The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-10-27
Democratic Living.


sale Democratic lying. That party hav-
ing long since stuffed off principle, and
betaken itself to scramble for plumber,
will not balk at anything to accomplish
its object. We would, therefore say to
the Union men everywhere, be on the
lookout for all kinds of subterfuge, for
the Democracy are terribly in earnest,
and will leave no stone unturned to Sc
cure the victory of the campaign for
themselves In nominating Mcclellan,
that party swallowed everything which
it had denounced as obnoxious in the
Administration of Mr. Lincoln. Arbi-
trary arrests, the suppression of free
speech and free press, the draft, and
even the freeing of the niger, were all
taken in that dose swallowed at Chicago !;
and having no real stock in trade, they
are literally compelled to deal in an imagi-
nary one With no capital in truth, they
are as matter of course driven to false
hood as a means of drawing the people to
their support.
Foremost among the efforts of the
Democracy in this way, stand, most prom
inent, the mean, contemplate lies which
go to disparage the brilliant deeds of our
soldiers in the field Since the day of
McClellan's removal they have been pleas
ed to contend that we were no where re-
ally successful-that our battle6elds have
been mere slaughter houses, and that
what have been claimed as victories for
the Union arms have been barren of per-
ceptible results. They have been com
PEELED to acknowledge that the rebs have
been backed from pillar to post-that We
have recovered and hold a large portion
of the territory claimed as belonging to
the Confederate States, and that the ana
conda of war is really closing around its
rebel victim but all this they attribute
to the superior strategy of the rebel CON-
manders, and pretend to be really watching
for the arrival of the precise time when
Lee will have us just where he wants
US" and deliberately proceed to swallow
US. McClellan's commandership, under
which months were wasted in tinsell pa
rade, and glittering show, and other
months in the swamps Of Virginia deci-
mated our armies by tens of thousands,
they affect to look upon as the very achme
Of military brilliancy. He spent some
eighteen month. in front of Washington,
and number more in marching and
countermarching the Chickahominy, and
finally returned 10 the point he started
from with the finest army the world ever
saw nearly annihilated; yet, according
to these Swans, his was the policy to
crush the rebellion and bring US peace,
Grants commandership, under which SO
much had already been accomplished,
and which promises to accomplish so much
more, is SO repugnant to them they can
hardly find words sufficiently strong for
its condemnation. Though he marched
triumphantly over road which little Mac
had pronounced imprac:icable, and whip
ped the rebels in every battle offered him,
yet his march is denounced as but the
building ofan interminablc grave yard, and
the good he has done is measured only
~ the walls of the widows and the or
phans necessarily caused by 1t. And G.
ven now, as he stands before Richmond,
holding Lee and his coherts in siege of
terror, be has but the rcproach of the
Democracy for his temerity, and their
earnest prayers for his defeat.
And so too of Sherman, before Atlanta.
According to the World the Age and all
the lesser lights of Democracy, that was
sure to be a failure. And yet Sherman
murched on day after day, and gained
victory after victory, until at last, in a
space Of time almost unprecedented in
military history for its shortness, Atlanta
became ours. But according 70 Democ-
racy, there was no victory there. Though
We carried everything before US, and
drove the rebels from their strongest hold
we were whipped, most badly whipped
And why? Merely because it was only
out Of Union defeat that they could ex
pect to make Democratic political capital
aud reap Democratic victory at the polls
Aud Sheridan, in the Shenandoah
Valley. He too, according to Democrat
ic oracle, was to be defeated He was no
match, said Democracy, for the wiley
Early, and would soon be sent kiting to |
the Businesses at Washington. But Sher
ridan didn't so see it. He set about ex-
amining the ground about him, and ma
king such improvements as experience
dictated were necessary, and when every