The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-09-23
The Meeting Tuesday Evening

Ene McctEHS 1NeSOay EVeHlNS'
The Meeting was organized by calling
ISAAC BENSON, Esq, to the Chair,
when ELEAzER LYMAN, Esq, was elect
ed Vice President, and Messrs. Ii. FL.
LYMAN and A. T. JONES were appointed
Secretaries.
The people of Potter County, are fully
awake TO the Importance of the present
election campaign. AS an evidence OF
this fact, we refer with much pleasure to
the crowd of Tuesday night. The Court
House was "jammed fuIl"' to listen to
the Speech Of Hon. JAMES I. HALE, our
candidate for Congress. IL the audience
we noticed large number of ladies, whose
presence and marked attention to his ad-
dress indicated the deep in terest felt by
ALL our people in the questions he so ably
and eloquently discussed. We noticed,
also, number of the prominent Demo
cratic" leaders of the county in attendance,
from which we are now inclined to believe
that they now desire to hear testimony in
open court in preference TO the unscrupu-
lous assertions of their unblushing, lying
presses. But there was another thing we
noticed which afforded us certain de-
gree of pleasure-that was the presence
of tue Hon. Allison White-though he
had not spunk or moral courage enough
to face the audience, and crept away back
into a dark corner, an "observer unob
served, though unforgotteu,"
Judge Hale gave straightforward
unvarnished account of Whites treason
to his constituency-his wilful, unmanly
servility to the President and the South
his two-faced conduct as the Candidate
and as the Representative-his brazen de-
fance of the will and instructions of a ma
iority of Congress in regard to the Kansas
Investigation; and, finally, his unprece
dented audacity in coming before the peo
pie he has SO ignominiousl y betrayed anc
insulted to ask them to overlook the past
ard conGde their rights to his keeping fol
a second and eminently more disastrous
betrayal. Ifthere was any sense of shame
in Allison White, he must have felt th(
fever of it's bushes all the while of tina
sad but too truthful portrayal of his treach
erous enormity.
Judge Hale is fluent speaker, of un
exceptionable personal address, of-hano
and pointed in discussion-and just sucl
a man as this District should send to re
deem its character for intelligence anC
Justice from the foul blot of Allison W White'
disgraceful misrepresentation. Let" Lit
tie Potter" give $50 majority for JAMES
I. HALE and we will guarantee the elec
ton of a trustworthy and respectable Rep
resentative to succeed the doug h-face ser
vile" the Kings friend"--who now dis
honor, them by his presence on the Con
gressional floor If you cannot reach tn
above figures, Freemen of Potter, do tn
: best yoY ean-maintain your integrity t.
the cause of Justice and Humanity b
evincing your determination to not ial
back one jot OF title from the 6l2 major
ity you gave Fremont in 1856. We re
peat what we stated upon another occasion
. that the election Of James I. Hale de
pends in a great measure upon the ma
iority given him by the Freemen of Pot
} ter. The hearty applause with whic
r he was greeted during the hQpr he spok
5 on Tuesday evening, leads us to helleV
: that his confidence in " Little Potter wi
not be betrayed. Amen.
After Judge Hale had concluded hi
remarks, the people loudly called for
P. Johnson, Esq, (who, by-the-bye is
' favorite speaker here, Notwithstanding h