The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1864-09-14

the Union? You recognize the traitorous
Iaristocracy who claim to kave seeded as
composing their respectivesStases: we de.
ny it, and counting the whole'people, in-
sist that there isl Union majority in
everystats. On what democratic principle
can you constrain Rebel States to return
to the Union?
But ga Convention of the Statss"--
nay, Gan ultimate Convention of all the
States"-is in your programme. But
the Rebel States had their Convention At
Montgomerynearly four years ago and fra
med there constitution wherewith they
profess to be perfectly contented. That
Constitution ignores ours, supersede, it,
and renders your convention q simple
nulity. Stop the war now and they will
laugh four ultimate Convention to scorn.
They VIII tell you that they have first.
rate Constitution formed at Montgomery
and if you want union with them you
adopt that aad apply to be admitted into
their confederscy. Having admitted
that the arlstocracy are the States where
In they live, having stopped the war how
do you expect to unite with them except
by creeping in at the back door of the con-
federacy? That is the precise point I'd
which you are now tending.
Three, and half years ago, before o
drop Of blood tad been shed, we Rcpuh.
icans proposed convention, or rattfas
adopted the proposition of Kentucky, that
one be called. Had you Democrats then
favored a convention, We should long
since have held one. But you resisted
it fought it down, inducing even Ken
tuckey to join you in defeatieg it. And
now after three years of carnage and de-
vastaticn you come round to our position
and vaguely recommend Convention,
We stand by it and will help carry it
but that will not put down the Rebellion
We must first have peace, then hold u
Convention.
All the rest of this Platform is wind,
signifying very little. 1t amounts in
substance to Just this: The Admiaistrd-
tio?t has not sarTeDdered the the Country
10 traitors, North or South 1t has sup
pressed treasonin Loyal States, not steru-
ly nor very consistently; it has not allow.
ed those who defy the authority and
trample on the::fag of oar country to have
every thing their own way. The Bran.
lette-Gurthie party in Kentucky thought
this all right when It operated in their IA
vor; new that it no longer does, they unite
10 denouuclng It. Ave only wish we had
had 2 Jackson in 'the White House to
give them something real to complain of.
The sympathy" rendered to the SOL
liers by the platform is wanton insult.
Every line of it implies that their blood
has been fruitlessly shed, and that they
might better have staid at home and let
the Rebels hae every thing their own way.
What real sympathy can there be between
those who regard the war for the Union
as unjust and ruinots, and those who
have laid their lives Oh the altar of their
country's salvation? What soldier can
desire the sympathy of those who have no
word Of reproof for the cruel villains
who expose our prisoners to die in open
lots, unsheltered and but half fed, but
heap al their "reproba:ion" on the Gov
ernment, which would protect and release
them if it could?
Unionists of all the States! It is incum-
bent en- us to beat this Platform aud its
hackers Let us resolve to do it, and
begin the work NOW - 71fBAne.