The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-07-19

The inside Of the building Is only IN
teresting as the former home CT General
Lee. Some of the pictures still hang In
the hall : battle scenes of the Revolution,
in which Washington shows conspicuous.
What a pity that his moral picture had
not hung in the breast Of the great rebel
leader. A few heads and antlers Of bucks
are nailed over the rear doorway, which
once probably cited the ambition of
young Lee in the ch e, and, I thor sht:
General, one Of the 'mudsills' that once
excited your inefible scornr now stands
in your erted, con Gated hall, who has
often pursued and brought down these
forest citizens with as much relish as you,
and now at Clover Hill, he has helped to
bring down the noblest buck of the Con-
federacy, and hung his horns in the tenn
pie of Liberty as warning to all follow
ers to shun your path" Some cases of
books in the library, some few pieces of
furniture in the parlor, aRd clock on
the mantel, are all that are left to remind
one Of the elegance and comfort of the
IOImCE 'AfIIug OH IIUNSGs
Passing through the house and taking
q drink at the well, we proceeded few
hundred yards, and behold Long lines
and battallions Of the consecrated heroes
Of the War lie before you in double lines
and in battle front, these long columns
seem only to have lain down to rest after
the tolls of the battle; but ever,uutilthe
great trumpeter sounds the "assembIy'
will they be marshaIed again /; but then,
may we not reverently believe, that to the
sound Of the cymbal' and harp, they v ii
once more take up their march to be re.
viewed by the tutelar Saint OF Columbia
There arc already many thousands bulied
in this Cemetery, and every day adds 10
the number; the battle fields in the vi
entity furnishing thousands who will here
i1d their final resting place. One cannot
help admiring the choice which conse,
Grated the estate of the chief of Rebels
as the burial place of his victims.
The feeling that the Johnnies might
still retain o grudge against US is entirely
dispellod. A moro completely whipped
set of men you never saw. "Yankee" is
now Synonymous with "chivalrous gen
man" with them, and [ cannot apprehend
any trouble in rGestablishing State Gov
ernmouts South, for all must now agree
that there is no such thing wanted as re-
construction. The only question that
can give any trouble Is "unlyersal suf-
fIago," and this, I think will be much
more readily settled than many of our
friends North imagine. They must con.
slider that there is not the same prejudice
here against the negro as North that a
large majority Of the Southern whites
have been in rs dcplorable condition, end
are equally Ignorant with Sambo, and are
no better qualified to vote intelligontly
than lie is; besides the Blacks are all
Union men, and who does not like a
black friend Of the Government better
than white Rebel? I have no doubt,
because l think it should be so, that a
universal right to vote will be generally
granted to both white and black, coupled
only with the condition Of intelligence,
and / think I know if that is a condition,
that with the lower class of whites it will
operate to exclude as many as of blacks
The wisdom and intelligence at the head
of our Government will eventually fx ali
things right.
l had hoped to be homo to help you
celebrate the 4th of July, but shall not.
De not eXpend all your fine sentiments
on those who have come home, for [
assure you nearly all the VETERANS are
in the field yet. We shall bring home
our arms with plenty Of ammunition, ,and
our orders are positive to clean out all
copperhoadism. l do not believe there
will be much ropugnance to the job. l
now expect to see Old Potter somewhere
about the 18th Or Goth Of July.