The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-09-26

vapia stands forth in this canvas as Teb-
el organization pure and simple. ltpleads
ahe rebel cause it denounces the Union
cause it compels Union soldiers to stul-
tify their own record by pronouncing tie
war disgrace, and it goes just as far IN
1he service of the rebellion as any south
ern rebel organization could possibly de-
sire. Where, then, can any man OF com,
mon sense or common honesty md
grounds for thinking or saying that there
are no differences sepeIatlng the two
great parties, or that this Democratic af-
fair nceents the results of the WARP If it
does accept those results We find no evi.
dence of the fact IN its platform, and We
defy any one now to produce proofs that
il does so accept, This is exactly what
parts us, and it q gulf as broad and deep
~ any which yet has existed in American
politics.
We ask the patriotic people of Penn.
sYlvania to ponder over this momentous
fact, that the results Of the war are not
accepted BY the Democratic party; that
il openly enters upon the pending canvass
with determination to ignore and dis
pute those results, to regard them and
fhs war itself as disgraceful, and to give
the rebels full swing to do as they please.
Let no one who doubts take our word for
il, but rather let him take the Democrat
10 platform itself, aud there he will find
the atIocious language precisely as we
have quoted it. Mr.. Pollard, author of
che rebel history Of the war, says in his
last volume that the purpose of the Chi
cago platform makers was to prepare the
way gradually for recognition of the Con.
tederacy. The Pennsylvania Democratic
platform goes rather beyond even that.
Il seeks to sink the Union cause in dis
grace, and transfer the ascendancy and the
houors to the rebels. That is the only
logical sequence which can be deduced
from their enumeration of principles, and
As we believe in the universal diffusion of
intelligence, We mean to aid the party by
oil the means We can command in having
iIa position and aims thoroughly under
stood and appreciated. That is all we
desire, satisfied as we are that the issue
may then safely be left with all who have
lived through the last four years.
Hereafter when copperheads come pra-
ting about their soldier nominees for
Office, it is a sufficient answer that those
soldiers think the cause they fought for
disgraceful and the enemy in the right.
On such basis as that, any soldier, no
matter who he might be or what his past
record, would deserve to be treated as
having gone over to the common enemy.
Iu the terrible war now SO happily closed
we fought for the greatest principles which
can nerve the arm of patriot warrior and
We have achieved results the towering
grandeur Of which elicits the enthusiastic
admiration Of the civilized world. To cast
aside these principles now, and to ignore
those results, is to do all that a man can
do 70 render worse than useless whatever
exertions he may have made as soldier.
It is all stuff and nonsense to pretend
that political platforms are of no conse-
quence. They mark distinctly the pre-
vadiug spirit of party, and they poiEt
out the paths it will follow when it attains
power. What would be treason in a CIV
iliau can csrtainly be no less in a soldier.
We trust, therefore, that all true Union
men will scatter far and wide the fullest
knowledge of the Pennsylvania Democrat
10 State platform and particularly of those
features of it which we have indicated for
here is an unauswerablo argument to prove
that the party is dangerous to the peace
and tranquility of the republic; that it
is treacherous to the Union cause, and is
seeking to make the rebel element dom.
Inant in all or affairs. The question, ia
not now where the Union party stands for
all the world knows that, but where the
Democratic party stands, and what are
its purposes.-North american.