Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-09-30

For the Uuisn County Sur.
\ difference Of opinion exists among the
members of the Wing Standing Committee
of this county for the present year, and
Judging from all editorial article III the
Star Of last week, will have tendency to
injure the Wing party, if not properly
understood. As member of the party, |
desire, if possible, to cast some light upon
the subject 10 order that all may under
stand their position and act accordingly.
1t may not be necessary here to state
the reasons which may have led the last
county convention to adopt i new mode
Of selecting the Standing COMMITTEE; the
principal reason, however, may have been
to prevent the committee from being
packed by designing ones for particular
purposes. BY referring to the proceeding,
Of the convention as published in the Star
and Chron,;cie, tiud that the following
resolution was adopted
d" "Resolrcd, That the Wing Standing
Committee consist Of one man from each
district, whom the return judges from each
district shall have the privilege Of naming
! Then follow the names Of the members
of the committee, the same in each paper,
except that in the .Star, Geo. Merrill is
designated as Chairman. A notice was
published for the members Of the Com
mttee to meet at the Grand Jury room at
o'clock Z. NJ, Of the first week Of court
This was signed by "Gco. Merrill, Chair
man" In pursuance to this notice the
Committee met at the time anl place ap-
pointed. This was the first mee,u. after
their appointment. The procec.:ngs of
this meeting are reported in tie Chronicle
OF the 10Th lust. as follows:
re-. At regular meeting of the Unlon
County Wing Standing Committee, called by
the Chali man pro tenn, preSeht-Messrs. Wei
rick, Courtuey, Wsgensei.er Albright. Clingan.
Drown. aggart, merrill W Worden, tn- "a
permanent officers were chosen:
Col. WN. F WAGENsELLER. Chairman.
". n. W OUnEN, SCTtfdfy.
Then follows three resolutions passed
by the committee, and the appointment OF
some committees Of vigilance. In the pro-
ceedings of this meeting as reported by the
Star of the 10th inst, l find pro tenn added
to the word chairman following the name
of Mr.. Wagonseiler This is brief his
tory of the case, thus far.
Next in order is an editorial article i'll
the Star Of the 222nd inst, which says,
" The publisher of the Chronicle accu-
ses us Of publishing false minute Of the
late meeting Of the Standing Committee,
iuasmuch as We represented Vim. Z. Wag
onseller as the Chairman pro tenn of that
meeting. That We did SO represent him,
Is true aud that 1t was utterly impossible
for him to be anything more at that or
any other meeting of the Committee is also
jrue We, ourselves claim to be the Chair
man Of that committee and our commission
was given us by the county convention in
August last, the same body which appoint
ed the whole committee, and just 50 long
as the creature Is less powerful than the
creator, SO long shall We deny and resist
the power Of that committee to oust us
from post, where the same power that
created them, has placed US. In the
mean time we take the opportunity to
caution the members of the committee to |
disregard utterly all calls signed by W, |
L. Wagcnselfer rs Chairman, inasmuch as
he does not hold SAID office and has there !
fore no authority to issue such calls"
These are the remarks Of Mr. Geo. !
Merrill, editor of the Star, an organ of
he Wing party, and those are the powers
which he claims the right to assert and !
control. 1t therefore becomes a question
If importance to the future welfare and
harmony Of the party as to whether be is
right or wrong. shall now proceed to
show that the doctrine here contended for
oy the Star is wrong in principle and
and would be ruiEous in practice.
In pursuance to the above resolution
the delegates from each district selected
one person, (Which constituted the commit
tee,) some of whom were and others were
not, members of the convention. Now,
admit for the sake of argument, that the
name Of Geo Merrill was first named, and
standing first on the list would be consid-
cred, according to rule, the Chairman of
the committee; and suppose further, that
he was actually nominated and elected
Chairman ty the convention, as contendcd
or,would that destroy the right and nullify
the power of the committee to elect their
Chairman and Secretary? Certainly not.
1t may have been right and proper in the
convention to designate some one as Chair
man for the time being, whose duty it !
would be 20 call the committee together
in the first place, but after having 50 met,
they we're fully authorized to elect the