Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-02-11

stay at home. ! don't want some OF you
complaining VI N. being away from Augusta
shile others are growing al my having gone
into the House.
look upon the matter this wsy-thst
WREN once elected it il my duty to represent
NV minority a. veil as my majority. and II
anv man desired me to attend TO any OF his
business at Augusta it was and is my duty
TO do 90. / do believe. and all Of us know
tina, the recognized legislature is illegal,
bat !, is sustained by the highest power we
have. and this is the year TO assess vaiua-
ton Of property Suppose had not desired
10 70 into and submit TO the action OF the Iegls-
iafure. and this town had been assessed Siv'--
go more than now, which tax would be upon
you for the next ten years-slN monfns henee
you'd be complaining thatI had not done my au-
". Now another one Of nv reasons tor that let
-,rvas this. II YOU nted me TO come home l
wanted YOU to make up TO me my salary and
mileage. Paw me for my honest labor and
would willingly do a. you desired but want
you to put your names on paper that may
.how Won " hen you complain that this Is
xhv am here. There il no man who has
suffered more than have pecuniarily from
principle. I have suffered and sacrificed
more than any man in Camden. If you paw
me for what have done am still the suf-
ferer have spent more than three hundred
and fly dollars since the campaign opened
las. fall, and putting my time since at one
hundred and fifty dollars--it sums up-hve
hundred dollars. have suffered in my bust
ness, too, which have neglected only for prin-
ciple There il no other man has done more
here. No money was not nv object in work
ing for thi. party. could have had my one
housaad doiinrs As well as other men, but
would not take it. But nv honest dues are
mine, and the letter asking for it was moth
ing more than hat belonged to me. Self
preservation is the first law Of nature, and |
mu-t demand that which am justly entitled
to. No man Of honor would ask for pay who
did not serve but want that which is hon
estly mine. You sent me as your agent TO
the legislature to do your work, and would
YOU, il Won thought proper to recall me, re
fuse to paw for my services after had served
you five or six weekss Suppose You sent a
man into the woods to chop and after he had
worked ten or more days you sent him word
10 stop chopping, would you refuse to pay
him tor what he had done? wrote to Mr..
Hobbs of Rockand about my duty to my
minority, and many others, and received let
tcrs from all parts Of the State, and they say
that have done my duty under the circum-
stances. don't think the Governor or Legis-
lature legal. but revolution starcs US in the
face II we do not recognize IT, don't think
there i. ., wicked a thing on the face OF
God. earth as the republican party. The
ministers of the Gospel are even in il. and |
saw here that believe manv of the ministers
in politics are hvpocrites. and that they will
preaeh in favor OF that class who nav the best
| One Of NV class mates a Baptist minister in
| Augusta. preached one of the most bitter ser.
mons against US. and not two weeks before
that IL was publicly announced that Mr.
BIaine had given him $50 Mr.. Perry said
that "IIe felt some honest pride in knowing
thu, he had some little influence in the Lcgis
/ lature however" and cited n case now pend-