The Portland daily press., 1875-04-24
Current Notes.

We have our faults, the country has its
dangers, but taken in all, we are as wise, as
| true, as patriotic as our ancestors.-PrOui-
| denee Journal
| 1t is little queer that Democratic govern
| or of Massachusetts and Republican gov
| ernor of South Carolina met to celebrate a
! national anniversary. But the incident teach
es that parties however potent,are short lived,
andthat they do not go down so deep as those
| great events which make and unmake ma
tions.-Boston Herald.
| John Bright to the Lexington centennial
lists: II cannot cross the ocean to Join your
| great company, and know not how to write
you letter fitting the occasion. / weuld
| rather not think OF an occasion when English
men shed blood, and English blood, on your
continent, and l would prefer to celebrate the
freedom and grandeur of your country on
some other day. But l can rejoice with you
| in that freedom and grandeur, and wish,
with you, that they may be perpetual"
Said Alexander H. Stephens, in a recent
| speech at Sparta, Geoegia: "Gen. Grant is
| the best man towards the south that ever
drew sword against US: better than Gen
eral Blair"
An enterprising son of Massachusetts,, who
turned an honest penny or two by vending
| root beer at twenty cents glass and bolvars
| at five cents apiece the other day at LexiDg-
| ton, was heard to remark as he handed a Gus
| toner second glass, that he always knew
time and history would do justice to those
noble men.-N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
There is no cohesive force in the Demo-
cratic party, except that of public plunder.
1t is party of contradictions,I and cannot
possibly unite upon any platform more def
mite than that proposed by Senator Gordon.
Chicago Times.
The Southern Democrats make very fine
promises and professions in their addresses to
the people of the North but their talk for
home consumption is of a widely different
character. In Houston. Texas, there is a
gifted young colored man who is achieving
great success as a teacher and instructor of
his race. Him the Houston Age describes as
"a filthy negro, educated at Oberlin College,
the hot-bed of all that is low, degraded, beast
ly, and despicable."
Judge Alphonso Taft of Cincinnati is now
the most prominent candidate for the Repub-
lcan nomination for governor of Ohio. He
has been twice elected Judge of the Supreme
Court in Cincinnati, and is spoken of as a
man of high character and ability.
uc dSuiiiSJOu htpUOECuU, WHICH Ny
reason its editorials and its fancied semi
official character has been called the third
term organ, in significant article upon pol
itics, says:-"The assumption of President
Grants candidacy for reelection is without
substantial authority and adds, as TO Vice
President Wilson and Richmond paper:
'No doubt Mr.. Wilson honestly believes it,
and the Wing also, but if they do they are
the victims OF successful attempt at editori-
al sensationalism begun a little more than a
year ago by the New York Herald. They
have certainly misunderstood all that has
been said on this subject in the columns of
ted ed oGrs thai ffE Tie third term
agitation has been authorized, for, as we have
repeatedly explained, We have never argued
the question except in the abstract"
Some confusion has occurred regarding re-
cent occurrences in New. England. People
who are ignorant of of the ancient history
of our country have been misled by the head
lines which surmount the telegraphic dis
patches from that section, ard imagine that
''Another Dam Burst referred to the Lex
ington and Concord affair, instead of the last
Mill river dsaster.-Washingt Republic.