The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1860-10-25
Posting Books.

Posting
In closing a brief notice last week cor
recting some gross and fragrant mlsstate-
ments Of the 4gitator in regard to the
Legislative nominations, We announced
cur intention this week to reply to the
following characteristic personal abuse
bestowed upon US by the editor of that
paper:
"But this kind of talk is net to our taste
and so we will close it. The truth is that
Potter county, like to many other counties, is
cursed with a super-abundance Of oiice-secE-
ers. The whole end and aim of the leaders
seems to be to hold or control the few paluy
Offices Ct the county, and in the struggle for
these they have already sacrificed the strength
and harmony of the party. Political heart
bu.uings and chickering's, factions, cliques, To-
cal iealousieS, and independent tickets, seem
to be the order of the day in that county. 1t
is therefore truly laughable to hear the jour
nal fling its discordant notes about " guerril-
las" ''claims, " "intorcsts, " "despcTate games
and other clap-trap and nonsense when the
J0unqL itself instead of being the organ Of the
party over there, is but the organ Of 4 faction,
and wheE it is known to be a diSorgauizer of
the meane5t stripe, 5enouncing everybody
who does not agree with it, in the most Often
siye language it can command 1t is known
that the JoUyua5-onCe a useful paper-has
long since lost its power for good in that
county. This is because the people Of that
county have no confidence in its fairness, and
because it neglccts the local interests Of the
whole people and devotes itself to the politi-
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not ? straw either for its abuse or its com
mendation, but politically we regret that its
course now is, and has been calculated, per.
haps unwitting.y, to divide ard distract the
Republican party of that county. The sooner
it changes its course, the better 1t will be for
the peace and harmony of the party, for its
own prosperity, and good feeling all around"
AS the Agtatoy, under its present pro-
prietorship, has once before attacked US
ina similarstrain while attemptingt to man
age our private affairs for US, unasked ard
unprovoked, (of which we took no notice
at the tiLe), we hope our readers will ex-
cuse US for DEPRESSING from the ordinary
course of an editors duty, to make this
final and complete posting up OF accounts
with our censor and self-installed guardi-
an, by a comparison Oftho past aud present
of the Agjtator.
1t is a prominent and well-known char
acteristic OF the subject Of this notice to
pay more attention to others business than
his own, and particularly since his Gle
walton to the tripod Of the Ayjtator-
and until he mounted that tripod, the
Agitator was respected at home and
abroad. We COPIED with it then without
the expectation Of having our arguments
replied to with SANDERS, or our criticisms
of it's political position-(nearly always
up to the standard of the party, though
occasionally differing with the party press
at largc)--mct with personal abuse Of
%ourself and our friends and ncighbors.
If it attempted to be witty then, 1t was
not at the expense of decency and its own
self-respect. 1t was independent then
because it was the advocate Of principle
for principles sake, and not for the per
sonal advantage of its editor. It's editor
was satisfied in those days with teaching
the principles of Rcpublicanism to the
people Of Tioga, plainly bat firmly, and
rejecting their wishes to the world at
large; and did not aspire to the control
of the district and State politics, and be-
cause it could not obtain it-because 9TH
ers would be more independent than it
self-besmear them with personal dcnun-
citation. 1t was not then controlled by
politicians residing outside of Tioga coun-
ty, nor by Emery & Co. nor did it then
abuse as " factionists aud /" guerrillas "
all who did not precisely agree with it
and would not be governed by 1t.
In the days of Cobb, the Agitator did
not, ia its controversies with ~cotempora-
ries, 90 behind facts to seek cause for
making personal issues with the editors
thereof nor did it Insult those editors
with the unprofessional assumption that
their articles were written by, or at the
instance of, some person not connected
with the paper. Neither did it assume
to conduct controversies, in which it had
no interest, between this paper aud others
nor did the editor then feel so sensi-
tive (by reason of his position and the
circumstances connected therewith) that
the mere doubling of another cotempo-
rary's political integrity by us should