The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-03-04
ALLISON WHITE,

triot, by his service to the slave power in
executing his whole influence to sustain
the minority rule In Kansas, has obtained
4 place on the Special Committee ordered
by Congress to inquire into all the facts
connected with the Leeompton Constitu-
ton. AS member of that Committee,
he steadily refuses to do what Congress
voted should be done. He not only sap
ports the Calhoun scheme to force an Oh
noXious Constitution on a protesting poo-
pie, but he refuses to obey Congress iu its
order to inquire into the facts connected
with that scheme, 1t is said that the
President has indicated to the Lccompton-
ties of the House that investigation must
be strangled Calhoun must not be ex:
posed, because he has done nothing that
has not been dictated By the President,
and investigation would expose the fact
Allison White complies with this de-
sire Of the President and so strangIcs in,
ycstigatlon.
And yet in the face of this record, the
Lewistown Democrat has the assurance II
give currency to the following assertions
made by its editor from Washington un-
der date OF Feb. Is:
The representative from your district,
Hon. ALLISON WHITE, performed the par;
of true Statesman, as we'll as a sound
Democrat, upon this question. As soon
as the Presidents policy was foreshadow-
ed by the Annual Message, Mr., w. set
to work to acquaint himself with all the
facts, pro. and con-, upon the subject
BY correspondence with personal friends
residing in Kansas, as well as By close ex-
animation of al the official reports ofGov. $
Walker, Stanton and others, he obtained
that thorough information which is ncces-
sary to formation Of a correct judgment
The result was solid conviction of the
justice and wisdom, as we'll as cxpedicncy
Of the Presidents policy, and therefore,
when the subject came before the Hossc,
Mr.. Whites vote was from the beginning
recorded TO sustain the President And,
having taken stand il support of the
right, he is that kind Of Democrat that
he feels confident his constituents will ap-
prove his course just as soon as they ex-
anime and understand the matter as he
has done AS to the reat feeling and
wishes of his constituents, it is impossible
for him to know them. The hundreds OF
letters he has received are about equally
divided-one-half for and the other against
the Presidents policy; the Democratic
newspapers in his district are, with bat
one exception, | believe, either mum, or
supporting that policy; and, as for county
meetings, only two have been held one in
Centre, the other in Lycoming, and the
former sustained while the latter denouAc-
Ell it. Surely, under such circumstances,
the only course a representative could take
to say nothing Of duty-was, to exam
Inc the subject himself, vote according to
his own judgment, and leave time to vim
dicate him. H.F.
Every person who has kept watch of
Mr. Whites votes i'll the Special Commit
tee kHoV3 that the above statement as t.
his obtaining a " thorough infor nation" o.
all the facts necessary to form correct
judgment, is not true, because, he has
steadily refused, as a member of the Goa.
mlttee, to make any enquiry whatever.
Ex-Sccretary Stanton was il Kansas ali
the time this Lccompton fraud was hatch
ing. He was the agent of the Admins
tratlon, and therefore had access to all the
documents, end knows all the facts.
If Mr.. White desired a thorough
knowledge of the matter, and was willing
that his constituents should obtain such
knowledge, why did not he vote to sub
pgna Mr., Stanton before the Committee,
to testify as to this scheme of fraud and
tyranny? Simply because Mr.. White is
aiding the President to strangle investisa,
ton.
The Lecompton scheme being evil will
not bear the light.
AS to the wishes Of the people of this
district, Mr.. White hna,os perfectly we'll,
tsat large majority of them are deter
minedly opposed to this scheme to give
minority supreme control over the ma
jority, But we do not doubt that he az
tlcipates that party drill, aided by nun,
newspapers, Ike the Lycoming Gazette,
and Clinton Democrat, will finally oyer
come the will of the people of this dis
trict, in accordance with the Lccomptoa
doctrine permitting the minority to rule
In that however We believe he will be
mistaken. There are papers in the dis
trict and out of it, that will not be mum,
aud when the people come to understand
the imnudenon of this scheme of their !