The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1862-10-08

ures of life, and luxury honorable. She
ceased to be free, and to advance. Rome
her, and she fell, never to rise
again.
Rome, seated on her seven hills, proud
In her beauty, august in her valor, su-
preme and arrogant in her command,
with her temples erected for vice, and
her baths for lust, was down-trodden by
the barbarians, and is now buried beneath
the accumulated dust of Christian centu-
ries. Tyre and Sidon, Sodom and Co.
morrah, Thebes, Carthage, Ninevah, and
Babylon, where are theyY Alas, alas,
they have sepulchres, but how few pause
to decipher the almost obliterated inscrip-
ton above them! "The victim of an
internal foe." Not an erternal foe
Their deaths were not violent, but natu-
raj. Truthfully written, how sad, and
yet how instructive. is the history of all
human or political organizations
England, after holding in her hands
for a thousand years, and offering to the
nations goblet of commingled barbarism
and humanity. still survives, to meet
that which certainly awaits her-a fearful
retribution. She has prcyed upon the
poor, insulted the proud, weakened the
brave, aud now arrogates to herself the
title of "mistress of the world" God
will remember her crimes, and punish
her perfdy. She worships symbols, is
pletboric from selfshness, and totters in
miserable sepility. She sustains a
church, that she may the more securely
practice artifce. She sacrifices no interest
upon her affairs, and trembles like felon
guilt, when confronted by Injured strength.
She has ever been the rotter of the na-
tions, and now, haggard. yet still devilish,
with palsied hand, attempts to prevent
the decline of a power built up by the
rapine and the bloody ambition of centu-
ries. If we can but pause long enough
to look back upon the past, and reflect
upon our high calling, the United Mates
of North America will be made the instru,
ment of a Divine vengeance upon this
monaachy-tke guiltiest of the guilty.
3-THE SAFETY OF THE NATION.
We have done much that we ought
not to have done, and we have left un-
done much that we ought to have done.
We erected bulwarks for slavery in our
national youth, and have not only refused
to confess the evil we then did, but we
have strengthened them from day to day,
and from year to year. We are now suf-
fering the full weight of the curse of the
institution. Holding ourselves out to the
world as the only free Government, we
nursed slavery until it ruled US as mas
ter, and struck US as despot. The pres
ent unparalleled rebellion-a civil war so
extended as to be incomprehensible in
other lands-is the perfected fruit of the
sins of the fathers and the children
Treason, the legitimate offspring of the
bastard slavery, assail0 our very life. The
crime is fearfully daugerous-shall we
assal its life? Must we not assail it !
Is it not assault or death ?
We have been too long in the light of
Christianity and civilization to argue the
wickedness of crime. When state that
the system of American slavery disre-
CARDS marriage, parental ties and social
proprieties-all of which you know
prepare you to form Judgment. 1t JUS
titles the separation of husband and wife,
and parent and child, and the absolute
control of females-what do you think of
it? Fathers and mothers, what do you
think of it7 It is now costing US hun
dreds Of millions of dollars of treasure,
and hundreds of thousands of lives what
should We do with it? 1t is the heart
which furnishes the life blood of the wild
conspiracy? How shall we treat it p
Answer ye whose sons sleep upon the
battle fields, how shall we treat it !? Aged
friend and nelghbor, your only begotten
was murdered, and disinterred, and mu-
tllated, to afford trophies for the monsters !;
how shall we treat it? Sister, your treas
ure, your boy who dedicated his all to
freedom, can never return to you-he
died nobly fighting against the enemies
of his race, the taskmastors OF the South !;
how shall we treat it l answer for N.Y.
self, for you, 1t must cease to be on annoy.
ancc. If we would have country and
homo. it must be brought into subjec-
ton. ITe must let the people 60! "We
are not prepared to do so" the response
comes quickly. Pharaoh would not let
them go, and the land was smitten with
frogs, with murrain, with hail, with To-
Gusts, with darkness, with rivers of blood,
and the death of the first born. Time
and again has the entreaty come to US,
"let the people 50" and we have as often
disregarded the voice of kindness and
admonition. Plague after plague has
afflicted US, and now the threat comes
that all the waters shall be turned into