The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-11-07
Interesting Correspondence.
JEFFERsoNIAN OFFICE, Stroudsburg, Pa,
November 9TH, 1861.

AbOSlSstluS SoIISSpUuu6HC0.
JEFFERsoNIAN OFFICE, Stroudsburg, Pa, }
November 9TH, 1861.
Hon. GEORGE II. ROWLAND:
Dear George Your kind letter to us
came duly 10 hand, through the columns o
the Monroe Democrat. We thank you fol
this assurance of your remembrance of US
and Of our services during the recent repre-
sentative campaign; and we cannot help gi-
wing expression to the hope that, on some fu-
ture occasion, VIC may have opportunity
10 repay, at least in part, your kindness.
You will observe, dear George, that We
copy your epistle, entire, in the JeferSonian
-oeFjatin, ct iteratim, ct punctuatim, ct
Speidtim." We do this that our readers NAV
see how much greatness they attempted to
ovcrslaugh by voting against you, and thai,
we may always have your letter at hand,
both as an epistolary model and as an eyi-
dence of the exalted place we occupy in your
esteem. Ordinary letters, from ordinary in-
diyiduals, we usually commit to the flames
as soon as read; but yours being in extraor-
Gnary letter, and coming from an ex,raordi-
nary specimen of The geauS homo We thought
II deserving Of this distinguished considera-
ton. We felt the more strongly impeled to
this course, because we were desirous that gen.
eraliuns yet TO come might have The evidence
before them, that ghteen hundred and sixty
one had at least one great man, to redeem it
from the charge of having nurtured nothing
but race of intellectual pigmies.
We have, dear George, been somewhat
twitted, by the ignoramuses hereabouts, with
the blackguardism contained in your letter
Ii is amusing TO see that, in their intelleclua
blindness, they do not appreciate the brillian. !
cy OF your wit. Never having enjoyed the |
bracihg breezes of the Delaware & Hudson
Canal. Of course it is not 10 be expected that
they should see the bent of Lackawack clas
slcs. 1t would, therefore, hardly be fair to
expect ;hem TO appreciate the nobility of the
beautiful expression with which you COM
mence the second paragraph of your wonder
ful letter-"A dirty little smut machne."- I
The sentence Is rich, rare and racy, but We {
think It's terseness is fully equaled by your
reference TO "Balem's ASS You eclIpse
even yourself, dear George, when you close
the fifth paragraph with The well rounded
period-''a scouncrel, william liar. and
worse than a thief, slanderer." Had you
closed your speech at the meeting held in |
our Court House in September with such ex-
Presslons you would, at once, nave stablished I
your reputation as a man of parts but We c
must confess that We felt mortified at your i
bIundeiing attempt TO quote Webster's DOS Y
troPhe 10 the Union. Our modification. how t
ever, did not proceed from the blunder itself '
tor great minds often lose themselves in the u
log, but grew out of the fact that people here 4
soouts fell at once TO asserting that your love
for the Union was of such recent date tba, !,
you had not yet learned the a, b, c's of true c
PATRIOTISM Some even went SO far as to saw q
that you had studied the Wehsteriau motto u
Us contained in an old copy of the Monroe II
Oemoc az the whole of the afternoon prece- b
ling the meeting, and that about sup lime v
Vou could cay it right of, without looking q, o.
he copy, but that when you came TO snoak ri
before the meeting your own insulted rev
'rence for the sages and principles of Seces.
ia arose in revolt and drove il from your
nlnd. vi course We didn't believe the SLAM
ere, and we said so But, bless your soul.
he people only laughed al US. By the way -
'eofse' We don't remember that you have vet H
roPeriy thanked our mutual friend. ,be in
qulre, for having helped you out of he mire at
n that occasion. pe
we would not pretend to advise so SAGE a a.
'ino as yours, dear George; but would il ~
OF be well, just once and while for evo, "e m
reat men 90 decend to the understanding of "
'mmon folks! We know yos meant hind.
by US and disdained evil, for beneyolence
10 purity are written on every lineameut OF "
ur countenance; but the ignorant masses 'n
ally took the bulk of your speech, and the
'st pointed paris of your letter To be bitter d.
IS and blackguardism And Why Sim. No,