Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1840-02-14
I REPUBLICAN
BLACK sHErp.-The Independent stand taken by

BLACK SHEEP.-The Independent stand taken b
Governor Porter in relation to the Banks, ha
brought down upon him the bitter denunciations {
the reckless and unprincipled utraists of his pan
ty. They seem determined to crush his high
minded efforts, and resoit to their usual means O
defamation to consummate their desires He WHOM
they once applauded as the very essence of de
mocratic purity-who was like the rockinthe oceal
firm and immovable, defying the foaming, dashins
billows which party wrath and party conflict hat
raised about his head-is now condemned as tho
bribed and poor tool Of the banks, as having sold
yes that's the word-sold himself to them for some
paitry consideration! This is the language of the
n. Y. Evening Post is it democracy If this is
what is called backing our friends deliver us
from the principle. We applaud the governor for
his course in this matter, for he has taken tho
rough democratic ground, and we have confidence
to believe our friends will support his position.
We are Pennsylvania'S fend, and as such would
have depored the results of that legislative rec-
lessness which characterised the deliberations of
the Van Buren men at Harrisburgh, had not the
Executive interposed his influence, checked their
realities Of that general distress which would in
evitably have followed We ask the democrats
of Monroe, not the mushroom Van Buren Sub
Treasury sink or swim democrats, but the good
old fashioned admirers Of Thomas Jefferson and
his principles, if it is not the duty of the Execu-
tive to administer the Government for the benefit
Of the WHOLE rEor1E1 What other motive but
hat pf n
number should actuate him Should he be ready
at the nod of few aspiring demagogues, wolves
IN sheeps clothing, pesudo democrats, men whose
first principle is sselfaggrandizement, whose second
is the spoils-men who though Ilsnfaseinq tn he
the friends of The people, opposed the last war,
and with Charles Jared Ingersoll, would have
been Tories had they lived in the days of the Re-
volution,' to sacrifice the best interests of the
State, destroy her credit, and plunge the people
into positive distress, whenever they decree it
No, no, people of Monroe that Executive is unfit
even to- be a democrats slave, much less demo-
Gratis ruler, who would suffer himself to be driven
or led bv artful and factous men. His station is
responsible one and he is bound, most solemnly,
TO watch over the interests of the State, and to
commend such measures to the assembled repre-
senives of the people for their cons leration, as
IN his estimation the times seem to justify This
he has done, and for doing this he is vilifed by
those who ought to be his friends, if actuated by
honest principles, and determination to serve the
people.
We have found it incumbent on US heretofore to
denounce some acts of the Executive Of this State
Our duty, the conductor of an independent press
impelled to do SO, but we have also been among
the first to award to him that praise which was
justly his This we hold to be democratic. But
what kind Of democracy is that which makes the /
interests of party paramount to the public good II
that renders the qualification of individual desires
superior TO the wants of the people Was such
the democracy of Jefferson2 We think not, and
we viii be borne out in the assertion, that those
who advocate the doctrine Of party right or wrong,
are no true friends to their country. And what t
may we not think Of Van Burenism when IFS vo-
taries take grounds against the conservatism of
David r. Porter Il is manifestation of the very
worst spirit Of Jacobinism, and should be con-
demned by every true democrat.