Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-08-14
From the National Wing.
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From the National Wing.
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In the Judicial Address of James NJ; -Por-
ter, who was specially deputised by the Har-
risburg Convention to write the biographical
sketches of the different Locofoco candidates
for Supreme Judges, we find the following
historical error, in speaking of Judge Lewis.
The address says:
He was, while yet still young, placed in
a printing office at Harrisburg, and there
learned the trade of a practical printer
Having gone through the years of his proba-
ton there, he went to New York and worked
in that city as journeyman printer"
To set Judge Lewis historian right, we
copy the following to show that the Judge
did not quite go through with his "years of
probation" at Harrisburg, but on the other
point, that he ,cent somewhere, and how he
went, it does prove, and if he had leave to go
or>not, it also makes that very intelligible.-
But to the historic document, we extract it
uerbGtim ct Hteratim, DC, from the old Lam
caster Journal of February 81, 1916.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
ORACLE OFFICE, Harrisburg, Feb 8, 1916
4 BSCONDED from this office on Sunday
IA morning last an indentured apprentice
TO the printing business, named
ELLIS LEWIS,
aged about l9 years, about feet | or 2 inches
high, slim built, pale conntenance and
down look. lie was decently clad when he
went away, but as it is pretty well ascertained
he was encouraged and enticed to this deser-
ton by those whose sense Of moral obligation,
is equal to his own, it is probable he will be
provided with funds to change his apparel.
The above reward, and all reasonable eApen-
ses will be paid for his apprehension and de-
livery to his master. All persons are forbid
harboring him at their peril And the young
man himself may rest assured that however,
he may hang himself on his dexterity at run
ming away. justice sooner or later, will over
take him to his cost. JOHN WYETH
Feb. IS 1872
Judge Lewis moral obligations must have
been quite as bad when he was boy, or that
good, honest. ncorruptible old democrat John
Wyeth would not have taken SO much pains
to advertise him in Lancaster when he run
awav from him in Harrisburg as what it is
now, after obtaining domination by "bar-
gain and sale" In the first place uniting
with Buchanan at the Reading Convention
to keep out the true Democracy OF Lancaster
county, and for the purpose again joins hands
at Harrisburg, with Campbell, Black, Gibson
and Lowry, and with appreciation and consent
of the same immaculate sage of Wheat land,
the same iniduity is repeated and Ellis Lewis,
the Hon. Ellis Lewis is nominated for Su-
prreme Judge of Pennsylvania But thank
heaven he is not elected, and the evening of
the second Tuesday in October, will teach
him and his corrupt associates that the 'smor-
al obligation spoken of by old John Wyeth
will bring with it his predic ton, that g the
yong man himself may arrest essured that
however he may hang himself on his dexteri-
terity at running away, JUSTICE sooner or
later will overtake him to his COST
But this is not all, nor half that we intend
to lay before our readers. We have heard not
a little a bout mortgages and judgments that
were bought by certain Judge Lewis, when
he was on the bench in another district, out
of which something handsome was made, and
will show that his ''sense of moral obligation"
was no better then than old John Wyeth |,
thought it was when he run away.
There also lived man few years ago, by ,
the name of Andrew Jackson, he was an hon
est man, and the people elected him twice to
the Presidency of this great Union. That
same Andrew Jackson, had an honest secre (
tary who wrote pamphlet about Judge
Lewis, that we have been told confirms John
Wyeth in his opinion of what the boys "sense
of moral obligation was, was quite as good
as when he grew up to be of mans estate
and Judge on the Bench And vet some
other matters that will assist the people IN
making up their minds how to vote. when
hey are asked to vote for the honorable Ellis
Lewis.
If any of our friends can furnish us with
Mr. lngrams' pamphlet above spoken of we
viii be under obligations to them We think
he opinion of Gen. Jackson's secretary of the
reasury ought to be worth something in this
contest
VF AT raising in Huntingdon County
ew days since, there were thirty-nine men