The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-05-16
LIES.

Davis will live to witness, and possibly
mag testify thereto in a more conspicuous
manner than he would wish This South
ern Coutederacy is certainly based upon
falsehood 10 morals and statecrsft, and if,
as seems probable, it has no other oh nance
! for short-liVed exirtence than the ao-
tive PRONUNCIATION Of lies, it must come to
a speedy end at DO distant period. He
must be wise and wary man of many
resources, who can deceive a fellow crea-
ture to his mortal hurt; that wisdom has
not yet been given to man which can coz.
en- end cheat a nation out of its existence
1t is not pleasant to US thus to speak Of
any fellow-creature, not even Mr.. JEFF
Davis; but then. as we know, to apply 10
him another Scriptural phrase, that he
Is liar. and the truth is not in him"
aud that thousands of lives aud millions
Of treasure are to be sacrificed to the am.
bition of him and bis fellows, We do not
care to stop to choose cur phrases, or to
mincc them if we did. This gigantic re-
bolliop, of which be is the head, vas con
eeiged in slavery; begot in fraud, and
feeds aud grows fat on lies.
II any one thing has been made more
manifest than another throuz hout this Sc
oession business, it is that the leaders dare
not trust tie People. The question of a
separate Confcderacy has never yet been
submitted to them either as a whole peo.
pie or as separate State sovereignties, and
never will be simply because the lea
ders do not dare. 1t is very true. and
We hasten to do them the justice to &C.
knowlcdge it, if there we're 20 reason for
fear, they would still be prevented, BY
that naughty contempt they feel for all
who are not of their own class, from con-
sultiDg either the wishes or the opinions
of the people in relation to the matter
But as. after all. mud ,sills" are qaite as
necessary and useful in their way as the
more ornamental parts of the architecture
OF human society. it is the fear of the ex-
precision Of their wishes and opinions that
has barred the submission of the question
of Secession to their votes.
Nor is this the only way in which they
show their fear lest the truth should be
known. The newspapers of the South
arc full of lies, ane common rumor more
than ju'tifes its ancient reputation, for
cot even 6y an accident does it bluuder
upon the truth. A censorship of the
press. or that sense of honor known even
among thieves, forbids southern journals.
and the few southern persons who have
the intelligence or the ability to take
northern newspaper, to promulgate the
Intelligence from the north An equally
strict surveillance is exercised over all cor
respondence. Prudent merchants of
New Orleans, aud, we presume, of other
places, who wish to avoid suspicion, and
to insure chance OF the Transmission of
their letters, send them unseaIed. we'll a.
ware that no seal is regarded except to
secure the destruction of letter as safe
alternative, when time fails in the exam.
nation of large mail. 4 southern gen.
tleman, who left a South Western city a
week ago, is shocked and amazed at the
the state OF things at the North. 1--WE
know nothing of it at the South" be de-
oleres ; "t is all stadiously kept from us."
Great God we are lost !" exolaims an.
other, when he sees the unexpected una
uiDity and activity of the North, which
in bis section also they are not permitted
to hear Of Further north, where it is
impossible to keep back all intelligence,
it is still SO distortea and so mixed with
lies, ss to answer the same purpose. A
gentle an from Virginia, not more than
sixty miles south of Norfolk, infor ned US
few days sincetba the two positive state
ments implicitly relied on in that section
are, that Gen. Scott has resigned, and lies
in chains at Washington, and that the
only way the North can raise any troops
is by throwing open all her jails
And this is not accident; it is system.
The truth will be fatal to the cause of
secession Let tie South once know that
the North is a uDit--that it has rallied
as one man to tho defense of liberty and
our ii -honored goverDaen ent; that they
have been deceived most grossly by their
own leaders, most cruelty by the prons-
es Of Northern traitors 10 IN out of Office,
and Northern newspapers equally vile,
and the fear of the traitors is that the
people, hitherto inactive or only unsym
pathetic, will rise in their strength and
crush treason and traitors together.
On this theory the otherwise inexplica-
bic attempt to conceal the slaughter at
Fort MouItrie has purpose, and the gi.
gsptic lie of Mr.. JEFF. Davis, that Fort
Sumter was taken without the loss OF a
single life, is, like the other almost in
Vulnerable lies Of bis last message, Sim
ply in accordance with consistent plan.
II there is such thing as historical fact,
it may be considered proved that the
number OF lives lost at Fort Moultrie was
several hundred We have the testimo-
ny of four different persons, differing in
their opportunities for observation. to the
same fact, of which they were all eye
witnesses. If any doubt could be thrown
upon the statement of the two German.
soldiers, not because they may not be
trustworthy, but because they arc un-
kok 0f ha q