Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-10-24
10 Ephraim H Little.

STR:-In the scurrilous little half-sheet,
yclept the g Campaign, of four weeks is
sue, which you are announced as the osten-
sible Editor, there have been many things
concerning myself, personally, which are
ndliciously false and ungenflemonly, and
for the utterance of which / hold you per-
sonally responsible. In the first issue of that
bantlng you designated me as "rolun.eer. "
This you well knew was a fdlsehood, as /
had a regular nomination for Assembly by
the Standing Committee and Conferees of
the Democratic Party of Columbia County
Immediately wrote and signed Card, de-
manding retraction of the fasehood, in
forming you that if repeated, would post
you her and scoundre This Card, l re-
gret to say, the Editors of the Democrat and
Star omitted to publish.
You next charge me by insinuation with
.electioneering on Cameron money. / have
not seen Gen. Cameron, or heard from him,
for nearly four years; not since [ labored
over three days and nights at Harrisburg,
against bribery and corruption, for the cleo
ton of CHARLES II. BUcKALEw to the
United States Senate And this insinua-
ton, you and all the poor devils with whom
you are associated in that infamous publca-
ton, well knew was cOntemptibly false On
the other hand, have during the past cam
paign, as well as for over the last quarter of
a century, not only travelled to all the re-
mote districts of our County, and spoken at
twelve Democratic Meetings, boldly for the
Laws, the Union, and the Constitution,
which fact you carefully tried to conceal
from the public, but have expended ore.
one hund, ed dollars, in defraying expen-es
thus incurred, and evrey cent of which was
MY OWN MONEY
Passing unnoticed many other of your dir
ty little peccadillOs, among the smallest and
meanest that any dirty dog was ever guilty
of, is the fact, that when to harmonic the
Democratic party and ensure success to
what you called the Ticket sent in and
had published in your bantling, an explicit
declination, thus removing all opposition to
your pet Representative selection, you had
the corsummate meanness to follow it up,
and in the very next line after my name,
with black guard article, saying: Tate
will be badly beaten, &c.
Here, we submit, was an exhibition of pig
headed ignorance, mulish arrogance, and
foOl-hardy donkeyism, evinced by pusillan-
imous creature, whom all agree that ever
knew the animal, was disqualified by his
british propensities for association with men,
women, or gentlemen, and could only find
emanation in the little cranium of Ephraim
H. Little
Finally, Ephraim, to cap the climax OF
your innate malignity, in the issue contain
ing, what you pompously styled your Val
edictory," the closing of silly article, says:
" 1t would be giving too much importance
to the slang of the traitor" l emphasize
the last word, and stop to ask the people
with whom have lived for the last thirty
years, and maintained at least the reputa-
ton of good citizen aud honest public ser
| want, whether such outrageous SANDERS up
on the character Of man against whose
reputation and honesty, the tongue of cal
umny has failed to fix even one tangible
direlictiOn, should go unnoticed and unpun-
ished. For this gross violation of every
principle of decency and truth, hereby pub
licly pronounce the said Ephraim Ii. Little,
a bUr, scouadreI, and cotcord And il
he were not pitiable cripple, would give
him a little boot-toe justice.
LEVI L. TATE.
Rlnnmshnrr Oct 10 1SG6