The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1863-05-20
MUSCLE WILL TELL.


currents Of thought and passion, the hu-
luau face, the race has abundant cause to
be grateful. Men carry their characters
upou their faces. There are few men
who can preserve that lmperturbablllty
which rcuders the face Us retlceut us the
sVugue.
This generation is Witnessing a return
OF the "hmes that try mems souls a.
then, the monarchic influences Of the Old
World are onbiued against US the SYM
pathes of the Mammon of CJmmerce are
given to our enemies and, as then, bad
faith aud disloyalty walk almost unshamed
in our midst. There are many who de
aire nothing but disaster to our armies
while led by men who cannot be made
the drivelng tools of consplrators against
the Government. These men, and We
have them in every township of this coun-
ly, even, cannot couceal their lack OF pa
triotism Their iumost thoughts and
feeling are as faithfully reflected ln their
counteuances Us the ima@e of any tansl-
bIa object upon the polished surface OF IA
Hllrrur.
We have been led 20 these reflections
by the varied facial revelations following
1he receipt of news of supposed disaster
80 our army on tie appahannock. We
are much habitua.ed to stud dy OF the hu-
man face aud while nothing eau be more
foreign to our purpose than the miSreprc-
hsntatiou OF any Class OF men, we consider
1t right and necessary to apply Common
rule to all classes, and leave judgment to
she impartial public. We have to say,
then, that the receipt of that news pro,
ducCd two marked expressions of coun.
teuance among our people. We noticed
a very large class whose faces betrayed a
sorrow of the heart, and whose lips, II
they testified at all, bore testimony CT
deep regret that the suppression Of re,
belliou should be some months longer de-
lsyed With these men we had full SYN
pathy; for while we hrwly believe that
permanent peace will be awarded this na-
tion BY Justice, aud not by Mercy, We
are alive to the fact that all do not look
Mt this struggle from the saue poiut OF
sisW
There was another class, and, thank
God. a comparatively small one, who re-
esived the tidings with brig ahteniug eyes,
aud faces radiant with a secret JOY, al
most too great for suppression IN any
form aud some oi these were mute and
ssms shook their heads and said -"Y uu
havo not heard the worst of this yet! -
which is a geu,eel way Of discouragius
abe people in advance Of any given reason
for dscouragem Aud, finally, these
facial phenomena were remarked by near.
ly everybody in the first named class, SO
thin was the attempted disguise
Now, which of these classes, judge you,
represents the sterling patriots of the
country!
Here is fact which may have some
slight bearing upon the question 1t
was in the Spring of l86l-in fuct, in
the afternoon of the 10Th OF April-when
the telegraph announced the mobblng oi
Massachusetts, troops on their transit
through Baltimore. the destruction OF
railroad bridges, aud he consequent Iso
latiou of Washington tron loyal support
BY ordinary aud rapid modes We sat
in the library of the War Department,
listening, in the pauses Of labor. to the
speculations and comments of halt dozen
men, army officers and bureau clerks
There was wide disagreement in senti
meni aud opinion, four, if memory serves,
insisting, with vehement insolence that
Washington was as good as taken, and
the Government overthrnwn; and that
the next despatch from Baltimore would
bring bloodier tidings still The mlnor
iiy combattcd them with more hopeful
predictions. In few hours the Sixth
Massachusetts,. fresh and scared from
the assault of the nob. charged at a
double quick in solid column down Penn
sylvania Avenue. to the significant music
of their martial tread; and the sympa-
thizcrs with treason skunk away in silence
snd ob.curiry, raining curses upon Mass
ze-us.l,s "a they wsot aud none ct them