The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-03-08
Democratic Candidate for Governor, and
the Democratic Jugglers.

land County.
Mr.. Foster is said to be personally a
rather amiable gentleman, without any
very decided opinions upon the vexed
questions Of the day be, however, some
what sympathized with the anti Lccomp-
ton movement.
The Administration Democracy were
we'll convinced of the fact that they stood
not a ghost Of chance of electing an out
and out Lecomptonite, and with the in
tention of bolsterng up their rapidly de-
cayipg cause, they concluded to adopt
Mr., Foster, whom they believe they can
make very seryieeable to themselves, by
getting good portion of the unwary an
ii. Administratio vote for Mr. Foster,
and thereby get their support for the
Charleston nominee for the Presidency.
This, if successful, will be getting the
anti Administration men to directly sanc.
ton Mr. Buchanan's slavery policy, lie,
who will get the Charleston nominatiout
for, 10 case of success, the same slavery
extending policy of tho present Admins
tratiop. will undoubtedly be continued
The Democratic party has become the
champion Of slavery extension, and from
this position it will never retreat. for the
South has it tied hand and foot, and can
and does move it as she sees proper =
Those in favor of extending slavery and
letting it 60 unlimited, should unite them
selves at once with the Democratic par
| ty But those opposed to its extension
ipto free territory. and wish to have it
bounded by state limits, should act with
the Peoples Party.
The apparent fusion at Reading, is an
Administration trap set to catch those op.
posed to the Lccompton.. Den ocracy, aud
has its parallels in the traps set by the
Democracy in ls44 and 1855. The FIRST
of which, as will be reneDbered was de
signed to catch those In favor Of Protee.
tion, by declaring Polk to be as good a
tariff man as Clay, and inscriting on their
banUers the % otto: POLK, Dallas and the
| Tariff of 1872" aud the last was designed
...,h tL a yoto. of +La,o - ,r; l. Jr.L
people of Kansas to have fair plny in de
termining whether they would have slave
ry or not. by placing upon their banners
the motto: Buck Breck and Free Kan
sas.' But unfortunately for this bambooz-
ling Democracy, the people teo we'll re.
memter thst Polk aud Dallas had hard
y got warm in their respective offices.
before they boldly turned directly around
and repealed the tariff of AZ, which they
had SO bleatantly declared the Gselves in
favor OF. So will it be remembered that
Buchanan had scarcely got himself into
the executive chair, before he began to
lend his whole power and influence to
make Kansas slave state, and ridicu-
lously declared that territory to be "as
much slave state as South Carolina or
Georgia, aud that he was, or pretended
to be, very much surprised that any man
.honli houa i; T,
potion Have the self styled Democracy
shown themselves worthy of trust Iu
view of all this, it certainly will be an inter
estiug fact to be determined at the conclu
sion Of the impending campaigns. whetb-
er those political jugelers baVe the same
influence over the people of this State
that they have so adrotly exercised bith.
erto. aud whether the late Reading hocos-
pocus arrangement will prove to be suf-
ficiently powerful to continue four years
from next March. the Buchanan pro
slavery dynasty. To vote for Henry d.
Foster for Governor. is simply to do this.
We append the following from the Dai-
| u Nears..
Our readers will rem memb Der tha It " as
Henry d. Foster who induced his friends
in the State Legislature to refuse their
support to John w. ForDey, when be vas
Mr.. Buchanan's particular candidate for
United States Senator. which contest e.
ventually resulted in the election of 81.
mon Cameron. How far bis action ip
that struggle will effect his prospects With
those Democrats who were so sore at tha,
time, because Of tie defest Of Col For
ney, it is difficult to say; bat it is not
probable that it will gain him cordial
supp ort from those who have cung to
Forney during his fight with Buchanan.
1t is quite probable that Mr.. Foster
was the most available candidate that
could be found in the party. for be is one
of whom the least can be said. A nonen-
tity is with them always desirable; for the
positive acts and openly expressed opin
ions of any of the active men of their
Darty generally tend IN damaoe them in