The Portland daily press., 1877-08-10

vigorously realized, shall we basely desert the
executive on whom our own choice has de-
volved the difficulttask? Have friends grown
so timid or loyalty so lukewarm THAT we shall
be asked to let the President alone, or at the
most to give him fair trial?
What has the President done to make him
leper TO be let alone, or a eulprit to be put on
trial? What change has come over the spirit
CT our dream since we, year ago, in this con-
vention affirmed our confidence in our prin-
cipes and in eur candidate in resolutions much
stronger than this, now venture to offer? Is
sincerity so new to US that We are surprised
and shocked when one takes US at our word?
ls 1t the Presidents crime that he thought we
were honest in our resolutions and promises?
Take care, gentlemen, lest the people think it
is we who are on trial and not the President
If he is carrying ont fairly and squarely the
principles announced in our platforms year
after year, is it not in fact and in earnest the
party that is on trial?
The measures we propose flor the wellbeirg
of the country, are they not on trial? If we
believe in them, why not stand by them? What
is the meaning of all this? Where is the epe-
my who so strikes the resolution out of mems
hearts and the consistency out of their charac-
ters? Shall we be told to wait and see whether
the President succeeds or not before we sustain
him? When our flag is being borne forward to
the very edge of victory, shall we stay back in
the rear to wait the result before we dare to
say whether it is our flag or not? Are you
where I have been accustomed to see her,
Mr.. President. That is where, depend
on it, she will not stay if you put her there.
No, sir, the President is going to be sustained
by the country, and | am confident that the
Republican party in Maine will sustain him.
Let our resolutions then agree with onr princi-
piles. Let them at least speak our meaning. Ii
we are honest, if we are wise, we shall stand
by the President. If the administration does
not represent the Republican party we have no
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endorse the administration we cannot claim to
belong to the Republican party of the country:
But let US no longer use words in mockery. If
we mean to recognize the President as the
exponent of our principles and the head of our
party, why hesitate to say so in the language of
men; and will say, also, if we mean other
wise, if it is our honest conviction that the
President deserves censure and desertion, let us
have the manliness to say so frankly and firm
ly. We owe it to the party, we owe it the coun-
try.
Mr.. President, the resolution have offered
is simple and clear. 1t is more moderate than
1 would like, but it is such as every Republican
ought to accept. / know not what other gen.
tlemen will think it wise or prudentto say here.
but for one, SO far from waiting to see how the
President will come out in his efforts to pacifi.
cate the country and purify the country, am
with the President now and here. L am for his
policy-his and ours 1t is the only one that
can save the party and complete its noble re-
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nominate today, the only one that can restore
peace and business prosperity and faith between
man and man, and whole country.
1 am for this policy for still another reason
because it is right.
Mr. G. A. Boutelle of Bangor moved the fol-
lowing substitute. and addressed the conven-
tion in its favor:
Resolved, That this convention declares its belief
that Governor Packard of Louisiana and Governor
Chamberlain Of South Carolina elected to their
respective offices by the same votes which elected R.
B. Hayes, President of the United States, and that
both governors were clearly entitled to recognition
by the general government and that the failure to
recognize them, placed the national government in
the humiliating attitude of surrenderng to the reb
els threatening with arms in their hands to resist its
legitimate authority.
Remarks of Capt. Bouteiie.
Capt. Boutelle, of the Bangor Whig, in pre-.
senting his resolution, said the last speaker had
ignored the fact that there are differences of
opinion in the convention on the question of
the Presidents Southern policy. The substi-
tute which he offered for the amendment pro-
posed by Gen. Chamberlain, he thought, ex-
pressed the feelings of at least portion of the
Republicans of Maine, and he believed very
large portion of the convention was composed
of sincere, earnest, patriotic Republicans, who
concurred in the views embodied in his SUBJ
stitute.
The convention had been told it should accept
the action of the President in carrying out the
pledges placed upon him at Cincinnati Every
speech made in that convention and every
resolution there adopted alludiDg to national
issues places in the fore front of the campaign
the vital duty of the Republican party to pro-
tect the rights of every citizen everywhere by
the full power of the national government.
(Great applause.) In that convention the Hon.
Richard W. Thompson, now Secretary
of the Navy. said when the resolution
on that subject was being prepared :
Let Gov. Chamberlain of South Carolina, the
representative of the colored race and the loyal
white men of the South, write what he asks for.
(Applause) The resolution was made specfi-
cally strong. Every speaker in that conven.
of the Massachusetts delegation, who only found
time to refer to Richard Fl. Dana and the old
Bay State, emphatically affirmed it to be the
primary duty and pledge of the Republican
party to protect the rights of every American
citizen in overy part of the land. He held the
his hand and he challenged dispute of
his assertion by its spirit. He
would not quote extensively from the various
speeches, but needed only to read one extract
from the eloquent speech of Gov. Noyes, leader
of the Ohio delegation and special representa-
tion of Gov. Hayes as candidate of nomination.
He read an extract, closing as follows:
"The Republican party does not forget the
millions of our colored fellow citizens of the
South who stood by our fag supported by only
battles of the country. We remember that
hundreds of these colored soldiers are sleeping
to-day side by side of those of our heroic
dead on the fields of battle where they fell
States. Remembering these things, we propose,
God helping us, SO long as we
exist las party organization, to stand
by them and their rights" (Great applause.
Capt. Boutelle said that. in moving his substi-
tute for the amendment of the gentleman from
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earnest convictions of the sincere, honest, pa
triotic Republicans of Maine; men not fac
tious, not desiring to throw fre.brands into the
convention, but men who have consented to
smother the honest convictions arising to their
lips; men who, ont of Difference to the opin.
ions of their fellow-citizens, have been willing
to pass over known question of difference
in silence, SO long as they were not asked to
violate their principles, rather than affront a
PARTON of the party and imperil its success.
He emphatically denied that the endorsing of
presidents was duty, or the invarable rule of
the Republican conventions of Maine, and
would remindlthe honorable ex Governor that
the convention of 1867 held in this very hall,
and which nominated the distinguished GENTLE
man himself for Governor, not only very de-
cidedly refused to endorse the President, but
instead thereof voted thanks to gallant Phil
Sheridan and other military commanders in the
South for their efforts to protect loyal citizens
and secure the organization of loyal and constl-
Gutlonal governments IN spite OF the Southern
policy of Andrew johnson. (Applause.)
Remarks of N. A. FarwelI.
Hon. N. A. Farwell of Rockland, sympathiz.
ed with the idea that it is the duty Of the ma.
tional government to give the utmost protection
to all its citizens, especially the colored people,
He sympathized and believed very much in the
resolution the last speaker bad offered. He be-
lieved that Butler, the author of the Hamburg
horror, should have been hanged as high as
heaven instead of being sent to the Senate.
Gov Ames, Governor of Mississippi, was driv-
en- out of that during Gen. Grants administra-
ton, but no protest was made against it. Gen.
Grant was endorsed in our conventions last
year although be had allowed Gov. Ames to be
driven from the governorship of Mississippi.
Rutherford B. Hayes found himself with large
majority in the House of Representatives
against him and the party that elected him.
He believed Hayes fairly elected. .-
Eliminate large number of the Southern
states of fraud and they would be Republican
he believed. But what was to be done about it :?
(Applause.) Money is refused by Congress to
pay the army and how was the President to
force anything if he had the law on his side
without an army. 1t is question that must
be looked seriously in the face. If he had kept
one soldier in the State house at Louisiana an
one in the State House at South Carolina for
the sake of keeping TWO Governors in the chair
who had no moral support behind them, wheth-
er the next Congress would appropriate any
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