The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-03-13
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""os3se sof"nteeI5 70 argue the ropoa qnes
ton relating to Montour county, and in BIZ
zeal beirays how little those out of the dis
trict can Judge Of the p~ropriety Of this mea
sure, and how imperaiively the case re
quires that the people directly interested in
the matter should alone decide the question
They alone car fully and fairly Judge Of al
the facts and see the bearings of any legis,
lative action on this subject. And they have
fr'ee decided the que stion. First on the rs
movai OF the sea, of justice by a iriumphan,
majority; and again last fall, by the election
ofthe present Senator and Member, they de.
cided that the division law should be repeal.
ed. These officers werein Columbia and
Montour nominated on the repeal issue, and
the very vote they received is full proof Of
tins fact. and, that their position was under.
stood, The people in interest are the prop
er tribunal to decide this case, and they
have set in judgment upon it and recorded
their deciaion.
The case is not to be likened to that Of
Chester end Delaware counties. The peo-
pie OF what is now Delaware raid that the
old removal of their ~coun,y.seat was unfair
and was the act of a minority of voters. In
Columbia there was no room for such com.
plant after a vote was once taken. The
people OF the lower cor..sf mad always insis.
.ed ths.a majority was with them, and final.
" the issue was made and they agreed 10
abide by il. Nothing was then whispered Of
a new county there TO compromise the con
troversy. The leaders there made the issue
and went to the people. The decisive ma
lorlty was against them, and the removal
was quietly accomplished. The mass of the
people there, were quiet and resigned to the
late OF the contest. No "troops marched" 10
Bloomsbury, EARNED to the .eeth,n nor was
the new court house threatened with cannon
or confagraiion. The people of Danyille
protested tobave forgotten the old issue and
came to our courts AMI county conventions
IN a spirit OF ~neighborship and friendliness.
The elections were again conducted upon
political grounds, and Zach end of the cous.
tY gave its strict party vote for party nomi.
mes. Even the mischievous aud treacher
GUS Simon who sacrificed his character 10 re.
vive the old feud with ten-fold its won,ed
bi.terness-even he came into the conyeu.
ton a penitent sappliant, and only obtained
the power for mischief by profassing a feel.
ing of union, harmony and friendship with
The whole county, and a submission 10 the
peoples decree 70. a removal. S,ealthily
ana "eachercasly he obtained his power and
most ossely he used it. The first chance
Which the people obtained they improved 10
rehuke his faithlessness.
Now in the case of Chester and Delaware
there was nothing like all this. In obtaining
a removal there was no reference to any d.
rect expression Of the popular will, nor wal
the county divided by an ignomilioss trick.
AsxiH, IN old Chester county the seat Of
justice had not been originally fxed at Ches.
ter under protest, as in the case at DanviIIe.
And hence there was in Chester some we'll
founded ground for an implacable feud after
a sudden removal and some reason TO sun.
pose that there could be no remedy Blu, by .
division ST the county.
But there Is proof on the record of the
Chester and Delaware case 10 show that
ever the people of Delaware county do not
regard a removal Of the county-sea as in it.
self a sufficient cause for a division of the
county. Within a few months the county.
seas Of Delaware county will be removed 10
Media from Chester, and yet we hear of no
necessity for a division now. No doub,
many persons in Delaware are opposed 10
this second removal, for such things are new.
or done by universal consent. No doubt
there is much bitter and angry feeling there
and with quire as much cause for it as ever
existed in Danyille. The people of Media
had induced the citizeDs Of Chester 10 arm
themselves to the teeth and 10 drag the can.
non under the very walls of Westohester in
most fierce and -belligerent attitude. The
Medians no doubt helped in forming the
ranks, or especially in furnishing officers,
but it is most natural that in such a case j,
was Chester that bore the brun, of the
charge. And then when the fray was over,
for Chester to see the Medians bearing of
the trophies Of the contest in tho shape OF
the c~onnty-seat must certainly have bsen a
better q for bitter feeling than any which
Daavile car point %. By the rule which
the Advocate man would fix there mus.
then be another necessity for dividing Della.
ware, and 80 in every case wheie a county.
seat is removed. For it is quite certain that
no town will quietly submit to have the seat
OF justice removed from its presincts /; and il
mere petulance shall be in every such in.
stance grati6ed By the legislature. as a babe
is hushsd with atoy, or a hysterical spouse
restored by a new shawl, we shall have nc
such things in Legislation as removing a
county. seat, for every removal will be an in,
direct division of a county. And the very
fact that the Legislature has heretofore recog,
Missed such thing as a removal is evidence
that this is meant 10 exist without an inevi
table division Of the county.