The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1860-05-31
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a common concern, take advantage of our
want of unity and purpose, impress the
placeman and spokesman with the notion
that they hold the keys of honor and Of
fortune. There is something here to study
ana to learn.
The South have necessities, and act
upon them. The North have necessities
and sink into dreamy slumber We fail
to observe the steady steppings of the in
vader, but get into a frightful hustle whem
his guns begin to thunder at our city
walls The South are vociferous for par
ty as long as its machinery works uner-
riugly to their advantage. The North ara
satisfied with declarations of govern
mental policy, without regard to lis sue
cess and exult over platforms whilst all
their embodied principles are violated.
cannot sanction the course pursued either
by the South or by the North it is un-
fair, it is unjust. That of the South is
sectional aud aggressive; that of the
North, yielding and self-destructive.-
Doprecating anarchy and war, desire,
above all things, al honest maintainaHcc
of The compact between these United
States and its integrity. Sustaining
Democracy, | protest against It's being
made catch and a cheat. Born and liv-
ing in one of the most powerful, prosper
Gus, intelligent and generous Of the free
States, | viii not admit right Of supc-
riority over our citizens, either by nature,
education, or grace.
In 1886 there was nothing better un-
dcrstood than the doctrines aud pledges
of the national Democracy. They were
plainly written, aud received but one in
terpretation. Popular sovereignty over
all domestic institutions was declared to
be as perfect aud complete in the resi-
dent Of Territory as in the citizen of L
State; and that party bound itself to its
faithful maiutaiDance. If it was sound
and undeniable before the election, it was
not the less so afterwards. But no; it
failed in practice. 1t failed to accom-
plish what it was believed by many it
would accomplish, and therefore it WAS
rcpudiated. 1t failed to give Kansas to
slavery. il failed to make eight million
of men, without industrial habits and
colonzing capacity, superior to eighteen
miliion with these auxiliarieS, in their
race for new sovereignities and hence
forward it was enrolled in the catalogue
Of humbugs. 1t failed to aid the section
al purposes of the South, and thencefor-
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all who have done so from that day to
this, lave been branded with treason and
troddcn down beneath the iron hee Of p
tearstruck, renegade President. The end
ought to have been seen from the begin
ming. On the 10Th Of March, 1886 when
this doctrine was at the food-tide of its
popularity | yentured to use this Ian
guage here;
"Sir, the supporters of that bill (the
Kansas Nebraska bilD have proclaimed
to the nation that the Territories of the
United States are to constitute { a fair
field and that there is to be "a free fight
there, between the North and the South,
to decide whether slavery or freedom
shall rule them. If the energy, the en-
terpriSe the active modes of life, the
available capital, and the numbers Of the
North, shall not be able to compete sue
cessfully with their opposites in the South
and secure freedom to the Territories,
then | will admit that there is vitality
and power III slavery which We Of the
North have never dreamed of. In nv
opinion, the Representatives of the South
in the Thirty-Third Congress 'have sown
the FIRE, and they will gather fire into
thei. own garners. y
have only to add, that the correctness
OF my views has been proven at an earlier
day than then anticipated, and that the
pang of repentance now comes too late
The choice to be made by the South
and [ admit it is for them severe one
is between the rigid observance of exist
ing law, which viii shut out slavery
from the Territories by popular vote, and
congressional Intervention directly to ex-
clude it. The next census if fairly taken,
will show such preponderance of popu-
ulation on the side of the North as TO
convince the most skeptieal on this point.
But there are more appalling evidences
of the sectionalism | charge These are
found in acts Of glaring lawlessness and
disorder, and in the determination to
cripple and impoverish northern labor.
Sir, there arc eighteen States Of this
Union, aud soon there will be twenty
three, extending from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, and across ffty-eight degrees of
longitude, teeming with millions Of men,
controlling aud directing the literature.
commerce, agriculture, manufactures and
mechanic arts, Of the whole country;
fruitful IN peace and able for war, who
will not soon forget the early history Of