Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1845-03-08

OF their clan in Willamsport, and the other tb
Justify their treason to democracy, the most of
them being implicated therein. These Williams.
port writers arc notorious throughout the coun.
try for their grasping propcnsites. They have
become by-word every where I; and they may
be found in herds wherever patronage or heavy
contracts are to be distributed. Let Judge sud.
denly expire, and before tbe corpse is cold, they
are on the scent in full cry let an administra-
ton change, and you find them facing about to
the new order of things and whenever the
party brings forward candidate from any o.
ther part Of the county or district whom they
cannot control, if they cannot prevent his nom.
ination by the people, they secretly join the OPP
position and defeat him and yet, they desire
to retain their position in the party. Who can
now doubt how Crawford, Snyder, and Others
were defeated, Nothing that these men may
DO will hereafter surprise me, unless it is that
find they have commenced, and are practisinga
life Of political honesty. After plundering the
State till there is nothing left but the bare ske-
Teton to prey upon, should not be surprizcd TO
find them beseging Col Polk before he is warm
at Washington.
would not be understood ns including in
the above picture all those who belong 10 the
Democratic party in Wlliamsport far from it,
a large majority of them are good men, and
true, firm and unf1inching in their adherence to
their principles, who would willingly assist
their brethren throughout the county to rid the
party of those lIarpies who have been hanging
on the outskirts for years; but the monopoly of
the patronage of the Canal Officers, and com
pete organization in the uig,oam have here.
tufore rendered their efforts abortige.
am also charged with having established
md given the name to q paper to aid in my no.
mination. Now the simple truth will Ct ary
dsprove the assertion. The editor of the Olive
Branch has informed the public, through his
columns, that Col. Bigler, OF Clearfcld, sugges-
ted the name of his paper before | ever saw the
gentleman: l may as well say, that had my
taste been consulted, or my opinion asked, |
would have advised a more warlike name, in
the midst OF the warm contest in which we were
engaged at that time, with the cohorts of Old
Federalism. By referring to the flies of the
Olive Branch, it will be seen that il did not
appear until after the nominations were made,
and the first number contains the ticket How
then, could it have been established TO I'D the
nomination ofany one!
But have trespassed more upon the atten-
ton Of the reader than first intended | chal-
lenge the world to produce single instance,
and snstal it with evidence, wherein ! proved
unfaithfui to my profession, or even took a posi-.
ton hostile to the cherished principles of Demo
cracy. When the late Executive was the no.
minee Of the party, and so long as any constant
democrat could adhere to him, sustained him
but when he departed from the path OF rectudc
and outraged every long cherished principle Of
his party, and devised schemes for its dcs,ruc
tion, | abandoned his support, and took a posi-
ton against him.
! would direct the attention of the reader t.
circumstance which goes conclpsively to show
that the intention of the writer's Of odd Lyco
ming was to deceive the people. When tn,
extraordinary chain of untruths, in the Sunbur,
American, made their appearance here, de
mand was made on the editors of the I.ycomn
Gazette to publish them, and promise give
by that paper that the request should be CON
piled with But mark in what way Whe
the Gazette came out, and the communication
purporting to be the one published in the Anne
rican, read, it was found that the authors ha
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coming county, well knowing that many OF tn
statements were so glaringly false that ever
candid person would feel indignant at the pa
ties concerned in the publication. They, ther,
fore, suppressed much that appeared in the a
mercan,' published in Northumberland COUNTY
and inserted other statements that they dare NJ
publish there, the falsehood of which is not
well known to the people in this quarter. Thi
ifother evidence were not abundant, would tu
ly satisfy oil that the object of those men,
publishing such statement abroad, was to d
vert public attention from the exposure OF the
treason at home
In conclusion, ask the induigent reader
examine the case carefully, and am persu
ded, he can come to no other conclusion, th'
that my only sin, IN the eyes of my censors,
that have not yielded my support to advau
the ambitious views of a selfish reckless Cactio
who were rapidly running the good old ship
Democracy upor the breakers of Federalism.
The foregoing imperfect statement of fa'
have been thrown together OF short intcrv
from pressing engagements in more impOrla
matters, which is the only apology shall If