The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1860-11-15

nobly vlndicates her choice tor free over
slave labor. LincoIn's plurality in New
York is about $4,000.
Altogether the victory is one of stu
pendUus grandeur, not only in its result
but in its influence on the world at large.
Milton On Modern Democracy.
Milton was the great politician and a
no uncomfortable statesman of Cromwell's
time in fact, he was the balance-wheel
of the Commonwealth. He entertained
a supreme contempt or hatred for admin.
lstrative corruption, engendered, 10 doubt
by the experiences he had with the royal
mal-administration of Charles |. He was
bold and justly indignant in his denun-
citation of that monarch and his bordello
followers, aad never hesitated, IN contro-
v~ersies with their appointed literary
champions, tomeet out fuIland exact criti-
cism of their corrupt practices.
But his reflections OIL those ~corruptions
and their tendency were not intended for
that present necessity only--they were
for all time; and we make an extract from
his Character of Cromwell" addressed
to the people Of England, which We re-
gard as pertinent iuterrogative portraiture
Of modern democracy. The text is easily
applied to the present condition Of the
national administration
"For who would yindicate your right of
uurestIaincd suffrage, or of choosing what
representative you liked best, merely that You
might elect the creatures Of your own faction,
whoever they might be, or him, however small
might be his worth. who would give you the
most lavish feasts, and enable you to drink
to the greatest excess? Thus not wisdom
and authority, but turbulence and gluttony,
would soon exalt the yilest miscreaHtS from
our tayerns and our b%rothels, from our towns
and villages, to the rank and dignity Of sen
ators. For, should the management Of the
republic be entrusted to persons to whom no
one would willingly entrust the management
Of his private concerns and the treasury Of
lIlC Dtdbc DC ICIG " the CdIC u tbCSc W no baNG
layiShed their W fortunes in an infamous
prodigality? Should they have the charge
of the public purse, which they would soon
convert into a private, by their unprincipIcd
populations? Vide Howell C0bb's late pam
ic Are they fit to be the Legislators of q
whole people who themselves know not what
law, what reason, what right and wrong,
what crooked and straight, what licit and IL
licit means? who think that all power con-
sists in outrage, all dignity in the parade of
insolence ? eide, Barksdale, Payer, etc. who
neglect every other consideration for the cor
rupt qualification of their friendships, or the
prosecution Of their rcScnImentS =? ride.
Brooks, Keitt, Rhett, &c. who dispense their
own relations and creatures through the
provinces, for the sake of levying taxes and
contscating goods men, for the greater part,
profigate and vile, who buy up for themselves
what they pretend to expose to sale, who thus
collect an eXOrbitant mass of wealth, which
they fraudulently divert from the public SER
vice; who thus spread their pillage through
the country, and in a moment emerge from
pcnury and rags, to Il state of splcndour and
of wealth? Iide the Kansas imbroglio-
DR.. All and Russell & Co., Wendell, etc. =
! Who could endure such thieviSh servants,
such vice-gerents of their lords? Who could
believe that the masters and patrons Of a ban
ditti could be the proper guardians ofiiberty ?
or who would suppose that he snould ever be
made one hair more flee by such a set Of pub
lie fInctionaries (though they might amount
to five hundred III this manner elected from
the counties and boroughs), wien among
them who are the very guardians Of liberty,
and to whose custody it is committed, there
must be so many, who know not either how
to use or enjoy liberty, who either understand
the principles or merit the possession ?"
OF course We do not intend by quoting
the above to pronounce all the followers
of the administration--for there are hon
orable exceptions even here in Potter
as "banditti"; but we ask democrats to
read our extract from Milton, and see
displayed in it what they were asked to
endorse by their votes of the 9th of No
vember last. Milton possibly had an eye
looking two hundred years in advance of
his time, when he penned that paragraph,
South Carolina Vcnteth.
The great little notification State of
South Carolina has at last "found a fit