Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1854-09-29


voters Of said county of Schuylkill, quail
fed as aforesaid, voting on said question
of removal shall decide in the manner
provided in the first section Of this act, in
favor of the removal of the seat Of justice,
in said county, to the borough of Potts
vile, the citizens Of Pottsyille, in said
county, shall erect. or cause to be erected,
at their own proper expense, within years
from and after such election, III the bor-
ouch of Pot,sville, aforesaid, SUITABLE
BUILDINGS, OF BRICK OR STONE,
FOR A COURT HOUSE and different
OFFICES FOR THE SAFE KEEP
ING OF TIE COUNTY RECORDS,
under the direction of the county commls-
sioners for said county, who are hereby
authorized to receive conveyance for
lot or lots of ground, for the use Of the
county of Schuylkill, in fee simple, clear
of all membranes, the said buildings to
be erected on such lot or lots Of ground
thus conveyed and he county commits
sinners far SID couaty are herety oa'b'ri-
=ed dai required, AZ THE EXPENSE
OF SAID COUNTY. 10 erect and du'H u
satathe COUNTY PRISON AND JAIL,
of brick or stone, in said borough of Potts
Vile, within said three years after such
election, as aforesaid
Iadcr these plain and cxp7icd prorisions
the people voted. They voted to select
Pottsvillc for the county seat instead of
the geographical center at Orwicsburg.
The people of Pottsyi.le did put up at
their own expense a suitable "bricli Court
House and Offices for the county records
The County Commis sloners did put up a
" county prison and Jail of stone," at the
expense of the county taxpayers. Thus
the very letter Of plain and unambigu-
Gus law was executed.
The reader will observe that the Lew
isburg bond is for "oH tie necessary Bad-
diags and grounds" What was promised
for Pottsvillc by the law was Court House
and County Offices ony-while, as if to
, guard all but the veriest fools from pos
sibility of mistake, the same section in
express terms requires the erection of a
prison or Jail by County Taxes.
The bonds it Will be seen are not alike,
nor was Pottsville required to put up u
Jail The large increase Of criminals Incl
dent TO the growing coal business, required
q large and strong new Jail, somewhere !;
and it was as easy for the County to erect
it at Pot.svilc as at Orwigsburg.-We
repeat, then, the people Of Pcttsyille did
. hoaorably carry out both in letter and in
spirit the stipulatious Of the act of Assem-
bly, under which they all acted.
And now what become of the whole
sale slauders heapod upon the people of
Pottsville and of Lcwisburg, BY the New
Berlin editors and orators and their echoes?
We ask our candid, sensible, honest fellow
citizens 20 reflect upon the case: Wm.
Cameron, VIM. .Frick, Byers Ammons, Eli
Slifcr, H. 7. Sheller, Thos Hayes, Joseph
Meixell, Philip Billmyer, J ohm Walls, JAS
+. Linn, James Criswell, james Hayes,
Lewis Iddings, \, VI. Lawshe, Peter Beaver,
John Chamberlin, Charles Penny, Chs ID.
Kline, Levi Sterncr, Solomon Ritter, IL.
w. Fries, Jonathan Ncsbit, Saml Geddes,
John Houghton, a. eidensaul, David
Reber, Jonathan Wolfe, and e. f. Miller
promise, over their own hands and seals,
in as solemn and binding form as can be
drawn, that they will erect certain build
ings in a given contingency. The best
lawyers in Central Pennsylvania have
pronounced the bond valid and binding.
You know those men to be men Of char
acter-ot reputation you know them to
be men who would scorn to deceive-men
who would not write down their own infi-
my with their own hands. Yet John NJ.
Baum and Isaac Slenker, Charles and
George Merrill, John Swineford and Wm.
Leader and their satellites, denounce the
IS citizens Of Lewisburg as base villains,
intending to deceive the people by frau
dulent and worthless guarantee 1T is for
you TO say which you will believc-thc
honorable and high-mindcd gentlemen
whose bond is pronounced good By the
best lawyers in the State; or the whole
sale defamcrs who resort to every conceiv-
able deception and falschood to uphold a
desperate cause.
Eont0ur and Columbia.
An anonymous correspondent of late
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