South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-10-22
From the Baltimore Chronicle.
DISCLOSURE

ASTOUNDING DISCLOSURE.
We published few days ago an ar
tiele from the New York Daily Adver-
tiser, charging lawyer in that State,
who was just setting ont in his profess
ion, with having pursuaded an honest
but less intelligent Dutch neighbor, who
was embarrassed in his pecuniary mat
tiers, to make over all his property to
him, by the confession of judgment or
other wise, when not cent was due so
that he might, by thus creating a nom
inal debt, get clear OF his creditors, un-
der the two third act end telling him
that subsequently, be could have bis
property restored to him, on payment
to the said lawyer Of sufficient sum
for his part in the transaction.
The property was made ever, and
the Ubiquitous scheme consummated, g.
when the poor misled Dutchman ap-
piled for settlement, he was threaten
ed by his lawyer that if suer he a.sn-
eionsd the sagsct again he s0ould put
him in the States Prison for PER-
JURY.
This 10 the charge and the Adver-
tiser offers to prove that THIS LAW.
YER ID MARTIN VAN BUREN,,
and to furnish thames and dates and
circumstances" if il be deemed neces.
sary by the editor of the New York
Evening Post Ia Van Buren, paper d
pledge given that fit be proven to be
true, the editor of the Post will not
support MIR. Van Buren, for the Presi-
idency. The Post hesitates to give the
pledge, and the Advertiser again reite-
rates the charge and says:
1--WE renew our offer to the editor
OF the Evening Post, to furnish him
with the name of the mean and tnfa-
nous pettifogging Presidential csndi-
date WhO psyursd HIMSELF & suborned
another to commit (unin,entionaily)
perjury-who by this means dsfrauded
lis neigh of his good name and Of
his property, and who then threatened
to have him indirted If he uttered q
complaint. But, the pledge in return
we rquire must be substantiaIify-
something which is tangible--some-
thing which amounts to more than the
POSTS "equivalen,"-something more
reliable than the Editors committal
against Banks-something more than
bis violated faith given to the Loco. Fo-
cos, and something that is more definite
than a promise to do any time between
now and the end of eternity. When
ever such pledge is given,we promise
to change the politics Of the Post in
day, and produce msIanorphosls as
great, though not more palpable az that
which this former Loco.FOeo organ has
undergone within few weeks. Yea
or nay We repeat Mr.. Editor
In the mean time, we will say to our
Wing friends that we are influenced By
no fear, favor or affection for the
Presidential peltifogger-Our silence
on the subject Of the names arises from
the respect we entertain for the living
Witnesses of the infamous transaction,
and because we will not drag circle
of the sufferers friends before the pub
| lie, unless in our opinion the common
good demands IL at our hands !
And still the Post evades the ques-
ton, thus evidencing lis fear tina. the
charge is true, and yet lacking the in
dependent honesty to denounce man
who would be guilty of such crime"
We hope, for the sake Of humanity,
that the charge is not true, or that it
may be soflened 10 some Of its more i'm
portant features, and yet it would ap-
pear by the following extract from the
Advertiser, that it is not now fer the
first time published, but that heretofore
Mr.. Van Buren, has been ccessfui in
preventing its general propagation:
"For our friends at a distance we
will say, that in making the statement
Of the case of the medw miserable petit
! fagger, who litst psIwss hlmssgf, de-