The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-01-03
NO. 80

then replied that Their buster ,ntn. a.
Itol somewhat startled him, for Re was net
used to it. but when they spoke o. 6g.,8-
be was not disturbed for be had o,
perience in that business. He prepaed
procla IN alton against the fire eaters. but
died before be bad time to issue it.
10 1852. the ubigs, in National Con.
vention. submitted to all the demands of
the FIRE eaters, and 20 lost the election of
Gen. Scott. Pierce was a plant tool Of
the oligarcby. insomOc that they were
constrained to drop bin at the end of four
years and try fresh candidate, who had
a reputation for states q anship.
In 1856, Mr.. Buchanan was elected by
q stuPendous fraud ct the ballot boxes of
Penn-Jiyania. The Shareholders did not
anticipate this result Regarding the e.
lection Of Fremont a. certain, thew pre
pared for rebellion. The guns with which
they propose now to attack Fort Moultrie
were procured at that time. Fraud lef.
the federal government in their hands,
and they were appessed.
This year Lincoln is elected. and the
storm howls in earnest. No one preteDds
that the election was unfair or illegal. -
The Union is to be dissolved simply be
cause constitutions al N sjority of the peo-
pie refuse to let the locofocos continue in
power. To make thi. the palmer the Sc.
cessionists declare they will not wait for
some act of the incoming administration
Infringing upon their rights. Knowing
such an act will not appear, they make
an election contrary to their wishes tho
only excuse Tor their conduct
The Southern loeofocos have instituted
a Reign of Terror in their section as re-
morseless as that which prevailed in
France in 1898. The Press is effectually
uuzzled. Freedom of speech is annihi-
lated. Security of travel does not exist.
The mob is supreme. Treason Raunts
itself everywhere
The Northern loeofocos behave as bad
ly as the Southern. All their journals,
all their orators, all their statements, JUS
tify the madness and crine of the South.
They gosd the 6re-eaters on to blood
shed. Their party has been beaten in an
eleetiou-beaten fairly. beyond all pre-
tence Of coUplaint-and they choose rath-
er to plunge the country into anarchy
and civil war than submit. Thew as If
the govornment belonged By preseriptive
right to them; as if its bonors and emol.
umeDts were theirs indefeasibly; as if
they alone had any busines to constitute
the Constitution, to devise public meas
ures, and to elect President; and as if
any man who differed from then on these
points was an enemy to the Republic,
and fit subject for tar and feathers, if
not for the galloWs. What do northern
locofocos expect to gain by this factious
and criminal eoursel If they expect to
frighten the republicans into reliDquishiDg
the advantages oftbeir success. they may
as well understand first as last that thas
cannot be accomplished. II the = expecttbe
republicans to succumb and remit power
into the hands of the Ere eaters, they will
weary Of waiting before that expectation
shall be fulfilled. II they seek to pull
down the pillars of the government be-
cause they have been banished from the
seats of authority they may possibly sue
eeed. The signs of the times indeed in
dicate that they are to be the architects
of ruin.