Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-08-06
THE CHRONICLE.
MONDAY. AEG. =, 1855.
a Real Relic OF 'T5.

GDr. s. l.. BECK, of Lewisburg, found
among bis ancient papers the following
document, brought hithcr by Mr.. Reiter,
of Reading. 1t is written in a fair hand
on yellowed cap paper, and shows that
our Wing fathers had some faults if they
were On the right side. "OpprcssiOn
makes wise man mad" The very best
and holiest Of causes are marred not On
ly from unworthy motives actuatiug their
supporters, but from the untoward zeal Of
men right at heart, Or from the spirit
and acts Of those in whom sufferings and
wrongs, personal or reported, have excited
to improper and unjust hatred, retaliation,
or revengc-EDs. CnRoN.]
In Council of Safety !
Philada. Octob'r 1st, l17G.
Gentlemen
The important public station
to which you have been appointed by the
Voice of your Country, IN this time Of
general calamity couvinces US, that you
are persons who require no excitement to
the discharge of your DUTY; but from the
remote situation in which you reside, We
think it our duty 10 transmit to you a
Copy of the Resolve of Congress, which
enjoins, that no Violence shall be offered
to the persons or property of any individ.
uals, on a supposition Of their holding
principles of Toryism, least the same may
never have reached you or may have es-
capped your attention.
We are induced to this measure in con.
sequence of repeated information made to
US, that acts of Violence have been offered
to persons in your district upon very
slender foundations Of their being inimical
to US, and that even tender women have
not been spared at the same time that
We would wish to encourage an ardor in
the support of the noble cause of Liberty
in which we are all engaged, yet every
outrageous proceeding by Mobs is disrepu-
table and tends to destroy all order & good
government, and furnishes our enemies
with too much occasion to reproach the
wisest measures that have been adopted for
the best of purposes.
1t is with regret that we arc obliged to
take notice of another complaint of nc
less importance than the former, as ii
affects the character of this State in gen.
eral, viz We are informed that the State
prisoners in your district have been grossly
insulted, and violence offered TO their per-
sons, so that they are in continual fears
and not safe in going about within the
limits assigned them. When We consider
the number of our Friends who are now
Prisoners with the Enemy, and the ample
opportunities they have of making severe
retaliation upon US, as well as the fatal
Influence it will have on the minds of the
Enemy; sound policy points out to US the
necessity Of conciliating their good opin-
ion and inclinlng them to desert to us if
possible; more especially as We wish in
this unhappy contes. to support the char
acter of a Civilized people, and not of Bar
barians unacquaiuted with the obligations
of humanity,-for these reasons we con-
ccive it our duty to exhort you to discour-
age by every means in your power all such
proceedings, as you value the reputation of
your Committee, the reputation of the
glorious cause Of Freedom, and the peace
and order of Society. To this VIC have
only to add that We recommend to you to
afford protection to the said Prisoners, and
allow them every reasonable indulgence
consistent with the Safety of the State and
o'oeFs Of the Congress.
BY Order Of Council
inos'WHARToY, Jurr, President.
me ,Smni''e 2f Inspection
ont DIs@rea,'ga,