The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1867-05-02
Bad for the nemncracY.

OebO 1OA o4AN ANAiO~AoSJ'
While the Democratic party, its lead
ers, its presses and its rag, tag and bob
tail, are waiting patiently for the accom-
plishment of reconstruction, in hopes
that its old friends in the South will, like
the sow, return to their wallowing in its
political mire, and restore to it power, the
old leaders, the old press and the old par
ty generally in Dixie, are fast discovering
the folly of the pastime, and that if they
would again be of any account, they must
accept of the new situation, and join
heartily in the new order of things which
their own blind adherance to demagogues
and demagogueism, has, in selfdefcnce,
forced upon the country. To secure
Southern support Democrats are sounding
the alarm most Justify, and, causing crock
odile tears to course down their checks
much after the fashion of one wave OF
old ocean following another. But the
bait does not seem to take. Burnt
children" says the old saw, I" dread the
fire." and Southerners begin to think
that there is wholesome lesson contained
p the adage. Thus, while Reed, and
Vallandigham, and the Woods, and the
hosts Of greater and lesser satellites of the
party North are beckoning their former
Southern brethren to prepare to come tc
the rescue; Orr, and Lee and Longstree
and Hampton, and their Southern confre
rees, are cautioning those whom they eaG
against the commission of any such fool
ishness. They see that, while the De
mocraey led them into the folly of rebel
lion it was poweress to aid them in their
attempt upon the life Of the government
and that it is still more powerless to lead
them out OF it. They want peace; but
they can see no peace through the mach.
nations Of Democratic tricksters, who ca
joled them into war and then deserted
them: They want prosperity; but they
cannot see it along the road which led
to their present despoiling in personal
liberty, in prosperity, in civil and politi
cal rights, and which robbed them OIL
their status as men. They want the
plenty, in which they formerly reveled
but they know they cannot find it through
that Democracy of sentiment which ha.
finally brought them, as beggars, to the
very doors of that Radicalism and thai
North which, for nearly sig years, they
fought to destroy. These Southern leader:
have at last become sensible men. and they
Ispurn the Democracy, as they would spuru
the adder from their bcsoms. 1t is moi
strange, therefore, that Democratic leaders
cry in vain for help; or, that Southern
leaders speak Of an old score to settle
with the Northern Democracy; or, that
Southern papers, acting under wholesome
advice from those in whom they have
confidence, and whose wisdom was OBJ
tained through bitter experience, pro
claim, as does the Charlottesville (Va)
Chronicle, that /" The first thing requisite
for the pacifcation of the country is for
the Democratic party to dissolve" and
that any alliance Of the South with
the Democratic party will be hopeless" 4"
Experience has taught the South of the
perfect nonentity of Democracy in the
iulhlment of pledges; and that the pro-
fsssion of conservatism with which Dem
ocrats approach them, is but flimsy
covering assumed to hide the demagogue-
ism which had so nearly wiped the South
ern people and the Southern States out
Of existence