The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-11-23
Feels Bad.

latter State, as shadowed forth in tn
torch-light procession which took plac
on the 9th. In the sombre mood j,
which the Democrat found himself OF
that occasion, the rejoieings and huzzas o
the grateful friends of the constitution
and laws over the emphatic redemption
of that hitherto beuighted State, appear
to him as so many gruuts. He felt badly
very indeed, and in the midst of the 5lue
with which he was exercised, his mind re
fected to him its own image, in which
the swine we read Of in Scripture, among
which the cast.out devils were permitted
to take refuge, and which they sent head
long into the sea, occupied conspicuou.
part. 0fcourse we do not envy the Dem
ocrat his feelings on the occasion, or the
encouragement he hoped to reap from the
charge that the procession was ''made vi
of little boys" To US the satisfaction i:
great over the fact that the "littlc boys
were voting boys; and that in the few
exceptions to the rule, the boy presence
was an augury, that ''there is good time
coming" when they too will march to the
ballot box, and do mems work in main
tanning the perpetuity of our government
and liberty. 1t is gratifying to see
them so easily excepting step to the music
Of the Union" and thus aGmonish rebels.
and their sympathiZers, that it will be use
less for them to build hopes for the fu
ture. Bleary indeed, too must have been
the Democrat eyes to have mistaken the
glorious halo Of Union Fire Works, which
lit up both heaven aud earth, and which
like the rains Of heaven, fell alike on the
politically just and unjust, for missiles
hurled at his sign. Sick, awfully sick and
disturbed, must have been the mind which
could conjure up such a monstrocity of
imagination.
But the Democrat endeavors to draw
consolation for the present from the past;
and boastingly pronounces himself fire.
proof. He had been hung and shot, for
Copperheadisln, by an indignant soIdiery,
and be lived through it, and having lived
through the terrible ordeal of the 9th, he
begins to feel that he is preserved for the
advocacy Of the "true principles of Dem
ocracy." True principles ~ What a
perversion! True principles of Democ-
racy sustained the government in its ef-
fort to preserve itself against the attacks
of rebellion, but the principles which the
Democrat has hitherto advocated, and
which it expects to advocate IL the fu-
lure, upheld the red hands of those who
attempted to destroy the Cover nment of
Liberty, and TO rear In its stead the black
despotism Of slavery and of class aristoc
racy. The true principles of Democracy.
under Lincoln, and now under johnson.
redeemed us from the curse of slavery
and will build US up model indeed of
all that is just aud good in government.
While the false principles advocated By
the Democrat, would have settled us far
down IN the scale of that despotism which
JEFF Davis and his co-devils in the work.
$50 glorious squelched by the soldiers in
the field, and by the soldiers and the
mass of the people, more recently, at the
ballot box, so earnestly endeavored to rear
up. The Democrat should take no con-
ISOLATION to himself that Providence per-
mltS him to live, and pander to dema.
gogueiSm, and to its despicable principles.
lie should remember that Providence
permitted the Serpent to enter Eden, and
J udas to kiss the Saviour and cry "HailI
Master" all for some wise purpose, un-
accountable to US; and be humbled at the
thought that though like them be is thus
permitted to live and to preach, it is only
hat the beauty of HIS ways may be set
orth, in the greater brilliancy Of the snc-
,esses of those Nhom be has selected to
10 his work. Providence, has. indeed.
kindly spared" the Democrats life, but
It is niy to afford him time for repent
ince, or to show more Enthusiastically the
beauty OF that political holiness which re.
ieemed New Jersey, in contrast with
hat biackness of political infamy which
!ould under the head Of the principles
nd men which control the Democrat
ave rendered this refuge of the oppress
d, the petted friend of despots all over {
he world. The Democrat should be
Wilt accept the first horn of the dilemma
nd eagerly proceed to the work of get. +
ne his house in order.