The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1837-11-25

war, it could not be asked or expected
that she would make good the losses, or
grant rewards for the suflerngs of the Wy
omng people. So that, to use a common
but expressive phrase, "between two
stools we came to the ground" Moreover,
the disasters of the war, utterly prostraied
the people of Wyoming. Most ofour nat
urali guardians and protectors were slain,
amongst them many Of our chief men; wild
ows and orphans, aged or very young men,
destitute and poor, constituted our chief
population. The unhappy dispute (sincc
so satisfactorily adjusted by our present
parent and protector, noble and liberal
Pennsylvania still continued, as you doubt
less Know, to perplex and ilppoyerish us.
To obtain ''this ddy our daily bread oc-
cupied the thoughts and eXertions of us ALL
and no application was made to Conneci-
cut to share in the bounty she was so lib
orally dispensing. But we ask your pa
tience while we show, as we are sure we
can, that 10 the General Government we
have a right fairly to look for aid. The
services performed, the suherings endured,
and the losses sustained, we're all In the
public service, for the general cause. they
all tended to the great end Of accomplish
ing National independence, which has
brought prosperity so unbounded to our
beloved country. All the debts founded
on contract having been paid, Congress
have recently, with just and liberal hand
been netting out to claimants, nQt 6y con-
tract, but in equity, liberal rewards for ser
riccs perforated, SHGTings end,rea, or
losses su8iGined. In those three parlicu-
lars, no claim can be stronger than that Of
| Wyoming.
Moreover, there is strong point which
we mean to indicate, but not now to argue
at length, which statesmen, familiar with
the springs ofevents, well know TO have
truth for its foundation. About the close OF
the war. when the issue was certain, and a
great empire of Independent and powerful
sovereignties was taking rank among the
nations, it was deemed of the utmost i'm
portance that all disputes about territory
and Jurisdiction should be put to rest
Powerful States were to be concilialed by
the favorable adjustment of their claims
IndcmuficatiOns were to be allowed TO 9th
ers. Little would those statesmen and pa
triots have deserved the award we all yield
adopted proper measures to harmonlze con-
hcting interests, and to consolidate the
union. How far the national policy we
speak of Influenced the various measures
and final decision which confirmed to
Pennsylvania the whole extent of her char
tered limits, and granted to Connecticut an
indemnfication in Ohio, we need not hero
demonstrate. Certainly that policy was,
in a national point of view, wise--a bene.
fit to ConncctiCut-a blessing to Pennsyl'
, vania: and it, for the common good, it eX'
cluded Wesmoreland from participation
with other towns Unidentified, is it right
that the common purse should afford hel
such remuneration as may be jusH
r Again-The old Continental Congress
passed a Resolution, Oct. 10, 1880, in
which it was declared, in reference to the
unappiopriated Lands which may be cedet
10 the United States, "That the necessary
and reasonable expenses. which any partc
ular State shall have incurred, since the
= commencement Of the present war, in sub
DUNG any British Posts, or IN maintain
ing Forts and GarrisOnS WithiR and ,fO,
! the defence, or in acquiring any part of the
territory that may be ceded or relinquisheC
to the United States, shaH be reimbursed ,
, Although the words of the Resolution dc
, not reach us, we do respectfully suggest
. that its spirit makes strongly in favor of the
2 Wyoming claim. - A.
! During the Revolutionary war, Wyo
ming stood an extreme irontier-an out
. post on the borders of the settlement of The
Savage enemy. TO Sunbury, the neares
a inhabited place down the Susquehanna, i
= was sixty miles; through the Great Swami
2 it was sixty miles, painless wilderness
1 to Bethlehem or Easton. The warikt
! and bloody Mohawks, Sonecas, and 9th
f ors, of the Six nations, occupied all th'
= uppor branches of the Susquehanna, an'
. were within few hours sail of our settle
J. ments, which weie exposed to constant at
q tacks. Our pathways were ambushed, 2n'
? midnight glared with the constant conila
: gration of our dwellings. Thus exposed
" we stood as shield TO all the settlements
below us. In this situatOn' every maj
= might Justly be considered as on duty con
= tinnally. Every man might well be con
. sidcred as enlisted for and during the who'll
>, war. There was no peace, no security a
. Wyoming. The husbandman took III