The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1867-05-30

the public, as he did In his last week S
journal, we feel called upon by common
courtesy, to do as much for him. We
regret, however, that our friend appears
to be not well pleased with the length Of
the short puff we gave him in the letter
soniaa two weeks since, but we shall en-
deavor to make up for that neglect this
time.
SO Mr. Public; allow US to introduce to
your kindness and consideration Mr.. y
%. GREENwALD, EDITOR AND PRopRIE-
TOR OF THE MONROE DEMOCRAT, AND
ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT Of the
Lutheran Sabbath school, recently organ
lied in this place.
Permit us, in the first. place to expaci
ate slightly, buttruthiully, on his editorial
dealings and capacity. When he first
came in our midst, we expected great
things from him. Our credulity had
been so much imposed upon as to lead US
to believe that we should find 10 said edi-
tor, both man and journalist who
would prove to be useful and pleasant
acquisition to our place. But we have
waited until recently for something to
turn up to demonstrate his editorial great
ness. When To- the first thing he does
indicative of startling capacity, Is the
publication of a private man uuscript, In
tended for no eye but his own. This he
obtained of us in the following manner =
He, though comparatively stranger
among US, had the week previous pub
lished silly and impertinent communi
cation from an irresponsible source, re-
hecting on US and others, and, said yet
unestablished editor, writhing under the
smart of public condemnation, was anx-
ious to give US room to reply. He want
ed our article before we had time to write
it, and put it in shape for publication. We
informed him that we had only sketched
our reply, and it would therefore be nee
essary for us to re-write and correct it.
lie then informed us that that would be
unnecessary as we could correct the man
uscript by adding marginal notes and in
terlineations, and complete the corrections
after it was in type, and thus the article
would be as correct as if rewritten, and
much time saved to him and trouble
avoided by us. Trusting to the editors
honor (for we are apt sometimes to lean
on broken reed), we yielded to his en-
treaty. Accordingly when the proof was
struck off, we went into the Office, and the
editor and myself read it over carefully
and corrected it between us-one holding
the proof and the other the manuscript.
We found there were seven or eight er-
rors of orthography in the manuscript,
when it first was handed over to the edi-
tor, which errors we detected in the proof
and corrected. Thus the matter was ar
ranged every way agreeably to US both /;
and so it remained until he, said editor,
was compelled, as he said, to publish a
company communication signed Smith
6eld;" when said company, being his
master, ordered said editor to publish no.
thing more from us; and he therefore re-
fused to let us be heard any further
through his columns, as we had q right
to be, and would have been allowed by
any honest and impartial editor. We
then comprehended his trickery, and also
band, and asked the editor what was
meant by the allusion made by Smith
field" to the trouble given the editor to
make our article appear as we'll as it
did. When said editor had the audac-
| ity to inform us that he had corrected
several Of our sentences, and after some
hesitation (for it would appear that he
had some idea of what was honorable
even if be had not so acted) he said that
one of the 'Smithfeld" company had been
in his Office and impudently picked up
the manuscript aud read it, and seeing
the many additions and corrections, sup
posed he, the editor, had made them.
| We told him at once he had corrected
none of our sentences. He asserted he
had. We then told Kim that could be
easily proved, by producing the manu-
script, which we demanded. Instead,
however, of producing the manuscript
and thereby satisfactorily settling that
question, he informed us he had burned
it. He subsequently, told another gen
tlcman that he would republish the man.
uscript, but he thought he had burned it,
and still another that he could not 6nd it.
But now like the tabled Phoenix it seems
TO have risen from its own ashes: and in
stead of having seven or eight errors as it
pio'cu " nave, hHcu VIC SdfC IL " tHe
editor, those errors have been increased
in passing through his clean and fruit
full hands to no fewer than fifty five, that
is to say, according to this learned editors
hypercritical, puerile estimate of gram
matical accuracy. 1t will be seen by the
foregoing that the manuscript in question
contained but seven or eight errors in
spelling, and that those were subsequently
corrected in the proof, by the editor and
myself, according to his own arrangement.
The word Johnny" however, is an ex-
ception. That word IN our article as first
published was spelled incorrectly, but un-
fortunately for this self sufficient editor,
in what he afiirms is true copy of our
manuscript, it is spelled correctly. He
seems to have no regard to method but