of this
State have given me. / have often in the
course of these years uttered opinions which
many have differed from. 1t would have been
very unwise for me to suppose that during this
time and amid these differences 1 had always
been right, and so many good men, so many
grave men, who differed from me had always
been wrong do not suppose so. know that
L have sometimes been wrong. During this
period, while have seen parties rise and fail,
at one time sunk in adversely, and again flour
ishing in prosperity, have worked with party,
and have used party, but have never been the
slave of party. When l have found that parties
would not accomplish. what in my conviction
was right, !! have let party go, and have chung
to my convictions.
Whatever may be the result of the present
canvass, the movement begun at Cincinnati
has already accomplished much. 1t has done
much to remove the hates and preiudices which
have Outlived their Justification, and it has
brought our people to that point where they
no longer triumph in the power of destroying
each other.
Mr.. Greeley left Augusta for Portland at 6
p. NJ, arriving at the latter place at o'clock.
Tomorrow morning at S.45 he leaves Portland
for Portsmouth, N. H., thence in the afternoon
fsr Rye Beach. E@E
American Institute of Instruction.
LEWISTON, Aug 15.-The American Insti-
tute of Instruction closed its session in this
city to-day. Papers were read on public in
struction in Germany by N. F. Allen of Sdass. !;
on the laboratory method in physics by Prof.
Pickering of Boston, and on the two systems
of education by Hon. E. E. White of Ohio. NJ.
c. Stebbns of Springfield, Mass, was chosen
President. AT p. IN. the Institute adjourned.
| federalism.
AUGUSTA, Aug 15.-The Liberal Republican
convention met in Granite Hall this afternoon,
and made unanimous nomination of Col T.
S. Lang for Representative by reclamation.
The Democratic convention afterwards adopted
the same nomination