The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-05-11
Cotter Gnawing a Bone.

to. Iflhe does not soon find out that it is
"a fle instead of bone that he is enjoy
ing himself over, We shall be much mis-
taken. president Johnson's Record is
the article he has in hand, and he rolls
its disjointed fragments about in his
mouth as though he would tear both the
man and his sentiments to pieces.
But we can't see why Cetter, Demo-
crat should thus wreak his spite against
President johnson a Democrat. There
is not principle which johnson once
upheld that he does not now uphold
Sentiments he may have and doubtless has
changed, but his principles are unchan-
ged and Interchangeable. The chief cor
ner stone in the fabric of his principles is
love of country. This is plainly set forth
in his every act, from his first entree in
public life down to his last act and word
as President of these United States. He
once upheld the interests of Slavery and
Slave Holders, because he religiously be-
lieved that to do so was essential to the
well being of the country. He now wars
against both with a most bitter warfare
because he not only believes, but has pos
tive knowledge, that the best interests
of the country demand that he should
The interests of slavery and the slavehol-
ders wared for the destruction of the
country, and President johnson believes,
and his Democratic principles teach him
so to believe, that it is the duty of every
patriot, in turn, to war for their destruc
ton, and to rear over their graves tenn
pie dedicated to liberty, more glorious
and extensive than that even which our
fathers reared for us.
After all, however, there may be moth
ing so strange in this discrepancy between
the Democracy which prompts Cotter to
find fault with johnson, and the Democ
racy which leads johnson on in the pa
triotic course he is pursuing. The for
mcr is protesting, collateral Democrat
only-a man who can see nothing beyond
party adhesion, and the loaves and fishes
which faithfulness to its behests, and the
ingenious trickery of its teachings can Sc
cure With him the County Treasurer
ship, in the approaching election is the
grand desideratum, and if he would Sc
cure that he must maintain the party
within its old lines If be should suffer it
to advance step beyond, the progression
lists, who still work in the harness In lit
tie Pike, might step between him and the
object of his aspirations, or make the Sc
curing of it any thing but labor of love
In this dilemma there is no reason to ask
-"Whe shall we find Cotter" He
can always be found where his ilk is to
be looked for; among the blatant dema
gogues of the land. If his party inter-
ests lie with the country he bellows for
country. Ifagainst the Country he is just
as loud in defense of its enemies 9th
ers that we wot of, besides Cotter, be-
lieve and act just as he does. The lat
ter, johnson, is certain, positive Dem
ocrat. In his life he has given unmista-
kable evidence that principle, alone, most
solidly based, CONTROLS his actions
every thing for country, nothing for
self, must have been his controlling motto,
when he bearded his Southern cotempora-
ries in the Senate of the United States, at
the initiation Of that treason which Cot
ter now so strenuously defends and it
must have been the same motto which
buoyed him up when he determined to
sacrifice everything rather than yield the
faithful performance of the Patriots duty.
While the Democracy of Cottcr makes
him the apologist for treason and traitors,
the Democracy of johnson makes him the
honored President of the greatest nation
in the world-and the unfinching cham
pion of the rights of man as centered in a
liberal and glorious government. When
the Democracy which Cotter advocates
shall have passed to its proper position g.
mong the wicked things eff the earth, the
| Democracy which actuates johnson will
still go on, upsetting tyrannies, and bull
ding the status of man, until throughout
the world it will be as herc-the people
the sovereigns, the Office holders, the mere
servants; and until the dogma of the ''Di-
vine right of Kings" will be hooted at
from one end of the world to the other