The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-08-12
Political Notes.

In a card, Daniel Pratt, the "Great Ameri-
can Traveller" offers to support Gen. Butler
| for Governor of Massachusetts if Butler will
go for him pratt for President in 1875. He
adds: "Clear the track for the coming nniver-
sal genius of the 10th century. God save
the commonwealth of Massachusetts,"
The Boston Post says of Buffers defence
''The letter is an apology, and weak and
dismal one, and only puts fresh cork in the
ed bottle.'
Brownlow is after General Hill again.
This time he frankly writes to him: ''You
are a small pattern Of a mana vulgar frac-
ton Of human nature reduced to its lowest
terms" Hill has not yet been heard from.
The Chicago Times tanti-Greeley Demo-
cratic) says of the New York World and
others:
What the organs Of the ancient Tammany
trump mean by such nonsense as the follow
ing, it is difficult to conjecture: "The Demo-
cratic party, now fairly rid of the incubus
which for time paralyzed its energies, has
only the more firmly pledged its adhesion to
the enduring first principles of its founda-
tion-principles destined to outlive all the re-
actions based on real or supposed OBJECTIONS
from them" The incubus which paralyzed
the Democratic party long before its death
was It's own ant-democratic life and practice;
Its championship of slavery and the slave
principle; its compromise with rascality and
wrong for the sake of the ''spois;'' its fos-
tering and defense of plunder-rings, like that
of Tammany; ite initiation of the subsidy
system of giving away the peoples lands to
specializing combina ions; its persistent
practice of the monopoly system by all man.
ner of special legislation; the moral rotten
ness Of its controlling ''public men, its I'M
swerving practice in every way and at all
times upon the highwayman's maxim, ito
the victors belong the spoils;" in fine, its
anti-prOgressive and reactionary tendencies
upon every vital problem of the age. How,
when, where did the self-constituted .Iead-
ers' who compose the lingering rump of that
party get rid of the ''incubus % How, when,
and where did they ''pledge its adhesion to
the enduring first principles of its founda-
ton ?''
The Missouri Republican, the leading Dem
ocratic paper of the Southwest, says Nat in
the national field the Democratic party is prac-
tically dead-that in Missouri the promise of
reform given by the Democratic party on COM
ing into power has failed of fulfllment-that
the party leaders have turned their backs up
on the progressive measures of the period
and when compelled to obey the people they
have shown halfheartedness. "Hence," 1t says,
when patriotism demands it, let the Demo-
cratic party slidew
The New York Evening Post being called
to account by Democratic paper for stating
that the old rebel spirit still inspires the De-
mocracy of the southern states, gives the fol-
lowing from the Alabama Guide:
white men of Alabama, can you longer
aou6t the fact that the only question at issue
IN the South is. Shall we have white or he
gro government?
ana the Birmingham Neps of the same
state, says:
Freeing the slaves was a declaration of war
between the Caucasian and African war
that is going on now, and that will %. On az
lenty, ruthlessly and unceas;no, %"' ~ 1n 81
or the other is exterminated. Will one
Let us recognize facts, admit tina,
races is progressing, and then every nv wa. al
range himself under the banner Of hi. r III
dred. For ourselves, we say, no somprom;sa
no 'unifcation but white mans ruiz
white mans civilization and white mans
government, or ruin and determination.