The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1860-08-16

In view of your approaching dissolu-
ton, there are few words OF counsel
which, as members of pary that died
one day, we feel peculiarly qualified to
say to you.
/. Admit, at once, what conn On sense,
analogy and common observation teach
you-that, as party, you are going to
die, and then go Immediately and make
preparations for your funeral. Do not
stand up through all this campaign and
try to make people believe that your par
ty is bound to win. What is the use of
lying and trying to convince yourselves
and others that you are not in artacuto
n,ortis i? Die gracefully-die good-nat-
uredly. Make the best of what you can
not help. You know you do not like the
way your party has been going on for a
few years past, and that there must be a
reform You know that the old issues
on which the Democracy was originally
founded have faded out, and that the
party cannot in the nature of things, sur
viye them. For that, at least, you are
not to blame. So, give up the old con-
cern, and if there is anything pleasant
about it, cherish it in your memory
ii. When you die, die. Don't be five
years about it. Look about you aud see
what spoonies set of respectable old
Wings have made of themselves. The
poor fellows did not suppose it was posi-
bic for the Whig party to die; and when
the noble old organization was entombed,
and the mourners went about the streets,
or went off Immediately to look up new
connections, they "could not make it
dead" Simple-hearted, chiyalric, de-
voted men, they believed that the party
had only hidden itself for little season,
and that ultimately y it would come forth,
conquering and to conquer. Some Of
them still with the eye of sublime, un-
wavering faith, look forward to golden
day in the far future, when the Wing
party, with its name upon its forehead
will appear, and believe that the whole
nation will fall down and worship it.
Look at these old fellows, and see how
they are laid up, shelved and done for,
and all because they will not believe that
their party is dead. No, no-when you
die, die, and be done with it. If you see
among the machines left on the track any
that you think you would like to tide af-
ter, jump on. Otherwise, wait till the
new machine comes along. Don't be left
behind to accommodate anybody. If you
do. YOU viii be sorry for it as long as you
live, and, possibly, be left at last to get
ting up Bell and Everett parties, or doing
something else as foolish.
III.-Having recognized the fact that
the Democratic party is dead, and that it
has no more claims upen you, bring to
your realization the fact that it was killed
by the nigger, aud try to understand that
from this time forward this government
is to be niger or anti-nigger. We mean
by this nothing more nor less than the
irrepressible conflict between free and
slave labor. The great interest of slave
labor has ruled this country in the past
/ for many years. The slave power has
been tic. dominant power; and because
the whole of the Democratic party, as OF
/ old, would not consent to have it continue
80, has the power seeded from the party
and broken its back bone. The party
dies because of the nigger. In the fu-
ture then, as in the past, the niger will
rule, or his opponents will rule. There
can be no halfway, feDce-straddiing po-
sition in this matter There can be no
ignoring Of the question longer That
woolly mead stands up above all the 9TH
ers, and will not down.
". Having realized the fact that your
party, though predisposed to dissolution
by many other causes, died Of the niger
at last, and admitted the truth that the
nigger can be ignored no longer, make
up your mind on which SIDE of this great
slavery question you are ready to stand.
Do you believe in slavery Are you in
favor OF the spead of slavery in territories
now free? Are you in favor of slave
code for the territories ? Areyou willing
to have all restrictions removed from the
slave trade, and to allow commerce IN hu-
man cattle to be re-established ? Do you
believe that this country was made for
slave labor so peculiarly that every inter
est of free labor shall be made subordj-
nate to it? No? Where are you going,
then +? We tell you that no party in this
country can prosper, or can even live ten
years, that is not on one side or the other
of these questions. There is no middle
ground, and you have got to be either a
Black Republican or Niger Driver
You may fool around, as some Of our old
Wings are doing, and try to straddle this
question, but it won't amount to any
thing.
Y. What are you going to do?