Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1845-03-01

plshed. Can any one, therefore, doubt that the |
whole was manufactured for the occasion, with
out regard TO candor, truth, or justice!
Owing to other causes, however, it did not |
appear in "the nick of time," but remained in |
the editors hands nearly two weeks before its |
publication. 1t, therefore, became necessary
TO adopt another course, and, consequently, | !
had the satisfaction to hear the substance of
much of it repeated in speech before the Board
ofCanal Commissioners such parts only as |
had the means OF disproving on the spot, being
suppressed Having been apprized, by friend
at Harrisburg, that there was in the hands of
the editor extraordinary attack upon me and |
my friends, some of whom were applicants for |
office, and having heard the speech of the Audi
tor General, before the Canal Board, pleading
for the re-appontment of his brother-n-law, |
was fully prepared for the appearance of the
publication; for past occurrences have taught
me that there are materials in the source from
which il came, capable Of anything however
base
A charge of cowardce is preferred against
ply to himself. or themselves. say themselves
because there is abundant reason 70 believe that
there we're more than one engaged in it. |
earnestly desire that every democrat in the
district that adhered to his party throughout
our try ng contest last fall, and shared in the
disgrace of defeat, will give the effuSion OF
"Od Lycomiug" an attentive perusa, aud then
ask himself if 1t be not an attempt to Justify
those who treacherously betrayed their political
friends. Thus being the case, | feel justified
in ascribtng It's production to the secret caucus,
or a committee thereof. Cowardce Is there
any thing imaginable more dastatdy than the
conduct of those OF whom | speak Their Sc
cret cooperation with the wings before the e.
lection, can only find its parallel in cowardice
IN their anonymous and unmany attack upon
myself and friends, containing misrepresenta-
TORS which they dare not at home openly avow
My accuscrs have gone back ten years, to
search for something reprehrnsible in my poll.
teal course but, though the decline of Demo-
} crocsin this county is ascrbed to me, yet not a
single instance in which have been unfaith-
ful to my professions is given and sustained
| with any degree of plausbty. The little pc
I lnical influence have enjoyed, through the
kindness OF my fellow citizens, has always been
T exsr,cd in behalf of our glorious principles
Time aud again have | eXerted nv enerrie,
, and employed my means ursparnely, TO pro
= mote the success of these same demagorues,-
not because OF any merit of theirs but becaus,
T. they had heep p .ced in nomination yet be
: cause wnCid not, with them, worship tn,
Bank payer, sing hosanuas 10 Nick Biddc, an,
submit without murmur, to Executive dcta
: .orial interference, have been repaid with th
y blackest ingratude. But it seems that som
e of them, in times past, have suffered defeat
o and whrn they frequently presented them
selves tor nomIraton by The delegates of tn
g people, thew have been rejected, for which the
u seem tr l.old me responsible, bnt if the reade
: will i,.dulge me wiz endeavor to show som
ot the causes ofthcir rejection, aud the origi
Of our unhappy divisions
II They have gone back ten years but, wit
much more propriety. might go back to III
e pal,-v days of Antimasonry, and SHOW wher
ID some OF those WI!'amsport worthless were a
e that period or 10 the trying time OF Panic an
70 Pressure, when the u. $. Bank WAS in the pI
Sc .Itcal field, and ASK what Support they atforl
Of ed the "eid Hero !'--1r might inquire VIII
lie they were that were holding meetings at WI
& Transport and passing resolutions "ihat ii U0
Dt a NGnIer on H3epc-d Jackson TO say that b
nj wculd veto the U. s. Bank bill ~ 1t might a
Is - be slo vn lhs, nhsn Il suited the coHrenieRc
ie OF ,hi, junto, who now claim 10 be immaculat
IT democrats, 90 "hood- wink the people, the
l. could roar onl Justify against the Bank bu
= whcn they wished To carry favorlte measure
e. such as an appropriation to Their Rali Road, @
e to procure subscription to the stock, or charte
T. tor their West Branch Bank they could accom-
81 modate themselves 10 the particular clrcumstar
" cps, either 10 throw up their caps, clap the
s. hands ami shou, loudly Cor Nicholas Bidde, wh
'e appeared among them like another Jup'to
n, Ammon, or, when the whole country was as
n tatpd with the subject Of Bank ebuses, the
n could silence their organ and close It's column
se against the friends aud supporters of Generr
he Jackson.
y might, with truth, say great deal mor'
IN but il wunld be irrelevant, and it IL no part I
er my design TO give detailed history ot all tn"
political sommersets and Inconsistencies, N
AZ present purpose is to glance at the causes I
er our recent defeats, to shoN the injustice OF tl'
of cowardly attack upon myself aud the osse pn