The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1860-04-05


!, rsoaal differences. There is not one
= uLionisS OF disloyalist amOLg Us ALL
We are altogether unconscious of any
= octss uf dissolution going on among or
Hrauul us.
Ne &C never been more patient, and
never loved the representa- tiEes of other
eec ious mure. t,an now We bear the
same testimony for the people around Us
here, who, though in the very centre
where the bolt OF disunion must fall first,
and be pust fearful in its effects. seem
never less disturbed than now. We bear
the same testimony for all the districts
and States we represent. The people OF
rthe North are not enemies but friends and
lfcthrrn OF the South, faithful and true
~ in tie days when death has dealt his
..rrows pro Q.Ii9cuously among them on COM
mon battle fields of freedom. We will
not suffer ourselves here to dwell gu any
evidences Of n different temper in the
South; but we shall be contept with ex-
pressing our belief that hostility that is
hot de~ignedly provoked, and that cannot
provoke retaliation, is an anomaly that
lpust be traced to casual cxcitements,
-Hhicil cannot perpetuate alienation.
. 4 canvass tor Presidential eleeuon,
in some respects more important, perhaps,
iLan any since 1906, has recently begun.
The House Of Representatives was to be
urgauized by majority, while no party
could cast more than plurality of votes.
The gllYpl of the late tragedy in Virgin
Ia rested on the Capitol from the day
y ben Congress assembled While the
Two great political parties wera peacefully,
lawfully, and .coustituionally, though
zealously, conducting the great national
Issue between free labor and capital labor
tor the Territories to its proper solution,
through the trials Of the ballot, operating
directly CT indirectly on the various de-
rartmentS cf the Gov ;rnmeut, band of
exceptional men, contemptuous equally
81 that great question and Of the parties
to the controversy, ana impatient of the
constitutional system which confines the
citizens ef every STATE to political acti, n
bY suffrage in o1ganized parties within
their own borders. inspired by an enthu-
biaSm peculiar to themselves, and exas-
peratcd by grievances and wrongs that
Aoule Of them had suffered BY iuroads of
armed propagaudists Of Slavery in Kan
sas, unlawful as their own retaliation was,
attempted to subvert Slavery in Virginia
hy conspiracy, ambush invasion, and force.
The method We have adopted, Of appeal
Ing to the reason aud judgment Of the
people, to be pronounced by suffrage, is
tie ouly one By which free government
can be maintained any whe:e, and the on
i one as yet devised which is in harmony
with the spirit oF the Christian religion.
While generous and charitable natures
viii probably concede that John Brown
ana his associates acted on earnest though
fatal y erroneous convictions, yet all good
citizens will nevertheless agree that this
attempt to execute an unlawful purpose
in Virginia BY invasion, involving seryile
war, vas an act Of sedition and treason,
freted The public peace, and was destruct-
i've OF human happiness and human life
/ is painful reflection that, after so long
an experience of the benefcent working
Il Our system as we have enjoved, we
have had these new Illustrations in Kan
saS aud Virginia Of the existence among
lis of class Of men SO misguided and SO
desperate as to seek to enforce their pc
cuIiar principles by the sword, drawing
after 1t need for the further illustration
by their punishment Of that great moral
trpth, especially applicable in a republic,
that they who take up the sword as
weapon Of controversy shall perish by the
sword. In the latter case the lamcnted
deaths of SO many citizens slain from an
ambush and by surprlse-all the more la
mennable because they were innocent
victims OF a frenzy kindled without their
agency, in far distant fres--the deaths
even Of the offenders themselves, pitia ble,
although necessary and just, because they
acied under daiirlun, which blinded their
judgments to the real nature of their
criminal enterprise; the alarm and con-
sternatlon naturally awakened throughout
the country, exciting for the moment the |
fear that our whole system, with all Its
securities for life and liberty, was coming
10 an Cnd--a fear none the more eudura- |
Die because continually aggravated by new
chimeras TO which the great leading event
lent an air of probability surely all these
constituted saa of public misery which |
ought to have satisfied the mosG morbid
appetite for social horrors
(Conci&dcd nert lcech.(
WHAT They TGrSx OF Their FRIExDs-Sen- |
Ktor Wigfa!l, Of Texas, used the following Ian |
guage q few daes s.Rce. In Connress: These !