The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1857-06-11
L. D. WILLIAMS AT HONE.
Is the Democracy Of Kansqs and Potter
County the same!

1t will be recollected by many OF our
citizens that J. D. WILLIAMS, Proml-
nent member Of the so-called Democratic
party Of this county, emisrated to Kansas
last fall. His friends here first heard from
him at Weston, Platte County, Missouri,
where he went doubtless, to get acqualnt-
ed with Atchison, StringfeIlow, and other
patriots of that illl, to compare notes on
principles, to interchange opinions ofpQb-
lie policy, to devise measures to build up
Democracy in Kansas, and generally to
advance the interests of number one
We have no desire, and if we had, we
cannot spare the time, to speak of L. D.
Williams as a man, as Heighbor, as a
citizen; with his private character we
have nothing to do. We speak Of him
now as a politician, and only to illustrate
that kind of democracy, Of which he was
bright and shining light, He never
held any Office in this county that We
know of, but he has several times tried
to be candidate of his party for Sheriff
He was indecent and intolerant, natu-
raj consequence of his devotion to Slave
ry, denouncing Republicans as abolition
lists and traitors-terms which some men
use when short for arguments, but which
can only influence the ignorant,-and
took equal pains to abuse and denounce
the Temperance and other reforms, and
abuse those who were identified with
them. Such was his public character.
After he leaves Platte County, we lose
sight of him while, but Micawber-like,
he--"turns up" at the Free State town of
Osawattomie, in Kansas At this place,
though the town is nearly three years old,
the Rufians could not get man mean
enough to take the Office Of Justice Of the
Peace, to enforce the Bogus code, till
Williams went there. Here he announ-
ces himself to be Tree State man, but
believer in the reasonableness and JUS
ticc of the Bogus code, ard the indignant
people learn for the first time, that he
brings with hip two commissions, as the
recipient Of TWO judicial ofices-one as a
Justice of the Peace, appointed by Geary,
the other probably as Probate Judge, ap-
pointed by the Bogus Legislature, which
at that time (January) was in session.
This was more than the Freemen Of Qsa-
wattomie could bear. They had heard
Border Rufians threaten to enforce the
Infamous code, that did not surprise them !;
but when they heard that a man who
called himself Free State man had ac-
cepted an Office under them and whose
duty it would be to enforce them, they
thought it was time for action. To this
end a Convention of the citizens Of Osa-
wattomie was held on the 3lst of March
last, to take Williams 8 case into consider
alton. We clip the Resolutions passed
at the meeting from Atchison's Organ,
the St, Louis Republican. We ask the
attention of every man to their spirit and
cardo., and after reading them, let every
Democrat ask himself the question at the
head of this article: Is the Democracy of
Kansas and Potter county the same? If
not, where is the difference?
The notice is as follows:
Mr.. l.. D. WuLIAMs.-Sir We,
the committee appointed by the citizens
of Ossawattomie, in convention assembled,
March 31st, 1857, to wait upon you and
all others who have accepted Office under
the assumed laws of Kansas, aud express
their wish that you resign, beg leave to
present the following preamble and reso-
lutions passed at said convention:
Wheras, 1t is reported that there are
among us men, who, either from limited
knowledge of our affairs, or from little
sympathy with our cause, have been pre-
vailed upon by men whose interests are
opposed to ours, and whose designs sre to
reduce us to submission to the demands
of those who have murdered our citizens,
plundered our property and laid our towns
in ashes, and who demand of us to recog-
nize as law the enactments of a mob
which was forced upon US in direct sub
version of our rights as American citi-
zens by the inhabitants of neighboring
State; and
Wheras, Considering those men who
claim to be Free-State men, and who have
made oath to enforce the statutes of the