Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-08-29
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Interesting Letter from VIM. B. Reed, Esq.
PHILADELpHIA, July 26, 1855.
TO shes Hon. q A. @. Gertia, Chairman Of the
Wig State Consnsittee. Harrisburg.
DEAR SIR: I beg to resign my position as
a member of the State Committee, and desire
to state the reasons which have led me to this
conclusion / am quite aware that these mo-
tives may have no interest either to my late
colleagues or to the public, but am not less
satisfied that there Is something in existing
political relations calculated to effect personal
Character, and which admonishes every hon
orable man to be perfectly ingenious and un-
reserved as to what he does.-In this commu-
nication mean to be so, and / shall be very
glad, if am in error on any matter of fact,
that you will correct me.
was appointed member of the State
Committee by the Wing Convention of 1854,
which nominated Mr. Pollock and Mr.. Darsie.
TO us was confded the duty of promoting the
success of that ticket in its integrity-Mr.
Darsie's success as much as Mr.. Pollock's.
We were bound In honor to do all we could
for both these gentlemen, and can confident
" assume that if any human being. in or out
of the Convention or the COMMITTEE, had him
ted the idea that one of these candidates was
to be sacrificed, it would have been met by a
most indignant rebuke. There was not even
an undercurrent Of intolerance then. These
were Whir nominations, entrusted to the hon
or Of Whig Committee.
On receiving the intelligence of my ap-
pointnicnt, immediately wrote to the Presi-
dent of the Convention. begging, for personal
aud official reasons, to be excused from SER
wing Had dreamed of what has since oc-
CURED, my withdrawal would have been per-
einptory, and should have been spared the
modification of seeing the party, with which
| have acted for thirty years. endangered, If
not destroyed by sinister and secret influences
which could not control and with which [
seem 10 be implicated Yielding, however,
to the urgency of old and kind friends. who
seemed to think might render some service,
1 consented to act. In one respect, and but
one, (aside from the pleasant personal associ-
alton we have had, am glad l served. 1t
enabled me, and in this my colleagues of the
Committee and our candidates cordially CO.
operated, to aid in assuaging the asperities of
political conflict, and SO to direct the canvass
that little or no personal feeling mingled in it.
Sure / am that no word of personal reproach
or unkindness to Gov Bigler, or any individ-
9sli lHtutDtE Vi tiS DSiHOCf dtiC party. ciUdDa-
ted from the State Committee. 1t was in this
particular most decorous contest
Having agreed to act, / took, as you are
aware, my full share of duty, and attended
every meeting of the Committee, one of which
was held three hundred miles from my home.
You Will excuse this recapitulation. 1t is
necessary to the illustration of the painful,
and in my Judgment, most discreditable se-
quel to what was so propitiously begun In
the winter and spring of 1854, two incidents
Of public interest occurred, which in nv opin-
ion were attended with the worst consequent
ces-the passage of the Consolidation Bill.
and the first election under it. To consolida-
ton. in every form in which it was presented,
am proud to say / always was, and vet am,
resolutely opposed. The principle was wrong
and delusivc-the details of the measure, as
has been abundaatly proved. were incongru-
Gus and imperfect-the machinery rickety--
and the manner in which it was forced on the
public, no one venturing to resist the spurious
sentiment that was stimulated, was most un-
fortunate. Its sad results no one now ques-
tions- The most sanguine enthusiast of this
great speculation can do no more than hope
for the very distant future In the long rnn.
(to use favorite phrase } it may succeed. but
it wll be very long run indeed, of SUFFERING
and dishonor. and social disorganization and
5ralnineut bankruptcy. Every one of these
results has in point of fact already ensued
large municipality has been created which
thus far cannot manage ITSELF Its Legisla-
ture is miniature Harrisburg, translated to
Philadelphia The treasury is bankrunt
The credit of the community has been narrow.
~ saved. SO far as the payment of mere fun.
ded interest is concerned, but is PROSTATE il
everything else. New loans are familiarl,