Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1854-03-17

buildings at the TAX payers eHP-"s'. AIN
people, believing the time haa arrived
pctitioned, to The number Of 1900, for .
Division. while 1900 demonstrated. A.
il was late in the session, our member.
CONCLUDED not 10 urge it upon the Legis
lature, but leave it for further consiera
ton. Last fall, the friends Of Division
attempted, in opposition 10 the efforts .oi
the New Ber!io men, 20 have dirte. vo;,
on tho question of Division, aside from all
other issucs--,Le votes 10 be returned il
lac manner as other c,tes. Th,s course
WAS honestly carried out in some districts,
which voted 3 to for Division. But in
the Anti Railroad districts, an cntirci,
false and deceptive issue Was formed, on
the Saturday before election, hy the New
Be lin men. They printed tickets, "Fo'
the Dirisioa-tarhe Bonds," and "AJains'
the Dirison-Ggaiast The Bla9s," on ON
TICKET, which they declared 20 be legal,
and had voted together. These votes were
not returned as other votes, and were not
added up By the Clerks t, the Return
Juj ses. Counting the votas thus dishon-
cstly east and irregulavly returned, there
was bare majority Of Isl against Divis-
ion rejecting those votes as spurious, there
were 6 to 500 majority jir D.sision This
10 nov clearly demonstrated b. ;!rec.iiiihs
Of the voters peiitioning for D.vision-
twice as many (ncluiiog the asu'rai) as
voted agans, D.visioa.-
Instead Of false arguments" being used
by us TO bring aooat division, It en- be
truly said, as you will perceive, these very
arguments were used by the anti-division
men, aud the peSsons 'eho procured he
stgainJ IF ne Binds, to divert the voters
from the true issue If division, iu which
they too well succeeded at thai election.
But, since the people have 60. their eyes
open to the hypocrisy of the New Berlin
men, aud the issue is fairly put, of Divi-
sion or No Division, leaving Bonds out Of
the issue, the true position Of the pu6!ie
mind il exhibited by the petitions before
your honorable bodies. D
To carry out their threat to use the un-
popularity of the Bonds to defeat the Di-
vision, as before iutimated, the New Ber-
lin ciiqucs resortei to more than political
in,rigues. They have violated the sanc,ity
OF the Jury room. 1t has been proved hy
the oath of Grand Jurors that at the De-
cember Term last OF our Court, while a |
bill for bribery ~as pending before them, |
different papers, and among the rest one
Continuing interrogltories to hc put to wit
ne'ses, was introduced into the jary room,
without the knowledge Of tue Foreman
or Of the Court by some person or per-
SONS unknown-as the grand juror who
received the paper could not be got to tes
THY az to who gave it to him. Whea the |
.auctity of the jury room can thus be
tampered with, to subserve local interests, !
We have a right to believe, and do verify |
believe, that it is not safe to try causes in |
q place where such corrupt infnouces can
be brought to bear on the rights of sutors
Under sense of this danger. The twenty
causes which were ordered for ,r,al the frs,
week Of the last Term, ,rc ah continued
by consent Of parties. I
The last misstatement We shall trouble
you to notice, is the assertion that land
was dedicated by individuals on which to
erect public buildings, and the Court House
was built by private subscriptions" The
buildings were built, it is true, by sub
but that subscription was made
by the assessors on lie hc payers Of tie
Cyua,y wide Sec 10, Act Of I'D March,
1919 An individual, { Mr.. Seebold) did
give piece Of land for the public build
ings, but, as the reports Of the grand juries
Of tha, day vii! show, that individual af-
petitioned the grand jury, who
granted him remuneration, ont of the |
county funds, to pay him for the philan-
ttropy of his grant!
The present application has no parallel, |
in applications heretofore made for new
coun'ies. 1t has been generally, if not
always, the case, that the parties applying
were the minority of the whole, or at best
equal to the opposition. In this case, at
least three fcurths, if not more, of the in
Lsbitanis Of each equal half part of the
territory Of the County, as it now is, ask
a division. The opposition to the division
is confined TO New Berlin aud district of
enc to three miles around, and back Of it.
is it reasonable that 50 small part Of the
county should control such decided ma
jority, not only Of the inhabitants, but the
territory Of the county, which, by the nat
ural barriers of the territory, as well as
the commercial, social, aud business inter-
ssts Of the people, can be so appropriately
made two separate and distinct commuui-
ties? -
We hope that in your wisdom YOU viii
see ct To grant the division, and thereby
put at rest au citation, that can be silepced
il no other way. t-I
JANIS !. LINZ, II. p. SHELLER,
JAMES KELLY, p BEAVER, 4
NJ. 4. STocK, WM. FRIcK,
JNo. WALLS, Tuos. HAYES.
JAMES S. MARSH, land many others
citizens Of Union county,
March 10, 1854. ~ 90
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