The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-08-15

! Success, that We sustain 1t in the spirit
in which he propounds it; that is to say
in spirit of reciprocal confidence and
good will. When he proposes to admit
US to a full participation in the benefits
Of the Constitution, he understands, of
course, that we will uot abuse our advan-
tage to the detriment of the Union
When he offers to reinsiate us in the
rights of self government, he stipulates
that we shall not peryert our power to the
discredit of the federal authority. In
relieving us from the pressure of military
rule he c0ncelVes us to contract an en-
gagement not to obstruct the operations
of government nor to unsettle the order
of society. In according US the privileges
of citizens he supposes us to be animated
BY the sentiment Of good citizenship and
the boon he bestows is in requitaI of the
loyalty We are pledged to exhibit.
"These are not only Indispensable, but
they are precedent conditionsas well and
without their fulfillment on onr part we
need expect none of the benefits we so
clamorously solicit. If we be sullen If
we be refractory; If We betray secret
hatred of the Union, or evince the preva-
lence of those principles and passions
which recently deluged the land in blood
then farewell to ever hope of clemency and
magnanimity in the execution of federal
power! Confscation, prescription, mar
tiaI law and all other calamities that fol-
low in the train of unsuccessful rebellion
will be the portion of the South"
The Charlottesville Chronicle of the
9th instant says:
"a call is published elsewhere for a
public meeting on monday next, the OBJ
kject of which is to invite immigration to
this State. We cordially approve the
policy and propriety of such a meeting.
We hope it will be a full and earnest
one, and that it will express to the peo-
pie Of the North and the people of the
different Euprean states that they will
find welcome in our midst The time
has come to inaugurate an entirely new
policy in this respect, and to seek to give
to Virginia aud the South the place which
they should occupy in the race for power
on this continent. This cannot be done
without population. Every ablebodied
man who comes to Virginia.is q contribu-
ton of thousand dollars to the wealth
of the state. When our population is
doubled our lands will be doubled in val.
ue. We shall have life and activity in
the place Of stagnation and death. We
shall have railroads, canals, ships, steam.
boats, factories, clties,in the place of mud
turnpikes, boats showed with poles, petty
county court houses, blacksmith shops,
and hand labor generally. We wan. mus
Gle; we must have laborers we must
have machinery. Not till then will Vir-
ginia cease to be province.-a hewcr of
wood and drawer of water for our wealthy
northern neighbors. We trust our influ-
entail citizens Will take an active part in
this meeting, It will do as much good
as the resolutions of 1798-99."
In an other article it says:
"The mechanic of the South has now
taken new place in our society. We are
going to have something besides lawyers
doctors, planters and politicians. Labor
hand labor-will become honorable :;
and in the sight of God, what is more
pleasing and more honorable than con-
scientious worker with his hands-a man
who lives by the honest sweat of his brow
who mends your wagon honestly and
Well--who builds your house faithfully
who makes you neat and enduring shoe
who manufactures you piece of sub
stantlal cloth-who cuts a ditch that re.
claims field given up to the snipe and
woodcock--who makes a yoke that does
not gall our oxen-Who inspects and ap-
plies remedy to your smoking chimney
who hands you back your watch healthy
aud true as the needle to the pole'-who
staunches forever breach in your roof or
coffee pot-who takes. your threshing
ing machine and makes it move like "a
thing oi life 1t is the glory of work
man to love his work, and to do it thor
oughly. If he does not love it, he should
! try something else. If he is above it he
is an ass. If he does not do it thorough
ly, he is knave. There is no trade that
is not honorable and interesting to a SEN
sible, industrious ,and right minded man."
The Houston Telegraph says:
"The piney woods planters in the coun.
try around US, and the longshoremen in
our city, have abundantly shown that
white men can do southern labor as well
as negroes. The only kind of compu!sion
which can now be used to com pei the
negro to work, is to show him that the
needed labor can be obtained without de.
pending on him, and that if he does not
work for his living, being able to do SO,
he must starve.
"The best plan we have seen of making