The Portland Daily Press

The following letter from a hitherto efficient party worker in his town is not a solitary one of a similar kind that has come to us. It shows a loosening of party screw, and that patriotism will assert itself:

Bowdoin Centre, Oct. 1, 1864.

To the Editor of the Press:

About three years ago I was a subscriber to a paper which you edited in Bath. Since that time I have taken a variety of papers, to suit my taste as a democratic sustainer of this country. For the last year I have been watching and studying the movements and actions of those whom I supposed were right; but since the Chicago convention met and established the Platform for us Democrats to stand on, I have come to the conclusion that if they wish to stand on that rotten fabric, built up by such men as Seymour and Vallandigham, they may do so and go to the bad place we often hear of from the pulpit without my company, for I will not follow such damnable leaders.

And now what shall I do? I want to do right and justly for my country and my own conscience in this great struggle which we are now undergoing for Liberty and Union.— We Democrats have had presented to us Geo. B. McClellan as the candidate for us to support in the coming campaign. I think a great deal of Geo. B. McClellan, but I must say as the old farmer's boy said of his pet lamb in dividing the sheep, that he has got in bad company and so we must part.

And now, Mr. Editor, to make short of the matter, I want you to forward me your paper for one year, and the money shall be forthcoming, and this fail when voting time comes, my vote will be given to the men who will offer no peace to the Rebels but powder and balls, till they lay down their arms and come back into the Union, and without that accursed cancer upon the body politic, negro slavery.

Respectfully yours,
A. J. H.