The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-09-03

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The party procaiming this doctrine was a
great party in the norlh The southern De
mocracy thought that that party could paralyze
the government Had they known what they
now know they would never have attempted
the rebellion. Not only is that party as par
ty absolutely responsible for beginning this war,
but it was responsible for continuing it at least
two years. 1t was followed by he belief on The
part of the southern Democracy that if the
Democratic party came into power the wal
wouid cease.
And my friends, after the war and after the
rule of reconstruction were concluded wha' was
their action? Our principle of reconstruction
was to give equal rights to all men without
regard to color or previous condition of servi-
tude. In 1868 the Democratic party resolved
that the amendment guaranteeing this was
void and unconstitutional. People have a
| right to disobey an unconstitutional law, and
the Democratic party instructed the southern
Democracy that this Law was unconstitutional,
and the Democratic party is responsible for the
bloodshed which has followd this instruction
Complaint is made of that grieyous burden,
the national debt. That debt was the price of
Union preserved, a sacred debt to the pay
ment of which the nation is pledged. For that
| enormous burden the Democratic party is re
sponsible Had it not been for their dogma of
state sovereignty the rebellion would not have
been possible. Had it not been for their en-
enlargement the rebellion would not have been
| undertaken. Had it not been for their treason
ID
longed. This dangerous heresy of state rights
born of the resolutions of '98, even now men
aces the Union. 1t has never been dIsavowed
| by the Democracy. They believe to-day as
they did in 1860, in the sovereignty of the
| states in the paramount allegiance of every
citizen to his state. The Southern Unionists
led away by this heresy, thought it their duty
to go with their states. The doctrine is a per-
petual menace against the life of the nation.
| We shall never be safe so long as it is enter
| tainpd nv oopcidar hla Of bo
national idea is our only salvation. 1t is suici-
dial TO elevate to power the party which is the
| special champion of this monstrous idea of
state sovereignty. The people must be per-
| meated with the belief that they are nation
not confederacy OF states.
l now refer to the party of liberal tendencies,
| of noble instincts, of lofty principles, the party
to which it is an honor to belong, the Repubii-
can party. That party was formed to sustain
| the equality of all men under the laws. When
| it came into power gigantic rebellion menaced
the nation. The Republican party put down
that rebellion and saved the Union in spite of
the Democratic party as an organization. Thou
| sands of Democrats lay down their lives for the
Union, it is true, but they did it in defiance Of
their party. The Republican party was a unit
| in defence OF the Union, the Democratic party
as an organization opposed it. The Republican
| party did away with slavery. and fully carried
out the immortal principles Of the Declaration
| of I1epe ndence for the first time in our his
| tory The great centennial at Philadelphia
| next year will be celebration of a union and
| freedom made possible by the Republican
| party After the war it undertook TO guarantee
to every man in the South life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. With this view it recon-
structed the SoDth. That work is not yet COM
plete. 1t is task for the Republican party to
finish.
There are other great reforms to be carried
out, and the party of reform the party which
justly boasts of carrying out all the great
achievements OF the last sixteen years, is the
party to whom you are to Look for further re-
form.
The Democratic party is struggling for the
ascendency, and what do they offer you? If
they are successful what do they propose to do?
Have they got new policy in Maine instead of
the one you are now enforcing? Have they
new policy 10 the United States? What is
this policy? In the first place they pretend to
be more honest than we are. They say the
Republican party is corrupt. They tell us how
capab e, how honest they would be if put into
office, but when you compare the Democratic
politician and the Republican, would you gain
anything by putting the former into power?
All the pretentions OF superior ability, of supe-
rior homes y, are fal e. am moi here to defend
the Republican party of all :he charges brought
againsI it. There are bad men in it, but |
claim that it is the policy of Gen. Grants ad
ministrasion to drag to light official malefac-
tors. know it is a fact that many people
consider that there is more corruption than
formerly. But now then is no crime hardly
which is committed in thu Uoited States that
is not read the sext morning, That wasn't
the ease years ago: The world, | contend, is
getting better. | believe that the American
people are moving forward morally aud politi
cally. believe that as a people we are better
than fifty years ago. We are a progressive
people. / am glad to believe that we are get
tug better morally and physically. Let us
suppose that the Democratic party are coming
into power what policy do they offer US? On
the subject of finance the Democratic par ty
can be said TO have no policy.
The Democracy of Ohio are now fighting thu
campaign in principles directly ADVERSE to
those which the Democracy of Maine, of New
York espouse. They are divided on the tariff
Here your Democratic party are opposed to in
fation. In Ohio they are fighting on precisely
that grouId. They are carving on the cam
palgn in Ohio on Communistic PRINCIPLES.
This is sign of the decadence of the Dem
ocratic party. They are appealing to the poor
against the rich the laboring m an against the
man Of property. The Democratic party of
Ohio are advancing the Communstic doctrines
OF Paris and Berlin. In the n-xJ house the
Democratic party will have "a Confed rate
officers, but the Democracy tell US that we
must forget all about the war, that 1T makes no
difference whether a man was a Union or a
Confederate soldier. But in the south, man
to be elected to tn smallest office must have
been IN the Confederate army, or if at home
must have actively supported the rebellion.
These are the men who are to legslate for the
loyal men of the north. The soldier boys of
the North hardly imagined they were fighting
for this end.
Mr.. Morton contended as in his other
speeches in this state, that the Southern Dem
ocrats if given power would pension rebel
soldiers and paw the South for their slaves, and
closed with discussion of the financial ques
ton.
VIEW FROM THE FIRRT DISTRICT.
At the conclusion of Senator Morton's
speech the band struck up and the people pre-
pared for another speech. The noon trains
which came in, including special over the
Eastern, brought about two thousand people.
The forenoon meeting closed with remarks
from the Hon. John Fl. Burleigh, member of
Congress from the first district of Maine. Mr.
Burleigh spoke briefly, traversing the positions
taken by the Democratic party in this cam
pagn, and procaming with no uncertain
sound the doctrines of Republca uism, foremost
among which he placed speedy return to
specie payments. He closed with felicitous
allusion to the clam-bake.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Burleigh's brief
remarks the immense audience adjourned to
the clam.bake
THE CLAMBAKE.
The clam-bake was certainly an immense
affair, worthy of the crowd in attendance. 1t
was compounded under the supervision Of
Capt. r. M. Stevens of Biddeford, gentleman
who is successful in all he undertakes, and
who knows how to engineer a clam-bake bet
ter than any man this side of Rhode Island
The bake was eighty feet in length and ten
feet wide Into its composition there
entered five hundred bushels of clans, one
thousand Holsters, twelve thousand ears of
corn and three hundred dozen eggs
The fires were lighted at nine o'clock in the
morning, the CLANS put on at IL, and the bake
uncovered at one. Fifty men were required to
prepare it, and one hundred waters to serve it
to the hungry multitude. Twenty FIVE NAM
moth cheeses and twenty.iv barrels of hard
bread were also served out. The way the fam
ished voters went for that bake was a wonder
full sight The Assyrians never came down on
the foid with more vehemence, nor did the
plague of locusts ever sweep green country
cleaner than the yeomanry of Maine with their
wives, daughters and sweethearts swept down
on those clans and devoured them. Baskets,
carpet bags, hats and handkerchiefs were