The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-03-11

tration was signallzsd by the announce
mept OF thirty millions aid more of specie
in the vaults. And yet before the Mes
sage, giving hattering accounts of the fl
nancial condition of the Government, was
read in remote parts Of the Union, the rep
resentatives of National Democracyin in Con-
gress forestall public sentiment, not less
than public need, by demanding a total
departure from the Sub-1reasury system,
the issue OF ten millions of paper, and its
conversion into a Federal currency. In
stead of gold and silver, it deals now in
notes of one hundred dollars and upward,
payabIe--neEer, or at least at an uncer-
taln date. The specie basis Of lie Cor
eramcat Is discarded, and that not from
necessity but from choioe-whllc uncer-
tain issues Of vast outlines, taxing the in
dustry Of the country III their rise and fall,
loom forth from the future as the melium
of its disbursement. Does this compor;
with democratic principles rs recognized
in the past? | leave the answer to the
national debt that will accumulate, the
domestic revulsions that will be entailed,
and the foreign wars that will be invited
and encouraged BY the change. Turn
again anl see those who assume the par
ty leadership. Chosen by the people be-
caase he was not the choice Of Southern
Secessioajsts, Mr. Buchanan has scarcely
entered upon the discharge Of the dates
of his high place before we ind his Cubi
net the merest tools utterins tlc cdicts Of
the latter, and the President himself sur
rendering his entire administration to their
dictation Davis, anl Hunter, and
Toombs, in the Senate, Quitman, and Orr,
and Keitt, and Stepteas, in the House,
now speak in the name OF Democracy.
and shape all administrative measures,
from the pac! !fcatton Of the Territories to
the protectton of the Transit route, and
non n-intertcrence in Central American
affairs As well set hawks to guard spar
rows. Who are they? | am as ;ed, Taey
are each and all men welded to the idea
Of dissQ!utioa OF the C0atelcracy aad
the formation of Southern Republic
Not one Of them whose ape goes buck so
far but wears the soar of blows which Jac-
son. dealt at the first notification BE
yond the precincts Of the Capitol, too, a
still more sinister prospect greets the eye
The chief applause that encourages the
Presidents policy comes from South Car
olina, while the dread of Mississippi goads
him oa to perseverance,. His predecessor,
bad as he was, preserved a seMbiance OF
respect for his position as the head Of the
nation. Mr.. Pierce accredited The CAioa
rs his mouth-piece Mr. Buchanan recog
aizes ,nly Tie Soath as his organ, x ::
= x = It needs not, how
ever, to pursue this resume further Moth
ing, think, has been found in all the de
partments that have hean scanned which
lustiie5 an extension Of clem2ncy to the
Administration of James Buchanan, for
his radical departure from the principles
Of the early democracy, for his want Of ad
horcnce to the pledges upon VI nch h ca c
into power, and for the caianIjous perioi
he had inaugurateI. Au not alsJ fully
justified in adding, too, that what has been
shown to be the condition of the military,
! diplomatic, fiscal and civil service Of the
country, demonstrates that those in pow
er are incompetent to administer affairs o.
! this Government. Inco npctcncy pres. .des
in the head, and incomp,trncy runs like
gangrened blood through every artery Of
the body polite. las not then the houI
arrived when patriotism should sound tac
/ too5iQZ Is il not ncedtul that men of all
faiths should unite together, regardless Of
past minor differences, to do somewhat il
behalf Of their country? Shall it be said
that the honor and integrity ssand welfare
of the Republic have no claims upon us
as American citizens superior to that o.
partisan attachment? These are pregnant
questions which it becomes you to answer
each for himself, and all in full view ot
the danger to this Union that pIotters art
now meditating Come, then, fcIlow-cti
zens, conjurc you, by all that is sacrcc
in the past, or hopeful in the future, by
liberties imperiled, by great interests sac
rj6eed, by gIaring abuses poisoning the
whole system-come forth and stand in
solid DhiianX OF opposition that shall com
pei a change and rescue national affairs
from the ignoble dcbasemeut into which
they have fallen
E'enD'a Democratic Stale Com
l VeneioD--LeCOm SEVIGciie
EndOrSed--Ine x0nliEsa3i0Ea5 Ea5
HARRISBURG, March 5, 1888.
The Democratic State Convention re-
assembled this morning, The Commit
tee on Resolutions unanimously reported
, declaring that the principle involved in
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise.
and asserted in the Kansas Nebraska act
"that the people of the Territories shall
! "havc the exclusive control Of their do
"mestic Institutions" is the only sure
, guarantee against agitation in the nation
in regard to the local institutions Of the