Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1852-01-28
Declaration Extraordinary,

ro necessary for hungry and half.starv
editor to dissolve the friendly hands viii
CO; have connected him with vilainous su
for scribers, and to assume among mankil
the that separate and Just station TO hich /
per poverty and independence Of spirit EMIT
80, 80, him. decent respect for the opinions
For 5 his honest supporters requires that /
;. should declare The causes which hay
St; st; impeled him TO the separation.
sc We hold these truths TO be self eviden
IN that editors were created like other men
.r that they are endowed by their Create
= with certain natural pIopensitiss lha
amongst these is propensity to eat, drinI
: and keep themselves comfortably clad
5 that 10 secure these blessings, laws wer'
g instituted among men, securing to tn
I, creditor his honest and just dues ; bu
when vlllainous exemption act become.
, destructive o: these ends, it is our right .e
) institute new system, lay ing its foundation
on such principles as to Us shall seem
| most likely to protect US in future from all
fraud and imposition. Prudence indeed
will dictate that friendships long established
should not be severed for light and tran.
sient causes and accordingly oil expe-
rience hath shown that editors are more
disposed 10 suffer while evils are sufferabe,
than 10 righ, themselves oy abolishing the
forms 10 which they are accustomed. But
when long standing abuses. and total
disregard Of every generous feeling, having
in view the same object, evinces a design
10 reduce to absolute starvation he who
has for years labored to supply them with
aliment, it is his right, il is his duty to
repudia,e old friendships, and to provide
new guards for his future security. The
history Of these outlaws is a history of
repeated injuries and insults, all having
in direct object the pecuniary destruction
OF their best friend and benelactor. To
prove this, let facts be submitted to the |
candid reader.
They have refused. time and again, to
pay US the first continental dinebat, al,ho'
repeatedly called on to do so.
They have refused to supply US with
wood, corn, oats, potatoes. beans, pens.
pork and poultry-tixin's ines,imabe to US,
and formidable to rascals only.
They have refused to extend US any aid
whatever. whereby TO facilitate our business
operations thus rendering US in a measure
incapable OF pursuing with a light heart
and buoyant spirits our legitimate business;
the Office, in the meantime, exposed 10 all
the danger of invasion from without, and /,
within.
They have combined, with others, TO
subject u, to the worst o: grievances, 1
oreign TO our good nature, and unackno~l-
edged by our laws.
For cutting off our trade with paper
imposing debts upon US ,
.;,ho-, ,-- -.,-----, r~. usprisi0g us, ]
n many cases, of the benefits Of marke: s
money. I
They have pIundered our pockets, t
heated our credtors, burnt our fingers, c
md done sundry other cruel and barbar- s
,us acts, totally unworthy The character (
f gentlemen. c
la every stage OF these expressions, we
ave peillIoned for redress in the mos,
tumble terms; our repeated petitions 4
ave been answered only by repeated neg
ct and consequent injury. Men, whose a
haracters are thus morked by acts which s
,ay define set Of plundering scamps, '
re unfit longer 10 be the recipients Of our q
ivor. U
Nor have we been waning in attention g
, these men. We have warned them from u
me to time, through the paper and by |,
liter, OF "B,ack List' We have re- |
minded them OF the circumstances of v
ur emigration and settlement here. We a
ave appealed 10 their sense Of justice and il
and we have conjured them il
y all the ties Of good fellowship, TO send n
5 the Almighty Dollar, or we would b
levilably interrupt our connection and t.
with them. But they a
ave been deaf to the voice Of justice. O
sason, and humanity. We mus, there Il
,re, acquiesce in tho necessity which n
our separation, and hold them, b
5 we hold all others like them, scamps .
hen they don't pay us-when they do, a
,e best Of clever fellows and good citizens. n
We, therefore. The editor of the "Ameri- S
an Democrat" appealing 10 all honest a
zen for the reclitude Of our intentions, do, O
! the name and ty The authority Of our Fl
be:ler half,' so!emnIy publish and declare c
lat these men are and Of right ought TO il
:, stricken from our list of subscribers, "
I'd that all connection between them and a;
} is and oush, to be totally dissolved. and "
r the support Of this Declaration, with a II