Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1850-09-26

whose names we have already published, and which
we need not, therefore, now repeat.
In Pennsylvania we have had but one Whig Co.
vernon in twenty years. and no Wing Administration
OF the public works at all during all that time
The public works have been wholly in the hands
of the Locofoco party and during all that time.
the public debt, and taxation in every form, have
been annually multiplying and increasing. The
reason OF this is plain The officers on The public
works have leagued themselves together for the
purpose of public plumber. And while they have
uniformly entered the public services boor and ac-
cumulated vast fortunes at the expense OF the peo
ple and been growing richer and richer every day,
the great mass Of laborers and producers in the
State have been growing, under the additional bur-
thens thus imposed upon them, steadily poorer and
poorer. Ii is hardly worth while to name the per-
sons who have accumulated large fortunes on the
public works. Such individuals exist in every
community in The State and well known to
every individual reader Some of them have
made such an excellent job of administering the
peoples affairs, that they now find themselves able
to bribe them in their primary assemblies and often
to buy their votes, on the day OF election, with
their (lhe people's) own money.
The only remedy for these great abuses is to be
found in frequent change public officers Let
the league of plunderers be broken up as often
possible, and in troduce as far as may be practical
bic, system Of partisan checks and balances in
every depal altment Of the government. The pol
icy of setting rogue to catch rouge may be
very we'll initiated in political affairs ;-and it
may possibly be found that setting Locofoco TO
watch Wing and Wing to watch Locofoco
will amount to very nearly the same thing for
we wish it to be distinctly understood that we claim
particular exemption for the whig party, when
in power, from the vices we have shown to exist
in the other, and which we have maintained from
the beginning were inseparble from place and pow
er. What we do claim, however, is, that the
Whig party are now entitled TO fair trial. The
little that we have seen of their management au
gers we'll for the future, and we believe they have
seen enough Of the i'll effects Of dishonest and
plunderng policy in the exposure and partial pun
lshnent OF their adversaries to adhere to HON
ESTY and ECONOMY for long time to come
The administration Of Governor Johnston thus far,
has not only been entirely honest, but eminently
successful. Without increasing the rate of direct
taxation, or adding in any way, dollar to the
public loans, he has put the North Branch Canal
In train OF eally completion, and pac off nearly
a MILLION OF DOLLARS of the principal OF ]
the public debt. These are facts, which entities
the whig party for the present at least, to the
fdence ofThe people. Let Us see that confidence
manifested in the election ofa Whig Auditor Cen
eral Wing Surveyor General, and Wing Ca
nal Commissioner. and it will be some years at
least before we can have another party league,
bound together by the cohesive power of public
plunder, and directing all its energies to the per-
manent establishment ofiself as a higher and bet
ter class Of society.
Let US not be any longer deluded with mere
catch-words. There is no virtue in a name. We
are all, that Is to say, the great body of the peo-
pIe exclusive Of the politicians, who have prin-
cipes, whatever, DEMOCRATS, and all Wings |
We all love our country with attachment sec
ond only TO that which binds US to our families,
and we are all devoted to the popular principles of
octin and =.
ference between the mass Of the people upon these
subjects. Why, then, should we cheat ourselves
with patty names, and imagine that, because we
happen to operate with one or the other of these
parties, we hold to different principles from our
nelghbOrs! The So called Democratic party, with
an lntermlssion of only about five years, has had
he direction OF affairs in Pennsylvania ever since
size became an independent State. For period
oi seventy five years that party has enjoyed the al
most uninterrupted confidence Of the people, and |
what have they given US in return! They pro-
less to De in favor OF the largest liberty in every
hing, the only true friends of popular rights, and
he only progressivists in the country Well, they |
nave had seveniy-fve years Of almost uninterrupt-
ed power, and what have they done for the peO-
Die, what really democratic measures have they
brought forward, or rather what democratic meas
Ire have they not opposed Have they not oppo-
ed the abolition of the life tenure of office! Have
hey not opposed the election of Judges and 9th
9r officers by the people Have they not uniform
Y opposed the reduction of official salaries T.
" hat, then have they given US in return for our
confidence! What have they given us but a regu
ar annual increase Of taxation, and a horde of
useless officers, who plunder US by systematic
rauds, and grow rich from the spoils OF official
station! Have they not attempted to fasten upon
IS an arlstocratic ORDER by continuing the Offices
n the hands OF few individuals, and thus build
ng up wealthy families, and perpetuating their
'ower! Have they not trodden upon the sacred
principle of equality, by bestowng the honors and
moluments of office upon the rich and wel-born
It the expense of the poor Have not their Gov
Tnors outraged all decendency, as we'll as justice
nd sound policy, by comforting the valuable Off
es in the State upon their own sons
This is the "Democrat" party OF Pennsylvania
But is it not PLAIN that they have nothing but the
ame! Why, then, we say again, should we de-
ude ourselves with these mere catchwords of par
Y Let US for the future, look more deeply into
hese things, and pursue the substance, instead of
estlng satisfied with the heetng shadows Let
s break up the formidable league of public rob-
ers who have so long misgoyerned and plundered
5 in the sacred name Of DEMOCRACY" We
want charge in the perSoneAe of the the Canal
}Oard, and the Offices on the public works. Give
5 CHANGE ! for unfortunately we are in that
amentabe condition in which no change can hurt
s. Har. Teleg.
Juan Fernandez, the old residence of Alexander
elkirk, (Robinson Crusoe) and his man Friday
as been visited lately, and his caves discovered
he island is l3 miles long and wide its shores
re pile Of barren rocks, some of them 200 feet
Ugh, spnered and separated by earthquakes