The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1859-05-12
FOR THE JEFFERsoNIAN.

Mn Ep1ToR:-I have learned by the
newspapers and otherwise, that there IS
controversy going on between John De
youno and David Keller; and inasmuch as
Mr.. De Young is every way responsible LOT
this controversy, and in bis eager efforts
to wipe out that portion of the party to
which I am pleased to belong, be has
treated my rights With disrespect' ask
that you will permit me through your col
umns to say word or two in behalf ol
our party.
The editor Of the Democrat states as
kind OF half way excuse for the manner ID
which be saw proper to treat Mr.. Keller,
because he had the boldDcss to attend the
late Harrisburg Convention, that the con-
dition of the Lecompton Democracy IS
such as to demand that all Democrats
who do not think as be and his master
do. should be personally abused !; and
thereby compel by his terrorism OF scan
dal and misrepresentation all Democrats
to saw that Mr.. Buchanan, who gave the
Post Office to John De Young, is good
m an as we'll as an honest and far seeing
Democrat.
This Post Master who so willingly and
freely applies his Masters lash, should
recollect that he himself at cne time did
not believe 10 Mr.. Buchanan's despotic
Kansas policy; and that when be thus
believed ho came out in long article
and bitterly denounced the Presidents
course. But as an excuse for doing So
he took occasion soon after to state that
: ho at that time did not know what be
: was doing, but soon after got his eyes
} opened when he plainly perceived that i
r be did not quickly take back what he
}. had said, the Post Office nipple would s'
= withdraw from his patriotic lips. Th'
i application of the Post Office poultice t.
the region of the EDITORS pocket rapid.
: drawed out his Anti Lceompton disease
II and the week following its application h
J. came out and presented himself to tn
e gaze of an anxious public full grown
fat and healthy Lecomptonite.
n We would suggest to this Lecomptol
driver, the propritty of all such Post OF
fee patriots letting men, who are actua
u ted not By motives of selfinterest, but b
honest conviction, take their own course
l. as they themselves are responsible to th
e pnblic and not to Past Master patriots q
/ this "whipper in" seems to imagine,
It's fact, which no honest and re
specially informed man will deny, tha
the Anti Lecompton Democratic part
stands precisely where the Democrat
party stood in 1856 They are the hor
est portion of the party, because they ar
entirely consistent and endeayor to mak
!. their pledges good. 1t is al.o rotor
Gus fact. which we would have this Pos
Master to bear in mind, that the prime
ples which the Anti Leeompton DemoG
racy support, made James Bucb aual
o. President.
ID Notwithstanding Mr.. Buchanan wa
of pied ged to support the principles of hi
r, party, soon after he was placed seeurel
OF in the Executive chair he saw proper
* tasely desert his principles, and make
e. desperate effort to carry the party Wit
nr him, and succeeded in taking along tia
re portion of the party which was influence
st more by public pluuder than by prime
20 pie
It. But Douglass, FOrncy, Packer and
d host of other Democrats refused to swa
"a low the Lecompton drug; aud such P;
th traots now constitute the Auti Leconpto
d party, and challenge the world to sho
III wherein they are inconsistent with tn
be Cincinnati Platform.
- So stand the two divisions Of the Deu
=, ocratic party before US, and if honest
d. consistency, unsel6sbness, and true pi
th trotism constitute a party worthy of II
IN spect and support, then the Anti Leconl
rn ton division. is that party. But il incoI
nd sistency, treachery, desertion of prime
nd pie, and being controlled by the loav
), and fishes, constitute party worty OF r
spcct and support, then the LecomPtc
90 division of the party headed by all tt
Post Masters and Office holders, is tn
nc party. Fellow Democrats, choose while
If you will follow.
TI.LEcoMPToN DEMOCRAT.
" Middle Smithfeld, May, 1859.
We learn by Tuesdays Tribune, th
laft Naw Vort On tho III