The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-02-04
From the Kalamazoo Telegraph, OF January IL
POTTEK'S WHEEL.

Our Representative Cor misrepresentation
is making very bad record. We find him
again recorded az mot voting" upon the reso-
luton in favor of the retention OF well-qualifed
[ Mon soldiers as House appointees, in pref
erence to soldiers Of the late Confederate army.
We learn that, when this matter was first
brought before the House, Mr.. Potter was IN
the lobby, and could have voted, if he would;
but the Fourth District OF Michigan was dumb
before this great question. That was Dodge
No. we now have Dodge No. 2, on the same
issue, But, even worse than these, IN the final
vote OF Monday last, upon the passage OF the
bill to restore to full citizenship Jeff. Davis
with the rest OF the traitors not amnestied az
yet, he ranged himself with the Confederstes
and Bourbons IN support Of the bill. This is
utterly astounding. Whatever his personal
proclivites may be, however elastic his back
bone, however weak his sympathies with those
who dared aud suffered to put down the hide
Gus rebellion. we should have expected that he
would feel himself there the representative OF
the loyalty and demand for justice to the deep
dyed criminal that certainly possess the vast
majority Of his constituents. BY this vote the
Fourth District, so loya, and true and self
sacrificing during the terrible years, is msrep-
resented, shamed, Inundated, dishonored for
all time. BY this vote the man who cast it
puts himself henceforth outside the pale Of
charity for bis faithessness and weakness, aud
debars himself of the slightest claim upo the
political consideration of Republican or loyal
Democrat. Indeed, the Republicans may as
well abandon all hope Of Mr.. Potter. His
wheel is complete. As If he himself, instead
Of being Potter, were clay in the hands of the
| potter, he has been moulded to suit the will OF
his masters. At their bidding he has pro-
nounced in favor of the chief OF traitors, and
has refused to pronounce in favor Of the SOL
dier-patriots who offered themselves to die that
the nation might live. lie will Hereafter be
q" utilized" thoroughly for their own ends. A.
an uncorrupted and unhackneyed politician, we
hoped there was some sincerity in his oft-re-
peated declaration, ~ am Just as good Re-
publican as ever was p" but that turns out to
have been as shabby an eectioneering pretense
as is possible TO the veteran office-seeker, who
has no other care than to count noses enough
at the caucus or nominating convention and or
election day. We say to him distinctly that
however often his platter may be out fol
Office hereafter. in the Congressional district
the county, or the village, no Republican car
put faith in any declaration Of his during the
Canvass and no War Democrat, who stands
by his record and takes the logical consequence.
es Of 1t. can give hIm tue shadow OF support.
He has proved utterly unequal to great stu.
alton. Upon fateful page of history he hai
written his name to a fearful mistake. This
blunder the Fourth District can never forgive
By his most unfortunate vote and failures tc
vote, he has knocked himself politically so higi
that Gravitatlon will never bring him down.