The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1861-09-04
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QeStfuctlOn, uufueT dEU dTsOu thdt tHey
have succeeded in getting in advance the
cause of Secession. In some States; as
for instance Louisiana, they never sub
united the question TO the people at all.
1t is base humbug of Davis, Cobb and
Co TO place themselves IN power. The
election of political opponent is tever
cause Of Secession or for disturbance
and If those Secession leaders had oppos-
ed Mr.. Llncoln's election from the time
of the Charleston Convention with half
the pertinacity and force that did, he
never would have been elected. | charge
in all my public speeches that they con-
nived at that election and the same has
been charged home upon them BY their
own people in the South. Their time
had come. 1t must go or they would be
ruined. They remind ore of little boys
who want TO ride a horse. Those in the
city get them a hobby horse, and they
can ride that. Country boys get astride
of stick, and ride that. This knot of
fioe-seekers failing to get horse to ride,
or even hobby, have mounted this poor
stick of Southern Confederacy, and are
riding that. 1t is just such ambition as
caused the angels III heaven to rebel. 1t
was not because we had not a good Gov
ernment, but because they could not rule
it. Cal! them Democrats, or entitled to
the sympathy of Democrats, with arms in
their hands against their Government,
aud their hands red with the blood of our
murdered citizens! They are enemies Of
their country; they are traitors against
the Fag and he Constitution, and as such
arralgn them in the name of the Con-
stlution and the Uuion. | arraign them
in the name of civilization; | arraign
them in the name of Christianity | ar.
raign them in the name of the fathers of
the Revolution, who poured out their
blood TO gain the Liberty transmitted to
us. arraign them in the name of the
soldiers who marched barefoot to secure
our blood bought Liberty. Iarraign them
in the name of the holy memories of the
women of the Revolution, whose pure and
gentle hears were crushed and broken.
In the great Day of Accounts, the savage
BrantaDd more savage Butler, that deluged
the beautiful valley of the Wyoming with
blood, will stand up and whiten their
crimes in comparison with the per6dy of
the men who now attempt to divide aud
destroy tins Union The ferocous in
slircts of the savage taught him that be
NIGH, be doing duty to his people but
these men were born in land of civiiz-
alton, and baptized in the name of the
Trinity, ana they should be held to an ac-
count for the abuse of the trust which
has been condded to them. Who are
these men III arms against the Govern
ment-in arms against the Union They
are men who have been educated at Its
expense-been laden with its homer
been prmpered at its Treasury. If we
perish we may say with the poet over the
stricken eagle:
"Keen were his pang yet keener far to feel,
He nursed the pinion which impeled the steel,
While the same pIlmage, that had warmed
his breast,
Drank the last life drop of his bleeding heart"
IF the Union is Iuns to the heart, it must
be melancholy reflection that we have
reared the men to- do it. and like the de-
mented Lear, we shall learn
"How sharper than serpen g tooth it is,
To have a thankleSs child :"
that we have nourished and brought up
children, and they have !ebelled against
the institutions of their country. we
have seen by the action of the Border
Southern States that it is rot their iuten-
tion to permit this Government to be sub
verted. Every crime known in the cata.
! logue of depravity from treason to larceny;
has been committed in attempting to drive
them into Secession. How can these
men be sustained by any one, with hands
dripping with blood-not only with ths
blood of Northern, but of Southern citi-
zens; and why? Because Nor hern
candidate was elected, who had four years
to serve, whose election they might have
prevented-whose election they conpiyea
at, they will hazard whole eternity, SO
far as temporal exfstance is concerned, to
CRAFTY present personal pique and feed a
mean ambition. Whoever sustains them,
| will not. Whoever cries peace, viii
not. Whoever cries compromise with
, them, | will not (Great cheerlng.) I
am for peace, but [ ann for making peace
with the loyal citizens of the South -thS
loyal citizens of Kentucky and of Mis-.
souri, too, who have sent tnas aoderE
/ Nebuchadnezzar, Claiborne T. jackson,
to grass. They ask in repetition, can you
coerce State? l say no: you cannot
You might as well coerce the sun tsi
} shine or the stars to twinkle. Can YOU
coerce neighbothood to be honest? No;
E but you may punish its criminals. Nc
one can Justify armed rebellion in oppo-