Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1841-09-29

To what miserable, base and contemplate
means are the Editors Of the Porter Presses
compelled TO resort, 10 secure The election of
their candidate? Unable to find in The whole
course of the life Of JOHN BANKS, either public
or private, any thing with which TO find fault,
they are driven almost TO madness, and in their
frenzy, scatter their SANDER and abuse indis-
criminately upon those, who exercising the priv
ilege of freemen freedom of choice) are op-
posed 10 their candidate. Destitute of reason
and argument, ,hey try TO array one class of clii-
zcns against another, and appeal TO sectional
feelings, and jealousies, in order 10 effect their
object Who that has read the article on the
first page Of the Monroe Democrat Of the Sth
inst, headed " Slanderers-who are they" can
but be struck with the truth Of the above re-
marks True, the article referred to is ex-
,racled from the Yeoman, and is not the pro-
duclion Of the Editor of the Democrat but this
is no excuse-ihey who circulate slander, are
no more justifable Than they who first uter it.
The Yeoman first publishes the libel anu the
trace his descent from the Pilgrim Fathers
from the heroes of Concord, Of Lexington and
of Bunker Hill-who that has one drop of Yam
kee blood in his veins, can remain cool and un-
moved al such wholesale, wanlon and venom
Gus abuse? Are the early settlers of the coun-
try, the hardy sons Of New England, who first
penetrated the wilderness. and by their indus
Try, courage and perseverance made il their
abiding place-are they who left their homes
10 carry civilization and improvement, where
the foot of the White man had never before trod
10 be sIigmatized at this day, as the ''hce of
Egypt Are they to be told. that they deserve
no credit for making Giles, Villages and Man
ufactories spring up, where once was nought
but howing wilderness, and where until they
appeared, the yell Of the Savage alone, inter-
rupted the silence that reigned aroundl Are
they 10 be told that ga decent Neu Englander
prefers remaining at home" that at IS only the
rileSt Sparn that creep abroGd, making their
entrance into our borders by the most disgust
ing slime, and injecting the atmosphere nth a
deadly moral and political pestilence, to the ter
rOr Of qH honest men ?" Are they 10 be told
this, and that too by one who perhaps had
justice been done him would at this time be The
inmate Of Prison? Are they 10 be told this
by the Editor Of The Yeoman, who having been
indicted for libel, was pardoned before his
Trial by David r. Porter, The man who they are
now called on TO support? Will these men
who are called the ice Of Egypt" and ':the
rilest spa~n that creep abrood' support those,
who thus iraduce and villify them? Forbid ii
justice! forbid it decency! forbid il patriotism
The bones of their ancestors "lallen in the
great struggle for independence" and which
"lie mingled with the soil of every state, from
New England 10 Georgia" would rise from The
dust and reproach them for iheir bascness.
Will the honest and yirtuous of our land, who
do not trace their origin from New England,
justify This wholesale SANDER of their neighbors
and friends? they will not---we know that they
will not Yankees descendants Of Yankees /!
read the article we have reference TO, and if
your blood does not boil in your veins, and you
do not rebuke these slanderers, then may we
say that the love Of Ancestry and of Home, has
fed from The breasts Of the descendants Of New
England