The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1867-11-14
Let us Organize.

folly of going into aud continuing 10
contest hap. hazzard and the experience
there obtained should teach us to work iu
the future With clear majority of
10000 iu the State, Judge Williams, one
of the ablest jurists and best of men, was
defeated by majority of less than one
thousand - defeated by fraud committed
by our opponents, without doubt = but
defeated far more by the lukewarmness
of Republicans, who trusted to the per-
formance of duty by others while they
neglected duty themselves. To have
elected Judge Williams by I" the mere
skin of his teeth when his majority
should have rolled into thousands, would
have been far more disgraceful than i.
his defeat, by the few paltry hundreds
which the Sharswoodites obtained over
him by fraud Had the party been pro-
perly organized this could not have hap.
pened, and the true friends of Union
and the world over would have been hap
py over the demonstrated fact - for it is
fact nevertheless = that the keystone
of the Federal Arch is impregnable to-
day, as 1t was in the dark days of the
Government, against the inroads of Re
bels aud traitors, whether armed or uu
armed. In the past let us seek promp.
ter for the future Of our party; and let
US resolve that General Apathy shall no
longer command our forces Let US com.
pei him to abdicate at once, and, uniting
under Grant, or some other equally ener.
getic leader, gather our scattered forces,
and concentrate for the mighty struggle
of 1868. If we do not do so, there is no.
thing more certain than that the priuci-
pies which govern Vallandigham, JEFF
Davis, Reed, Lee, Woodward, Toombs.
Wall and Ingersoll, are the principle,
which will govern the country for the
next four years. For the proof of disor.
ganization which prevailed in the party
during the last campaign, we need not 90
beyond our own county. In this county
we can easily poll eight hundred Repub-
lican votes, and, with energetic exertion.
could swell the vote to one thousand
when, in fact, we hardly polled half that
number. Properly and energetically or
sanized as party, we would not have
had this result to reproach ourselves with
But how shalt we organize? Thi, is a
question easily answered, and as easily
carried into effect afirmatirely. First,
let every Republican resolve himself into
a committee of one, and, as such, in his
leisure moments, do his duty faithfully
Talk to your lukewarm neighbor; aud
after thoroughly posting yourself by
reading your county paper, and such 9TH
er papers and documents as come in your
way, don't hesitate to tackle even those
who are most strenuous in their opposi
ton. The strongest points in the enc
mys creed cannot stand before the with
eriDg torch of plain Republican truth. =
The Record of Democracy for the last six
years is record of infamy, which needs
but to be made plain to the people to
be looked upon with adherence. The
mass of the Democracy is honest, = and
need to know but the truth to induce
them to live under and act up to it. The
leaders of Democracy know this, and
hence their zeal to keep the truth away
from those whom they deceive - or to
so encompass it with the sophistries of
defamation, that men who are not posted
become confused, and are induced to con
tlnue on In the old way, because they do
not see that Democracy, that stalwart
word Of ancient renown, is only the sugar
coating, employed to cloak the wicked in
Veutlons of the political demagogue. An
energetic Republican committee of one,
in each township, can do wonders in the
way of opening the eyes of his neighbors
to the truth, if he will but nationally set
about the matter. But where two or
three, or dozen or more, of such exist
n township, how much may reasonably
be expected from earnest heartfelt work 2
Let these meet, often as may be convent
snt, IN consultation as to the best mean.
of securing the end, and it will not be
ons ere one, and then another, and then
another will fall into line, until at last
Iou will be surprised yourselves at the
uccess Of your work. 1t is in this way
hat the political standing of townships
re reyolutionizeJ and with s,oL IT.