The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1864-09-28
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BEAR SIR: 1t Is mean thing to listen
at the key-hoIe 1t is meaner to open a
private letter. 1t is the meanost of all
to accept hospitality and abuse the host.
But these mean things are Christian viz
tues compared to the act of acceptiag tie
nomiaatioa ofa psrty IN order to destroy
1t. y platform is a party's soul. A can
didato is the party'8 body. Separate the
body from the soul, and death onsucs.
1t is as difficult to sit between two stools
as to sleep with one eye open. You can
not worship God and Mammon. Homes
ty is not only the best policy, but the
only one foE an honest man. To cheat in
politics is as wicked as to cheat in money.
You know the Peace men controlled
the Convention. They gave you a plat
form that was neither fish, flesh, fowl nor
mackerel. Hence, the Daily News, the
Metropolitan Record, Freeman's Journal,
and Ohio Crisis fly off from you like hoops
from an effe!voscing barrel. Singleton
will follow Wood f.; Vallandigham will fall
in, and in two weeks Pendleton will de-
cline to be shipwrecked with the rest.
"Come out from under the bed," said the
Indignant wife to her undecided husband.
"Not," said he, $50 long as I have the
spirit of a man within me-"
Mark my words, General: you will not
carry single State except Now Jersey,
and you will sacrifice seven Democratic
members of Congress out of ten. Look
at Vermont Maine will be the same.
Indiana will only lead the other States by
month.
You will find it as hard as the rebels
have to fight such Democratic names as
Foot, Farragut, Porter, and Dupont, on
the sea, or Grant, Meade, Burnside, Sick
les, Hancock, Thomas, and Sherman, on
the land, all Of whom are against you.
The late letters of Sherman and Grant
rattle through the Democratic ranks like
! lightning through goosebury bush. It
only costs two thousand dollars to get up
a Mcclellan meeting. Young Ketchum
said so. If the explosion of a limited
quantity of gas in Union square killed
two men and wounded several the other
night, what will be the discstor when
your whole party bursts up in November? ?
James Buchanan said that he was no
longer J. B., but the Cincinnati platform.
Yon reverse it, and say you are not the
Chicago platform, but G. 3. Mac.
Bulwor said the 'tpoR was mightior
than the sword" Then be had not made
your acquaintance, General. Nominated
on your record? Yes. The draft. The
proclamation. The suspension Of the ha-
beas corpus. The arrest of Legislatures
Military at the polls and disobedienee of
orders, Is not that your public record ?
Do you mean, by alluding to your record,
that you will do the same again?
"GENrLEMEN l have the honor to acknowl-
edge the receipt of your letter, informing me
of my nomination (ofcOurse, who else did you
suppose it was p by the Democratic National
Convention, Certainly it was not the Repub-
! lican National Committee,f recently assem-
| bled at Chicago, CHATS so it didn't assemble
at Cleaveland or New York; as their candi-
date at the next election for the President OF
the United States. Exactly; it was not for
the last olection.) 1t is unnecessary for me
| to say that this nomination comes to me IN
sought" CWhy say it, then p
| Take the whole letter, paragraph BIZ
paragraph, trauspose it as [ have this
sentence, and you will find Il as weak as
dlshwator-undecieed, inconsistent, un-
grammatical, and egotistioal. The six
illusions to the Union remind one Of the
sterootyped cry in the Fortunes Of Nigel
watches, clocks, barnaclos." The
bright BOY who cried "barnaolos, watches,
clocks" introduced new idea into Scot
land.
offs frank, earnest, and persistent effort to
obtain those objects should fail, the respon-
sibility for uIteriOr consequences will fall
upon those who remain in arms against the
Union. why not say war right out, not
dodge round q corner this way? D0u't for.
get that old Cass killed himself with the Mich
olson letter. Believing that the views here
expressed are those Of the Convention and the
people you represent, 1 accept the nomina-
ton" You don't believe anything Of the
kind. You know better. The Northwest
were all peace. So reads the platform.
Five hundred delegates unanimously
agree upon platform. Here it is:
Resolved, To please you, they have war.
Resolved, To please Pendleton, they
have peace.
Resolved, To please all the outs, the
war go on till the peace is signed.
Remember that the Royal George in
British Channel went down with all on
board, the result Of trimming.
Walter Savage Lander wrote on the
Georges:
"George the First was reckoned vile,
ViIer George the Second,
And what mortal ever heard
Any good Of George the Third?
When from earth the Fourth ascended,