North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-02-24
Dignified Silence,

We have waited with much patience tor an
explanation APOLOGY or excuse by the parties
implicated in the rascaIly enrolment of Mich
olson Township !; part of the particulars of
which, We published afew weeks since. We
did not expect the parties TO excu pate them
selves from this bare faced outrage. The
truth of our charge, they could not deny.
Indeed they well knew there were facts
in relation 10 it, still more dsmuing which
we bad not yet made public. But judging
from the past, we expected the Beet.nosed,
Bogus Editor to get up some such ligmarole
rs he got up to excuse and befog the manne r
in which he slipped off the tie strap in the
first draft. Among all dog fanciers, we be
lieve, the dog that stands square up and
gnaws off the rope is regarded as far more
hunest, than the whelp, which by cringing
back, slips the moose from his neck. The
latter style seems to be most natural for the
aforesaid ruby nosed animal. We charged
him with having knowingly, deliberately, and
wilfuly printed bogus and false enrollment
list whereby certain of his political friends
might save themselves harmless and free
others to take their places in the great
LOTTERY of death" about to come of. We
made this charge, with full knowledge OF
our accountability, civil criminal or other.
wise. We knew too that Democratic presses
had been destroyed, and editors imprisoned
for exposing abolition iniqOties. We were
not forgetful of the high official positions of
the parties implicated nor were We unmind
full of the fact that Loyalty" a word that
covers a multitude of sins, was their shiso-
leth. .....
Billy 1t it true, charges US with being
rebel &c but this does not at all explain
this bogus enrolment business. Nobody,
we hope, will be silly enough to assert that
even rebels do not sometimes tell the truth.
Many people, indeed believe them to be
quite as honest and veraciouS as abolition
editors, and some Marshals they know Of
Not word can We get from hn about the
bogus enrolment list. 1t is probable that
the perpetrators of this rascaly outrage !;
think their professions of " Loyalty" sufi
cient excuse for any wrongs they may choose
70 perpetrate on the honest people who,
will only have the barren satisfaction Of
knowing that they are wrunged with the
CALLING reflection that the guilty perpetrators,
are so much above them in official position,
an6 professed loyalty" that they can ccn-
NIT wrongs with i:npunty.
Perhaps Billy may think, that as he is
nothing but poor, puslllanimous, contempt
ole half starved printer, 10 blame should be
attached to him for merely printing these
bogus lists. We will admit that he was
nothing but 9 tool in the bands Of operators
who had more brains than he 30 too, might
be the possessor Of the dies and the press
upon which forged bank notes we're printed
with the knowledge and consent, and f1r his
profit. Under tho law, the ntterers and
passers of such notes would be sent to the
STATE Prison and the poor printer would be
sent to the PenitentioIy. Both these estab
lishments are under the same root and the
terms Synonymous, at least in Pennsylvania.
Having indicated the place where these rascals
belong we leave them for the present hoping
shortly to hear from them through their abo
ition organ OR the CRATES.