The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1867-04-18
Really Unkind.

pulling and hauling, aud world of la
Dor generally, several of the old fossils of
Pennsylvania Democracy, with Asa Packer
at the head, and Hester Clymer at the
tail, have succeeded in exhumiDg from
the cobwebs, rubbish and solitude of
Wheatland, all that remains of the old
public iunctionary, j. B. 1t had been
hoped that his defence of himself and of
his shilly wally administration was tol
have been the last of him Aud so it
would; but others were feeling the symp-
toms of that corrupt, political decay which
bad consigned him to merited oblivion,
crawling over themselves, and in order to
keep position before the publiclic eye
it was necessary that something should
be done. Theyfelt, too, that with
the rapid decline ofthat kind of De
mocracy which had we'll nigh broken
our country into fragments, and is rapidly
running out, their occupation would be
gone, and they be accounted as nothing
beside Young America, whose spirit OF
genuine liberty and freedom had overrun
the North, and was spreading to an alarm
ing extent in the South An effort
must be made to stem the current; and
bracing themselves to the work they made
the effort, aud with the aid of galvanism
and the promise of a good dinner, they
have succeeded in startling the world by
nerving j. B., as aforesaid, to the perpe-
tration of one of his lettering rhapsodies
J. B. couldn't eat; but in view of their
having so generously covered him with
the varnish of Statesmanship, and named
| him as the last Of American States
men of the olden time" be must essay to
write, and, ia galvanic measure, attempt
to throw clogs in the way of the progress
of liberty The old gentleman believes
in nothing but the old Democracy and
the old Constitution; forgetting that his
own want of manhood while in the Presi-
dency had destroyed the former, and per
mitted the latter to be torn into shreds
and patches By his FIRE eating supporters
He appears to be oblivious to the fact that.
through his own want OF nerve, old things
were permitted to be supplanted by the
new order which now prevails; and that
new ideas, new men, greater liberty and
more exalted Statesmanship are the pres
ent Distinguishing marks of the progress
of events. The lash of the Southern
ordling and the cry of the slave is no
longer heard - Bunker Hill no longer
fears the calling of slave rolls upon her
summit, 1T the patient North no longer
witnesses the writings Of truckulent
democracy, whipped into the doing of the
dirty work of its Southern masters; in
short, every thing so plainly points Cut
the permanent departure of the days ol
old fogyism, that the people wonder at
the impudence which attempts to force
the twattliugs of imbecility, as centered
in j. B. and his productions, upon their
understandings. Vixen will the fossils
who have thus disturbed the repose of
the politically dead J. B. learn to know
and accept the situation. AS leaders
their occupation is gone, and they may as
well at once become content to devote the
remainder of their days to the wor!;; Of
repentance over those sins of theirs which,
bolstering the rebellion, so well nigh ru-
ined US. Asa Packer, j. Clancy Jones.
Hester Clymer, and all others of that
kidney, had better peaceably make up
their minds to take position which the
people have SO repeatedly and so emphati-
cally assigned them-tbat is, on the back
seats.
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