The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1863-09-09
Loyal and DiSIOyal.

IdcG LudC I1ey leeI seusItl'O d1 ud'luS
their detestable treason exposed to the
public. One gentleman, who has warm
side for JEFF Davis, Seymour and his
I''friends,'' ct I'd genus onene, thinks our
statement that Governor Curtin is the
candidate of the loyal men of the State,
implies that Judge Woodward is the can
didate Of the disloyal men of the State
That is exactly what we mean to assert
without any implication whatever. We
are not in the habit Of using inuendoes
or insinuations. We endeavor to state
plainly what we mean, and We mean
that Judge Woodward is not loyal him
self and that those who placed him
in nomination did not intend to nominate
loyal man, They would not vote for a
! loyal man if such had, by any accident
been nominated That's what we mean,
The organ of the traitors for this
county, says that because we call that
sterling union paper, the Harrisburg
Telegraph, loyal, we endorse the follow
ing from that paper, which the traitor
organ says is reasonable.
"If we do not harmonic our differences and
concentrate all our forces, the enemies of the
Government will succeed in electing Wood
ward a result TO be estimated as more disastrous
10 the cause Of the country than the defeat Of
/ Meade 6y Lee Indeed, it would have peen far
better to aLloV Lee to penetrate Pennsylvania
and establish himself IN Harrisburg, than 10 al
LosC Woodward to succeed at the ballot boz, and
then be Inaugurated Governor of the State"
We never saw this in the Telegraph.
and, from the bad character Of the paper
which quotes it, cannot be sure that our
Harrisburg friend is entitled to the cred
it of it. But, as the old lady said 10
meeting: "that friend speaks my mind
exactly" The case is not drawn par
ticle too strong. 1t is every word true
We will give some reasons for our state
ments, which may be considered strong
by some.
! In the first place, if Lee had taken
Harrisburg, he could not, with all the
COpperhead assistance in the State
aided by Gov. Seymour and his friends, "
have held it bat short time, and his
army would, beyond doubt, have been
totally annihlated. That evil would
have been temporary whereas, if Judge
Wood@ard should be elected Governor,
that would be placing in power an ene-
my to the war, an enemy to free inStitu-
tions, an enemy to the Goveren ent and
an enemy to the Union. This would be
for three years, and the mischief he might
and would, probably, do, could not berem,
edied in generation.
We have said that Judge Woodward
is an enemy to free institutions. This
is shown by his own mouth. He is a
cool, calculating aristocrat, despising the
poor, and the laboring man. He believes
that poor soldier who fights in the ranks,
should not, be allowed to vote; that labor.
ing meu Should be slaves, and that GER
tain classes were born to be lords of the
lash, to force others to labor. For the
proof Of this we appeal to the record.
Before the commencement Of the slave
drivers rebellion, Judge Woodward made
. speechdn Independence Square in Phil
adelphia This speech he revised and
published in pamphlet form, as delib-
crate exposition of his views. On page
II of that pamphlet, the author says:
"The world cannot live without cotton and
cotton can only be raised under the eye of
master, or overseer."
Ifthis be true, it follows as a natural
sequence, that Slavery is necessity, and
demand of nature and natures God. |
On page II, be says:
"Negro Slavery is an incalculabe blessing"
This terrible war is one of the blessings
negro slavery has brought upon us. 1t
is for slavery and its perpetuity; for the
establishment of an empire or monarchy,
the chief corner stone of which shall be
human bondage, that rebellion is carried
on. Judge Woodward directly approves,
sanctions and advises this war for slavery
On page 4 of the pamphlet speech, we
fnd the following words:
at seems that there must be time when |
Shareholders may fall back upon their natu-
raj rights and employ in defence of their slave |
property whatever means of protection they
pOSSesS OT can COUmdnQ.'
None but an enemy of his country and
a traitor at heart, would thus, at the COM
mencement of a rebellion, take sides
against his country and in favor of the
rebels, giving them reasons why they
should continue in their rebellion. But
this was followed on page l3, By still
boder treason, when he exhorts his hear.
ers as fellows
"Rise and reassert the rights of the 8lape-
holders" and adds ihuman bondage and proper |
y IN man is diUinely sanctioned, If not dl0inely
ordained"
In the same speech, he distinctly |
avows himself in favor of a DISSOLUTION
OF THE Union. On page II, be says :