The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-06-21
sTRoUDsBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA JUNE 81, lsso

don't believe there ever was govern
ment on earth as corrupt and rotton al
this. Twenty millions Of Treasury Note:
coming due and nothing to pay them
with. Forty Millions of debt! abuud nee
Of deficiency bills, and you will find ter
rible deficiency, not in the bills, when
these men 60 out Of Office. Let rot the
distractions about Slavery blind US to
this. l will take up another officer
There is good deal of talk about the a.
mount Of money robbed from slavers.-
Two things have been developed these
last years. Newly ork has become the
metropolis of the slave trading. The way
as it has been told me, is this {: The slave
vessel fits out here aud starts out In the
Office of the Marshal, the intelligent and
honorable 1saih Ryuders, there is fell
low called 'Dore, Theodore Rynders.-
The SLAYER is watched, and when she is
ready to sail, 'Dore and somebody else
charter tug and run after her. When
they have got outside of the Narrows they
60 on board and find box of specie, S5,-
600 or so, which is tolerably easy to find,
and they come back and report that they
didn't find ber. Laughter.] Another
box of $40, 900 is down below-and that
is to pay for the cargo. I understand
this fact took place a leading lawyer
went up to the Marshalls Office and said, /,
"py client has lost $1,000, aud your boat
took til There was some swearing and
some blowing, but the money came back
1t got SO bold and open that there is now
a kind of explosion and talk about this,
but | suppose that it will be fixed up some
way or other. The Government is rotten
and corrupt from top to bottom, and the
people ought to have an honester one,
and | believe they will. I don't believe
the great mass of men ever did desire
corrupt, swindling Government. ! felt
that We ought to have candidates against
whose stern integrity nothing could be
said. and of whose stern opposition to
all nanuer of prodigality, not to say
corruption, in government there is no
doubt. | believe we have got such can
didates. Show up these corruptions,
which have created astonishDent and a.
larm even on the other side of the water.
Let the people see what sort of men gov
ern them, and [ am sure they will demand
a change. / am sure that, having ban.
ished some of the old prejudices which
made us enemies, the great mass of those
who love honesty and frugality, will come
together and say, apart from all abstrac
tons and theories, the first consideration
is honest, responsible, frugal Government.
| believe that there might be saved mil
lions annually. l believe that the Post
Office might be made to support itself,
nearly or quite at our present rates of
postage. In the midst of the cry about
the Post,OAice deficiency bill, and the
need of money, one of the Postmasters in
this State told me that be did not under
stand it; be had the money of his own Of
fee and 10 or 20ofices about bin lying on
his hands, but the Government did not
call for it. There is no responsibility, no
accountability, on the part Of the subordi-
Dates Of this Administration. If they
pack delegates well, their accounts are o.
verlooked, aud they may steal as long as
they see fit. That is why the Treasury
is out at the elbows-tbe utter dishonesty
and decentralization of the whole concern.
| will say very little of the men who are
now before the people for the highest Of
fees in their gift. Iknew Abraham Lin
coin in Congress eleven years ago, when
he was one of the youngest memb bers, yet
one of the most respected. He came
from a section where there were very few
Wings. | never beard any man impeach
bis integrity. and never until now heard
any man doubt his ability. | tell you,
the man who stuups State with Stephen
A. Douglas, and meets him, day after
day, before the people, bas got to be no
fool. Many man will make better
first speech than Douglas, but, giving and
taking .4back and forward, he is very sharp.
Now, the man who went through the
State. speskipg against Stephen A. Doug
las, and was not beaten, as no man says
he was, is not a common man; for no
common man will answer for that work;
and at the end of that campaign Mr.. Lin
coin came out with 1000 majority on the
popular vote, although Mr.. Buchanan
had beaten Fremont 5000, and the gen.
eral feeling outside of the State was that
Douglas had better be elected. Mr.. Crit
tenden wrote letter which elected Doug
las; be said that it was better that Doug
las should be elected, and there were 30,-
600 Americans there; | don't believe We
have got another man living who would
have fought through that campaign so eff
fectiyely and at the same time SO good
naturedly as be did. Mr.. Trumbull
would have begun little more ranker,
but one or the other wonld soon have
been knocked of the Platform. Mr.. Lin.
coin went through with perfect good ma
ture and entire suavity, and beat Stephen
A. Douglas, it being the fret time any
man on our side ever carried that State. L
believe tberei is good time coming rehtoff
now. I believe that he will get 5 1000 "a
eainst Douglas and $4,000 against any
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