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

proved to be a majority III the North /.
is, therefore, practically the people of the
North. Will it not be the same North
that has forborne with yuu so long end
conceded to you 50 much Can you just
ly assume that affection, which has been
SO complying, can all at once change to
hatred intense and inexorable? You say
that the Republican party is sectional
one Is the Democratic party less sec
tionaly Is it easier for US to bear your
sectional sway than for you to bear ours ?
Is it unreasonable that fer once We should
ALTERNATE? But is the Republican party
sectional? Not unless the Democratic
party is The Republican party prevails
in tho House Of Representatives some
times the Democratic party in the Sen
ate always. Which of the two is most
proscriptive? Come, if You will, into the
Free States, into the State of New York,
anywhere from Lake Erie to Sag IIarbor,
among my neighbors in the Owasco Val
icy, hold your conventions, nominate your
candidates, address the people, submit to
them fully, earnestly, eloquentIy, all your
complaints and grievances IF Northern
disloyalty, oppression, perfdy kte moth
ing back, speak just as freely and as loud
ly there as you do here; you will have
hospitable welcomes, and apprecating au-
dicnces, With ballot boxes open for all the
votes you can win. Are you less section.
al than this
Extend to US the same privilege. and |
will engage that you will very soon have
in he South as many Republicans as we
however. better ties. of nationality than
the accidental location of parties. Our
policy of labor 10 the Territories was not
sectional IN the first forty years Of the
Republic. Its nature inheres. 1t will
be national again, during the third forty
years, and forever afterward. 1t is not
wise aud teneicent for us alone or inju,
rious to you alone. Its effects are equal,
and the san.e for rs all.
You accuse the Republican party of
ulterior and secret designs. How can a
party that counts its votes in this land of
free speech and free press by the bun.
dreds of thousands have any secret de-
signs? VIII is the co. uror, and where
are the secret springs by which he can
GpaefPtgGaa pePtgaa itd & e ard widely dis
unseen ard purposes unavowed! But
what are these hidden purposes You
name only one. That one is to introduce
negrr equality a,"ong you Suppose we
had the ppwcr to change your social sys
TEN, what warrant Lave you for suppos-
iug haI we should carry negro equality
among YOU? We know and we will show
You, if you vii ouly give heed, that what
our s,s,c,n Ct l4bor works out, wherever
il wofka out apyrhing, is the equality of
wl,te u.cn The saburer IN the Free
St,tas, no matter how humble his occu
patton. is a white man, and he is poiiti-
cally the equal IF his employer.
Eighteen of our thirty.three States are
Free Labor States There they -
Maine. New Hampshire, Massachusetts,,
Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut:
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Ohio. Michigan, Illinois, Indiana: Wis
consin, Minnesota, Iowa, California aud
Oregon. l do lot array thcm in contrast
with the capital States. am no assail
ant Of States.
All of the States are parcels of my own
Countrywide best of them not so wise
and great as | am sure it will hereafter
be; the State least developed and perfect
ed among them all is wiser and better
than any foreign State know. Is it then
in anv. aud in which, of the States have
named that negro equality offends the
white mans pride? Throughout the
wide world, where is the State where class
and caste are so utterly extinguishcd as
they are in each and every one of them !!
Let the European immigrant, who avoids
the African as if his skin exhaled conta.
gion, answer You find them always in
the State where labor is ever tree.
Did Washington, Jefferson and Henry,
when Il ey implored you to reiinquish
your system and accept the one we have
adopted, propose 10 sink you down to the
level of the African. or was it their de-
sire to exalt ali white men to a common
political elevation? But we do not seek
to folcc, or even to iutrude our system on
you. We are excluded justly, wise y aud
contentedly from all political power and
responsibility in your capital States. You
are sovereigrs on the subject OF slavery
within your own borders, as we are on the
same subject within our borders. 1t is
we'll and wisely so arranged. Use your
authority to maintain what system you
please We are not distrustfui of the re-
suit. We have wisely, as We thiuk, ex-
ercised ours to protect and perfect the
manhood of the members of the State.
The whole sovereignty upon domestic
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