The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1867-03-12

IrltOry rlcnef tn3H any otueT pOFLIou VI lDc
world Of It's size. They talk about the
gold of California the silver of Nevada,
and the diamonds of Peru and Brazil, but
there is no district ot country Of The size
| of Pennsvlvania which haS So much inter
nal wealth within it, and no part II the
world in which people can live more hap
PLY, nor in which tLsy CAN 10 mere good
for their fellows and for posterity. Ap-
pIause They talk about gold in Cali
fornia and the millions ~ 1t they sent to
the East. In Feansy yirasia. III period of
three or four months, We seGt out, aud at a
very lo~ price, more than forty million doll
ars' worth Of coal; all dag from the earth,
aud al giving life aud support to the la
boring people of our country.
No mandatory in the country scarcely
can now exist without the coal Of Penn
sylvania. And then beside coal We have
other wealth such as scarcely any other
people can boast. We can produce every
thing which adds TO the comfort and pros
perity Of man IN our valleys, while the
manufacture of the minerals of the noun
tains gives employment to the people Of
the valleys. Why should we not, there
fore, be proud Of our great State am
rad, therefore, to See all these PeHnSyIya-
nians coming out to do THEN State honor
! 10 my person. Applause. | trust that
| shall hereafter be faithful to Peunsylva-
MIA, as | have sI~ays heretofore tried to be
faithful TO LeT and to my country. APP
plause. 1t would be hardly proper for
NE now in this greeting amongst ourselves
to alIude to Affairs here in Congress, and
vet l must say word or two upon that
subject. AppIause have no animo4itv
to the people Of the South. l pity those
who were deludel, and | would try to
keep those who deluied them from here
after doing wrong to those around them.
| Applause. They complain that they
are not permitted to come into this Gov
ernment ani manage the country. Would
it he hight to bring those people here-to
admit into congress those who have the
bl"al Of our frti,w citizens pom their
hands TCries OF No, mol Would it he
wisA TO bring people here who have done
all this wrong To us to egisate again as
they did before? | say DO; ard am sur-
YOU will say no. Cries of We DO say no.
No; we will keep those peop'e, who lave
been the aggressors from Congress. We
will allow the people below, the deudel
people to come here alter they haze shown
themselves properly qualified. But the
men who were IN high places just before
The rebellion began never can be allowed
70 come back here to make laws for US,
cries Of No; never What rig t have
hey to do 50? Cries of none. They
lbandoned their country, and said that
they dad not belong to the United States.
they called their country by some other
name; but they made what they called a
constitution" for themselves. And now
they would come back here, when they
:au fight no longer, and manage our Gov
| ernment to suit themselves, forsooth. No,
gentlemen; we will allow no such thing
| Applause If Mr.. johnson had been "a
wise raan he would have signed the recon
Ntruction bill the other day, applause.
,nd thus have gotten himself back INTO his
oli harness. He might then, perhaps, have
oeen forgiven for some Of the wrongs he
| ias done in the last fourteen months. 1t
8 too late now TO forgive bim.
No, have nothing more to say, | be
eve, except to thank the ladies' for their
kindness in coming here. There never can
pet pleasant assembltge without the Ia lies ;
md certainly there never can be gracfal
ne. We are proud of all Of them who are
here; proud that they are Pennsy!v@nianS,
md am much prouder sill that they sre
ny triends Applause.
General Cameron was followed by Hon.
dr. Miller, Hon. Benjamin II. Brewster,
| Wayne McVeigh, and others from Penu-
sylvania. The party separated about mid
night.
Senator Reverdy Johnson, Of Mary
n voting with the Republicans for the Mi
tary Reconstruction Bill, said to the
'eop!s of the So tn that athey must
understand that whether or not they
egarled the acts of this Congress as valid
Ohey would be practically SO, and that they
would be compelled to submit to them and
put up with whatever they might gain
lnder them. And the New York W0rld
says:
The probabilities, as we estimate them,
nclne strong to ultimate submission on
lie part of the South. Ii this estimate be
lot mistaken, good policy requires That the
,ubmlssion should be prompt enough to
reyent the Radica getting co troll Of the
.ew State organizations. The Planters can
'ontrol the negro vote if they begin il
eason, and by accepting at once what they
| ,ll be constrained to submit to at last, they
:an help their friends IN the North elect