The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1858-10-21

The results of the recent elections il
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indisna-to bt
followed up, no doubt, by similar result,
next month in other Northern States
may be taken as conclusive proof thai
the country is now about to eutcr Oh
new era.
From the commencement of the pres
ent century down even to the present mo
ment. the Free Labor States have played
an Inferior, secondary. and, large part
of the time, very inconsiderable part
Strange as it may seem, just in proportion
as in population, wealth, ciyiIation and
culture, in agriculture, commerce, manu-.
factures, letters, science and art, they
have left the slavebolding States further
and further in the rear, till, indeed, they
have almost fallen out of sight-just in
the same proportion have these great and
growing communities fallen more and
into political subJection of the most bu-
initiating character, till the administration
OF our national affairs may serve almost
to remind one of the condition of the fall
len and PROSTATE Roman Empire, over
run and governed by small hordes OF con-
querlng barbarians, who lorded it with
naughty pride over the wealth, the intel
ligence, the civilization and the numbers
of the conquered Romans. There is this
difference, however, between the two ca
sas, that the predominance which the
slave holders have obtained over Us. has
been not 30 much by force as by stealth
and by fraud. They have, in fact, real
lied, against the people of the North, that
fable of Esop in which the wolves prevail.
ed by fair words and deceptive show of
friendship upon the silly sheep to dismiss
their trusty and faithful shepherd dogs,
as iu fact their enemies; who only allowed
them to get fat for the prospect of after.
ward devouring them. and to receive these
said speaking wolves in the capacity of
guardians of the fold. For large part
of the current century, the Shareholders
wheedIed the Northern people, or enough
of them to accomplish their purpose, keep
ing themselves at the head of affairs-and
of subjecting the Administration of the
Federal Government to their exclusive
control, into the belief that they, the
Shareholders, were the only true demo-
Gratis, thoroughly imbued with the Je fer.
'onian doctrine Of the equality of all me
and whom it was necessary for the work
ngmen of the North to aid in keeping in
power, in order to save themselves from
becoming the slaves of Norshern merch.
lnts, bankers, manufacturers and capital.
SITS. This dodge has long served the
laveholders exceedingly well. Possess
ng by law despotic power, practically
without any limits at all, over their own
households and their own plantations, the
laveholders figured away with great unc
ion in Congress as the advocates of lib
rty and equality, disciples who had stu
led democracy at the feet of Jefferson.
nd upon whom his cloak had fallen. hay.
ng undergone as it fell miraculous null /
plicatioD, furnishing to each of our hun.
red or two thousand of Shareholders a
lantle quite broad enough to conce al the
verseers whip which be carried in bis
and
This answered well for more than one
ntire generation. The Anti Slavery az. S
alton, commenced some twenty years ,
go, resulted, however, before long. in /
'mpelling the shareholders to throw off f
lis. till then, most convenient disguise. i
beir cloak of Democracy began all at t
nee, under the operation of Anti Slave $
tracts, to scortch, burn, blister and tor
ent them like the shirt of Nessus. All
once it became highly incendiary, and,
their rage, fury and passion, they not v
,ly stripped it off in haste, and threw it |.
dde with every mark of horror and de.
station, but. in doing SO, Indignantly
re 1T up into ten thousand ribbons and I