The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1867-04-18

hardly deserved the sad fate Of Johnson S
friendship. This last straw would break
the back of any camel that had a back to
break.
Where is Our Northern Boundary?
If the House Of Representatives makes
the necessary appropriation to consummate
the purchase of territory from Russia, con
tempated in the treaty between the Gar
and the United States, the people of Ore
gon and Washington Territory, now re
garded as heing on our extreme northern
boundaries, will become Sontherners. That
portion of our country which we have been
accustomed to speak of with so much re-
spect as "the great Northwest" is the great
Northwest no longer. Stopping at the
line of 49 deg. north latitude, It's relative
position upon the Pacific coast will hereaf-
ter be central. We have added very ex-
tensive coast line north of it, which would
| have been continuous had the Polk admin
istration adhered to the original programme
of "54 deg. 40 min. or fight" AS it is,
we quit the Pacific at 40 deg, and resume
again again at 54 deg. 40 min, the inter.
mediate space beirg filed by British pos
sessions. Commenting on these facts, the
Washington Ch' onicle says our people
have faith in the manifest destiny Of our
nation. They look to the eventual ab-
sorption of the whole North American con-
tinent, and the Senate has undoubtedly
gratifed national instinct by rati(ying the
treaty for the cession by Russia of her
American possessions to the United States.
ANOTHER BID FOR CoLoRED VoTEs.-
The Democracy held Convention at
Nashville, Tennessee, on April Isl, at which
Judge Grant presided. Judge Whitworth
and Mr.. Williams, a colored man, were the
principal speakers, the former enforcing the
views he recently put forth in a letter re-
cpecting the policy Of accepting the situa-
tion, fully recognizing the negro as ci'i-
zen and voter, and inviting him to partici
pate in political meetings, and Mr.. Williams
taking ground that the owners of the soil
and the laborers are identified in interest,
and should cooperate for the good of each
other ard the country. He believed the
Southern men were the negroes best
friends, Williams is from Pennsylvania,
and has served in the Federal army The
convention adopted resolution requesting
colored voters to hold meeting and ap-
point delegates to the State Convention,
which assemblies at Nashville on the 10th,
to nominate a candidate for Governor. 1t
seems the Democrats are after the negro
in all parts of the country
EXPULSION OF SAULsBURY-A resolu-
ton has been presented in the I. S. Sen
ate to expel Mr.. Salisbury for habitual
drunkenness The poor degraded wretch
is totally untitled to perform the duties of
Senator, though he manages to make a
speech occasionally in favor of the Demo
cratic party. The Democracy have but a
very few Senators, but the character of
these few is such as to disgrace the country
r@- Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts,.
visited Richmond and Petersburg last
week. At Petershure he was waited on
by deputations of citizens, black and white,
and by the local authorities, and invited to
make speech. He complied with the
request and delivered an excellent address
to an immense concourse Of people The
Republican party should make a point of
sending prominent representative men to
hold meetings in all parts of the South.
1t would remove the erroneous impression
under which the majority of the white
people in that section are suffering.
E No less person than Caleb Cush-
ING is the euIogist of Charles Sumner In
his published argument on the Meade case,
Mr.. Pierce's Attorney General begs leave
to read from recent report of the chair
man of the Senate committee on Foreign
Relations; "Not only because of the emi-
nent ability displayed in the report ITSELF
and of the all comprehensive knowledge of
public law possessed by Mr.. Sumner, and