The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-08-14

did you let lis in the fore front to be
crushed! Well, we owe it to God and our
selves that we have found out one thing,
that this Government is in the hands of no
one man, or half dozen men. It's foun-
dalions are in the heart of great people.
EF Senator Trumbull, the author of the
civil rights and freedmen's bureau biIls,in a
late speech at Chicago gave the following
account Of the course pursued by the
President in reference to them:
Both these bills as you are aware, were
met by an Executive veto. Bills drawn
up in harmony with the message delivered
to us at the commencement of the session;
bills submitted and read to tie President
IN manuscript before Mey aoere printed; );
bills sent to hem after they egere prtnted
and against tie provisions Of Dhich he
never hsped aVord until after they were
enacted by both Houses Of Congress; both
these bills, then, met with veto, not by
reason Of any particular feature i'll them, but
a veto against the whole principles of the
bills. We then found that the President
of the United States was as false to the
pledges of his annual message, when he
said that equal and exact Justice should be
meeted out to al men, as he had proved
recreant to the pledges he made when he
took the oath Of President, that rebels
should be impoverished and take back seats
in the work of reconstruction. Then it
was that we found it impossible to 90 along
further in the course that the President was
leading.
Eg-The Copperhoads bring all these
charges against the Republicans on the
negro. Hester CIymer could talk on no
other subject at the late Clymerite Soldiers
Convention; w. w. H. Davis, in his reso-
luton in that body, had nothing but the
negro to discuss, and to- day in Pennsylva-
MIA, there is not a Democratic organ in ex
istence, that can print an editorial without
dilating on the negro, and charging whole
sale that the Republican party is in favor
Of NEGRO equality" negro suffrage" "mis-
cegenatlon," ETC., etc, etc. 1t is not our
intention to vindicate the republican party
from such ridiculous charges. What We
aim at is the proof to show that the Cops.
are at their old game of misrepresentation.
Neither tie Convention aghich nominated
Geary, or tile ConyentionS yhjch have
thus far put IN noDainotjon Republican
county ticket IN this State, has declared
for negro Sufrage0r negro equality. The
Copperhead leaders have set up this buga-
boo, to serve the lack of argument in favor
of their candidates.
wVaIIandigham, in a speech at Lex
ington, Kentucky, short time since, when
advocating the claims of rebel candidate
for office,said he never had for an hour be-
ieved that the war would restore the Union,
and he found the same issues presented as
in 1861. He said also that the contest
was the same in Kentucky as in Ohio
Put this and that together, and it follows,
according to Val, that the Ohio Democracy
90 into the coming campaign still! declaring
as was done at Chicago, that the war was
a failure, and that "the Issues of 166I"-I
secession of course the most prominent
are yet undecided. YalIandigham will, of
course, repeat these assertions at the Phiia
deIphia Randall-Doolittle Convention,
whittier he goes to speak for Andrew
Johnson.
g- George H. PendIeton, candidate for
Weep President on the ticket with NJ CIelIan
and Senatorial delegate from Ohio to the
Doolittle-Raudall convention, is engaged in
maIigning Gen. Grant. PendIeton affects
to believe that Grant, instead of being a.
a soldier, is a mere butcher-a brute who
depends on the force of Numbers and not
on military genius or strategy for his vic
tories. Does Pendleton speak for the
President, and are his ISLANDERS of Grant
part of "my policyG" He might answer
these questions at Philadelphia on the I4th
inst.
RgHowelI Cobb, ,Buchanan's Secretary
of the Treasury, has taken the stump in
Georgia, in advocacy of Johnson's Recon
struction policy. He took the funds of the
National Government, while he was Secre-
tary of the Treasury, to aid rebellion, and
hence it is logical that he should take the
stump in defense Of Johnson. Besides this,
there are rebels in the South who ROW take
the Hves of Union men in all of the Pres
ident. Tie fact is, the Johnsouian move
ment is "taking"-taking the Government
to the rebels with lightning speed,