Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1842-03-09
FOR THE JEFFERsoNrAN REPUBLICAN.

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the editor of free and independent public jour
nal were so far TO lose sight of the high duty
enioined upon hil. as conservaor ofpublic
moralitv in It's purify, as TO condescend TO no.
tice the attacks of every petty anonymous
scrjbbler whe may choose to assail him and the
nrinciples ne advocates, &c" How does this
language comport with the acts and conduct of
tb;s braggadocio of asMonkey2 What is his
duty and how has he discharged that duty to
The taxpayers Of Monroe county?
Why tax payers be never intended that you
should be made acquainted with true state
ment of the financial condition of your county,
or he would have published the dissenting doc
ument Of John Merwine, giving that genlleman's
reasons for not signing the auditors statement,
that document although it was portion of the
records of our county, was entirely excluded
from honest Jimmy's paper of The 5ih February
which was the commencement of Jimmy's pub
lication of the County statement. In the exclu
sion of this document from his columns 1t would
appear that the editor was actua,ed by motives
of fear and malice.
First.-He did not wish the public to become
acquainted with the language of Mr.. Merwine's
dissenting document for fear of its producing
a reduction of his fees for County printing in
future, as that paper advised reduction of this
animals grab charges.
Secondy.-The dissenting document not
appearing in the paper, the publie would be in
duced 10 believe that Mr.. MeEwlne vas not in
attendance before the auditors at all, and conse-
quenlly it would be calculated to injure his
reputation. The first Of these reasons shows
that honest Jimmy considered The amount of
o,eh bo iCht H. of
document of more importance than the honest
performance of his duty. The second shows a
base desire TO inJure The reputation of an indi-
ridual, plainly showing that in this case the
Editor must have lost sight of his duty as
conservation of public morality in its purity. For
proof Of the foregoing we need only refer 10 The
subsequent numbers Of Jimmy's paper, where
we find Mr.. Merwine's dissenting document
published; this clearly shows that it was at
first intentionally excluded but after the public
were made acquainted with lis contents by Mr..
Merwine in his address at the County meeting,
and in the columns of the Jeffersonian, then
Rafferty, also comes out with it. o honestly! !!
o conservator Of public morality in its purity !!
1t appears by honest Jimmy's editorial that lhe
principles which he advocates were assailed by
tax payer in the Jeffersonian. What princi-
pies Jimmy The Tax payer said nothing about
political principles, but he did assail dishonor
able, and dishonest principles, lying and grab
principles, are these your principles Jimmy
contend that any tax payer has right TO as
sail such principles, and any one who would
advocate principles of this kind, should be
branded with infamy and transported from civil
society.
In the same piece he says: "ln our editorial
capacity our humble prayer shall be, kind Heav
en- defend US from swarm Of hungry Office
hunters~ What absurdi:y! What ridiculous
falsehood!! Why those hungry ofiice-hunters
are the very men who support this vain, con-
temptible ignoramus. Last fall the swarm Of
ofic e-hunters numbered candidates, who vol
UNFAIRLY offered themselves 10 Gil the various
County Offices, and if honest Jimmy charged
each one as he did Kiser, viz: $l3, so, the sum
total would be $94, ,50-an enormous and un-
accountably exorbitant sum for printing seven
notices and their tickets, for SO small county
as Monroe. Suppose 6 candidates FOR Sheriff,
2 for Coroner, 6 for Commissioner, and 2 for
Auditor, come before the public next fall, ma
king l6 candidates at Sl3,50 a head, would be
$4,000, and this ignOramus prays TO be defend
ed from their tender mercies Why this asser-
tion of Jimmy's carries faIsekood upon its very
face. hope, however, that all candidates who
may hereafter come before the public for office,
will recollect this prayer Of honest Jimmy, and
defend themselves from this exorlioners tender
mercies, by having their notices and tickets
printed by some Other person, who will have
more mercy on them than TO charge them dou-
BILE price. 1t would appear from this prayer OF
honest Jimmy's, that the fellow mus, have been
shattered in his cabash at the county meeting
on the 9Th ult, or that his mental faculties have
left it and gone into his whiskers, for no sensi-
bic person who valued his reputation for truth
and veracity would so shamefully scandalze
and degrade his character by making public
assertion of prayer Of this kind, when it is
known that there has been On an average 5 vol
uneer candidates before the public each year
for the last years, all of whom had their no.
tices and tickets printed by grab jimmy. Now
what does This amount 10 at $l3, so head
times make 40. by which multiply $3.50
and il produces $4,000, besides This Jimmy