The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1867-08-15
Democrats to the Rescue.

Inc DemOCidSJ III 'iO ouP POis Va Oh"i'
wood, things don't look as though they
were going to do it. On the contrary, in
deed, there is pretty fair showing on
the part of the Nationals that they mean
to do no such thing. Flanigen & Co.,
though they have on several occasions es
sayed to get their fppers into the pro-
vender bag, have thus far, in reality only
secured raped knuckles, as reward for
the treachery by which they hoped to
permanently locate themselves into good
official positions. And they don't mean
to stand it. They are determined to rule
some where, and they mean to succeed
even if ruin be the result of their efforts.
They find the leagues invulnerable against
either their cajolement or their threats,
and the Republican party fixed institu-
ton, and hence have given up all hopes
in that quarter. On the other hand they
find the Democracy Jared into fragments
and its leaders open to conviction on any
matter which promises, however vaguely
to restore power and spoils to their hands.
But they do not mean to play second fid
die to any party = they mean to become
not only the possessors themselves, but also
the dispensers of power to others, and to
dispense it only with view to the preser-
vation of their own interests. To place
themselves in a safe line for the accom-
plishment of this end, Chief Flanigen has
given the matter his closest study and his
warmest consideration, and unbosoms him.
self to his Z" bread and butter" cohorts, in
an article of usual ferver and force, in the
organ of the 7th inst In this he has pro
ceeded most Justify to the work of the
opening up of the seals and clearing away
of the mystery, which we noticed as cov-
ering his track last week, and as a result,
we have as part of the plan, of National
Republican salvation, the complete swal-
lowing of the Democratic party, and thus
shutting it out of existence. The dose is
ack nowledged to be nauseous one, but
the chief is firm in the conviction that
the men who swallowed Clymerism for
| for the sake of the small loaves and fishes
guaranteed by Assistant Assessor and Col,
| lectorships have stomachs for any thing
that comes in their way, if it only pro-
misses to pay. He thinks further that,
though nauseous, the dose is too small to
cause much squeamishness.
But, will the Democracy stand being
swallowed? 1t would be well for the
leaders to look to the matter. The men
who betrayed Republicanism by voting
for Clymer merely to retain or gain the
emoluments of office, are the men who need
watching, and who are not bit too good
to perform the same feat against those
whom they so easily duped before. Read
what Flanigen says, and then rehet, in
view of his.stern truths, whether danger
| lurketh not near.
After stating the truth that, for seven
years, the Democracy has but exhibited
its inability to defeat the Republican
party, he gives the following reasons for
that inability and also for the conclusion
which he has arrived as set forth in the
last paragraph:
l. The people have not confidence in
the leaders of the Democratic party, as
consistent advocates of the principles
which they now profess.
They claim Jefferson and Madison as
the chief apostles and expounders of their
principles, and at the same time they claim
large share of credit for their military
men for engaging in war which they
have all the time declared to have been
begun and carried on for the destruction
of those principles, and which the recent
acts of the Radical usurpers show to have
been for the subversion of our Federal
| Constitution.
If the principles cnuaciated by Jeffer-
son and Madison be those of the Demo,
cratic party Of the present time, how can
that party sanction the action of gen
eral who has marched an army into south.
ern States to crush those who were con
tending for those principles And if
the State rights doctrines Of the old Dem.
ocratic party be not those of the present
one, what are its doctrines?
In 1861 it had two platforms - one set
forth by convention of the party, and
another by its candidate, so that voters
might choose the one which suited each
one best.
2. The Democratic party has not with
in the last ten years shown vigor, energy,
and ability sufficient to enable it to cope
with such an organization as the League,
whose agents in Congress have seized the
power of all departments of the govern.
ment, and WELD them for the support OF
their traitOrous faction.