The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1867-01-31
On the Removal Of Mr. Shoemaker.

Shoemaker and the appointment of James 4.
PAUL., as my Deputy Collector of U. S. H.
ternal Revenue for the County of Monroe. |
feel it advisable to reply, and respectfully |
request the use of your paper for this pur-
pose.
The editorial remarks. to say the least, are
the unwarrantabe and scandalous attack mp |
on ne for the removal of Dir. S. IF Mr.. |
Schoch wrote the article TO which reference
is here made, and we were disposed TO retort
upon him, we might indulge in remarks
which to him would be exceedingly unpleas-
ant; but knowing his % softness'' and on
that occount his liability is to be imposed up
on, we VIII simply give him this welcome
advice; that, before penning another article
of similar character, to remain in " Jerico
until his beard be grown" But we strong
ly suspect the man with the tremendously
long beard TO have written the article, for,
as it was said of one of old <silis speech be-
tray eth him" and although the slang phrases
used are perfectly. characteristic of the
source whence they emanated, they come with
an i'll grace from a man who is as week
kneed" as circum> >tancos can well make him.
Let me say emphatically that l am satis-
fed with the course | took in the removal of
Mr.. Shoemaker. | could not do otherwise
under the circumstances, as numerous petit
tons IN my possession, signed by large
number of the best men in your county, Will
testify. These petitions VIII be sent you
for publication if called for. Had MIR. ).
teen a little more discreet and refrained
from improper language sgainst those in au-
thority, in all probability he would not have
been requested to Withdraw" But when
a man is 20 lost to selt-respect as to malign
the chief magistrate of the Nation by saying
all manner Of evil against him, we believe
that no right-thinking person would advo-
cate the retention in office. Then again,
when we gave Mr. S. the certificate which
he so injudiciousiy handed to the JeferSO-
MAN for publication, we thought he might |
make an improper use Of it. Still, we |
cheerEully presented il to him under the i'm
pressioa that no gentleman would DO so. III
this. however, we find ourselves mistaken. |
and We regret exceedingly, not that we re-
moved hm, but that the confidence we re-
posed in him was misplaced. Good care was
AIKEN not 10 publish all the correspondence
III relation to the removal of Alr. s., but on
the contrary they gave such only as was
thought would suit certain purposes. Why
was my letter TO Mr. Shoema ker, dated Nov
18th, (more than month before he was re-
quested to withdraw withheld, and those
Of December 22nd published! If the editor
of the JcferSOnjGn is disposed to continue
the discussion Of this subject, it will afford
me good opportunity Of presenting all the
facts in'the case to the citizens of Monroe,
and ask for the use Of his columns for this
purpose.
Messrs. Editors, Will close by assuring
you that am sorry TO trouble your readers
with matters Of a strictly personal character,
but the editor Of the JcgersoniaH having
made an ungentlemanly and personal attack
upon me, | think ii important not to let it
pass uunoticed. | therefore desire to state
explicitly that, he having assumed the ag-
,ressive and thereby necessarily thrown me
IN the defensive, that it is my intention not
,nly to hold him responsible, but TO defend
myself to the fullest extent of my power.
J. z. HETRICK.
Easton, Jan. 2lst, 1867.
Remarks-We found the foregoing in the
columns of the last Monroe Democrat, and
insert it in our paper for two reasons:-1st
o give the collector Il hearing before our
'eaders, and 2nd, TO show the public that e.
zen, under what be imagines to be aggrava-
ed provocation, the Collector dare not pre-
end to base Mr.. Shoemakel's removal on
my other than purely CoPperhead grounds.
This would be probably sufficient by way of
introduction to Josiah's diatribe, but ''by
ling" to borrow favorite expression of his,
IS we have the time, we do not know but
What it Will be just as we'll to vcntilate his
little, merely to let him know
hat in the desperation of his assault he com
nitted TO murder-tnat we still live.
1t will be observed, on reading the second
r3graph Of his article, that owing to the
urts he received from the "unwarrantablel
nd scandalous attack" contained in our in
TO his notes TO Mr. Shoemn ker, or
ONE other cause, Josiah is considerably be-
jgged on the question of authorship. He
oes not know whether to blame Mr.. Schoch
II "the man with the tremendously long
ieard" with the paternity of the "attack," {
nd hence, as a soo!her in his adversity, be
ndulges several witty Hetrckiannas at our
Expense. As these, however are pontless
nd harmless, we pass them 10y with this ad-
ice TO Josiah that a man who knows so
veil how TO draw upon the brains of his I
eighbors for means to add interest to his pa 5
er, as does Josiah p Hetrick, the editor of the I
Northampton Journal, should not much both
r his brains about the paternity of articles {
Which pinch Josiah p Iletrick, Collector, &C. {
Josiah tells us that he is satisfied with the E
curse he took in the removal o. Mr. Shoe I
maker. We have never doubted it, We
new the man so well that Notwithstanding
lis solemn protestation to us TO Mr.. Shoe
maker and to others that he would make no i,
hange, we doubted his stability under pres
ure. Within year we had known him TO !
e an ardent republican and renegade TO
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