The Republican journal., 1877-08-23
FOR GOVERNOR.
JOSEPH H. WILLIAM S
WALDO COUNTY,
Under Which King ?

Ii is great satisfaction to the calm and
thinting men of Maine, both Republicans
and Democrats, who support the just and
patriotic course of President Hayes, that
his cause was so earnestly championed
in the Republican Convention by ex-Gov.
Chamberlain. He is not only an honOred
son OF the state, and Christian gentle
man, but he is likewise patriotic sol
dier who took the field early in the rebel
lion, fought as long as there were battles
to fight, and notwithstanding frightful
wounds, permitted himself to leave the
field only when the war was ended If
there is any man in the state who is en-
titled to speak for Maine and to the peo-
pie of Maine, if there is any one to whom
her people should listen, in the matter of
the relations of the north and south that
man is Gen. Chamberlain.
1t would seem rs though the arbitrary
manner in which the Republican State
Convention, in response to the crooking
of Mr. Blaine's little finger, smothers the
resolution approving the course Of Presi-
dent Hayes ought to arouse something
like indignation in the party. We think
it does The sentiment which supports
an administration in its generous and po-
ltic treatment OF the people of portion
of our common country may be thrust
aside and denied expression through the
cunning use Of parliamentary rules but
the sentiment itself and the indignation
born of such treatment cannot be so easily
repressed. There are lessons enough in
the past which should teach man of
Mr. Blalne's acuteness that revOlts fol
low when too much is demanded of a
party when too great burden is laid on
the individual conscience, in its estimate
Of justice.
ALL DluilIv 10 SuiuS tuu fe,ot and f,l.
No one man 0WRS the state of Maine
And there is Il limit in the extent to
which an ambitious man, even of the
Senator's conceded ability, can bend the
Republican party to his personal purpos-
party of each state as wax to its local
leader, has cooled, Andrew Johnson is
i'll his tomb. The negro is enfranchised,
and has become political power Grant
has done his work OF war and of peace,
and is starring it abroad. Why should
Maine, or the Republicans of Maine,
longer follow a leader who flantcally
shouts that the war is not over, and in
Slsts that the ways of peace and the pur-
suits and purposes of peace shall be aban-
doned. And for what?
Is the stalwart Republicanism of Maine
stout enough to resist the impulse which
moves the whole country towards peace,
towards paciticaton towards brother
hood The great middle states, the gi-
gantic and still growing west, and the
immense agricultural interests Of the
South, alike demand peace, and freedom
for the arts of peace which upbuild pros
perity. How vain, then, how ridiculous,
for politicians here in this extremity Of
the Union to rake over the ashes of a
burned out contagration, or vainly apply
the torch to material that has no in
tlammable qualities.
The state Of Maine has done we'll by
Mr. Blaine. 1t has kept him in Congress
continuously for fifteen years, enabled
him to become rich and famous, done
all she could to make him President, and
finally has seated him in the Senate of
the United States. Certainly all that is
due to Caesar has been rendered to him
Is there not something now due to the
God of country and of patriotism?