The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1864-12-14

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other is to let it be understood that here.
after we pay no more bounties from the
taxes of the North, but taking counsel
from the Roman method of carrying on
war, we say to the young men, look to
the fair fields of the sunny South, and
unless they take our amnesty, let us go
down there and you shall have whatever
you get by fair division we will open
new land offices wherever our armies
march, distributing lands among the SOL
diers, to be theirs and their heirs forever.
A harsh measure, everybody will say /;
but is it not quite as just as it is that we
should tax ourselves and raise the prices
of the necessaries of life for the purpose
of giving bounties and support to the
soldiers in fighting these men whom we
have three times over solemnly called to
come and be our friends in 1862, to
come in June, in 1868, to come in Sep
tember, and in 1864 to come by tho 9Th
of January, 1865. And when the clock
strikes tbs last knell of that parting day,
then all hope of return for those who
have not made progress toward the return
shall be lost forever. No longer can they
live in the land of America. Mexico,
the West India Islands, or some place |
care not to name, because know no land
hard enough to be cursed with their
presence, shall be their dwelling place.
They shall never come here again. -
| look with some considerable interest
upon what believe to be the present re,
suits of this election. I believe, first,
we have settled the question of the war
by settling the question that the people
are determined to carry on that war. |
think it has always been claimed that we
should be strong enough, after great
victory, to offer new terms Of peace to
the rebels. | never expect to see in arms
or in council greater victory than the
one we have achieved | think we are
now stroug enough TO make that Offer, r,and
then, [ take it, that the most squeamish
of our friends will agree with US when
they find that We have exhausted every
resource of craftsmanship in the attempt
to carry out peace-that it is time then
to make war, yea, war from the hilt.-
Such war will be decisive war, and,
therefore, without trespassing too long
upon the festivities of this occasion, and
keeping the ladies in waiting far too long,
in answer to what yon were kind enough
to suggest, l look upon this victory as
one which has decided the war-decided
it not in military point of view, but in
that overpowering civil point of view
which decides the fate of nations, every.
where To this it may be answered, and
to that answer, desire for moment to
call your attention, SO that every man
may work out In his own mind more
clearly than any suggestion of mine could
do, the problem that if we 90 on with the
strength and stringency that | have sug-
gested, how shall we live in the same land
with the men whom we thus fight p
Again, let US 60 to the teachings of his,
tory, and we will draw from the history
of that nation which we are proud to call
our mother land. Every considerable
estate in England under Cromwell passed
through the courts, or commissions of
confscation. Every considerable house
hold fought against every other consider
able household; the people fought against
the mobiles and the mobiles against the peo,
pie and yet, when the king came to his
own again after time, the nation came
together, cemented in friendship, never
to be divided thereafter. Is there any
difficulty then, looking at the teachings
of his history, in the Anglo-Saxon race
knowing how to live in equity and peace,
amity and friendship, with those with
whom they have had fight? Is it not
we'll known rule that those with whom
we have fought bitterly, after the fight is
over, are the ones who become the more
endeared to US, and we are more ready to
take them by the hand? Therefore, l
see DO difficulty in every good man of the
North and every good man of the South
coming together, and letting bygones be
bygones. AS l have said, [ desire to ex-
tinguish all the bad men so far as this
country is concerned. .s..
WHEN THE DEVIL SoWS.-The seeds
of vice are dropped into young hearts in