The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-10-07
Tom Coryyin on the stump.


nut thought it would have done him no
harm to emancipate himself entirely !!
Mr.. Corwin, after speaking of the Dred
Scott Decision, as Interpreted by Mr. Bu-
chanan to mean that Kansas was as
much Slave State rs Georgia" said |:
If that decision is to be carried out,
and the Territories are thus to be inocu-
lated with Slavery, and under this unfair
influence. State is formed with Slave
Constitution, and comes before me for ad-
mission, | will never vote for it NEv-
Err NEVER NEVER! You may roast
me alive, | haven't much fat, but it shall
be all fried off before I will vote to admit
a Slave State under such circumstances"
aSg~ TIE Evansville (Ind.) Journal in
noticing recent speech Of Gen. Lane, of
Oregon, at that place, has the following
significant jeu d'esprit in reference to the
White House bachelor:
"Mr. Buchanan, as General Lane in
forms us, has been enamored of the con-
stitution all his life. He is now mar
ried to it's its lawful welded husband.
Sleeps with thugs it to his bosom
has no other earthly object of affection.
He loves it with his whole heart-lt is
the only object of his solicitude, and the
offspring he bcgets from it will be the
only legacy he will have to bequeath to
his country Gen. Lane produced no
marriage certificate, but gave his testi-
mony as subscribing witness. Mr.. Bu-
chanan is acknowledged to be an Irish
man by descent. 1t is one Of the domes-
tic privileges of the lords of the Milesian
race to discipline their better halves to
their own will and pleasure and, if need
be, custom among them, warrants the use
of the rod and strap and little marital
force and coercion. From evidence, we
believe that Gen, Joe Lanes Mrs. Bu-
chanan has been most numerically disci-
phned, and brought into abject submis-
sion, and when she refuses to yield to her
master, she IS subject, yet, to the most
cruel and infamous assaults from the
greatest of the greatest Our fears are
that unless she is resned from the en-
brace and bed of the old tyrant, her life
will be in danger"
We believe it is a we'll known physio-
logical theory that the incongruity Of pa
rents superinduces gross deformity or
idiocity in the ofspring-that maternal
grace and goodness become absorbed in
paternal atrociousness. The theory is
ingenious, and in this instance is in
dubitably verified. The only offspring of
the above incongruous match is the Le-
compton Constitution, and none, not
even its parents own friends deny its ut
ter deformity; and while the unhappy
mother. in the utter belplessness Of her
present condition, secretly weeps scaldng
aears of regret over her unseemly Of
spring, tie decrepit father and his hire
ling heralds have boastinGly lauded its
birth 20 a frowning and deriding world,
The poor, deformed thing is nov, how
ever, reposing il the soil Of a people upon
whom its father attempted to impose its
keeping. Heaven and earth were moved
to save it's hfe-'twas drugged and drug
ged by the well-paid family physicians
until Esculapias himself cried mercy for
it, but
"Tbe boy expired-the father held the clay,
And looked upon it long ; and when at last
Death left no doubt, and the dead burthen la
Stid on his heart, and pulse and hope were
past,
he watched it wistfully, until away
Twas borne by the rude wave wherein twas
cast;
Then he himself sunk down al dumb and
shiverng,
And gave no signs of life, save bis limbs quiv-
ering"
The mother, now that she is relieved
of the care and nourishnent of the mon
stro8ity, will doubtless recover share of
her accustomed health, though it is fear
ed she can never entirely recover from
the fearful shock. Next Tuesday the peo-
pie of Pennsylvania, New jersey, Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin will per-
form tie prelude to the political requiem
Of the uncouth and ungainly father; the
wife rejoioce at the prospective widow