The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-08-02
Til, Democr.,ic Demonstration.

The Democrats last night threw out Gree
ley and Brown flag on Congress street. in front
of city Hall in the presence of about 1000 peo-
pie, who filled the street They were addressed
by Nathan Cleaves Jos. B. Hall and w. H.
Clifford, ESQ. Mr.. Clifford labored under the
delusion that the crowd was SO great that they
could not hear him unless he exerted that
magnificent voice of his to its utmost which
was unnecessary; and when he spoke of the
meeting as crowd gathered without design or
arrangements and without the machinery of
party, he said what he know was untrue.
At the conclusion Of Mr.. Clifford's speech the
people rushed into City Hall, which they pack
ed completely full. Not far from 2500 people
listened to Senator Doolittle's Grafton. The
meeting was called to order by John SWEET
ESQ.,, ex-City Marshal, who nominated Hon.
Bion Bradbury for chairman. In brief speech
Mr.. Bradbury introduced ex-senator Doolittle.
The Senator, after q very pleasant exodium
laid down the proposition that true Democracy
and true Republication are identical; and at
tempted to support the proposition bp going
back to the time of Thomas jefferson, under
whose administration the Democratic party
was formed, under the name of National Re-
publicans. Then he reviewed the issues which
had heretofore separated the people into two
parties. In 1852 the Wings and Democrats had
virtually agreed that the question of slavery
should not be agitated in or out of Congress;
but at the demand of the South the Missouri
compromise was repealed, Kansas was thrown
open to the competition of the opponent ideas,
and out of this grew the rebellion. Since the
close of the war the Republican party has kept
the country in a state of quasi war. The South
now accepts the "logic of events and is I'M
willing to restore slavery and the Democracy
have not the wish or power to repeal the con-
stitutional amendments. The Democratic par
ty believes in education as means of fitting
the eolored man to properly meet his new re-
sponsibilities. He said the Cincinnoti platform
is the true enunciation of tho old Jeffsonian de-
mocracy and then went en- to review Horace
Greeley's record claiming that he is the best
exponent of the Democratic doctrine. Refer
ring to his former peculiar ideas ON Fourierism
and Socialism he claimed that they were but
the struggles of his great mind with the ques-
ton of how best to reconcile capital and labor
which is now to be effected by the principle of
association. He closed with rehearsal of
Greeley's controversy with the Union League
in consequence of his early declaring the doc
trine of universal amnesty and the subsequent
signing of the Davis bail bond.
Mr.. II. P. Crozer of New York, was next in
troduced. He displayed ream of dreay
manuscript which he proceeded to read in a
dull listless manner, with a nasal tome 1t was
like stream of Sebago on a mob. 1t scattered
the elements, and by the time he had consum-
ed fifteen minutes the hall had not over five
hundred listeners in it, The meeting began
with considerable show of enthusiasm but clos
ed as dead as dishwater.