The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1860-05-31


times ventures to overrule the plottings
of men, even the tTisest Of men, an I'm
seen hand was at work to disappoint pur-
poses, bringing good out of evil AS Ar
Iotta's bath in the brook, by attracting
I the attention Of Duke Robert of Norman
DIV, led 70 the establishment of the Brit
ish empire. so shovel-full Of earth, care
lessly thrown up near Suffers old fort.
wrested California from blight and mil
dew, and converted it into Arcadiau pas.
lures and vine wreathed wales. The dis
covery then made was the real phiioso-
piers stone, which gave a golden throne
to Freedom, and planted her victorious
banners on the shores of the broad Pa
citic. So far. we'll bat now the folly and
submission began. Those who had Sc
cretly played with stocked cards for the
! prize, and lost it, still made claim aud
showed their hands and the winners,
always magnanimous-rich in present
gains-agreed to pay bounty for their
daring and their enterprise. Yes, Cali
fornia, with an area enough to make three
States as large as New York with pop
ulation more than sufficient to entitle her
to two Representatives in this Hall and
with constitution desired By her people,
was denied admission into the Union be-
cause Of her choice of institutions, al
though purely republican in her form.
Preferring the energy and productiveness
of white labor to the sidth and stcrilitv Of
black, we were required, | may say con-
strained, to buy her in as sister, and at
price fixed by the usurer. As am on
the subject of sectionalism, it may be ex
pected 1 should be particular as to the
consid Grafton yielded.
Iu the first place. we gave the fugitive
slave law, and bound three million adult
f:eemen, engaged in professions, trades,
and agriculture, to leave their books and
tools and plows, to seek after and retake
the running property of those who refus-
ed the captors the equality guaranteed by
the Constitution and the justice demand
ed by the spirit of the Government
In the second place, having, by the
resolutions Of annexation, conceded to
/ Texas, with title to less than one hun
dred and seventy thousand square miles
of territory, the astounding right to mui-
tiply her power--to divide and subdiyide
herself by at least ten Senators-we in
the flooding Of grateful hearts, but with
eyes blinded as by cataracts, made her
free gift cf additional domain, sufficient in
extent to constitute two States as large
as Ohio, and bound the public Treasury
! to pay her ten million of dollars and in
terest, that she might the sooner avail
herself Of the monstrous prerogauyes con
terred upon her.
In the third place, although the father
Of "the compromise measures declared
that slavery did not exist, by law, in any
Of the territory acquired from Mexico
the demand was made and agreed to, that
/ it might be entended over Utah and New
Mexico, comprising near half million
of surface. la word, these were the
! humihating concessions made to the
South as far back as 1850, not in return
for acts of grace or good will but seem
ingly, as Precipitation for the enormity
Of having petitioned Cor plain right
Such is the craftsmanship of barratry and
the craftsmanship of bunalc, over which
praises have been sung to cover up dis
grace.
The South have a settled policy; the
North have none. The South have the
policy of sectional interest and advantage;
the North lack even that of consistent
and persistent opposition. When they
would make oblations to their peculiar
institution, they clothe themselves in the
mantle of pretended patriotism, and de
claim on the sacredness Of the Constitu-
ton; but when we venture to ask a sus-
tanning hand for ours, they would disfg-
ure Us by attempts to grid us with sack
cloth, and filing oar ears with the yelp
and taunt of sectionaIiom. And should
like some one to name to me President
who, within tue last decade, at least, has
not contemptuousiy turned his back upon
those to whom he promised fairness,
whose votes were necessary to his promo
ton, and who really constitute the right
arm of the nation. Let him be named
if possible, for confess l have never
known him, even by repute. They have
all-yes, all-been living commentaries
upon the insecurity of platform profes-
sions and the spirit of submission, if not
forgiveness, in the betrayed elector. The
present Executive has not so much rem
dered himself notorious by his mere par
tiaiity, as he has by the disgusting SUB,
serviney displayed in his rule His ca
jolery and deception as a candidate have
only been excelled by his cynical demean-
or to his true friends, as a true officer
tie has valued praises Of fattery above