The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1866-11-08

bic workers in the cause which they, il
left to themselves, would soon have run
into the ground and ruined.
Our notice of the "vagaries Of the Demo
crai," two weeks ago, has aroused our neigh |
Dor of the quill into two column reply in
defense of the errors, which, in his astute
his readers. He might we'll have spared
himself the headwork and handwork expend-
ed in the reply, .or reflection must have con-
vinced even himself that what we said was
purely charitable setting to rights of that
which be had got wrong. And he should
have been the better satisfied with our course,
because in our mode of placing him right we
followed the precedent established by him.
self several years ago, and accounted by him
good, gospel law on several occasions since.
For instance; in the matter of Geary's ma
iority The D emocrat set the ma jority at
5000, and ON these figures several of its
friends had made up their minds to base bets.
We corrected the figures, both verbally and
in print and, in consequence, the Democrats
friends were saved both their teinpers and
their money. And we made the corrections
genteelly, too, for we knew that the Demo-
crat had been deceived by its more unscru-
pulous willingly deceived, it
is true, but, charitably speaking, deceived
nevertheless, and, in turn, deceiving. We
did not charge deception on our neighbor
but we said the "litte devil" did it, just as
he said the ''little devil did it few years
ago, when he recommended the holding of
meetings TO organize opposition to the draft,
and was compelled to back down from the
proposition. Then the ''little devil'' did it
while he was out fishing. We merely fol-
lowed precedent, that's all.
And then as to frauds in the election.-
We merely presented the proposition that
probably both parties had cheated little at
the late election. We believe they did,
The Democrat, however,is most intemperate-
ly indignant over the proposition that its
party would cheat, and parades nearly a COL
umn of vague charges against our side. 1t
takes good care to lay the scene of its charges
in the distance, while it wholly overlooks
the fact that the democratic majority of Lu-
zcrne was swelled to its formidable dimen-
s;ons by the aid of forged naturalization pa
pers, seventeen hundred Of which are alleg-
ed to have been issued. Money too, the
Democrat alleges, was employed in the cam
paign, and New England money" at that.
For what purpose, pray! Why, ''to corrupt
voters" answers the Democrat. What vo.
tcrs! Certainly not Republicans! No. TO
democrats answers the Democrat. Well,
thank God, we belong to no such corruptble
material and if we did, we think we would
have sense enough to be ashamed to own it..
In a half column of the article, the Demo
crat attempts to make much out of what we
sad comparatively about the intelligence of
Eidred. We said nothing that we desire to
unsay on that point, and if in the same spir-
1t that we made the comparison, the Demo-
crat desires TO add the two Smthfields so
as to form triuno specimen of political
prejudice and ignorance, it is at perfect liber-
ty to do so. 1t is the boast of leading Demo.
Gratis hereabouts, ,oe of the Democrat among
the rest, that merely 10 proclaim man Re-
publican is enough 10 politically damn him
with the democracy of either of these town.
ships, and we think that at least one prominent
democrat, who never voted any other than
the democratic ticket, candidate at the late
election, will agree with us, that the boast
has truth for foundation. What more need
be said in favor of the courtesy and truth
fitness of our comparison. If we were to
attempt to reconcile all the Democrats blum
ders, we should have but little time to at
tend to anything else.
The Democrat concludes with, as usual,
reference to the "nigger." The article
would not have been orthodoxy democratic
without this allusion. But the Democrat
strips itself of powerful lever when it says
that 1t is the object of the radical party to
inaugurate negro suffrage We have often
been told that the Democratic party never
changes its principles, and as universal suf-
rage, including the negro, is a cardinal
principle Of democracy, and received the
warm support of such tried democrats as
Governors Snyder, IIicster, Flndley, Shuttle,
Wolf and honest Frank Skunk, radicalism
but approxmates democracy when it sup
ports principle which the latter has always
claimed as its own. Negro suffrage had no
part nor lot in the recent campaign and
hence was not feature in republican tac-
tics When it does come up properly, the
Democrat will be at no loss TO find on
which side of the question the great Repub-