Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-06-26
The Thousand.Leg.ed p.~,.

Ifthe tabled Hydra, upon which tco no,v
heads grew when one was cut of, ever had
living type it is that party which arropates
the name of Democracy. Their changing
phases can only be understood by literal
application of the too often misused expires.
sion of st. Paul-they are sail things to all
men,"
Io secure the "spoils of war;" is their
proudest ambition. Their watehword the
same as was used by the ancient enimies Of
the Whigs-"booty." Inthe battle they are
guided by cunning and craft, which at times
almost defes exposure or defeat. If. bo1cev.
er, the Wings are successful and expose some
subtitle fraud or political juggle, or silence ~
bold falsehood, Qike the J. K. Kane letterl
another head and tongue conceives soma
other pious fraud" less easy of detection.
Shrewdness taught them that the attach.
ment of the South to its peculiar institution.
was all controlling; and with assiduity they
have courted her-only, however, at Wash
ington city. Their voters at home, were not
instructed in the tricks of their leaders
While they gloried in that position taken by
Old Hickory, in his proclamation of 1880,
and earnestly prayed that he would hang (as
| he did Arbuthnot and Ambrister) some of the
/ Southern conSplrators, their leaders were
courting the Southern Catalnes, and coun-
! selling them to make large demands, min
/ gled with bold and bullying threats of disuni-
on, and the North would give all they want
/ ed as a compromise.
/ In latter times, in our own State, while
/ their "good man Skunk" was signing the
| kidnapping law of 1947 and Wilmot of the
same party was proposing the Proviso, anoth-
er wing OF their army, the saPperS and miners,
were detailed to convince the South that Nor
thern Whiggery had done all this and to in-
/ still in the minds ofthe unsuspected Southern
voter that +" the Wing organization was es-
sentially the anti-slavery organization" E
! ven now, when these tricks have been made
| apparent, you can see Wilmot-a Free Soil
! Abolitionsts-a member of the Convention to
form ticket for this party-Martin Van Bu-
rem and his son John, high priests in their
political church, regularly ordained to ofiici-
ate in the Wilmot free soil communion. And
in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode
I lSlaHU, IlllS " MUuSuHU teSStuB dS uidNy
headed party, and the blooded abolitionists
Join hands and claim kindred cause against
a common foe-the Wings.
Notwithstanding these things have been
and are now being enacted before our eyes,
the organs of this new tangled ocrGcy are at
their vocation, and are pushing on III their bold
and shameless career. Now it seeks to de-
ceive the freemen of tie North, by the tale
that Gov Johnston and the Wing party have
abandoned the long and we'll established land
marks of the true Democracy of the North
And what is not less strange than true this
milleped Democrat hopes to crawl up to the
ears of some Wings and whisper his subtle
falsehood into their ears, hoping to tempt
them to eat of the forbidden fruit 1t sees
that certain defeat awaits Buchanan's espe-
cial pet Mr. Bigler, unless it can conjole and
deceive portion of the Wings into his sup
port, (and the prize is worth the play,) but
SO well have the Wings severed and scared
the stumps of this hydra party, that they are
no longer e-productive.-Har. Am.