Daily Kennebec journal., 1878-02-04

ed aud "bnlldozed" for the paltry sum OF tl29O.
When she assumed to govern the District, she
governed the people, perhaps no worse than she
governed her own people, but that was WIN rod
Of iron. a Massachusetts system, religious ~
ranny so offensive as was that Of the Purians
must have rendered many of the early residents
of Maine uneasy under the yoke OF their masters,
and such a feeling Of nneasiness, embiitered IN
many cases by acts Of positive wrong and oppres-
sion 10 not readily die out. The Puritan settlers
of Massachusetts, did not forget for years and
wears the expressions heaped upon them before
they emigrated from old England.
Turn the other side of the picture and n reaaon-
able man must come to the conclusion that the
love OF territory, "a peculiarly 4mercdh mania
the exercise Of almost unhrded power must have
rendered the Massachusetts coloni>ts selfish, tena
cious Of what they regarded as their peculiar
rights, and determined not 20 let unwlselv slip the
strings which bound the District of Maine to the
Colony Of Massachusetts,.
True it is alleged that you must seek to learn
the purposes of colony or STATE through the ac-
ton OF lis legislative bodies but such action does
not always measure the purposes of state; It Is
not always honest and sincere and too often Is the
result of undue pressure. Does anyone suppose
that the unwise, extreme legislation of Congress
and the different States in granting railroad char
ters, is any real measure of the purposes Of the
states or Nation By no manner of means.
MANY charters are nothing but the outgrowth OF
log-yoIiing in lis very worst form. The Legi,la-
tuie may grant any MEASURE OF fehei aud lia pur-
pose be Dictated almost upon the instant by the
bitter, determined opposition OF the people at
large.
Senator Dawes and lloar of Massachusetts, at
tempted, 10 reply to senator Blaine, to defend
their state from his charges and proved two things,
fr,t, that they were not up to the work, though
notified by Mr.. Blaine on the day previous to the
debate what his iue of argument would be, and
second, that Massachusetts has not ahatcd one
particle of her arrogance, of her assumption, and
that she holds her preiensiuns as high rs IN her
earlier days. Her orators, her writers, her states
men (thank God there are some honorable eNCcp
tiOns, lhave criticised with unmtasured severity
the dongs of their neighboIs, and her congressman
are horiihcd that either her wisdom Or her almost
supeihunan Nirtu,s should now be questioned.
No wonder that Southern senators, while the de-
bate IN progress, pronounced the exhibition
as rich affair, of the liveliest funerals ever
witnessed,
But Massachusetts, must get hvelier defenders
than either of her Senators, to show that Senator
Blame Is in the wrong. Their defence Is much
like that Of writer in the Boston Daily Adver-
tiser, IN October, who spoke of loose statements
10 the great New England charer,-an effort TO
win, even thongh the very title under which tine
state exists should be overthrOwn.
Ihe present Legislature Of Massachusetts, evil
IDENTITY regard, the Senatorial defence in no very
distinguished light, as il has squeched resolve
introduced to thank the two Senators for their
able effort.