The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1867-08-01


IT is little remarkable that while our
Democratic contemporaries are moving
heaven and earth to make their candidate
for the Supreme Bench, Judge Shars-
wood, appear to be the very Ajax of the
Bench and Bar of this country, they can
say nothing of Judge Williams, his op-
poncnt, save that by the accident of birth
he is native of Connecticut. They say
nothing against the legal and judicial ca
pacity of the latter, because in all their
search they can find nothing but what
would render him more honorably con-
spicuous in the eyes of the people. He
is from Connectcut-a "bfue bellied
fanatical yankee" say they, and that, in
their estimation, is all that need be said
They would not, for world tell the peo-
pie that, democratically speaking, even SO
high authority as Chief-Justice Wood
wood Ga fact of which we do not boast), /,
did not hesitate to quote this miserable
yankee of ours, as excellent authority in
the decision of question before the
Supreme Court; and they totally ignore
the fact that it was over the action Of
this contemplate State of the nativity of
our candidate, that they were shouting
and huzzaing couple of months ago,
for the only crumb of real political COM
fort which they have enjoyed within the
last six years. Kentucky they had, Della
ware they had, New Jersey they had and
then they hadn't, the States lately in re-
bellion they had, but they were unavaiIa-
BILE with promised indefinite continuance
of their unavailability, and Democracy
was, as the Poet says,
plunged in gulf of Dark Despair"
until Connecticut wheeled into line, and
all at once, became the Mecca of Copper
head pilgrimage, and the beacon light
OF Copperhead hopes. They have forgot
ten this, however, and can now only speak
of one of Connecticut's honored children,
become by adoption and choice a shining
light in Pennsylvania galaxy of great
and good men, as a sneaking, yankee
pettifogger, &C., to the end of the chap
ter of dsreputable things.
1t is remarkable, again, the means
which the Democracy employ to make
their candidate appear the better man of
the two for the position. They steer as
wide away from the evidence furnished
by the Supreme Court as it is possible for
them to get; and have no notion of a
comparison of merits based upon the un-
bending record of both candidates as fur
nished by the respective courts in which
they hold position. But every piece of
fulsome fattery which floats in their way,
every highly wrought panegyric which
personal friendship can dictate, is brought
to the surface to prove Judge Sharswood
to be just what every Republican Press
has ack knowledged him, fully and volunta-
rily, to be learned lawyer, an upright
Judge SO far as probity ip the discharge
of his duties are concerned, and an hon
est, Christian man in ali the private rela-
tions of life. We might Gil our columns
with just such notices of Judge Williams,
but we conceive that something in addi-
ton to the deserving of these is needed
to constitute the Judge which the people
are endeayorinS to find in the present
campaign "a Judge whose record, when
wars terrors was upon US, proved equal
to the emergency; who could, from the
dusty heap find laws enough to save the
country's life and punish the country's
wouldbe assassins s-and who can now,
that peace is coming again with renewed
splendor, discover means of preventing
men who once worked for our destruction
from renewing the attempt. In short we
are looking for Judge who believes that
the spirit of fogyism which has SO long
hung around our courts, and which has
almost settled the doctrine that treason is
crime which cannot be punished, should
be made to give away to more enlight.
ened spirit of Democracy, become a
more tenacious guardian of our liberties,
and only pay heed to precedents, when
precedents are the sure and certain dis
pensers of Justice, exacting and unbend.
ing.
Just now, in this connection, our Demo
cratic cotemporaries are deeply fallen
in love with David Paul Brown. They
have had the endorsements of Judges
Black and Woodward from the beginning,
and now David has come to the rescue