The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-08-01
The Almighty Dollar.

ne HIHIt9Hty DOtCIGT, III Is saIu, II
the chief object Of" that peculiar individ
ual "the Yankee." He will cheat, lie
aud steal and even perjure his soul to get
grab at that dollar upon which he gazes
with delight IN his lat hour.
Yes, in the last moments Of his exist.
ence, when the pulse beats slow and fee
bic, when all other temporal things are
fading from his, view, if you were to ask
hin what be m ost lo7cd he would in,oI,
uutarily murGur "tte doltar, tile AAnigA
ty doII1r,"
PIayfuliy would he toss it from hand
to hand; listen to its musical jingIings
with ecstacies Of delight; press it to bis
heart vlth the most tender u otions. and
die With bis eTes ri:eted upon the dollar,
u?on the shining star Of his childhood.
the end Of his existence, and that ~hicG
will "pley the d 70 with him after death.
1t is characteristic Of the Yankee to
-qneeze the d0l}0r so numerically that it
not unfreqGcntlg causes the eacIo to
scream post riteou-iy, an'3 the G01leSS a
}i5c'ty to blush vith shame.
The persons whom we here call Van
kee> arc the New Englanders, vbo, some
Of the Germans of our country think, re-
side far heyond the lightly Connecticut
whose waters, they telicge, would upon
crossing change Dutchnan into a red
beaded Yankee But this Unsuitable de-
sire for, and ''baukcIins e ttor The AlnaeA-
IN dollar is rot coufDed to the land OF
"oak hams and wooden Dutmegs." 1t
bas bceu waited westward hy every east.
2rn breeze, and its spicy odors cagerlg
Inhaled By HE ,uooog making politician
and would be patriot. They lose the
dollar. but disregard the word Liberty
upon its face, and which gave it being
Their great cry is : ''to battle, to Battle. y
If they keep the army much longer do
ing nothing we can never pay the taxes. !"
They co net seen to think that it was
the Constitution that gave them the priv.
iIege of anassing wealth; but it vas
And that Constitution they seek to destroy
BY allowing their niserIy principle, or
rather ir want of principle-to get the
better of them, By trying to persuade
others that they "need not aid in putting
down rebellion" and that they should not
succumb to such ''unconstitutioDal' mea
sures, but "resist By force of arms. -
Many who speak thus are played out pol
iticans whose great delight would be to
see the Union "go to thuuder," thinking
th at change would give them IN oppor
tunity of taking another suck at the pub.
lie teat." Last week I beard very in
Auential person. will not say gentlema q
assert; "If they don't fight soon zee will
raise up against then; aoe will not stand
it uuch longer; ace will not pay such hea
w taxes.
About the same time | noticed an ar
tcle in the Democrat stating the proccc
dngs of the Democrats of Barrett
| was shocked to sec such rebellious
resolutions, got up and adopted, in this
crisis, by individuals who style them
selves Democrats. If democracy consists
in encouraging rebels aud in cherishing
disunioD sentiments then away with it
away with the paltry stuff. | would pro
nounce it the curse of a Free Government
But | do not believe that this is the sen.
tinent OF the Democrats Of Monroe, it is
only the opinion OF a lew, who have been
led astray through the influence OF some
office seeker desirous of getting a situston
where he cane tho antics ofthe Almagh-
'y dollar. K.
July 18th, 1861.