The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-10-21
THE GENERALRESUGT

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The Tribune of Monday says OF the
general result in this State:
"The victors in PENNSYLVANIA have
ceased computing their majorities on the
State ticket, they being so large that a
matter of Five or Ten Thousand more or
less is no object. 4 table Of Official and
reported returns from thirty-six Counties,
now before US, puts John NJ. Read, for
Supreme Court, $685. ahead-Berks,
estmoroland, Northampton, Columbia,
Luzerne, Montgomery, and nearly all the
old Democratic strongholdS, being incind-
ed, as well as many of those OF the Oppo-
sition, but not including Erie, Crawford,
Warren, Mercer and Somerset. Judging
from these, we infer that the majority for
Read in the whole State is as likely to
reach as to fall below 10000"
There are few good, honest, thinking
men in Pennsylvania but will read the
above extract with some sense Of exulta-
tion and pleasure We care not what po.
litical party he may affiliate with, or what
code Of principles he may prizes to ad-
here to--if he b. honest in his devotion
to Pennsylvania interests and Ponnsylya-
MA honor, he will feel thrill Of pleasure
on reading that the principles Of Jefer-
son and his compatriots Of 1875 have been
SO nobly sustained by the vote of Tuesday
a-weck. And is there not great cause for
exultation Has not the fcud Tyranny
been met upon an open plain, in far
combat, and most ingloriously routed !?
Have not recklcssncss and perversiou Of
authority been rebukcd, and sycophancy
shamel to death? Verify, the People OF
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa
mean tEis-nothing less, nothing more
Nay, they do mean more. They mean
that the like shall never have another OPP
portunity to deserve 50 unmistakabe 4
chastisement-and their fat will be heed
ed.
The King and his friends arc sorely
troubled with the stubbornneSs of the Pco-
pie at times bat they Will find it difficult
to remember when they have shown it so
eminently as they did in their revolt of
the 18th of October, 1853. What grand
and solemn funerals Of the putrid remains
Of defunct " Buchanism" Owe cannot hon
or it with the distinction of democracy
came off on that day What magnif-
cient cortege Of 10000 gladsome mourn
erns > was that which took up the corpse
upon the banks Of the Delaware and Schuyl-
kill, aud bore it over the towering Ale
ahanies, through the rattling of the
buckeyes" across the flowing prairies of
the "Suckcrs," and deposited its putredin-
GUS bones far beyond the majestic turbid-
ness ofthe Mississippi! All! few there are
that have Justice done their remains after
the soul has taken its flight, but how gen
erous have been the People on this occa-
sion! How kind thus to relieve them
when they were themselves even begin
ming to doubt their efficiency for the work
Of ruling!
&" Sic semper tyrannis" is the long-hon-
ored, but unhappily rendered motto Of Vir-
ginia--and so did the people of Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio, Indiana aud Iowa declare in
regard to the present national Administra-
ton on Tuesday oflast week-and in clos
ing We greet them with simple " al H.
blum, as tothe effects ofthe glorious result,
good people" May your intelligence and
integrity never come down from its high
position.