Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-07-17
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The Philadelphia Statesman, enc of the
ablest locofoco journals in the state says:
1--WE have placed on our outside page a
communication from distinguished, talent
ed and influential Democrat, of West Chester.
It is but one of a mass which now covers
our table, from every section of the State, all
coinciding in tone and determination. We
regret the necessity which has extorted such
decided expressions, but they indicate pre-
vading popular sentiment, which utterly for
bids their suppression. The danger is before
us, looming from the masses with terrible
distinctness. To close our eyes, or to attempt
to disguise it, will only increase the painful
consciousness of its existence"
From the communication referred to, we
make the following extract:
sWhat are Democrats asked to do! To vote
for Gibson, Lewis, and Campbell JOHN B.
GIBSON! Heaven save the mark! A Demo-
crat. Is it possible! And fit for Judge of
the highest Court! A man who to extend his
official term, violated the provisions of the
constitution, the fundamental law, by resign
ing his office and accepting, if not beginning,
a EG-dppOlllIIllGuI lICIiI = OOU HSmOCTUttC
Governor, Joseph Ritner. A man sinking in
mind and body beneath the heavy pressure to
years, and with habits ever associated with
his name, and but little calculated to spread
flowers along his pathway to the tomb. A
gain, it is required Of us to vote for ELLIS
LEwIs-to place him upon the bench he has
ever despised and opposed, and whose de-
cisions he has on all availble occasions,
sought to override. Is he not, of all men we
know, the father of legal distractions, and
the patentee of the widest legal heterodoxy of
the day-a man without fixed political princi-
pie, and uncertain as the wind But to crown
this most unblushing and eXorbtant demand,
the good old time-honored republican party,
that has been taught by the fathers from its
youth up, to the inquiry of every candidate,
sis he honest-is he capable" is besought and,
ifpossible, would be constrained to lend ahelp-
ing hand to JAMES CAMPBELL Where is the
point in political rashness at which one may
venture to exercise his discretion, and wash
his hands of the filth ofpot-house politicians
Will some of the wire-workers or scheme
hatchers ofyour city salleys or suburbs, be good
enough to instruct an humble villager and an
honest yeomanry upon this problem. Who
denies that this latter-named gentleman has
sought to ride into place upon the shoulders
of a religious sect, and that to increase their
pace he has not instructed the most supple
ofhis tools to cry, prescribed for his relioion!''
If any one ever desrved to be castigated by all
the sects in Christendom, then he, who from
sordld motives, attempts to excite a religious
should receive the stripes Let
Campbell, his presses, his allies, and subcon-
tractors beware how they speak to the free
men of the land. He who sows his field
with fire, must not complain if he gathers
fire into his own garners." But this is not all;
tits scarce tithe of the offences of this upstart
aspirant. His secret midnight Vaccinations
for power-his combinations with all who
promise aid-his dwelling Incompetence for
his present position, as proclaimed by all his
colleagues upon the bench, and admitted by
the bar, are mountains in his way. He can
not surmount them. The edict has pone
forth from the mouth of the only sovereign
who had right to pronounce 1.-THE people, |
that he has already reached the eliminating |
point. Take my word for it, Mr.. Campbell I
is doomed man, and Mr.. Buchanan cannot |
save him. The press and the professional /
politicians cannot save him. His fate NAV,
however, cause a useful moral, that conven-
ions should not sacrifice honesty and right
through the fear that the whole Catholic vote
If the State would otherwise be turned a.
yainst them