The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-09-29
The Democratic Meeting.

not on their own merits get out a respectable
crowd, siezed upon. the first day of Court
week, and held Democratic pow WOW at
the expense of the county. The turn out, as
it was, was very moderate, there not being at
any time over 450 present. small shine
for Democratic Mass Meeting, advertised
weeks before, with names of noted speakers
displayed. The first speaker
was Doctor Leonard, of Mauch Chunk ; and
we will say for him, that if he is not more
decent, honest, intelligent and upright as
Doctor than he isas political speaker, then
may God have mercy on his patients.
He set out, in the first instance, to show
that the Republicans were Abolitouists, and
the inference was that jeff. Davis g. Co.
were, therefore, justified on their advent in.
to office, to leave the Union. The absurd
folly of such position is sufficient to render
its meanness and rascality harmless. For
every one knows that the Republican party
never were Abolitionists, but always denied
the right of the national government, in time
of peace, to interfere with slavery in any Of
the States were it existed by virtue of posi-
tive law. They did, however, object to its
extension, and nothing more. But jeff. Da-
Wis rules the learned Doctor out of Court, for
JEFF, said at the Kirk s. Jaques interview,
that "slavery is no longer an element in the
contest and never was an essential element
1t was only a means of bringing other con-
flicting elements TO an earlier elimination"
This truthful Doctor next tried to establish
the fact that the Unionists were analgama-
tionsts To do this he knavishly quoted
from Wendlc Phillips and other amalgama-
tionists, who have always been opposed TO
our party. Therefore what they say and
write the Unionists are no more responsible
for than they are for what George B. Me-
Clellan says and writes We will state,
however, since the question is up for the
benefit of this learned Doctor and others of
his way of talking, that it is notorious fact
that the Southern States without exception,
(where the Republicans have not until re-
Gently lived) for years back, as the census
show, have had at least one mulatto for eve-
ry Democratic vote cast at any election
Besides his, the Democratic party has sane
toned and approved of amaIgamation in the
most unmstakable manner, by electing Rich
ard NJ. Johnson to the Vice Presidency,
whose wife was full blood negro woman,
by whom he had several children, aud every
one of whom was half Democrat and half ne-
gro In the hope that these pills will re.
lieve the Doctor from the negrophobia, and
all others who have taken it from him, we
pass on. We cannot refrain from remarking
for the Doctors encoura cement, that he sue
ceeded eminently in disgusting the inteli-
gent portion of his party, who happened to
be present.
The next and last speaker was Phillip
Johnson, of ofEaston, who has served four years
too many in Congress, and who is now
candidate for two years more. The Hon.
Phil was against everything that the admin
istration had done. But this was the most
natural thing in the world, for Mr.. Lincoln
is against jeff Davis with all his might, and
Hon. Phil. no more so than circumstances
compel him to be. His speech was long
winded and necessarily illogical and untruth-
ful. 1t is not our intention to follow him
through all the twistings and squirmings of
his splatterdash harrangue; but we shall on
ly glance at the prominent points made by
him. We might sum the matter up by say
ing that if the Hon. Phil. were right, then
the whole Union party deserve hanging for
not handing the government over to JEFF. Da-
Wis g. Co. Phil. did not say this in so many
words, but his logic pointed there With un-
erring certainty.
Hon Phil. showed that his knowledge
of history is no better that his knowledge
of politics. For instance he informed
surprised audience that the Thirty Years
War was to regain possession of the Holy
Sepulchre. But historians tell US that
the Thirty Years War was in consequence
of a strife between the royal families for
the English Crown, and is commonly called
the "Wars of the Roses"
Phil. asserted that Mr.. Lincoln was
fighting alone for the negro; and the
bones of our soldiers that lie bleaching on
southern soil. lie there because Mr.. Lin
cold is prosecuting an unconstitutional
war. All our soldiers that had fallen in
this war had died to make slaves free
hundred thousand had been
called into the field, and not more that
one million slaves had been freed. This
Phil seemed to think was a clncher
But what are the facts. The war is not
prosecuted in the interest of the negro ai-
'ecty nor as an object, but it is prosecu-
ted in the interest of the white man, of +,
Union and of permanent peace. This is
| negro war because we are trying to take
he negro from the Rebels, says Hon.
Phil. This war is no more, nor as much, (
negro war as IL is n white mans war +,