Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1863-09-18
How he 'Sustains the Government.

this Congressional District were dissatis-
fed with our nominee, and as Gea Wm
H. Miller proicsscd 20 hc in favor oi' Il
vigorous prosecution of the war. enough
Republicans voted for him to elect him.
Clothed with the honor Of representing
OIl Union in the National Legislature, he
now assails both State and National Ad
ministrations in manner that must salts
fl every thoughtful, candid man, that he
hates them more than he does the Rebels
After proligious efforts in all quarters
to raise il crowd, he had 4 very respect;t-
bic audience in Independent Hall, Lew
isburg, last Monday evening, with full
chance to demonstrate the fact that he
loved his Party more than his Country.
After dischar.ingvo volumes Of abuse against
the legally elected, Constitutional Presi-
dent aud commander in chief of the Ar
my and Navy o.! the United States, he had
but little left for the pcrjurcd traitor, JEFF.
Davis, who is wagne this horrid war to
drive Abraham Lincoln from the Prcsi-
dental chair. and to destroy our Nation !.
He had plenty of praise for Mcclellan,
the most stupendous failure Of the war
who. with the greatest means, accomplish
ed the fcwcst good rcsults-whose insati
able cry for more troops was only equal
ed by the number who fell under his care
who was trusted longer and farther
than any other General, but who only
proved that, however good he may bc as
an organizer of armies, or as an engineer,
he had not the field qualities Of an active
General Such men rs Mcclellan and
Porter-the "DemocraticG Generals whose
failures we're the worst the Administration
and the People sufered-sccm to be the
favoritcs of this Miller. E=y"But he had
no Communications for any successful
Democratic General who suStains the Ad-
ministration-no cncomiums for Butler,
or Rosecrans, or Dix, or Logan, or Burn
side, or Hunter-no peans for them.
Not one word for the Republican Gencr
ais or Admirals-ior Lyon, or Grant, or
Baker, or Gilmore, or Farragut, or Frc-
mont, or Foster, or Banks, or Dupont, or
Schenck, or Meade-no praises for them
He could harrow up the soul with all our
sad reverses-but not word of cheer for
the soldier or the soldiers friends about
Drainesville, or Donelson, or Gettysburg,
or Corinth, or Vicksburg, or Port Hud-
son, or Shiloh, or New Orleans, or Nor
folk, or Columbus, or East Tennessee, or
the Atlantic Coast victories! In short,
his every effort seemed to be to show the
dark and discouraging points, and to hide
the glories and victories we have won in
this war to suppress the Rebellion begun
by Millcr's old political friends s.!
His treatment of Gov. Curtin, was still
more unfair He accused him of compli-
city or responsibility in the early imposi-
tions of shoddy and paper solcd shoes on
our soldiers. This fraud has long since
been exposed, as this Gen. VIM. II. Mill
er very well knew. leprobably thought
it might 90 down with "thc ignorant
Dutchmcn of Union county, but he HIM
self well knows that Gov. Curtin has been
twice cleared of all guilt in the matter.
Those who make charges of that kind, are
bound to proUe them, but this "IIon.'
libeller did not even attempt it. 1t is
sometimes hard work to prove negative,
but in this case it may be tried. Our
readers remember, that when those wrongs
first became known, Coz Curtin hasteaed
10 stop payments until the matters merc
sfra;yh,ened. He also appointed a COM
mittee to look into the same. One of this !
was Hon. Jacob Fry, late the
Auditor General That Com /
mittee entirely eromerated Gov Curtin. In
the Legislature following, Hon. Vim.
Hopkins-hoping, for party's sake, to
ferret out somcthing-had committee
appointed to overhaul the same transac-
tons. That committee consisted of
Messrs. Greenbank and Rex (Breckin-
ridge Democrats,) Smith Onion Dcm.)
and Vincent and Sellers (Republicans.)
They made a unanimous report, from
which we take the following extract:
"7here is no e0idence, phich, in any ,eay,
iinpolyes an otficer Of the government IN i'm.
proper conduct in the disbursement Of the
funds of the Commonwealth, or an proui.
ling far tie soldiers. On the contrary,
he evidence satisfied the committee, that,
N every instance where any wrong was
brought to the kno,o!e.lye Of the Executive,
prompt measures ,cerc tdken for It's corvec-
ION. The committee feel it their duty,
Is we'll in Justice to the Executive, as in
lonor to our noble Commonwealth, to
tate, that, Notwithstanding she has placed
more men in the field than any other
State in the Union, she has put them
more promptly, and at Il less e:rpcnse per
man, than either the National Govern
ncnt, or any individual State, of whose
expenditure they have any information
md the committee hesitate not to express