The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-04-23
{" a Sound Article"

We take pleasure, real, unalloyed plea
sure, in announcing to our readers, and
the public, that our neighbor Of the
Democrat, was safely delivered last week
of really g sound article" In some
of its minutin, it was not exactly the
thing; in that, for instance, that our
neighbor felt impelled to indulge his
penchant for blackguardism in the little
fling he made at that misable relittle
sheet, the Jcfcrsonian, and those " who
have control" Of it, and that which they
uphold, and one or two other trifes.
But we call it "a sound article" never
theless, one of the kind with which our
neighbor is, doubtless, so deeply in love,
and always reads with so rich q gusto
and, surely, one of the kind which should
give JOY to every Republican, as indicat-
ing the dawn of millennium soon to open
upon the sanctum from whence darkness.
alone has so long been permitted to flow
upon his readers.
The occasion of this " sound article,
was a very foolish movement made by a
few of the Republican members of the
Legislature, looking, possibly, first, to
the establishment of their own sclEimport-
ance, and second, to the transfer of Ed
win NJ. Stanton, from the War to the
Treasury Department, in the contingency
of Senator Wade being called upon to
fill out the unexpired term of the great
impeached, in the Presidential chair
The movement received no countenance
from the Republican Press, but was re-
buked by it, and was condemned by no
one more pointedly than by Mr. Stanton
himself. Our neighbor, following in the
wake of these good cxcmplars of all who
wish to do right, politically, rebukes it
too; and feeling, without doubt, that re-
buking Republican members, who gene
rally did uncommonly well last winter.
does not insert the probe deep enough,
souudly berates his CO laborers in the
cause of Democracy. He says
90 1t is true there were some among the
minority IN this body who are upright, hon.
orable men, whose acts and character are
by greed for plunder and power.
but the 'body Of them, uho are composed oG
and The ofoHs o society, are rife
for any VOrk."
Now there is no wiping these facts out
The " minority of this body F" (meaning
the Legislature), comprise the Democratic
portion of it; and while we join our neigh
Dor in his assertion, that there were
some among the minority" /" who are
honorable men, we cannot, if we would
because the truth will not permit US, fail,
or even hesitate, to join him in his con
clusion, that " the body " of the minority
are just the characters he represents them
to be. We italicise portion of the e1
tract, because there is an especial sound
ness in il, and because there is a show OF
boldDess which indicates a contemplated
cutting loose from the leading strings,
which, held by the political saints OF
this neighborhood, have hitherto led our
neighbor deeper into the filth of political
ccss-pool dom, than his tender conscience
can well bear. If our neighbor but keeps
before his minds eye the sound -
truths which he has thus so bravely pub
lished, the day may not be far distant in
which he may hit upon "wisdom's ways"
which he will find indeed to be ways Of
plcasantucss and all whose paths are
peace"
1t is certainly an evidence of the hap.
pening, or going to happen, of something
more than natural convulsion, when a.
Democratic Editor can speak thus sound
y and truthfully Of the criminal charac
er Of his copartizans, and draw from Re-
publican sources to sustain the burning
acts which he employs against them
The soundncss of his article would have
,een fair, and We should have given him
credit for it even had it not been sup
ported by the pure doctrine drawn from
he Scranton Republican. With that to
pack it, however, it is complete - fin
shed. May we look for moro such?
Grape Wine for Sickness.
DecIdedlY one of the incest aud most