The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-09-06
sTRoUDsBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. sEPTElBERs s. 1850.

: to dem mand its immediate completion. -
g Why should it not be donel
The eternal negro" which the South
!, ern Democracy continually force upon tht
: country prevent it, and always will pre-
0 vent it until We have Republican Presi
o dent and Republican Congress- 1t is
. true that both wings of the Democracy
/, have resolved in its favor, bat they have
. been long 10 power and have done moth
ing for it. They cannot be trusted. -
9 These resolves were made to deceive vo-
{ ters.
, Having thus very briefly spoken Of the
measures proposed to be established by
: the advent of the Republican party to
J power, what is there in any of them to
J which rcasoeable objection can be madel
We find in them nothing about placing
the negro upon an equal political aud So
clal footing With the white man, as dem
agogues rant about. Nothing about the
abolition" of Slavery in the Slave States
nothing of the violation of any of the
rights of the States.
A few words about our candidate. -
Raised amid the bardships and priva-
tions of a new country, Mr.. Lincoln was
early taught the great lesson that COM
plete success can only be accomplished
, by manly exertion and self reliance, of
which his own history is an eminent H.
lustration. Possessed ofgreat good COM
mon sense, of industrious and temperate
, habits. of peachable character, no
better selection for the Presidency could
have been made.
But our opponents say that he is an
obscure man. without national reputa-
ton" Very we'll. Let US see about
what is called national roputation.-"
What is it worth, and how is it madel
A Yankee" who had motion" to
make fortune without hard work "a
rare thing among such folk) mixed to-
gether some rain water and molasses,
tinotured with cherry juice. aud "Wis-
tar's Balsam Of Wild Cherry" soon had
national reputation" as an iDfallible
remedy for evey i'll that human flesh is
heir to. How did it get that reputationl
By pufiingl Newspaper putting and
nothing else.
A gentleman manages to get himself
into Congress. He begins to put on airs
and look wise! About the second session
he employs some professional speech wri
ter to 6x him up speech, much after
ter the fashion machine poetry is made.
1t is delivered to empty benchesl The
Newspapers puff it, and the man who
rehearsed it (not the writer) gets ina
tional reputationl' In short time little
paragraphs appear in the papers, inti-
n atiug that this very man ought to be
President The "ontsiders," regarding
him as the very embodiment of all that is
great and wise in siateuan anship, begin to
throw up their caps for him. And thus
it is that men are often given national
regulations" who have not ability enough
to make a respectable Justice of the
Peace in Spencer County, Indiana, where
I"ABE LINCOLN" was brought up"
OF course | do not pretend to say that
all the men in Congress make regulations
in this way, because many men of ster-
ling worth and great ability are to be
found there. only spesk OF it to show
that there is very little in what is called
national reputation" and to ridicule the
idea that man must have this kind Of
reputation before he can aspire to posi-
ton.
And what is the prospect of the elec-
ton of this. "obscure" man without "na-
tional reputation!" Let as look at the
signs OF the times and judge.
The Democratic party, once SO power
ful, and harm onious, and united, is now
divided, disheartened, and almost disban-
ded!
The cause of this is apparent. The re-
peal of the Missouri Compromise agitated
a new the Slavery question. and the work
is accomplished. The "Old Man of the
Sea-" astride the shoulders OF Sinbad the
Sailor, could not be shaken off. So, the
Eternal Negro" the favorite Of the De-
mocracY, has at length fastened himself
on the back of those who have conjoured
him up, and no human effort can cast him
from their shoulders! He is there, and
on to everlasting destruction be urges his
: unwilling victims. They know the fate
that awaits them, and. like good Chris
tain philosophers, as they are presumed
to be, are preparing for the last solemn
moment. Already are they turning their
t voices to sing the appropriate lines:
"Hark! from the tomb'a doleful sound
My ears attend the cry;-
Ye living meD, come view the ground
Where you must shortly liel'
A few desperate men, however, willing
to grasp at any shadow, pretend to think
that the election may 60 into the House
and thus cheat the people OF their choice
> There is not the rem otest probability o.
the success OF such scheme, and all true
: lovers of the country ought to rejoice thai
:. it is So Who desires to see the election
Q of President become the subject OF the
= bargains and the corruptious which would
e be the case il made by the Housed 1t Is
o said, again, that, constituted as the House
: now is, an election cannot take place, and
{ the Senate would elect Gen. Lane Vice