The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-10-13

"To the Hon. John A. Griswold, Mem
Der of the United States Congress:
"Dear Sir: You have my thanks for
a copy of the New York World, of the
14th ultimo, containing an untruthful ar
ticle relating to myself. | baye not time
to notice it at the present moment, but
may do SO at future day. Meantime,
you will please accept the following re-
marks:
sit is more than four years since a
Democratic Convention met, first at
Charleston and subsequently at Baltl-
more, to nominate candidates for Presi-
dent of the United States. The promi-
nent leaders of this Convention from the
South (so.called Democrats were the po-
litical disciples of John c. Calhoun. As
declared by Rhett, of South Carolina,
since 1880 the purpose was entertained
by them to separate the Southern States
from the Union. Their idea was to make
cotton king, which, in few years, said
Rhett would rule the world
Fooled in several previous attempts to ac-
complish their object, they determined,
as last resort, to divide the Democratic
party, and run two candidates for Prcsi-
dent, that the Republicans might elect
their candidate, Abraham Lincoln, whom
they denounced as IAN Abolitionist.' In
this they succeeded. The faction Of
the Southern States nominated the then
Vice President, Mr.. Breckihridge; the
faction of the Northern States nominated
Senator Douglas The result was the
election of Abraham Lincoln to the Pres
idency. In the following December the
State of South Carolina, assigning the
election of Mr.. Lincoln as a justifable
cause for the act, seeded from the
Union; and this, too, without the slight
est effort OH the part of the President.
james Buchanan, to prevent it.
"Thus commenced this nefarious rebel
lion, encouraged and assisted by a major
ity of the Democratic Cabinet of Presi-
dent Buchanan. John B. Floyd, his Sec
retary of War, defaulter for a large a.
mount in his own State Virginia., robbed
the Northern States of arms and ammuni-
ton, and transferred them to the South
ern States, at the same time ordering the
greater part of the army to the most dis
can't frontier posts. Thompson, his Sec
retary of the Interior, robbed the Treasu-
ry, as reported, of eight hundred thou
sand dollars in Indian bonds. Toucey
his Secretary of the Navy, to prevent in
reference with the rebel ports, ordered
the United States ships of war to Europe
aud other distant regions. Cobb, his
Secretary of the Treasury, violated his
oath of Office, and joined the rebels after
nearly bankrupting the Treasury and ru-
ining the national credit. Black, his
Attorney General, was friend and conf
Dental adviser, and no less guilty in his
encouragement of the South in their re-
bolIious schemes than the President.
"Of such men, called Democrats-with
the exception of General Cass, Secretary
of State, and Joseph Holt, Postmaster
General-was composed the Cabinet of
the Democratic Prcsidant, James Bu-
chanan Mr. Buchanan was himself the
devoted friend of ex-Vice President John
G. Calhoun, who, in consequence of a
quarrel with President Jackson and his
Secretary of State, Martin Van Buren,.
abandoned his party and was the bitter
enemy of Jackson. Mr.. Calhoun became
a nullifer, and after he defeated the nom-
ination of Martin Van Buren, as Minister
to the Court of st. James, resigned his
Vice Presidency and returned to South
Carolina, where he was received by the
nali6ers with open arms. Then he de-
elarcd, having given up in despair his as
piration for the Presidency, that the fact
was no longer to be concealed that hence
forth the Southern States, if retained in
the Union, would only be hewers of wood
and drawers of water for the North. To
this he would never consent. He pro-
claimed the scheme of forming a grand
slave confederacy that was to make cotton
king and rule the world Not long af-
ter military schools were established inl
the Southern States, secret associations
and finally the knights of the
Golden Circle organized to carry into ex
cutiou the great plan of the Democraticl
of the Southern State. Ref
erence is here made to MIR. Calhoun in
order to show the origin of secession, and
establish the fact Of the determination of
the Southern Democracy to separate the
Southern from the Northern States, dat
ing back more than thirty years ago, and
also to show that the election of Mr.. Lin
coin to the Presidency was not the cause,
but the pretext, for accomplishing their
long meditated designs.
"To aid in .consummating the treasona-
BILE scheme, We had in the free States
such democratic representative leaders as
Buchanan, of Pennsylvania; Pierce of
New Hampshire; Gushing, of Massacha-
'etts; Seymour, Of Connecticut; the
Woods, of New York; Vallandigham and
Pendleton, Of Ohio; Bright and Yoor-
lees, of Indiana; Gwin, of California, and
Lane, of Oregon-all prominent Demo-
,rats and sympathizers with the South.
During the rebellion, We have seen these
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