Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1852-08-13
The Repudiators Meeting.

d to be the Otilclai account IN the Tunes, Y
ind it so full of wholesale and monstror
falsehoods that we decline imposing upo
our readers by inserting it in our column
1t seems they did rot dare to put in prir
all .he resolutions that were offered an
passed, as they savored altogether too niue
. of rccklessness ard brimstons-for the pui
!, lie eye. Most of those which DO appea
are mere leather and p.unella, and hav
already been before the public. The mos
important are the two following, uh,c
were offered by John Swineford, ESQ:
Resolved, That the citizens of Unio
county are a law-loving and law-abidin
people, but when unjust acts are passed
incompatible with and antagonistic of GU
free institutions, we consider it our righ
and duty constitutionalIy TO oppose suci
acts.
Resolved, That We view the act cf As
semhly passed lately BY our Legislature
sanctioned by the Governor and carried in
to effect by our Commissioners, vestins
power in them, without the consent Of the
people, TO subscribe stock to the Susque
hanna Railroad Company, as anti-republi-
can in principle and detail, and that We
will resist the payment of 5000, 600 sub,
scribed by our Commissioners upon the
ground that the subscription was fraudu-
lertly obtained.
Interpreting these resolutions by the
light of the speech made upon the occasion
by the heroic Whiskey Inspector, we pre-
sumo some of the {: constitutional means
of opposition, there referred to, are armed
mobs to break open the county jail: for
ciblc resistance to constitutional law of
the land lawless violence; notification
and treason---all done too, under the
character Of 4" law loving and law abiding
people" and in the way of " constitutional
ly" expressing their sentiments. Judging
by the same standard, it would also seem
probable that other of these " constitu-
tional" means, are falschood and misre-
presentation to any amount that can be
palmed upon the community. We know
many present at that meeting will revolt
upon such conclusions as these, but as
they have made the Inspector their mouth
piece and fle leader, they are concluded by
his opinions, and bound in good faith
to consummate his programme of battle,
and participate to the fail in the glory and
the shame of his insane and reasonable
crusade
With what prcpriety and consistency
professed Democrats, both lay and official,
can deliberately volunteer sweeping and
censure upon the State Admi-
nistration and the Legislature, we leave
o judgment of the mass of the party, and
o the "powers that be-" They may per-
laps cut the Gordan knot, as the only
practicable method of solving the difficult
y. We see no other way of escape.
But when body Of men, many of them
to be persons of responsibility
md character, publicly resolve that they
will resist the payment of the subscrip-
ion on the ground that it was "fraudu-
entity obtained they assume grave re-
possibility from which their fellow
.itizens who are thus implicated will not
'cadily suffer them to escape. We pro-
nounce the charge of fraud in obtaining
he county subscription to be base libel.
There were no misrepresentation, and |
here was no fraud in the transaction |
[ he law was under discussion in the |
Legislature for some six weeks before it |
vas finally acted upon it was well known
hat the subject was before the Legisla-
ure; the public attention was specially |
lirectcd to it by Gov. Bigler's judicious
md discriminating Veto Message, which
confined the general principle |
within narrow and safe limits; yet in all
uis liHt, uUt Il iuuf uicl VI uiSsdtis dCliou |
vas heard, no objection made by any body
within the limits of the Commonwealth,
,or single remonstrance sent to Harris
Durg against the enactment or approval Of
he law.
The matter then became subject of
discussion among the people of the county.
At least two public meetings, numerously
attended, were held at the county seat and
in this place, at which numerous speeches
were made, and strong resolutions unani-
mously adopted in favor Of a County Sub
scription; committees of responsible and
gentlemen appointed to confer
with the County Commissioners; and all
these proceedings published in the papers
at New Berlin and Lewisburg, warmly and
endorsed in the Editorial col
umns and by correspondents, and scattered
broadcast over the county, in both German
and English; Jet, as in the case of the law
itself, scarce murmur was heard, or any
audible expression of dissatisfaction what