The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1863-01-07
The senatorial Question.

on 10 cOBsiuel St'cldA h'0''S'0 " -
grave Importance. chief of which will be
the election of gu United States Senator.
The importance of this election at the
present time cannot be overrated. 1t VI
tally effects the conduct of the war through
rountenance or discountenance OF the gov
ernment, and must place Pennsylvania IN
earnest cooperation with, or 10 undls-
guised hostility to the efforts of all good
men and patriots for the re establishment
of law and order.
The friends Of the government are unit
ed upon single mau; one who occupies
frst place among the few who have rem
dered their uames historic in putting
sheir protest against the encroachmen's
of the power which animates and which
conceived the rebellion, upon record; a
man who has never abandoned that pro-
test for day, but who on the contrary,
has withstood menace and persecution
from former political associates with un'
alterabe resolution and unbendlng lnteg'
1ity; representative man, whose name
il a household word among the earnest
friends of freedom-That nan is DAVID
WILMoT.
These are times Of great public peril /;
times which admonish Us of the necessity
of we'll considered, prompt and vigorous
action. Every hour hath its unmlstaka-
bic teaching Every event, eVary devel
opment, enforces lesson Of extreme eau.
tiou in assigning the reius of power and
positions Of influence. We cannot be
too careful in selecting the men who are
20 frame laws and execute them. On the
one hand we behold treason presenting
itself, armed. earnest and undivided On
she other land Of sterling patriots. be-
set by plotting politicians, whose hearts
are refugees of lies and reasonable mo
tives. The endeavor to speak as fair,
while they daily with the danger prepared
TO assasinate the liberties of the country.
IN the election of a Senator we have to
choose between the representative men OF
these classes. The latter are the open
allies Of treason. Whatever their protes-
sions, whatever their prote5tatlons of 10y
alty, their hearts are estraDged from their
country, and have been SO estranged for
years. Whatever they say, they mean
only to wrcak their revenges for loss OF
national glory. Between the man put
forward by such men and DAVID VIII
MOT the country cannot hesitate to
choose. They will put forward no new
end untried man They will take pains
30 leave no doubt as to their motives in
their selection of candidate. The time
for concealments is past.
Against US We have arrayed such men
Is Buckaew, Hughes, Wharton, Reed,
Buchanan, Bigler, and others not less in
famous. but less notorious. Of these it
Is .. esumable that Buckalew will DE Sc
lected and 90 before the Legislature as a
candidate for Senatorial honors. lie IS
entitled to the precedence IN every con-
csivabc particular. The particular friend
aud uphoIder of Franklin Pierce and
james Buchanan, and a stipendiary OF
the latte: under cover Of a South Amerl
can mission tine ardent aud noisy defen'
der of Stringfe!low and Atchison in their
brutal o1trages in Kansas the bold and
unblushing apoIogist for and advocate oi
the Lecompton villainy-this man Is pc
culiarly fitted for, and entitled to, the sui
frages of that portion of the democratic
party which finds its period Of exrltatlou
coincident with some reverse OF our arms
and its employment IN contrlvlng new
WAYS to embarass the government.
Mr.. Buckalew is not without species
of ability, but it is ability of peculiar
sort; of that kind which has best recom
mended men to the notice aud patronage
of democratic Presidents, and to the eau
Gus and conventional honurs dispensed by
democratic politicians. He is cool, crafty
aud polite Cool, because al utter stran
ger to the finer emotions OF tue hear
which impart a kind of impuisive energy
10 the character Crafty. aud polite, be
cause with bin the greatest good Is th'
asgrandizement OF himself and the down
fall nf every obstacle which takes root il
cJnsc ence He has few friends, 10 th'
batter acceptation of the term. but man.
admirers aad hosts of imitatars. What
ever a man may become when he has tul
ly Subjected his moral nature TO the dom
ination of an ambition which scruples Il
nothing that stands in its way, Mr.. Buck
aew has become. Neither better no
worse, neither ADLER nor weaker than ma
nv of hia compeers, he is still the mos
available of all, because TO INSCRIPTIONS
ness he joins that species of eunnin!
which often atoues for lack Of fol esigh
and high intellectual qualities.
In affect, i: is between such man ant
DAVID WILMoT that the next Legisla
ture has 10 choose The contest will b
without parallel fpr bitterness. Alread
the democratic prints denounce assassi
nntinn nnnn any nnmhar who Shau leaY.