The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-07-29

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soon become wi st 1t deserves-is the hope
of its ex-editor, j. S. NJ.
The atlantic Monthly, for August, is
upon our table, and presents The. following
list of contents:
DaphnaTdes ; The Romance of Glove !;
To, poetry; The Singing birds and
their Songs; Our Talks with Uncle John !;
An Evening Melody; Chusuncook, con-
cluded; My Children, poetry; The Kin
loch Estate, and how it was settled, con-
tinued bringing our Sheaves with Us, ="
poetry; Farming Life IN New England
an excellent article; Les Salons de Paris !;
The Discoverer of the North Cape, poet
ry; The Autoer;st of the Breakfast Table;
The Trustees Lament, poetry; Literary
Notices; and an article entitled "The
Pocket-C Celehratiet of she Fourth" from
which we make the following extract,
which explains itseaf=
"Mr Choate does great injustice to
the Republican Party when he lays this
irreverence for the past to their charge.
As he seems to think that he alone has
read books and stsdieG the lessons of
antiquity, he will be pleased to learn that
there are persons also in that party who
have not neglected all their opportunities
in that kind The object of the Repub--
lieans is to bring back the policy and,
practice of the Republic to some nearer
agreement with the traditions of the faith
ers. They also have National Idea,-
for some Of them are capable of distin-
gushing "a phrase from an idea" or Mr.
Choate would find it easier to convert
them. They propose to create Nation
al Sentiment, In the only way possible
under conditions Ike ours, by clearing
the way for the development of nation
which shall be, not only in Fourth-of-J u
ly oratious, but on every day in the year,
and in the mouths of all peoples, great
and wise, just and brave, and whose idea,
always august and venerable, by turns
lovely and terrible, shall bind Us all in
common nationality by our loyalty to what
lis true, our reverence for what is good,
our love fOr what is beautiful, and our
sense of security in what is mighty. That
is the America which the Fathers con-
ceived, and it is that TO which the chill
dren look forward,-an America which
shall diSplace ireland and Germany, Mas
sachusetts and Carolina, in the hearts of
those who call them mother, with an nm
age Of maternity at once more tender &nd
more majestic.
"There is past for which Republicans
have indeed no respect,-but it is one Of
recent date; there is d history from which
they refuse to take lessons except for
warning and not for example,-but it is
a history which is lot yet written. When
the tature historian shall study that past
and gather materials for writing that his
tory, he will find cause for wonder at the
strength of that national vitality which
could withstand and survive, not the eff
forts Of Mr.. Choate dreadful reformers,
but of an administration calling itself
Democratic, which, with the creed Of the
Ostend Manifesto for its foreign, and the
practice Of Kansas for its domestic policy, |
could yet find scholar and a gentleman
like MIR. ChOate to defend it.
"Mr Choate charges the Republicans
with being incapable of a generalization
They can, at least, generalize SO far as
this,-that, when they find number of
sophistries in an argument, they conclude
that the cause which requires their sup
port must be weak one. * x x "There
is no man who believes that the ship of
State, any more than an ordinary vessel,
can be navigated by the New Testament
alone; but neither will be the worse for
having it aboard. The Puritans sailed
theirs by Deuteronomy, but it was Deu-
teronomy qualified by an eye to the main
chance x X x %