The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-06-19

received the vote or sanction of that party.
They voted against the civil rights bill the last
three amendments of the constitution; they
voted to make labor dishonorable in 100000
square miles of the country; they voted steadily
for auction blocks and blood hounds, for slave
pens and chains; they voted to dissolve the
union; they voted men and money to carry on
a terrible war against it but they never voted
men or money to save it, and 1
know Of no monarchy in Europe to-day
50 persistently and wickedly hostile to the
rights of the oppressed as the Democrats of
this nation have been for the past score of
years.
When patriotism was matter of emulation;
when the Republic was plowed down to the
beam; when it was shaken to the four corners
and being rent by foes within, the Democracy
We're silent unless they saw an opportunity to
do the nation some harm, and, if you take the
loyal, liberty loving men out of that party to-
day there wouldn't be life enough left in it to
keep up a circulation. 1t is the only party since
the days of Judas Iscariot that has tried to
make treason glorious.
The Democracy have tried to do that They
have President and member of Congress
who lent their influence to it. Democratic
federal office-holders North and South asserted
it. Yea, Democratic Supreme Court pros
trated itself before the infamous doctrine and
Democrats proclaimed it from the floor of the
American Senate, and when in 1861 the Repub-
lican party received from the maddened and
tratoriOus Democracy the control of the nation,
it was in open war without an army or navy,
and never in the history of motives has man
been inspired by higher aims than fred the
bosoms of those patriots brought together by
the necessities of their imperiled country, They
were loyal in thought in word and act they
were the conscript fathers of the Republic.
And the Republican party is made up of
those men who came out of other parties to
form one of freedom and humanity which
should make equal laws for all men without
geographical discrimination. and it has in all
times andin every struggle, in peace and in
war, been on the side o. the nation, of liberty
and progressive civilization. 1t sewers the
chains from four and half million of Gods
children; breathed into their souls the spirit of
manhood; lifted them from the bottomless pit
of servitude into the glorious light of universal
freedom; secured their civil and political rights
by constitutional covenants and made slavery
impossible in all the states and terrtories-yes,
everywhere under the flag of the Union, while
grass shall grow and water rum
In Gods providence it has been the high
privilege, and believe the Republican party
was created for that purpose, to raise this ma
ton from the slough of despond in which the
Democratic party had sunk it.
By its means the American freeman may
stand upon the sacred soil of South Carolina
even by the tomb of Calhoun, and proclaim I'M
iversal liberty to all men, be they white or
black. In few weeks these two great parties
will cnce more appeal to the voters of this state
for support. Each will ask for control and
power, and which shall have it? Will not these
voters trust a bridge that has so often carried
them safely over? After they have extinguish-
ed the flames of their burning house, will they
place it in custody of the incendiary whose
hand applied the torch? The voters of this
state will stand by the Republican party. 1t is
the symbol of liberty and patriotism. 1t has
guarded the nation in its past glorious career,
and God will grant it success in the future.
On motion the following committees were
appointed by the chair:
COMMITTEE ON CREDENTIALS.
Androscoggin-William H. Rounds of Minot.
Al oostook-Sabine F. Berry of Houlton.
Cumberland-H. r. Millett of Gorham.
tranklin-P. Dyer of Pennington.
Hancock-J. L. Osgood of Ellsworth.
Kennebec-Joshua Gray of Gardiner.
Knox-D. l.. Fernald Of Camden.
Lincoln-Orren McFadden of Dresden.
Oxford-E. G. Harlow of DixfeId.
PenObscot-D. +. Davis of Cernth,
Piscataquis- Ephraim Flint of Dover.
- SagadahOc-ThOmas G. Harris of Bath.
somerset-Henry s French of Norridgewock.
WadO-Isaac M. Boardman of Belfast.
Washington-C, G. Norton of Pembroke.
York-John E. Butler Of Biddeford.
ON PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
Androscoggin--Luther Perkins of Poland.
MISUNDERSTANDING Powers of HOulton.
Cumberland-H. A. Shorey of Bridgton.
Franklin-S. f. Small of Temple.
Hancock-A. c. Hibbard of Bucksport.
Kennebec-Ge0rge E. Minot of Belgrade.
Knox-Hiram Bliss, jr., of Washington.
Lincoln-Isaac L. Hobson of Wiscasset.
Oxford-J. X. Martin of Rumford.
Penobscot-S. w. Mathews of Hampden.
Piscataquis-James Foss of Abbott.
Sagadahoe-F. j. Parks of Phipsburg.
Somerset-Henry Williamson of Starks.
Waldo-Orren Leaned OF Burnham.
Washington-E. L. Pattangall of Pembroke.
York; f. Hanson of Sanford.
While the Committee on Credentials wer-
attending to their duty Hon. L. A. Emery, of
Ellsworth. called upon Hon. T. B. Reed, of
Portland, to address the Convention. The
name of Mr.. Reed was received with demon.
strations of applause, and taking the platform
he made a fifteen or twenty minutes speech,
which we shall take pleasure in presenting to
our readers in full at an early issue.
The Committee on Credentials submitted the