The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1857-12-03
TWO Portraits Wen Drawn.

Two Portraits Wen Drawn.
The editor Of the Erie Constitution
has been travelling. How a country cd
itor can save money enough to indulge in
such an expensive luxury, is more than
we can guess. But brother White has
performed that feat-that is, saved mon
cy in these p!nching times, and haa trav
elled all the way to Chicago and back.
Like all sensible editors, he has given
an account of what he saw and heard !;
and the following sketch from his pen
while in Chicago, deserves to travel all
over the Union. Better likepcsses are
seldom drawn.
"Who has not heard of Long JOHN
WENTWORTH We picked him out
first time trying among the attendants at
Mr. PATTERSON S church. He occupied
the seat right across the aisle from US
and we could not help thinking "thcre
sits a curiosity in a double sense -
Long JoHH WENTWORTH" about whom
we had heard so much, and-a mayor
attending church! There is yet hope
Cor all the world. ''Long JOHN" is at
present Mayor of Chicago. lie used to
belong to the "unwashed, unsancti6ed
Democracy" as Parson Brownlow calls
them, but Of late years he has acted with
the Republicans. Since he quit the
Democratic party and left his old aSsoci-
ates, he has greatly improved in appear
ance, as well as in his habits, from what
we are able to gather of his history. He
is what not too precise person would
call an "orergrown lubber." He is de-
scribed as formerly having been slouchy,
not over cleanly, not addicted to church
going, and possessed of about as much
picty as is usually found among sham
Democratic politicians. But if this was
his former condition, he has changed
wonderfully, and we were not little graf
fled to see him joining in the dcvotions
and sitting in the sanctuary clothed and
in his right mind" Rcpublicanism be
gcttoth cicanliness-''clcanlincss is akin
o'--something better 1t exercises
purifying and sanotilying influence over
those who are won oYcr from the ranks
of the enemy, and most generally effects
complete moral as well as political re-
generation. About as good a way as any
to reach and convert the followers after
the strange gods of ;aodern Democracy,
is to instil Republioanism into them, and
the other graces follow as naturally as
contentment follows an honest, industri,
Gus life. WENTWORTH is quite giant
in physical proportions-a man of indom-
liable energy and wonderful frmncss and
independence. Decision is written on
every lincamcnt of his face. He is not
very popular as a mayor, simply because
any man who fills that Office in large
city, and undertakes to do his duty, can
not be popular The fact that he is un-
popular is about the best evidence one
need require of his ofhcia! integrity. He
is undoubtedly more desirous of admins
terlng the government so as 10 vindicatc
the law and promote good ORDER than for
the purpose of winning the golden opin-
ions of those who fattcr rulers that wink
at crime and suffer the laws to be violated
with impunity. There is not a criminal
nor a law breaker about Chicago that
docs not hate Long JouN,' most cor
daily.
"Among the throng at the fremont
House we observe STEPHEN ARNOLD
DoUGLAss-the great originator of HUM
bug squatter sovcrei gnty-the apostle of
bogus Democracy man who has done
more injury to the cause of Human Free
dom, and more dishonor to the Constltu-
ton, than any other living or dead poll
tician. His head is a great bundle of
wire-workipg political machinery set upon
frame work of Lilliputian dimensions.
That he is a great man, according to the
partisan pervcrsion of the term, none will
deny, That he is good man in any
sense, none dare affirm He looks the
politician-the modern Democratic poll
tician-the whiskey drinking leader of a
whiskey deluged party He has tho hon
or of having done more mischief than any
other man of his size in ancient or mod
ern times"