The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1859-02-03

bIuIus Shd NAlNASAOAS
one Of the best papers published outside
of the larger cities, and under the man
arcment, editorial, financial and mechan-
ieal, of our talented young friend CoBB,
has now well deserved weight and sup
port in Freedoms Banner County. The
last NUMBER, under date of January 2Ith,
contains the Good bye" Of friend CoBB,
and the "Salutatory" Of our much esteem
ed late fellow citizen, and whilom Kan
sas correspondent, HUGH 1oUNG Esq,
who has purchased the entire Office, ard
whom the Republicans of Tioga will find
every way capable and worthy TO inherit
the tripod surrendered to him by Mr..
COBB. We give a few extracts from
borther Cobb's Good bye" which smack
0 the feelings of true manhood and heart
felt yet hopeful regrets, Wesay Good
bye literally. aud with all our heart:
of The Agitator has proved pleas
ant weekly visitor at the 6rc>ides of some
Of you, it has become so through labor>
If which You have little dreamed. I'm
perfect aS it is, far short Of my ideal as it
salIs, have worked my life into it. /
have Stunned no labor It has cost me
aiure slerplcSs nights than have been good
for the body TO endure. These four and
IA half years have been brimmed with Real
lie to me, fraught with varied expert
enceS, some pleasant, some painful, but
all disciplinary, necessary, and therefore
GOOD could not recall aught if | would
-pomld nat if could. | would not say
that were | not conscious that u.v heart
beats truer for MAN because of these 81
lent and continual wresthugs. ! could
not afford to lose the strange experiences
Of these few ycars-hegiuning as they
do in the rosy morning of young Man
hood, when least looked for, vet most
needed, and leading through fields of sun
shine aud shadow whose alternations have
come to be more loved than feared = =
x ITO nay brethren Of the Press,
/ thanks for the many cuuuesies aud uni
form consideration they have shown me.
I [ shall not say Good bye" to them. since
tlis field is abandoned only that | may
enter upon another, where there is po-
neer's work to be done. Till then
Friends. patrons, to each, to all, in the
first and best sense Of the term: Coop
BYE. NJ. II. COBB"
We learn incidentally that our talented
friend transfers his laborS to the columns
Of The Century, first class weekly news
paper recently established in New York
by Mr. M'Elrath, late of the T'ibu"r-
We trust that he Ilay have easy duties
and much reward.
We welcome our friend YoUNa to the
editorial Brotherhood with much pleasure
because we feel and believe that he will
nobly and ho1urably sustain the charac-
ter Of the profeSsion--a profession with a
larger list of theoretical than Of practi-
cal professors We trust he may be gen
erouSly and dcservcdly sustained BY the
peopls of Tioga, and that his new enter
prise may meet with such encouragement
as will command his largest energy and
sinccrest efforts to deserve it. That he
will succeed we feel as certain as we think
he deserves to; and we are more certain
! in view of his platform, comprised i'll the
following extract from his "Salutatory }" ::
ave believe in the principles embod-
led in the Philadelphia Platform. The
! brilliant victories gained in almost every
/ Free State, in the memorable contest OF
! 1896, showed how dear these principles
were to the popular heart; and the Re
. publican victories IN the States from time
to time since then, but go to show that
these principles are becoming better un-
! derstood and that the ma>ses are deter
mined sooner or later to rid themselves of
the iron rule the OIigarcha, and to place
! the Government where the fathers design
! ed it should be, on the side Of Free Soil,
Tree Labor and Free Men. The AYtta-
lar will therefore coi.tinue to be "devoted
to the extension of the Area of Freedom
and the spread Of Healthy Reform. >
! With this motto at our mast head, We
would be maniiestly false to ourselves ii
we passed BY in silence the great sin
which, next to slavery, blocks up and re-
tards our intellectual and moral progress
as nation.
"We believe therefore in Temperance
I principles, and in their practical appiica-
ton to everyday life. We believe that
the License Law of last year is nuis-
anoe, and the sooner it is repealed and a
mare stringent law enacted in its place,
! the better will it be for the people We