Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1854-02-17
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FEBRUARY Il, 1854.
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N, 7. Tribune and Erie,

For the last four weeks Mr.. Greeley, Of
the Tribune has been braying himself
ho.rse in dcnunciations of the people of
Erie and we see that he has now brought
into his list of prescribed the whole State
of Pennsylvania. His list of opprobrious
fepithets has by this time nearly run out
4 we opine. In fact he has fished up from
the dirty gutter and filthy ponds of our
language host of terms that doubtless
are new to a great majority Of his respec-
table readers, and has affixed them all to
Erie, the Erians-to Pennsylvania and
the Pensylvanians.
The Tribune has been swelling and
putting for long time past, and unless
some relief be found for the rabid editor.
we fear that this Erie matter will be fatal
! to him.
To coo! observer his course has been
-an interesting and suggestive one. He
has such happy faculty of seeing with
glory spcctacles all that belongs to New
York interests, and of thinking all that
pertains to the simple question of truth
and justice, that We gaze with no small
| wonderment on him. We have row 10
longer the shadow Of doubt that if the
interests of New York were imagined to
be at stake and a rival were TO be crushed
hahereby, he would 60 in voice and pen for
Acapital punishment itself, against which be
ehas been running a muck for years past.
Let it tend to the glory of New York or
10 the interests of It's capitalists, and he
would no doubt see in gigantic proportions
EVERY argument for it, and would fail en-
tirely to see the puny arguments against it.
i We wonder what he will say or do next
11Ienceforth, however, We shall be surprised
at no position he may assume and no Ian
guage he may employ. A.
IeSrTbe foregoing is from an intelligent,
ong time patron of the Tribune. 1t is rare
that man of Mr.. Greeley's information
kets so far as:ray on mere matters of fact,
1os he has done in this case. Pennsylvania
IS all right on the Erie question; and the
course of the people of Erie, in taking up
failroad tract. and bridges, has been main
9y by order Of legal authorities, and in Cue
eourse of law. On the other hand, the
New Workers and Ohioans have attempted
70 overpower the Erians by brute force,
after being themselves guilty of low tricks,
gross disregard of private agreements, vio-
htions of charters, and (many bclieve) Of
i legislative bribery, in obtaining the powers
hich have been either abated as an lille
al nuisance by the authorities Of Eric, or
pnulled by the Legislature.
The whole question, SO far as concerns
&c public in general, is, shall the break
lhich is necessary, be at Buffalo or at Erie? ?
enusylvania contends that if she can have
Dat advantage in her own bounds instead
Il neighboring State, it is her right and
~ to keepit. !
If we are rightly informed, Pennsylva-
- paid New York, at time when both
eates were comparatively poor, the then
II large sum of Four Hundred Thousand
llars, for the right to the Harbor of
0Be-the best on the Lake For her now
: be so simple as to give away, sell, or be
heated out of any of the advantages of
is location, in order to build up Cleye.
nd and Buffalo and New York citv. at
e sacrifice Of Erie, Pittsburg, and Phila-
lphia, is piece Of folly Pennsylvania is
capable of.
Mr.. Greeley has in this instancc-as
Pill as in repeatedly calling our Governor,
hn Bigler instead of U1Riam-shown
at he lacks some knowledge of facts,
hich his multiplied engagements may ex-
puate but can not excuse. The vollies
abuse he has heapcd upon this State,
ll harm no one but himself. Chronicle
The Portland Advertiser says it is a
OPPOSITION generally conceded to be true
y cords Of wood given to the POOR are
forded above