Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-03-30

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have made clean breast of it, and told
how "large sum- he received, and given
the name of the "hired lacqucy' of the
Railroad Company who paid it. The pub
lie would like to know the name of the
agent Of said company whose business it
was to bribc editors, senators and mem.
bers, so that the Penitentiary may be made
to claim its own. We would like to know
also what he intends to do with the money.
We suggest that he pay it to one of Mr..
Schindel's congregations to employ high.
sr priced and better Pastor. He says he
took the money, but the question which
greatly concerns the honor of our friend,
is, did he not at the same time agree with
the agent to sustain Schindel Did not the
agent truly report said agreement to Schn-
del, and would Schindel have voted for the
bills had he not been assured that he would
be sustained at home by the Democrat and
other papers His vote was necessary to
carry the bill; without it there would have
been tic, and the bill would have fallen.
He seems to have been sorely tempted, and
to have had a hard struggle between duty
on the one side and something else on the
other. He wanted to go for the bill but
feared the just indignation of the people,
and it nowhere appears that he finally
agreed to support the Bills until he was
assured that he would receive the support
of some of the leading papers of his own
county. Dishonor treads close upon the
heels of frailty. If the Allentown editor
had taken the money and at once tele
graphed or proceeded in person to Harris
burg and told Schindel that he had done
so--that he would not sustain him, and in.
tended to expose the whole transaction, he
would now occupy a different and better
position. He ought Immediately to have
communicated the facts to the Senate, and
it would have arrested the passage of the
Bill This hitch in the case at Allentown
may yet lead to important developments.
A misunderstanding or quarrel among
rogues is always attended with ugly and
unexpected consequences to themselves and
associates.
The fraud and bribery practiscd in the
original sale of the public works to the
bankrupt Sunbury & Erie Railroad Com.
pany in 1857, ought also to be ventilated.
The rascality of that business lead to the
present deplorabe condition of things at
Harrisburg. The public ought to know
who got paid for the passage of that Bill,
either in money or in Stock at half price.
1t is all wrong that few little rascals
should now be made the scape-goats to
carry off the sins of larger ones who plan
ned the scheme and have pocketed most of
the plunder. Let the little and obscure
fellows compel the big ones to share the
responsibility, and the public may excuse
them IN some degree.
In view Of our dismcmbcred Union ,and
what is now doing at Washington and
Harrisburg, it must be confessed that we
are a disgraced people. What man would
like to visit Europe and boast of his gov
ernment and country as Americans have
been too much in the habit of doing! And
we fear that We have not yet seen the
beginning of the end. The Republicans
met at Chicago and declared for Lincoln
and revolution, and now the same party
is selling out the State at Harrisburg
Corruption of the most damnablc kind
stares one in the face at every point. 1t
is as shameful as it is disgraceful.
THE Delvan House, at Albany, has
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