The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1864-10-26
Tha Yasne Of Cnarac.cr.

The personal character Of the President
is the rock upon which the Opposition IS
wrecked. It dashes against him and his
administration. Kissing aud. venemous,
but falls back again bafied. From the
day when covert rebellion lay in wait to
assassinate him in Baltimore, through all
the mad hate Of the rebel press to the last
malignant sneer Of Copporbead Conserg-
atism and foreign Jealousy, the popular
confidence in the answering fidelity and
purity Of purpose Of the Pres; dent has
smiled the storm TO scorn.
The chiet charge against the Admins
tration, thundered in every key, is its
despotisn. ItiS necessarily asserted that
personal liberty is destroyed, that ougi-
nal rights are anpibi!ated, that VS. are all
the covering, shivering subjects Of the
bloody Emperor ABRAHAM, who brings
Us all to our knees by pointing to one OF
the innumerable bastics which shadow
the land; all of US. except Arnold Won
WInkclried Eallandigham, and John
Dampden Wood, oad William Tel Gun
ther, and. Patrick Henry Long, and
George Washington Seymour, who brave
y withstand the tyrant for the sake Of
Justice and human rights. But with
these exceptions, we are all groaning
under the most intolerabie tyranny, FROM
which there is no hope Of deliyerance but
bp intrusting the Government to the
hands Of these patriots.
This is doubtless a cunning line Of at
tack in the confusion aud doabs Of civil
war. Indifference IS always willing to
seeany Administration oyerthrown,. Cow
ardico is always glad to cad hostilities
with the enemy by exciting hatred Of the
Governments; and party spirit in every
form, plays the dangerous game Of seek
ing political power by tampcring with
national existence. But nothing balks
such aa attack so readily as personal
qualities which no calumny can reach
The party WHICH is mad with the lust Of
political power III this country does not
hesitate to declare that the President is
deliberately preIoDging the war as po-
litical game that every act of his is per-
formed only with reference TO his re-clcc-
ton, that if Early should return and
overran Pennsylvania, ii Grant should
retire from Petersburg and Sherman from
Atlanta, it would be because tire Presi-
deat took care that they should not have
men enough, and in this way thwarted
and perplexed their plans Yetthe same
party declares the wag both wicked and
failure 1t eDtreats, by It's leaders, the
interference of British influence, and it
receives British sympathy, while it op-
poses the draft. And if you ask them
how the Presidcn5 eau send men to the
Generals if Jhc men are not raised, they
reply thatit Is no Wonder that be can not
raise them for such wicked war.
But these frantic efforts are VAN. The
profound confidence Of the great mass OF
the people ia the President is unshaken.
! It is simply impossible to make them be-
I lieye, after their experience Of his patient
fidelity to the Union that he IS d mon.
strous despot or political gambler. The
American people, we are very sure, arc
irnlIY persuaded that Mr. FallaDdigham
does not love the Union more than 1Ir.
LiUcolu; that Mr. Wood is not truer t.
popular rights nor Governor Seymour
whose ''friends" are the rlotous yiolatots
of the public peace and the mad assassins
Of the poor and dcteucelcss, more faithful