Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1854-04-21
Blundering by Wholesale.

poitaht particular. we wonder now tH'
Editor could innocently string SO mucl
Misrepresentation on one short paragraph
"1he Nep Berlin peopie, and in fact oil ,h'
lower end, opposed the subscription by tn
County Commissioners of .s2G0,0O0 Of the peo
PIES money TO the Susquehanna Railroad, il
which LEwISBunG was interested To pun,si
NecO Berlin for this. Ltuis6urg now propose:
TO divide the county, removingthe seat of JUS
hce from New Berlin to Le,cisburg for tht
Northern Division, and erecting a new county
on the South, TO be called d" Snyder," with Sc
Gnsgrore for the county seat"
First. Neither "aN," nor half, nor any
considerable portion of "the New Berlin
people" opposed the Railroad subscription
when proposed, or when the contract was
made. On the contrary, every New Ber
In paper which spoke on the subject, open
iy and strongly advocated it-New Berlin
public meetings urged it-John NJ Baum,
john Swincf.rd, John Seebold, NJ Kieck.
ner, |. Slenker, and all the now opponents
of the Road, then either actively or silently
approved it--and in short, but for New
Berlin interest and influence, the subscrip,
ton never would have been made Afer
the contract was entered into, John II
Baum, ,Swineford, and others, for party pur-
poses, turned tail upon their own offspring,
and, hoping to make capital for the Demo-
cratic party, raised the black banner of Re
pudiation of the contract. They selected
Col. Philip Ruhl, former Member Of the
Legislature, as the Independent Repudia-
ton candidate for County Commissioner,
and called upon all opponents of the Road
to rate for HIM AS A TEST on the Railroad
question, He was dcfiatea by rs in the
county, and by As in New Berlin. New
Berlin was two to one for the Railroad,
even after Baum, ,Shriner g. Co. had turned
against it. (Both candidates were Wings
Sine the Division question arose, others
Of New Berlin-but not a!l--have also
turned against the Railroad.
.Second. peoples money is in this
ca,c a dcmagoguc term calculated TO mis-
lead the public. The contract is merely
guaranty, and there WAS DO probability,
ar -carccty :! p p,>>ioiiliy tnit one cent u
he peoples money would ever be need
cd The Railroad would be worth e. .hc
people, thousands more than it could pos
s,bly cost them The State Works, whose
continuance for party pluuder purposes, the
.Nr advocates as strongly as it approves
the Nebraska fraud, takes yearly one hun
dred per cent more Of the ''peop!e's mo
n,y" than our Railroad could, but there is
no regard for the ''pcople's money in the
care of Iip>e works.
Third. That "Lew!sburg Was interested
in the Rliiruad" is trus-but not the nriioie
truth. New Berlin hen felt as much IN
terest, aud made as grea, efforts, in pro-
portion, as Lewisburg; and dozen Town
ships we're ''interested" As we'll as this
Borough.
Fonrta "To punish New Berlin, Lew
isburg proposes" DC. The foundation for
the Division movement is as old as the
county. New Berlin and Danyille were
made county seats about the same time,
and rere perhaps central as to population,
and good sites for county buildings; but
times have changed, ahd bloomsbury has
become judicial as it is a business center,
At the time the present project was started,
the Railroad hostility was quiet, and the
immediate occasion of the movement was
a secret attempt made in New Berlin to
erect splendid new county Buildings by
the peoples money" The first petitions
we knew of, for the Division, were from
"the lower end of the county......SO much
for .'Lewisburg's Furnishing New Berlin"
An Editor who biuuders thus upon tacts,
will hardly be spiritual medium to re-
veal the secret motires of people twenty or
thirty miles distant!
FyM. That Lewisburg purposes to re-
move the seat of Justice to Lewisburg,"
and to make " Selinsgrove county seat,
are equally reckless assertions. Neither
the petitions for Division, nor the bill which
passsd the Senate, contain any such stipu-
lations. In the event of a Division, those
towns will doubtless try to gain these ad-
yantages, as Bloomsbury has. But the
location of the seats of justice is to be
selected by the people of the respective
counties, by vote, from among such local
tiles as may bind themselves to erect suit
able buildings without using the "people's
What the people may decide upon
is--we appeal to the Editors personal ex-
perience-not absolutely certain. Lewis
burg is not the Legislature, nor has it the
control Of the people of the proposed new
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