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The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-09-04
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The Law DISTINGUISHING Deserters

The guilty always tremble when brought
to answer the law they have violated.
This is the case and the condition now of
the deserters and their upbolders who left
the army and navy when their services as
enlisted men were required to put down
rebellion The law of Pennsylvania, as
we'll as the law of the United States, is
against the exercise of the elective franchise
by all sailors and soldiers who deserted from
the army and the navy. 1t is this law of
the State which Is to be put in force, e,which
must be PIT an force by eVery election Of
.fcer IN the State, OR SUCH OFFICERS CAN
AND WILL BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR A
VIOLATION OF THEIR SWORN DUTY. The
Supreme Court has not decided that
this law OF Pennsylvania Is unconstitutional.
Pennsylvania has a right as a State, to
regulate the qualifications of her electors.
She does this when she closes her ballot
box to the black man-She can do it in the
case of the deserter, who violated bis oath,
who abandoned his country, and who for
feited his franchise. This law of the State
of Pennsylvania, disfranchising deserters,
most be published in connection with every
sheriff election proclamation. The sheriff
who refuses to publish this law in the man
nev provided, neglects his sworn duty, as
will the election officer who refuses to en-
free the law.
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mThe Harrisburg Telegraph says that,
in conversation with an old Wing a day OF
two since, the talk turned to the politics of
the day, when Hester Clymer's recreancy
to the teaching of his young manhood sug-
gested itself In referring to this fact our
old friend observed that on one occasion he
quietly reminded Clymer of his apostasy,
inquiring how he, Whig, could embrace
party organization so hostile to the great
men and measures of that once glorious or
ganization. "Ah!' responded Hester, "if
you lived IN Berks county. and aCere am
bilious, you could comprehend ,0hy T6e-
came Democrat" He then added, with
leer, Large Local Majorities are Wonder
fully Persuasive to Men Fond of Promi-
nence." This is the story in nut shell of
Hester Clymsr's political position.
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na- In noticing the personnel Of the
Philadelphia Loyalists Convention, the
Daily EUening Telegraph says "Gen
SIMON CAMERON is a man who has so e.
grated bis name and reputation into the
political and Legislative relations of our
country, that detailed account Of his ca
reer would be superfuous. He is living
example of the axiom, that "There is no
excellence without great labor" He raised
himself by his own unaided efforts, from a
journeyman printer to position in the
governmental economy of our great coun-
try second to none in influence and trust
For ten years he was a Senator of the
United States, and he has been Secretary
Of War, Minister to Russia, and prominent
candidate for the Presidency"
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ordinary human gratitude to kick the men
whose support exalted him! We know of
one instance of removal, iu this countyfrom
a little post-ofice paying perhaps hundred
and fifty dollars year, of an old gentle
man, (Dr. H. H. Munson, Oswayo,) whose
two bows volunteered and were lost in the
defence of the Union. They were al he
had. A daughter, in poor health, but with
sufficient strength to attend 10 the duties
of the office, bright, intelligent lady, has
had the care it for some time, and it has
assisted in providing for her living. Her
father has been removed and her employ
ment has ceased. And this is the way
Andy Johnsons minions repay the friends
of those who died for the right! A rant.
ing copperhead, of the meanest stripe, has
been appointed. A deserter, we are in
formed; one who, when drafted, ran away.
He is not even a voter; the laws of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania declare
him to have forfeited that right by lis de-
sertion. Who would be-. President to day
| if all had pursued the course he did; jeff
Davis or the merry Andrew z" Would
there have been such thing as the United
States? Compare the course pursued by
the appointee and that pursued by Dr.Mun-
sons sous. Keep on with such removals,
the more made the closer will the bands of
the Union party be bound together. Andy
johnson has proven recreant to his most
solemn pledges, has played the demagogue
and fool. Drunk on the day of bis inau-
guration, he has not been in his right mind
since. Egotistical to ridiculous degree
he imagines himself possessed of some di.
vine affiatus with which he is to succor out
of the wreck of locofocoism the cream of
everything good; organize a new party,
whose foundation shall be love of post
offices and whose structure shall be love
of Country" and our southern brethren.
He IS to be the good Samaritan and hex
the sores of all the southern dogs and nor
thern puppies that present themselves.
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EsThe Clinton Republican says the
Copperhead Congressional Conference met
in that place last week and "after an acri
monious contest for couple hours, nomi-
mated Theodore Wright, of Lock Haven
We believe the contest was between Mr.
Wright, perpendicular democrat and a
guerilla candidate" This Mr.. W. referred
to is the "moneyed man" who run against
Mr.. Wilson in 1864, and whose friends de-
clared had enough loose change to buy up
the republican party" He failed then; he
viii fail now. Of his copperheadism his
party need not fear, it is the original fiat
head" sort.
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F6rThe Democracy of L.uzerna b

Berthe Democracy of Luzerne have re,
nominated Charles Dennison, for Congress
The Republicans we hope will nominate
Winthrop W. Ketchum against him. Mr.
K. has carried the county when no Other
Republican could, simply by the force Of
his own energy, vigilance and ability. We
know of no man in Pennsylvania who de-
serves more from his friends than he does
and if elected, as we think he could be, he
will make an honorable and leading repre-
sentative.
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TEXAS REcoHsTRUcTED.-A private let
ter from Texas contains the following sig.
nifcant statement;
1--WE have nothing new here. Politics
run high. Our Provisional Government
ended on the 9th of this month, and the
first act of the Legislature was to give
thanks to Almighty God that thel Proyi
sionaI Government was ended the nexI
was to appropriate $4,000 to the Rebe
soldiers who lost limbs in defense of treason
Farewell to the hopes Of the true loyal men
of Texas %
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EgEThe following we take from a cop

@-The following we take from cop
perhead exchange:
"Since the adjournment of the disunion
Congress- the heads of radical otfice-holders
are dropping like corn stalks in topping
times. The President is determined to have
none of his enemies in Office, and he is
right. 1t is the most insane folly for a man
to feed and father pack Of fellows, who
devote their entire time to yilllfying and
traducing him."
ANDY Johnson's " bread and butter"
Who gave him the purse OF the country to
encompass the defeat of the just fruits of
war? Does the property of the United
States become the property of an individ-
ual when he becomes President? Are
taxes levied for his sole use and abuse? Is
removing Union ofice-holders the only
way to make "treason odious?" What right
has he to remove from Office those who
fought in defence Of their countryl Is it
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The Pittsburg Dispatch says: "The
Democratic party is a gone case. 1t has
lost name, principles and identity. We
commend this fact to those who still prate
of being 'life-long Democrats, and of being
members of the Democratic party, The
thing is a nonentity. 1t has departed this
aife and was buried in Philadelphia re-
Gently with the honors of war; Reqnies-
cat IN pace"
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rs" "Hon." NJ. B. ChampIain is expect

"Hon." NJ. B. Champain is expect
ed to address the party without a name,
in this place, during the campaign. Where
did he get bis prefix "honorabe"? Was
it when he was beaten for Attorney Gen
eral by majority of 29,113? Or was it
for promising whiskey for II cents gal
lon to all who would vote for little Mac for
President?
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The Philadelphia Bulletin commenting
upon the fact that the recent base ball
match between the pressmen of the New
York World and Times resulted in VIC
tory of the World men by score 62 to
10, remarks that the Times played on
both sides, after their usual fashion.
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rsAOf the Democratic candidate fol-


EglOf the Democratic candidate for
Congress. in this district, the Republican
Of Lock Haven, Mr.. Wright's home, says !:
"T. P. Wright, nominated by this Con
yention for Congress, is the same individual
who was rejected by the people Of this dis
trict in 1864. He was, during the war,
an ardent and uncompromising opponent
of the administration of Mr.. Lincoln, in
hearty sympathy with such men as Valian-
digham, Woodward, Hughes, Seymours
and the Woods, and ready, we believe to
90 as far as the most yirulent in hostility
to the measures which were used to subdue
the rebeHious South. Since the conclusion
of hostilIities, he has acted consistently
with the same men in their endeavors to
compicate the national embarrassments re-
sulting from the war, and to prevent any
settlement which does not embrace a gen.
eral amnesty to all Rebels, from jeff Davis
to Dick Turner, aud the consignment of
the loyal blacks, who poured out their
blood in rivers for the maintenance of the
government, to bondage, more hopeless,
ignominious and cruel than that from which
the rebellion liberated them. He Is, in
short, square!y and unequiyoca!ly opposed
to everything proposed by those loyal men
in Congress, whose wisdom and patriotism
carried us safely through the perils of the
war, and upon the merits of this opposition
alone bases his claim to election. Is he the
man the people-the loyal people of the
18th district want to represent them in the
national councils!"
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nA- The T1oqa Aqitator saws: @Dr,W.

A-The Tioga Agitator says: "Dr.W.
I. Humphrey, renominated for Assembly,
is so well known to the people, and espe-
cially to the soldiers, as to need no eulogy
at our hands. His record as legislator last
winter warrants us in saying that he was
ever at his post, and ever obedient to the
clearly expressed will of his constituents.
He will be triumphantlY elected"
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~ john R.CampbeIl, Of Williamsport
has been appointed Collector of this the
Eighteenth district vice George Bubb, re.
moved. Another fall of Andy gohnson's
axe. Campbell was the old Post Master
and is the main support Of the Union Re
publican, nondescript. Jacob Sallade is
Post Master in place of Mr.. Taylor, whose
appointment was confirmed only a month
since
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In the speech made by the President to
the committee from the Philadelphia Con-
yention, he uses the personal pronoun al"
only ono hundred and forty.three times
Country papers can't publish the speech
in full for want of the important letter Il.
They don't keep them by the bushel.
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H The Republicans of Clinton nor

~ I NC ItoP oPUUIlCaHs OF OHUIUH HOIIlI
mated: for Congress, S, F. Wilson; Assem-,
bly,, Col. c. A. Lyman; Sheriff, Thomas J.
Rockey; Congressional Conferees, Messrs.
W. L. Hamilton, 0. A. Harvey, and James
Chatham; Jesse Merrill was chosen Chair
man of the County Committee, and Capt
W. c. Kress, delegate to the Union State
Convention.
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EI We publish in another column

AGD we puDllSn Id announcer column tnC
official report Of the Democratic Congres
slopal Conference prepared for popular con
sumption, We po# desire to gite a report
Of the true state of affairs, which we have
received frern pndoubted Authority. The
Clinton Democrat truly says that three
counties united upon Mr.. Wright, but it
does not tell the whole truth, which is that
t0o Of tie counties did not go tyto the
conference, aohich after DuGh eorang2ing,
finally made the nomination. The Dele
gates from two counties claimed that GER
tain headstrong politicians got the delegates
Of t1res counties drunk that they might
the better control them and as the dele
gates who were drunk would not listen to
reason, would not be governed by what A.
Johnson's friends conceived to be the true
policy, would not cast aside one who bad
stood by their party and take up with a
renegade republican, the delegates from the
sober counties determined that they would
not assist in making a nomination which
was sure to result in utter defeat. When
the action of the majority was manifestly
beyond the control of these new disciples of
the "merry Andrew" the ex-governor from
Lycoming county, got up, and with clears
in his eyes," begged of bis stubborn frierds
that they "stop," 'hesitate," "reasoD," and
consider that he had been a delegate to the
Philadelphia Convention, that he had met
many friends there whom he had not seen
since before the Wor, that they desired
success, that victory was everything to
them at this crisis, and in districts in which
it was impossible to elect brethren of their
faith they must select men of the republi-
can party who would be willing, for some
"emoluments," to adopt "my policy" and
vote for Hester Clymer. If they were not
satisfied with this he, as last resort, would
pray that they do not nominate any one,
that the field be left open to an independent
Johnson man. But even this, the delegates
who had imbibed too freely, would not lis
ten to. They must have Wright. "Buly
for Wrightr' "He was defeated by only
500, and we'll 'lect i'm spite O h-lr'
Many more expressions of like character
were shouted in the face of the Ex-Governor
drowning his pleading and his logic And,
without exaggeration, these straight out
delegates acted very rudely and shamefully.
The indignant Johnson delegates then left
the Conference, and the remaining three
counties nominated Wright, having jolly
time over it! The democrats in this end
of the district are feeling very badly. They
confess that although Mr.. Wright may be
a gentleman and all that, still his politics
his open opposition to the war and undis-
guised sympathy with rebels, make him
too heavy to be carried successfully through
a campaign like the present. They have
not the faintest hope Of electing him, and
very little effort will be made in his favor
in this county. We have heard several of
the leading democrats of this village say
"!ksy errected different result"
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Eg-Do not fail to read the Letter, pub
lished on our first page of this week, from
loyal Georgian to Montgomery Blair, on
A. II. Stephens. Stephens is fair, if not
the fairest example of Southern rebel hon
esty.
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Gen. Butler got off a good thing the
other day. A Johnsonite was making con-
gratulatory observations to him on the
touching scene at the late Philadelphia
Convention, when the South Carolina and
Massachusetts delegates came in arm in
arm, and remarked that "extremes meet" "
ayes" said Butler, $50 they do when dog
chases bis tail, but both extremes belong
to the same dog"
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EgThe CLintonRepu6lican says: ''We
are glad to see that John S Mann, the in
:elligent and fearless representative in the
legislature from Potter county, has been
renomi2ated without dissent"
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na- The Republicans of Tioga have nom
mated: for Congress, Hon. S. F. Wilson
Assembly, DR.. W. 7. Humphrey; Pro
thonotary, John F, Donaldson; Register
& Recorder, Darius L. Deane; Commis-
sioner, P. Y. Vanness.
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Gen. Logan believes that Andrew John
son lost the confidence of the party that
made him Vice President, by his drunken
conduct at his Inauguration. True-and
had the Senate dealt with him as he de-
served, the country would have been spared
the humiliation and disgrace cf his Pres
idencv.
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Speaking of the vote of Stephen F-Wil
son on the increase of salary to Congress
men the Bulletin perpetrates the following
| silly whopper:
This they know to be false, for he voted a
gainst that disgraceful act in every shape il
which it was presented"
"He did. eh? Then he voted agains
the Bounty to soldiers; for these two bills
bounty and congressional pay were in
corporated in the civil appropriation bill
and he could not vote against one without
voting against the other; and as you claim
that he voted for the bounty bill, then he
voted for the disgraceful act" increasing
the salaries of members to five thousand
dollars. Twist it as you will, Mr.Bulletin
the whole affair is "disgracefuI," and you
have got your "able and Efficient member
in tight box !"- Union Republican.
D1~This renegade has lied about this
matter long enough Why can't you tell
your readers that Mr.. Wilson voted FOR
the Soldiers Bounty Bill when it was first
presented to the House as a single measure
afterwards when it was sent from the Sem
ate, attached to general bill, including the
iniquitops clause increasing the salaries of
Senators and Congressman, he very pro-
perly voted against the whole bill, knowing
well that the Bounty Bill was just and
right and would become law even though
defeated at that time. MI. Wilson's votes,
without an exception, meet with the hearty
approval of a large majority of his consti-
tuents, and they will ratify them by two
thousand majority on the second Tuesday
of Octoberl
The attempt Of cormorants to feed upon
public plumber he di,approyed and opposed
but the claims of the defenders Of the Rs
public he has always acknowledged.
Now, liar, publish the truth. We know
that when thing sells itself as cheap as
this thing has that very little honor or
truth remains after the sale, but perhaps
fear Of the result when the truth is fully
known, will constrain it to be honest in
this case.
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pea- Dean Richmond, Chief of the New
York Central Railroad Regency, died at
New York, on the eth. He was violent
democrat, an unscrupuIous sud intriguing
politician.