The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-10-28


feat Of the noble old party which thes
have betrayed and abas.doned. 1t is their
work. and they may claim from their new
allies full compensation for the suryice
they have rendered They and the Back
Republicans have been faithful co-worE
ers beginning with Judge Douglass at
Itacl, on President Buchanan's Admins
trat.a at the commencement of the la.'
session of Congress, and ending IN Their
presentjoint andinglorious victory. They
have fought well and successfully togeth-
cr. Let them together rejoice, aud in
common prepare for the final doom that
awaits alike tne original eaamies and the
recent dcserters 1.-THE Democratic party"
In other words, he proclaims llessrs.
!" Forney, Douglas ( Co., yoa will please
" consider Yourselves communicated
I" from the Democratic party Of Mcs.rs.
i" Buchanan, Davis, keitt & Co.-and re-
member, too, the Lecompton issue is still
'to be the test Of party fidelity and puri-
"ty; and yoa, and the large mass or major
" ity ofpeoPle at the north whom YOU have
" seduced from ny support, cannot come
/" back into the Democratic party until
/" you swallow every bit Of my Lecompton
/" policy" Verify, we say unto you, MesSrs.
Douglas & Co, you've got old Buck
down, but he thinks you're whipped :.
You are yanquished victors," and should
never raise your heads again. Numbers
are nothing-patronage is potent in the
hands ola Preside mt backed by the mighty
$4,000 voters Of the South You are
political orphans, aud the Republican
party darcs not to foster you out Of pure
fear of the President and the South, Ito
whom, by-the-way, it owes all its present
vigor and strength You are political
blstards, and you cannot CAT least, just
now,) be buried in the Buck Democrat
ic graveyard.
Kings and Empcrors in the Old World
have their Gazettes and N2mieurs through
which to denounce those who are not their
co-thinkcrs-and the would-b be- King-or-
Emperor of the New World has his Union
through which he shoots hot shot at the
rigging Of the elipper-ships REFORM and
PR0GREss.-legitimate American craft, of
which LIBERTY and EQUALITY are the
respective captains, and FREE SPEECH
and HUMAN RIGHTS are the helmsmen
The shot, of course, fall short of their
mark, and are virtually harmless-though
they will surely recoil with tenfold force
upon those who aim and propel them.
This much have we said about the affairs
of others. We hope we have not wound
ed the feelings of the victims of King Bu-
chanan's anathemas-we hn0p the King
has no right or wish to medde with Us
further than we have heretofore rendered .
ourself liable.
We take the liberty, here, (although it
is evidently none Of onr business,) to ad-
wise editorial friends in the interest of
Douglas and Forney to take warning by
the above extract from the Caioa, and
oot sacrifice their standing in the regard
OF the kire,-at present, at least, by /
expressing theirpreference for these party
oxiles. The King may, possibly, conde-
scend to notice editors in his head-chop-
ping process,-though we are inclined to
believe he went as far as he desired to in
the scale Of mcanncss when he prescribed
Illinois backwoods postmasters. Discre-
ton, however, will not go amiss with edi-
tors who are in the least danger.