The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-01-17
The Tariff Meeting.

Connected with the Tariff Meeting held
in the Court House on the evening of Tues
day of last week are some incidents, a
knowledge of which are necessary to ena-
bic our readers to judge what character and
weight should be attributed TO the proceed
ings which we published in our last number
1t was doubtless intended by those who
were the prime movers in getting it up to
be of great efficacy in forming public opin-
ion, and that it would have a tremendous
and overpowering influence on the con
duct of our Representative in Congress-
1t was very evident by the manner in
which those interested proceeded in the
did not act quietly, such resolutions as they
whished to have adopted would be voted
down, and that they therefore had deter
mined TO carry their object by stealth, and
resort to that species Of trickery for
which some persons in this county are
Justly celebrated. But we will proceed to
particulars.
When the court house bell rung, which
was about seven o'clock in the evening,
what was going on, to which he received
no satisfactory answer, and considerable
number of our citizens repaired to the
court house purely from motives of curios-
| ity. After the expiration of short time,
the meeting was called to order by George
S. King, an iron master, Of the firm Of
King q Shoenberger, who proceeded to
organize the meeting TO suit his own par
ticular views in the following manrer.
On motion Of George S. King, Peter
Livcrgood Of Johnstown was called TO the
chair.
On motion of George S. King, William
Douglass was appointed a Vice President.
On motion of George S. King, James
Ross was appointed a Vice President.
On motion of George S. King, James
Litzenger was appointeda Vice President.
! On motion of George S. King, John B.
Onslow was appointed Vice President.
On motion of George S. King, c. w.
Bennett was appointed one of the Secre.
| taries.
On motion of George S. King, Charles
r Ellis was appointed Secretary.
On motion of George S. King, Rober
p. Linton was appoined Secretary.
Neither Thomas A. Mcguire nor M. NJ
Adams who appear in the published pro
ceedings as officers Of the meeting, were
present on the occasion, and Of course
+ took no part in it, but their names have
, been judiciously added for what purpose
f the reader can judge.
, During all this time, the object OF the
: meeting was unknown to all present ex
cept the few persons who were interested
in getting 1t up. Then George ). klns
, made a few remarks in which he statet
, that he was deeply interested IN the sub
, Iject of Tariff, and that he wished it dis
tinctly understood that it was not a party
meeting. On motion of George S. King
Robert l.. Johnston was called on TO ad
dress the meeting. He said that he knew
but little about it-that he was tariff mar
from feeling-and that there were perhap:
few men in the house who had not paid
more attention to the suojebt than he had
He advocated however an increased tariff
on iron and coal, and made some allusions
to southern influence &C., &c.
,I By this time, it became known what the
object of the meeting really was, and a
rapid decrease in the number present was
the consequence, and as it will be seen by
the following card, one the officers took
his leave. The labors of the committee
who had been appointed to prepare reso-
lutions, kept them absent until late hour
and indeed until almost all the people had
dispersed, and when they returned TO the
court room not more than twenty persons
were present, and they of course were
interested in their adoption. Mr.. Onslow
whose communication will be found in
another column, was one of the committee
and objected to the resolutions which
were presented. The following rcsolu
tons were introduced by him, but they