The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-07-13


make up capital for the campaign. They
have succeeded in enlisting the services OF
the London Times and Standard in the
cause and are proportionately happy. Now
if they can only succeed in securing portion
of that British gold that we used to hear Of
about election times few years ago they will
be completely made up until in November,
when the American people will put quietus
on their folly.
THE defeat of Gen Custar and his army
on the Little Horn river in Montana, indeed
their annihilatiou, for not man was left
alive to tell of the occurrence, has cast a
gloom over the land 1t was a sorrowful
ending to an effort to teach the savages the
lesson Of suljection, and it is not venturing
too much to say that for time at least it
viii but encourage them in the belief already
too common among this Arab portion of the
Sioux nation that they are the masters. 1t
Is hardly worth while looking for causes Of
defeat when they are so apparent in the re-
sult Itself. CuStar was brave even to rash
10 a name already so memorable for great
deeds that many possessing it would have
been content to die without single additional
laurel But not so Custar. The imperish-
able honors achieved by the gallant old
Third Division which captured trophies
without number yet never lost a battle, q
color or even a gun, In his estimation seemed
10 fade with the passage Of time, and other
startling deeds were required to renew their
Lrilliancy in its glorious commander. He
rislci the hazard on the die, and the result
is before Us in a veritable pyramid Of dead.
Custar the brave cavalrymau and his brave
three hundred fell a victim to the same Gus
tar ambitions to startle the world by a deed
before which the heroism would pale be-
cause Of its insignifcance He risked all
upon . battle for glory growing out Of It's
reck!cssness, and instead he won only cof
fin, and dead soldiers grave. It was
fearful risk and feartully did he and his three
hundred brave men pay the penalty of his
consummate imprudence. While his country
viii honor his name and his deeds, they will
Tot fail to regret the folly which led him to
risk 50 much where SO little was promised
and so dreadful was the actual reward.
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Now that we have gotten over the Fourth,
Lad q good time and enjoyed it hugely, we
shall. when the warm weather lets up a little,
be prepared to enter with more than our
uaual spirit into the work Of the Presidential
campaign. As the signs Of the times 90
things In this direction are moving along
sw.mmingly. The convention in nominating
Hayes and Wheeler appear to have done just
the thing to meet the views of the people
Possessed Of faultless record each candi-
date, as the truth concerning him becomes
known, steadily gains in public estimation
and draws towards him that large class of
men who, eschewing politics as a profession,
seek only to place their support where it will
result to greatest advantage to the country.
This IS 50 apparently the case that Demo
cracy Is dumbfoundcd, and leaving the acts
Of Hayes and Wheeler to one side Democrats
are eudeavoring to encompass their defeat by
running the campaign against US wholly
upon the short comings Of the Grant admins
tratjon. They contend that Rutherford 3.
Hayes viii If elected viii necessarily make
his administration of Grants because the
same men VIII rule the man. Gen. Hayes,
however, has all his life proved himself a
leader and his election viii prove that
Democracy was never more mistaken in its
life than when it 50 vilIainousy asserted that
be could be led by Morton, Conkling,
Cameron or any body else. His special
characteristics are honesty, frmness, hatred
of wrong doing, and watchfulness. This has
been repeatedly demonstrated In both his war
aud civil record, and Is in strong contrast with
those attributes Of his opponent, Tilden,
which only warrant the assertion in his favor
that he is a splendid party manager. And
this fact makes it incumbent upon us to
watch aud work persistently. Tiden's
nomination was brought about by trckery
lie was the most Objectionable man presen-
ted for the consideration Of his party, but he
has wealth and he is INSCRIPTIONS and the
Democratic leaders felt that with him at the
head Of the ticket there was more certainty
Of success because he would not hesitate to
use bis money and would not scruple over
the employment Of any means that promised
to beat the Republicans and let Democracy
into a revel among the spoils. 1t is not the
Democratic party therefore that is to be
beaten in November That is beaten already.
1t IS the trickery and unserupulousness Of its
candidates only that we have to fear, aud to
head these off it is easy to understand why
thcre should be perfect organization in our
ranks, that We may know how we are work
ing and who is working with US. Here then
Is an incentive why we should make use of
the present stagnant season caused by the
heated tern to prepare for the active work Of
September and October by consultation, and
interchange ofadyicc and views and thorough