The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-11-14

tOOeTs
tFOur unfortunate neighbor the Squire,
in bis last weeks Democrat, ndulges great
production on our account The article
bears upon its face full share of those rare
marks of genius which stamp ii as his own
Had any other person penned it, the world at
large would haze jumped at the conclusion
that it had been written early in the morn
ing, before the spiritual thermometer of lis
author had been reused to mental Nakeful
ness, or late at night, after free and full in
vcSlgation of the gin-eology of King Demi-
John had coujed his vision. From any 9th
er source it would have been pronounced fog
gy; but, coming from the Squire, all will a
gree that its meaning is as clear as mud.
"The JEFFFRsoNIAN of last week." says the
Squire, '-appears 10 have the BLUES" What
pity. And yet this may be but hallucl-
nation which is haunting the Squire. We
never felt much happier than we did during
the week before last. The glowing patriot
ism Of the people had just scotched the hy-
dra-headed monster of Secession, if it did not
kill it outright, and we could not but feel re-
joiced on behoIdiHg the wriggling of the
wounded. We are, therefore, irresistaby
impelled to the conclusion that the Squire's
ewes were so filed with the reflection of his
own mind that everything before them as
sumes bluish tint. We opine that there
was no need of going so far back as the GU
bernatorial election in search of food for sym
pafhy for any soreness that republicans might
feel, over the result of the recent contest
Foreshortened ambition is apt TO reflect the
figures behind it, and there is nothing mar
yelous in the thought, that the vanishing OF
the judicial bench nto thin, empty air, after
it was supposed to be secure within grasp,
must have fastened The impress of blue earth,
blue sky, and blne everything else, upon the
eye OF Disappointment. The article from
which we onole reflects this blushness from
beginning to end, and We would suggest to
tbe Squire careful perusa of the Sorrows
of Werler,'' as great soother IN affiiction.
In the bitterness of his grief the Squire,
like drowning man catching at straw, at
tempts 10 draw comfort from The infatuating
suggestions, first, that the Republican party
wac defeated at the last election and, second,
"th4t the Democratic party is the only party
fiji TO govern the country" Now, as the Re
publican party did not even pretend to have
q distinctive organization at the last election,
but Joined itself with patriotic men of all par
ties 10 secure the election OF uncompromisiDe
Union men, it could not then have received
the terrible flashing over which the Squire
consoles himself That suppostion, there
fore, may be set down as a myth. having no
existence save in the fertile brain Of It's crea-
tor. AS to the second suPposition IF the
Squire means that party which had Jefferson
for founder, and Jackson for leader and
now has Lincoln and Mcclellan, Seward and
Butler, Cameron and Holt, Chase and Andrew
Johnson, and Dix, and Dickinson, and the
thousands of other honest patriots who are
now fighting the battles of the country, en-
rolled among its members, then we are free
TO admit that the supposition has foundation
in fact, and "that the Democratic party is the
only party ft to govern the country" If, on
the other hand, the Squire had in view that
other party with which he has been cohoglIng
tor the last four years-that so-called Dem.
ocfatic party which upheld such men as Bu-
chanan, and Floyd, and Wigial, and Toombs
and Jet. Davis, est i'd omneS senuS,-men
with whom he affiliated when States, and In
dian Bonds, and Forts and Custom Houses
and Navy Yards, and Arms, and Mints. and
Revenue Cutters were stolen from the Union
and whom he applauded in their reasonable |
attempts to "compromise" the North out OF
its rights, then We must dissent, in toto, from |
the truth of his second supposition. Such
Democracy has nearly ruined the country by
dragging it into Its present terrific position.
1t matters not what the Squire may say now.
for the purpose Of making a show of yirtuous
Indignation, the files Of bis paper will show
that it is not great while since he eagerly
accepted "thunder" from JEFF. Davis.
The Squire INDUCES in a good deal of ram
dom talk, in the course of his article. s.Mas-
sab Greely," and "Helper's Book as handy
ing words possess about as much of argument
as the Squire usually employs in establishing
or contoVerting point. but they cannot
wipe out the stubborn fact, that the ma-ad-
ministration Of public affairs upder that pecu-
liar democracy which the Democrat supports
and which Buchanan employed, brought about
such state Of things that it will require al ;
The energy Of that stern Republican, "Hon-