The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-04-03
The PrsId It and Democracy
Mr.. N4SBFS VIEWS.


l hev had hopes of Androo Johnson
My waitin sole hes bin centered untoo him
for a year back. He wuz the Moses
which / spected wood lead the Democrisy
out ov the desolate Egypt into which We
hev bin making bricks without straw for
FIVE long, weary and dreary years. 0
now | hav yearned for johnson Oh
how l hev waited, day after day and week
after week, aud month after month, for
some manifestations Nv Diuoerisy, wieh
is satisfactory-suthin tangible-suthin
that Good take hold on.
Faith IS the substance Nv things hoped
for and the evidence of things not seen,
wich is all right so fur ez religion il con-
cerned, but Nv no oceount in politix. A
friend Nv mine who vuz monomanlak
on the subjick Nv faith undertook to live
on it, under the insane belief that of a
man had faith pork was unnecessary.
Wuz the experiment $ success? Not any
When be commeust the trial be weighed
200. in a week he wuz down to l25, and
in fourteen days he slept in the valley.
I hcv bin livin on faith for year or
more, aud I too am thin. Ny bones show,
light shines through mel am faint and
sick Oh for suthin that | can see and
feel suthin solid.
Our Dimocratic newspapers are supper
tin Androo Johnson. They claim that
his polisy is our polisy, that he is ourn
and We are hizn. They are singin hosan-
uers to him-at his every act they e1-
claim halleloogy, in korus. What isitali
about? Ia what partikelar hez Androo
johnson showed hisself to be Dimokrat?
Lu the name of Dimocrisy let me ask
."WHERE Is TIE OFFICES ?" Who's got
'em? WHAT'S the polittikle convickshuns
Nv the wretch who is post master at the
Corners, aud who only last nigte refused
in the most heartless manner to trust me
for postage stamps? Who is the collect
ors, the Assessors, ct setteryg Are they
constitutional Dimokrats Is Stanton
aud Seward and WeIles histed out Nv the
cabinet aud ValIandigum aud Brite and
Wood apiated in their. places? Not oDct.
Every post master, every collector, every
assessor, every officer, is ablisnnist, dyed
deeply and in fast coiors.
Faith without works is weak institc-
tout is like whisky punch with the
whisky omitted, wich is disgustin mix
ture Nv warm water and sugar. What is
it to me, (who hev bin ready to accept
any position Nv wich the salary WIZ suf-
fcient to maintain lndividooal Nv sin
pie habits, who is beheaded so ez don't
get place? Audroo johnson may cut
of ofishai heads ez dexterously and pro.
loosely ez he chuses, but my sole refuses
to thrill when I know that Ablishnists
though Nv a different stripe, will be ap-
plnted So long as dinicrats are kept
out, what care [ who hez the places
Paul may plant and Apollus water but OF
what account is the plantin and waterin
to me if | don't get the increase? | take
no delight in sieh spectacles- Eff Androo
johnson proposes to be dimikrat, eff he
desires the honest, hearty support of the
party, let him seel his faith with bis works.
visited Washington for the express
purpose Nv see;n the second Jackson. !
am frank man aud | laid the matter
afore him without hesitation. | told him
that the Postmaster at the Corners wuz
opposiu his policy and aboosin him con-
tinuallg that it wuZ outrage that men
holdln place under the Administration
should not sustain the Administration
In the name Nv Right demanded
change
I sposed that to wunst the position
would be offered to me, aud after protes.
tin sufficient time that I didn't wish 1t,
and would prefer the apiutuent of some
more worthy man, | should accept it aud
20 home provided for for three years. I'm
agine my deep, my uuutterable disgust,
when be told me he would investigate the
matter, aud probably would make
change. provided he could find IN the "a
ci,nity some original Union man nho
acould accept the place
Then the iron entered my soul. Then
felt that in him we had 10 lot or part
Olr principles are Nv very compre-
QeDSIF6 DaIuT6. w = dEG NlilIu W C50OtSV
Audroo Johnson or any other man. We
will endorse bis theories Nv Reconstruc
ton, or any mans theories. We are elias
tic like Ingy Rnbber. The boy who sat
hen on hundred eggs acknowledged to
his maternal parent that she could not
kiver 'em, but, be remarked. he wanted to
see the old thing spread herself We
have that spreadin capacity. We kin &C
comuodate the prejudices nv the people
Nv all the various localities. 10 Couuec
ticut we are singin John Browns body
Les a mouldrin in the grave, in a modrit
ly loud tone, and supportin Ablishnist
who voted for doin away with slavery in
the District of Columby and for the Con-
stitooshnel Amendment. In Kentucky
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