The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1860-10-11

Mr.. Douglas, slave States and all. he
says: Il have given you all the rope
that was allowed me to give you, now you
must 60"
This, my young friends, fer sec many
such around NE, brings me TO a point
where / can give you one instruction
which, if you practice as long as you live,
NAV make at least some cf you great men,
honorable men, useful men. Remember
that all questions have two sides; orc is
the right side, and the other is the wrong
side one is the side cfjustico the other
that of injustice one the side Of human
nature, the other of crime. If you take
the right side, the just side, ultimately
men, however much they may oppose you
aud reyile you, will come TO your support !;
earth with all its powers will work with
you aud for you, and Heaven is pledged
TO conduct you to COMPLETE success. If
you take the other side, there is no pow
CIR in earth or heaven that can lead You
through successfully, because it is APP
pointed 10 the councils OF heaven that
justice, truth and reason alone can pre-
vail. This instruction would be incom-
plete if | we're not to add one other, that,
indifference between right and wrong is
nothing else than taking the wrong side.
The policy Of a great leader of the Dem
ocratie party in the North is Indifference;
it is nothing to him whether slavery is
voted up or voted down in the Terrific
lies. Thus it makes no difference to that
distinguished statesman whether slavery
is voted up or voted down in the new
States; whether they all become slave
States or free States.
Let us see how tits would have work.
ed in the revolution. If Jefferson had
been Indifferent as to whether Congress
voted up the Declaration of Independence
or voted it down, what kind of a timo
would they have had with it. Patrick
Henry would have been after him with Il
vigilance committee, aud he would have
no monument over his remains. The
British Government would have liked
nothing better than lot Of such iudilTcr-
ent men for leaders of the American peo-
pie, aud George the Third aud his dynas-
ty might have had rule over this CONT
ncnt for a thousand years TO COME.
[ have thus removed the preliminary
objection always lnterposed on these &C.
casions against the indulgence of the
eternal negro question. What is the
just and rig hit NaticnaI policy with re.
gard to slavery in the Territories and in
the new States of the Federal Union !?
aud your decision Of that subject, will in
volve the consideration Of what you con
slider to. be the National constituents Of a
Stats.
| suppose | may infer from your choos-
ing this beautiful land on the western
bank of the Mississippi that you ali want
10 make Iowa a great and good State, a
nourlshing and prosperous State. You
consider the development Of the latent
resources with which nature has supplied
the region on which you build a State, as
one of the material things to be considered
in building up a great State; that is to
say, you will have the forests subiug-t ted
and make them contribute the timber and
lumber for the house, for the city, for the
wharf, for the steamer, for the ship OF
war, and for all the purposes Of civilized
sosictg. Then | think You will consider
that if the land has concealed within if,
deposits OF iron, or lead, or coal, you will
think of getting this out as rapidly as you
can, so as to increase the public wealth.
Then | think that you will have the same
idea about States everywhere else that
you have about Iowa and that your first
idea about the way to make a State cor
responds with my idea to make a great
nation. And when you would subduc
the forests, would develope the lead, iron
and coal in your region as you would
improve the fields, putting ten oxen to q
pillow to turn up the prairie, and then
plan. it with wheat and corn as you
would encourage manufactures and try
by making railways and telegraphs, to ia.
%cilitate interchange of products it is ex.
actly this | propose to do for every new
State like Iowa, that is to be admitted
into the Federal Union. To be sure we
shall leave the Slave States, which are al
IN the Union, as they are our response
bilities are limited to the States which
are vet to come into the Union, and VIZ
will apply our system to them, The first
question then, in making a State, is tc
favor the industry of the people and in
dustry is favored in every land exactly
as it is free and uncrippled.
We are a great nation we have Him
liable forests in the far East and on tn,
banks of the upper waters of the Missis
sippi, around the lakes and on the Pacific
coast. No human arithmetic could com
pute the amount of materials of the for
est that have gone into the aggregate o
the wealth. winch this naiinn nnssessns