The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-05-28
The Democratic Meeting.

roe. held its annual talk at the Court
House, on Monday evening last. The
Hon. John Merwiue presided, assisted
by several very good looking and soundly
orthodox Vice Presidents. Thomas NJ.
Mcllhaney, also, very good-looklng
man = very modest, but having no maw-
kish sensibilities as to what he swallows
with his off cial fodder, so that it is caught
in the Democratic net, did the Secretary
business. Our amiable neighbor of the
/" Democrat" sat beside Thomas, and it
was pleasant to look at the fatherly care
which he exercised over him. The two,
combined, added greatly to the largeness
of the meeting, while a number of good
Republicans, our humble self among the
number, added much to its responsibility.
After the meeting was thus organized,
and its respectability secured, the usual
committee on resolutions was appointed,
of which our whilom friend Judge De
Young was made the Chairman ordinary
and our other whilom friend, the Hon
Senator Burnett, Chairman extraordinary.
The committee having retired, our other
friend j. B. (not the old Public Function
airy, but younger one of the same ilk),
we mean j. b. Storm, Esq, in response
to call, proceeded to address the assem-
blage. j. b. looked pale and scared, and
his speech sounded as though it was in
any thing rather than in the enjoyment
of good health. There was in it neither
the fippancy of the brass faced school
boy, nor the pomposity of Senatorial
effort, = nothing much but sound, and
very dull sound at that, = and, at its
conclusion, j. B. sat down as though he
was, to use homely phrase, "devilish glad
the say was said" He attempted several
hits at the Republican party; but if his
mind prompted thoughts that breathed
and words that burned, his lips Ger
tainly refused to give them utter
ance. The action of the Chicago Con
vention and its platform was merely
touched upon; and was used only as Il
means to elevate him to such position
as he thought would enable him to throw
the stink pots +" of Democrats warfare
at its candidate for the Presidency, Gen.
Grant, who, j. b. thought, or, at least,
said he thought SO, was very ordinary
soldier : not as good as a dozen others
he could have named and no states
man at all. Grants swapping out of the
rebels entire, and closing the rebellion,
was nothing, in j. BIS estimation, in
comparison with McClellan's dress pa
rades, and pulling heel for the gunboats,
or with Burnside's winter march on the
Rapidan, or Hooker's march to Chancel-
lorsville and then back again, or the two
Bull Runs = all of which, in their day,
because of the comfort which they afforded
the enemy, painted smiles on the faces of
j. b. and his o-partizans, and caused
inward chuckling to the Democracy of
the country generally. But j. B. con-
iessed that Gen. Grant was once great
man in Democratic estimation = that,
then the party loved him, aud thought
him a good man, whether viewed as
soldier or statesman. That was when
they thought him Democrat, and, doubt
less, hoped to have him as the Democratic
candidate for President = and that love
for him continued, until, in the johnson
Stanton imbroglio, he refused to support
the reasonable, law -bI caking Vaccinations
of the former, and felt impclled to openly
stand, where his cause always showed he
stood, on the side of the country, its pros
perity and its perpetuity. Then J. B.
and the Democracy deserted him, and he
lost, in their estimation, all zest either as
a soldier, statesman or a man. j. B
had not heard of the nomination of Schuy-
ler Colfax for the Vice. Presidency, or
we should probably have his opinion of
him. On the subject of full delegate
nominations j. B. was either for or
against the innovation as occasion might
require. He was afraid that, if adopted,
the system would breed supinencss in the
party, by doing away with local strife;
while IT 1t was not adopted the cause of
Temperance would be promoted, and men
of his peculiar stripe of virtue might
stand a chance of getting Office without
treating" something which he favored
heartily; and better men, in every re-
spect, would thus be secured for the Of
ices than we have heretofore had. This.
We thought, reflected somewhat on our
friend the Prothonotary, who was present,