The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-09-30
REPUBLICANS OF POTTER!

will be made before the day OF election
and this present number may be the last
which large number of you will see pre-
vious to the day which is to decide the
relative strength of parties in Pennsylva-
uia-and which is to decide whether the
People are serfs or sovereigns. We, there
fore, address you final appeal to STAND
BY the great cause you have espoused-
the cause of Justice, Truth and Humani-
ty. We appeal to you, not without the
faith and hope that you will heed and act
Alright who do act but is there not danger
that your consciousness of the justice of
your cause and the strength Of your party
will make you careless Of its welfare
needless of the wiles the enemy will prac
tice to trump upon that " one issue" they
harp upon SC continuously? Will you
not, by negligence, sacrifice your sove-
reignty for it is the boast of the King
and his friends" that he will compel the
people of the North TO endorse bis Le-
compton policy at the ballot-box. Will
you endorse scheme which dictates
terms of suffrage and government entirely
beyond fair Interpretation of the Nation
al Constitution If so, stay away from
the polls on the Second Tuesday of Octo-
ber-or, infinitely worse, vote for Allison
White as your Representative in Congress.
Sacrifices of rights are ofteDer the result
of passiveness than of mistaken activity
Republicans of Potter there is but one
complete remedy for the plague of politi-
cal misrepresentation from which you have
suffered so much within the past year. 1t
is this: If all persons in this Congress
sional district who are indignant at the
Congressional course of Allison White,
turn out and vote at the October election.
JAMES T. HALE, your candidate, will be
elected by 500 to 500 majority-whereas,
if there be any laxity on your part, ALI
son White may be elected by small ma
jority. In view of this fact, will you neg
lect the remedy in your power? VIII
you forfeit your God-given right to think
and act for yourselves by being passive
when the most unlinching activity alone
can maintain it?
Potter County can easily give James I.
Hale 750 majority; but if every Repub-
lican and ti-Lecompton voter in the
county turns out and votes light, the ma
iority will be EIGHT HUNDRED. Shall
it be fifty more, or fifty less ? is the ques-
ton for your decision, freemen of Potter
Allison Whites defeat is now almost
certain-but will you not sacrifice little
personal convenience and comfort in order
that it shah be ENTIRELY CERTAIN ?
Remember, we are only asking you to
maintain Principle by voting, and warn
ing you not to sacrifice Justice and Right
to the personal ambition of James Buchan-
an and Allison White, by not voting a
week from next Tuesday.
Men of Potter Allison White voted
for the Lecompton Bill through all its
phases. On Wednesday evening OF Court
week many Of you heard him say that if
the opportunity was again presented he
WOULD REPEAT THOSE VOTES
He betrayed you once and WOULD DO
1T AGAIN. Will you grant him the op-
portunity? If so, stay away from the
polls election day-in other words, play
while he ,Oorks your ruin! Need we say
more? When you are socially misrepre-
sented, do you not make great exertion to
prove yourself innocent? Is not yonr po-
litical integrity of as much account, and
is not your ballot the only corrective
Then. we saw. Use 1T WHILE YOU