The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-10-31
PRESIDENT JOHNSON.

Secretary Seward made speech IN
Auburn New York last week, in the course
of which he alluded to the efforts Of the
Democracy to make the President unfaith-
ful to his principles and his friends. Mr.
Seward said:
Some of you seem to have been slight
" disturbed By professions or demonstra-
tions of fayor toward the President, made
by parties who have heretofore opposed
his Administration, as we'll as the Amin
istration of his predecessor. [ Laughter
And you ask, may not the President yet
prove unfaithful to us3 For myself, |
laid aside partizanship, if l had any, in
1861, when the salvation Of the country
demanded that sacrifice. 1t is not there
fore, my purpose to descend to mere par
tizaDship now. Andrew johnson laid
aside, am sure, whatever Of partizanship
he had at the same time. GApplause.
| That noble act did not allow, but, on the
other hand, 1t forbade, collusion by the
friends of the Union with opponents of
the policies of the war and of reconcilia-
ton which the Government has found it
necessary to pursue. Duty required alb
solute and uucompromislng fidelity tothe
supporters of those policies, whosoever
and whatsoever party they may be. Ap
plause Andrew Johnson has practlced
that fidelity against the violence of ene-
mics, to the sacrifice of his fortune, the
hazard of his liberty, and even the peril
of his life. Enthusiastic cheering. The
same fidelity is still identified with the
success of those policies, and, of course, is
necessary to the achievement of their
magnificent ends. Loud applause Why
should he now abandon those policies, ,aud
desert time. honored and favored support
ers, merely because the dawning success
of our efforts has compelled former appo-
nents to approve and accept them? Ire,
newed applause Patriotism and loyalty
equally, however, require that fidelity in
this case shall be mutual. BE ye faith
full, therefore, on your part, and although
the security offer is unnecessary and
superduous, yet 1 will guarantee fidelity
On his part. Renewed cheering'] Those
who hitherto opposed the President, but
now profess to suppors him: either are
sincere or insincere. Time must prove
which is the fact If they are sincere,
who that has loyal heart must not re-
joice in their late though too long delayed
conversion If they are inSincere, are
we either less sagacious, or have we less
ability now than heretofore to counteract
treachery to the national cause Perhaps
you fear the integrity of the man. | con,
fess, with full sense of my accountable
ity, that among all the public men whom
! | have met or with whom have been as
sociated or concerned, in this or any other
country, no one has seemed to me to be
more wholly free from personal caprice
and selfish ambition than Andrew John
son; none to be more purely and exclu-
sively moved in public action by love of
cauntry and good will to mankind.
DWe copy the following from a
Harrisburg letter to the Franklin Repos.
itory:
The next Senator will therefore certain
y be Union man, aud already the con.
test is becoming animated. There will bt
not less than a score Of candidates and
much bitterness will miugle in the strug-
gle Gen. Cameron has labored uRtiring-
ly since his retirement from the cabinet
for the position, and will exhaust his Ell.
ergies to attain it. He has just emerged
, from contest at home with victory or
his banner, and feels that he can now de
vote his energies to other sections. Phil
! adelphia will present not less than two
3 candidates, both of whom are, next to be
ing for Themselves against Cameron.
| refer to Col. VIM. B. Thomas and Hon
e VIM. D. Kelly. Judge Kelly is especial
] Iy bitter against Cameron and will dea
: some heavy blows in the progress of th'
t struggle. Gov. Curtin is widely spoker
y of, but l do not know that he regard
e himself as a candidate Certain it is tha
o he has not devoted his efforts to control
+. The election of members of the Legislature
f favorable to himself. Hon. Thaddeu
Stevens is named, but l do not regard i
! as probable that he will enter the list o
competitors. Hon. 6. A. Grow will
IS probably be formidable candidate as tn
u whole North would adhere to him witt
d great fidelity. The West will, of course
is have small crop of candidates also, bu
,f as Cowau has the position now, it is like
e ly that the Senator will be yielded to th
b East. A decided majority of the ney
% Senators chosen this fall are SQUARED
st hostile to Gen. Cameron, ,and the Cheste
E. Lancaster, Bedford and Beaver district
e will pretty certainly elect Senators mex
e fall who will not prefer him. He has
houauer earnest fliends In Hall Haine