The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1862-07-23
A EBreckinridge Triumph.


the friends of the late Judge DOUGLAS
have cut loose from that Breckiuridge fac
tion, which first divided the Dem ocratic
party, and then divided the Union. Some
of them, however, went last Friday to the
Party y-above-named Country Convention
at Harrisburg, hoping to regulate, If not
to control its action. But they were out
numbered, and placed in subordinate
position throughout. *F. w. Hughes,
a most malignant Secession sympathizor
-one of those most prominent in uttering
the falsehood that "Polk is a better Tariff
man than Clay"--was made the Presi-
dent, and appoints the State Committee,
himself the Chairman-over Richard
Vaux.
The Resolutions are of the "Kane
Letter" web of contradictions. They
have gloss of patriotism intended to
seduce the casual reader: at the same
time, they will suit every Rebel sympa-
thizer, and JEFF. Davis would say that
for our State, at this time,-they are the
best calculated TO aid him : for the men
elected under it would cooperate with
him, no matter what cheat they used to
obtain the power.
| JAMES P. BARR, of Pittsburg, was
nominated for Surveyor General. He is
editor of the Post, and is described to us
by gentlemen who know him as slip
perry, oily politician, fit for any desperate
work. He once nominated Buchanan
for re-election-next came out for Doug
las-and is now in full faith with those
who killed Douglas at Charleston. Pro-
fessedly War man, he hinders the Ad-
ministration in measures necessary to
success.
ISAAC SLENKER, Of Union county, for
Auditor General, Is a more consistent
politician, having boasted of his unvary-
ing party fealty, and only Cne year ago
not only acknowledging his vote for
Breckenridge, but justifying his vote.
He is a respectable lawyer, slow and
plodding in his turn for business. In
our late local legal contests, Democratic
Judges decideu him all wrong in the ex-
pense and i'll feeling in which he plunged
his clients and the county. In the pecu-
liar qualifications for Auditor General,
all who know them both must admit the
superiority of Mr.. COCHRAN, the incum-
bent, who will be re-nominated at once.
| On the Slavery and War question,
Mr.. Slenker has an unenviable record.
In 1S49, he stood on the Free Soil Plat.
form of Saml W. Black, Gamble, Wilmot,
sc. In Union county, he aided Shriner,
Hickok, and others in support Of the
Pittsburg Platform
"That it is no part of the Compromises Of
the Constitution that Slavery should for ever
go with the advancing tide of our Territorial
progress" and similar sentiments.
He has since repudiated that senti-
ment, and in Feb. l861-whcn 6 or s
States had seeded, after stealing 25 or
80 forts, arsenals, mints, &c, when the
Rebels had fired on the Star of the West.
and proclaimed JEFF. Davis their Presi-
dent-Atr. Slenker endorsed the follow
ing (among other) Resolutions at the
Lewisburg Convention:
Resol0ed, .. That we deprecate civil war, as
we believe that this UNION can NEVER be
maintained by force Of arms, and that as
Democrats we are not willing
to take up ARMS to support platform
which a majority OF the people repudiated
and opposed at the polls.
3. That we cordially approve the policy Of the
! N-,yso,11 I,yg,s,5eir1f,n1 TPucbnpo ,'c1 in
1ciSe and concliatory course in the present per-
ilous condition of the country.
By that Convention he was sent a
Delegate to the Democratic Convention
at Harrisburg, and left Court to attend
it. He was a Vice President of that
body, which-22d Feb. 1861, when the
Rebellion was as open as fagrant-aded
and applauded it by the following infa-
nous Resolution:
"8th. That they will, by all proper and
legitimate means oppose. GiSCOUn-
tenaMCe and prevent amy at
1eEnpt ora the part OFtEaC aeGpub-
EiCaHS i'm power to make any armed
aggression upon the Southern States, espec-
tally so long as laws contravening their rights
SHtIl Itllulu uNIt ptd4cN Ou Luc StiIuIC pOOAc
Of Northern States, and so long as the JuS
demands of the South shall continue to be
unrecognized by the Republican majorities
in these States, and unsecured by proper
amendatory explanations ofthe Constitution
1t is true he afterwards yielded to the
storm Of popular indignation that was
aroused by the attack upon Fort Sumpter
and talked and acted more patnotically
after that time. But for months after
wards he expressed his admiration fol-
Breckinridge-has acted with and fol
| his friends-and Slenker wi1 be voteC
for By every ha!t-a0ay or open friend o
: the Rebels IN this State. In politics
those who nominate and support a mar
prove what he is.
The secret of Slenker's nomination i.