The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1853-09-29
A Word to eur Whig Friends.

q HUTu ~ Vui UhIS EiISHuo'
The second Tuesday of October is rap
idly approaching, and behooves us to
prepare for the contest. We have full
ticket in the field, and as good one as
has been presented to the party for their
support for years past. A determined
and united effort to elect it can scarce
fail of success. Our enemies have boasted
and shouted over their victory at the last
Presidential election, and have almost
forced themselves to believe that the
Wing party can never successfully rally
again. Drunken with the glory of their
success, they become obliyious of the fact
that their power consisted alone in their
unity; and in their reckless scramble for
the spoils they have engendered animosi-
ties and heart burnings among themselves,
which has resulted in subdividing and
distracting them to such an extent that a
present perfect organization among them
is impossible.
BY injudiciously interfering in the ap-
pointments made by the Federal govern
ment, Gov, Bigler has brought upon him.
self the enmity of many of his party
friends, and has created schism in the
locofoco ranks that is felt to greater or
less extent in every county of the com
monwealth.
The rapacity and recklessness Of the
locofoco spectators in the toll and sweat
of the laborers on the Portage Railroad,
compelled the operatives there to refuse
to work, until the money which had been
earned by them, (and which at that time
was in the pockets Of these sharks } had
been paid; and thus an expose has been
made which will forever, hereafter pre-
vent the laboring man from being gulled
by the specious professions of being the
exclusive friends of the poor and the Ia
borer, which have heretofore proved SO
potent in the months of locofoco orators
and electioneerers.
The publication Of the bids for con-
tracts on the Portage Railroad, showing
in all instances that the work was let to
the highest instead Of the lowest bidder,
has opened the eyes Of the taxpayers to
the manner in which the public funds are
squandered, and their taxes thereby in
creased; and this additional and conclu-
sive evidence of scoundrelism on the part
of the Locofoco Canal Commissioners is
certainly not calculated to strengthen the
party to which they belong, or to induce
honest men, or over burthened taxpayers,
to vote for their candidates.
The uncontradicted fact that the pres
ent locofoco Surveyor General and can
didate for re-election, J. Porter BraWley,
was engaged in the Portage Railroad
fraud, and was the recipient of money
which was thus flched from the pockets
of the taxpayers; and that he is also no.
toriously a common drunkard and sot, is
conclusive evidence of the low estimate
that the locofoco party put upon the sense
of moral honesty, integrity and decency
prevailing among the citizens of this State,
and as an outrage upon their common
sense must certainly be Resented by eve
ry upright and true man, and will, un-
questionably recoil upon party thus
reckless of public opinion. This being
the condition of our opponents-distrac-
ted and split asunder by intestine broils
unable to rally their force in solid col
umn as heretofore, with ticket that cx-
cites no feeling except one of Indignation
and contempt on behalf of portion of it.:
what is there to prevent our success
Let US therefore arouse-take counsel
together determined to succeed, and we
will succeed. Never before had we so
easy an opportunity of securing victory.
Our own supineness can alone defeat us.
Let none be dismayed at the cry the
Wing party is dead it is but a ruse of
the enemy. 1t is like the coward s
whistle to keep the courage up; it needs
but the ghost of the imagined dead to a.
rise, and the valorous whistle will sud-
denly sink to tremulous quaver. 1t
requires but determined effort to prove
to our opponents that if the Whig party
be dead, its ghost is potent enough to
drive them from the field. Therefore,
Wings, be up and doing; get out full
vote and success is certain to crown your
efforts. Remember the darkest hour al
ways precedes the dawn, and if you be
active, Jealous and vigilent, glorous day
will break for our party on the second
Tuesday of October next.-tSomcrset Her.
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