The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-04-16
1.-The Jefersonian." !"


Under the above caption our neighbor
of the Democrat, INDUCED column and
a half of stuff, gotten up in his best vain,
in his rapor of last week. From the va
style of the article, we Judge that
both pretending saints and unpretending
sinners were called to the rescue; and a
slashing time they must have had of it
Our correspondent Observer" sowell ex-
poses the blackguardism ofthe concern, ,and
so thoroughly routes its array Of pretend
ed facts, that We find but little left for us
to notice. One point made by our neigh
Dor strikes US SO comically that We can
not forbear noticing it. lie says" The
publisher of the jeff. not being able to
attend to the editing of his paper himself,
hires" it done. Now, if this were true,
it would, certainly, be perfectly legiti-
mate transaction and as hiring presup-
poses paying, the articles would become
his, in fact and in law. Admit the charge,
and VIC claim that we have always used
our o,cn property, in our efforts to cater
to the public, and have never dealt in sto
len goods. The case, with our neighbor
is somewhat different. Ever since the
Democrat fell into his hands, he has kept
his leading columns well filed with lead
ed articles, of the best quality the Demo
cratic market afforded He was not sable
to attend to the editing of the paper him
self" nor was he willing to hire " non
descript," or any other script to do it for
him. But there the articles were. And
how, reader, do you suppose they got
there Why, our neighbor stole them
body and brooches, from his exchanges,
and foisted them upon his subscribers as
his own productions, as 4 reference to the
files of the New York World, and papers
of like kidney, will show. Occasionally
there was an effort at patch working, but,
as with the article under consideration,
that kind of plagiarism, in his hands, al
ways proved fsilure-thc tips of the
long ears of the animal always showing
themselves above the covering
There is nothing that this effort of our
ncighbor so much recalls to mind, as the
plan adopted by the most silly of our
school day play mates, to overcome an
antagonist of rather moro mental or cor
pors! stamina. When used up either in
a fight or argument, after securing safe
distance, they generally took satisfaction
in face making aud calling names. Our
neighbor has not yet ut-grown this habit,
but we are in hopes Of being able to teach
him better by and by. And as there were
repeatedfailurcs on the part Of those who
practiced this plan in our school boy days
We must now even look for failures in our
neighbours experience, as case in point
to be found in his last effort will show
In speaking Of Observer, he calls him
4" some niger hugging fool" He may
have considered this sumner; but, We
imagine he will not think so much of it,
when We assure him that the only ap
proach to niger hugging," in this
neig ghborhood, that VIC have heard of, was
that in which he, himself, appeared in
interesting tableaux with young Amer
lean citizen of African decent" during one
of the exhibitions, at the Court House, a
few days ago. Not being in the pro
gramme, the spectacle was looked upon
with amazcment, which alone prevented
deserved applause.