The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1861-09-18

call for a so-called Union Convention
While having no sympathy with the
movement, and being determined to op-
pose it with all the power and influence
we can command, we yet think it nothing
more than simple justice to give them,
with all others, the use of our columns
for the publication of matter of a legal
or general character, so long as ours is
the only paper in the county.
The resolutions of the call are some
what paradozical: while stating that they
desire peace and harmony, they fling H.
suits into the face Of men who are as good,
as honest, as faithful and as free from
suspicious OF disloyalty as the men who
drafted the "Union Resolutions saying,
In the words of the circular, "if you de-
sire you the people can select men who
will serve the people and not the philan-
thropic Office holders who talk largely and
vote away your securities" and who ''are
preparing to make money out Of your
taxes and mine" Who are voting away
the securities of the people? Who are
making money out of the peoples taxes ?
These are broad assertions, but not so
broad but what they can be reduced to
the simple propositions that some of our
past and present o(ice-holders have de-
frauded the people: that some have vic.
lated their oaths and failed to protect the
thing entrusted to them. We always ex-
pected that there were men enough who
were willing and anxious to relieve the
people Of the burden of holding Office,
but We scarcely thought men would stoop
so low and so far forget honest manhood
as to call their neighbors the hard names
used by many citizens" in their call
This "many citizens sounds little Iidi-
culous to one in the Borough the day the
call was made out. We saw no very
"many citizens on the street, nor heard
of very "many citizens" meeting together,
we opine that were the whole truth de-
picted we would.see that the "many citi-
zens" contained in the call, referred pri-
marlly to few of our old-line Democratic
friends in town, who no doubt thought
the word Union would be very good
hobby horse on which to ride some of
their ple-loving, patriotic, Black Re
publican hating Democratic friends into
office.
In most Of the counties of TIE State
there are straight-out Democratic tickets
in the field, and especially in the coun-
ties where the Democrats are in the ma
jority--and, if the Democrats in their
counties can run straight-out tickets, keep
firmly fixed their party lines, and reject
all afiliatlon with Republicans, refusing
them places of political preferment, why
are mot Republicans possessors Of the
same privileges 'Sauce for the goose
is sauce for the gander"
Neither are the resolutions such as will
tend to harmonize the two contendng
parties at home. The Republicans of
Potter county deem the men placed in
nomination by them, as capable of filing
the positions for which they have been
selected, and filing them as faithfully
and honestly as any who will or can be
selected by the pseudo-unionists. It is
a strange time for making a Union pro-
position to the dominant party of Potter
1t would have sounded much better and
little more honest month since, but
that was not in the programme Of the men
who have assumed the calling of Union
Convention. They seek to put a wrong
construction upon the actions of men who
desire the security and faithful use of the
peoples money as much as any Democra-
tic caucus can. And as to love for the
Union, and wishes and efforts for the
overthrow of rebellion, they are full as
honest in the Republican ranks and among
the men who acted in The Convention,
rs among those who have taken exception