The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1844-06-29
THE REMOVAL QUESTION.


AS there appears to be general deter
mlnai0n on ihe part of The friends of Re
movaI to keep the ball in motion, until a
favorable result, shall be obtained, it is time
that the party should beslir themselves for
the coming campaign It's important to
our success that we should elect both Sena.
tor and member not only friendly to the
cause, but men who will be faithful and
rue IN It's advocacy, in fact they must be
honest men. Men who will not look one
way and row another With such men in
he Legislature, there can be no doubt in
he mind OF any man, but that the question
will be settled a, the next session. So well
'a,lsiied are our opponents of this, that no
means however degrading will be left un.
ried,-no deception; however base or low.
out what they will resort to, 10 defeat the
removal candidates, this fall as their las, and
only hope OF preventing that justice being
done 10 the county, for which the people
have so long struggled, Already have they
romnenced system Of operations through
out the county to prevent union among
the friends of removal. |, is an old game
Of theirs, it is true, but one which has here
tOlore been of immense benefit 10 them and
will be The main spring 10 all their actions
It the coming election. 1t is to persuade
the people TO sustain separate and distinct
political party tickets. For this purpose
heir emisaries embrace every opportunity
while travelling the county to urge that
measure. 1t is not confined to one party
more than auolher. Party feelings and
party prejudices are appealed to with ali
the hypocracy lha, crockadil is capable
of using while shedding tears over lis vic
i'm. Even going so far, as to offer TO
bandon their opposition to removal if a
party candidate should be brought into the
deld' and declaring their Willingness h
support removal man. In fact. few
days since, prominen, man in Danville.
who spenl weeks, and hundreds of dollars,
IN Harrisburg, last winter tn oppose the
Removal bill, declared thai he cared moth
ing for the removal. but would sacrifice the
county seat upon the alter OF his party
Does any one believe this man sincerel-
He, who, no longer ago than last winter,
publicly declared that he would rather see
his buildings in flames, than that The reno.
val should take place, and that an advocate
II removal was worse than highway rob-
Der. We again repeat, does any one in
his common senses believe that this man is
willing within three months after making
The above declaration, TO give up the ques
ion for The sake Of party! Or rather
would you not believe that they were crock
adile tears shed over The fate Of his political
party, tha, he may accomplish an object
more desrer 10 him than its success. All
Who remember the course OF The DanviIle
faction in the election of Frsiley and Jack
son, in 1896 will at once see through his
Hypocrisy. and discover, with half an eye,
his real object. Tha, object is nothing
more nor less, than to create a disunion in
lhe removal party. That effected, and de-
feat they Aatier themselves would be Ger.
lain. it'is true, they care not, for whom
hey vote, provided he be pi ched agans
hc Removal candidates, for The LegisIalur,
or Senate, bul let him be an open and a
vowed advocate Of Removal, one upor
whom The Removal party can unite, anL
hey would drop him like a hot polatoe; fol
all who know them, know that they will
ldecaIe secretly to themselves, what Charles