The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-03-29
sTRoUDsBURG. MONROE COUNTY, MARCH 30 1860.
union, in the event of Fremout's sue.

union, in the event of Fremout's sue.
cess.
Mr.. CORY, of Ohio, reports Mr.. Banks
of Virginia, as having said to him, few
days after the election in 1856, that:
1.-The South would haze dissolved the
Union If Freenont had been elected Pres
ideut of the United States; that Governor
Wise and the Virginia leaders were read =
to take the 6eld-maroh on Washington.
depose the Federal officers, take the
Treasury, archives. buildings, grounds,
&c.-deelsre the Confederation de facto
oyerthrown. He said the thing vould
have been easy; there were thirty thou
sand men ready; twenty thousand caval-
ry; sets OF accoutremeDts; that the public
mind was sufficiently excited to overcome
all domestic resistance, and that they
could whip the North in the fight"
Evidence Of the disloJal, revolutioua-
~, and reasonable course OF Henry A
Wise is also furnished by Charles j.
Faulkner, late Representative Of the Har.
per's Ferry District, Chairman of the
Congressional Democratic Committee in
1855, aud DOW Minister to France at
Democratic meeting, recently held in
Virginia, over which Mr. Faulkner prcsi-
ded, he said:
"Wben that noble and gallant son of
Virginia, Henry a. Wise, declared, as
was said he did in October, 1856, that. if
Fremont should be elected. he acOu5d seize
the National arsenal at Harper,s Ferry.
how few would at that time have justified
so bold and decided a measure! 1t is
the fortune OF some great and gifted
minds to see far in advance of their CO.
temporaries. Should William H. Sew
ard be elected in 1860, where is the man
now in our midst who would not call 'or
the impeachment OF Governor Of Fir-
ginia who would silently suffer that ar
mory to pass under the control OF such
an executive head!"
This "noble aud gallant son OF Virgin
ia" who, in 1856, "saw far in advance
of bis contemporaries" who was ready, if
Fremont had been elected, ''to seize the
Arsenal at Hsrper's Ferry" is now look
ing with hungry eye to the Charleston
Convention, and is DOW the applauded
and favorite hero of class of men in the
North who are stammering into the ears
of doubling people their uxorious 10. {
of the Union; and this Democratic orator
who would demand the peachment Of 8
Governor of Virginia. If he should per-
NIT the arsenal at Harper's Ferry to pass
under the control of William Fl. Seward
if elected to the Presidency, is nominated
| by Democratic President, and confirm
ed by the united voice of the Democratic
Senators, to represent the Republic at tbt
Court of Louis Napoleon. This Demo
cratic Administration, and this Demo
cratic party, which inyokes the support
of the Union allowing, conservative men o.
/ the free States, sends to the proudes'
monarchy of the Ola World the mau who
uttered this insurrectioDary and disloya
sentiment, Yes, sir; Democrats, witt
the accents of Union uEon their lips
sanction the appointment Of msn wht
is avowodly in favor Of civil war and dis
union. Let the real friends of law, Of OF
der, of the unity of the Repnblic. mari
and remember this want of fidelity to tht
Union By the administration, and the mel
who lead tie Democratic party.