Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-05-22


foes, by emphatic assertions that Coi. bigier
will be nominated by acclamation, and that
his election and the defeat of Governor john
ston are fixed facts
The public may remember that statements
of the same kind were pompously paraded IN
the L.ocofoco papers at the last Governors
and Presidents electlon-that Io,opU, ana
$4,000 of a majority for Longstreth were
commonly claimed-that the 6itter-enders OF
the Locofocos described his majority as
popular avalanche and their colleagues at
the Williamsport Convention, Abrams and
Ovenshine Zone of whom is in the Penitentia-
ry and the other ought to be) offered to bet on
10000 of majority for the Locofoco candl-
date.
Wilson M'Candles, in the Baltimore Con-
vention, in lS4s, exhibited white and red
rose entwined together to typify the union OF
York and Lancaster, the anti-Buchanan and
Buchanan factions, and proclaimed that Lew
is Cass would carry Pennsylvania by $4,000
of majority. The result of the election
proved one of two things, either that these
men were playing the game of brag, or that
they were totally ignorant of the state OF pop
ular sentiment. And so it is now. The Lo-
cofcco leaders are merely gasconading, or
else they are entirely ignorant the strength
of Gov. JoEnston's administration among hon.
est, intelligent and respectable men ofall par
ties.
In lS4S, Gov. Johnston entered upon the
canvass with all the auspices of victory on
the side of his political opponents. The Ma
tional Government was then in the hands OF
the opposition. All the custom house officers
in Philadelphia, all the postmasters through
out the State, and all national officials, such
as mail agents, Indian agents Sc, were Lo-
cofocos, and were actively engaged in circu-
lating calumnies and newspapers, and ex-
pending great sums of money. Every Loco
foco office holder was forced to contribute a
large proportion of his salary, and the Ma
tional Administration strained every nerve to
defeat the Wing candidate. TO the aston
ishment of all who know him, even the great
phlebotomist, Buchanan, permitted himself to
be Jled to the amount of Is or 20 dollars,
though like the Jew, ON whom King John lev
led a contribution, he would much rather have
lost tooth.
The slavery propagandists of Pennsylvania
united with the anti-slavery Democrats to
whom Longstreth had given some personal
pledges. All the leaders of all the factions OF
Locofocoism were united, active, bitter, and
unscrupulous. Now they are not So There
will be a fight in the Judicial Convention,
very probably in the Reading Convention, a.
bout the Presidency, and we find their pa
pers filled with elimination and re-crlmlna-
ton. The people want no more secret Ptedg-
es, but they want the Reading Convention to
distinctly declare whether Col. Bigler is a
slavery propagandist or not, and whether he
is in favor of Pennsylvania, Or of Virgin,
la and South Carolina policy.
Misrepresentation Of all kinds in '48 were
unblushingly uttered. 1t was asserted that Il
Gov. Johnston was elected, an immense mum
Der of New Banks would be created, and al
Bank applications were paraded III the news
papers-that shinplasterS would form our cur
rency-that new taxes would be imposed on
the people-that foreigners would be deprived
of their rights as citizens-that churches
would be burnt-that the State Debt would
be enormously increased-the Constitution
violated, and democratic principles entirely
eradicated :!
The results of Gov. Johnston's administra
ton are now before the people. Plain facts
have proven all these assertions gross false
hoods, and so popular has this administration
become that it extorts praises from the bes
men of the opposition. Witness the eulogie'
! of the locofoco press on Gov. Johnston's ap
pointments, and witness the Treasury Repor
of General Bickel.
Longstreth in '48 had more persona
strength than Bgler. He had no assail ablt
points; he was involved in no factious quar-
rels; he was represented as gentlemanly, in
! telligent, liberal with money, and firm in hi
principles. But, more than all this, Mr.. Long
streth had the direct and personal control o.
all the men and money along our lines O
Railroads and Canals The opposition ther
represented him as very strong man. Now
they fling him aside as boy does sucked
orange As it was and is with him, so it viii
be with Bigler.
| When the opposition is disposed to brag
let our friends remind them of the gasconads
in '48, of the proffered bets of Abrams ant
/ Ovenshine-of the Red and White roses ane
the 10000 of M M'Candles-and of the vote o
! 10000 given for Morris Longstreth -Har