Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-04-04
General Geafy.


other day for Governor, was formerIy the
territorial Governor OF Kansas. His name
! is John w, Geary. Doubtless he can write
This own name; perhaps he can spell il cor
recsly; but il is certain be cannot write his
Ilown messages. When be was in Kansas
he stole them: We're be TO be elected
Governor of Pennsylvania, of which hap
PLY there is small probability, he would
have to steal them again. PennsyIvania
really deserves governor capable of wri-
ling his own messages. The common
school system of this State ought not to
culminale in such gubernalorial imbeciily
We print below in parallel columns ex-
tracts tom Gov. Geary's inaugural address
OF 1857. and the inaugural address of Gov
Heury j. Gardner delivered 10 The Massa-
chuset;s Legislature two years before, il
1855.
ExvRAcT FRO GOV. EXTRACT FROM Gov
HENRY J. GARDNEKY's JOHN W. GeARY's IN
INAUGURAL ADDRESS. AUGURsL ADDRESS. DE-
DELivERED TO TIL L LIyERED TO THE TER
LEGISLATURE OF MAS RIToRIAL LEGIsLATURE
sAcRUsETTs, JANUARY or KANSAS, January
9, 1895. -, 1857.
Gentlemen Of the Senate Gentlemen Of the Ter.
and House Of Repre- IitoYiat Legislature of
senidiiCes. Kansas.
That gracious Be- The all-wise and
ing, IN whose hahds beniiicenl Being Who
are alike The destinies controls alike the
OF individuals and OF deslinies of individ-
nations, has permits uals and OF naticns
ted Us 10 assemble has permitted you 10
this day lnlrGsIed with convene mis- q a V,
grave responsibilities charged with grave
aud dates. responsibilities.
know no safer ln- For official action
dex in official action know no better rule
than a conscientious ,han conscientious I
conviction OF duty, conviction OF duty
none more fiucluatlng none more variabis |
than The attempt TO than the vain auempt
satisfy temporary ca 10 conciIisie Tempo
price. Principles are rarr prejudice Prn. /
enduring, and If dis cipIes aud Justice are /
regarded, scorer or eternal, and il tam
later The verdict OF pered with. sooner or
condemnation will be iater The sure and in /.
recorded a / n 5 dIgnaGt verdict {
those who are false to popular condemua-
their requirements - lion against those who /.
Lei as then be rue are untrue TO their 7
10 our country aud leadinss will be ren
our duty. Let The dered. Let US not be /
success of principle false 10 our country, +
not oi party, be oUr our duty, aud oar
desre-t benefitconsiiluents. The
OF the State, not OF a triumph of ruth and
faction our principle, not of par
Mass1chusets Senate iisan and selfish oh
Document NOT JOT jects, should be our
lS55.s steady pnrpose-the
general welfare aud
not The interest of a
few onr sole aim
hrRsGs journal Of
Councils for 1881 page
81.
There is much more of the same sort OF
bare-faced literary iheving. Perhaps rob
berry won ID be the filter Term, for the theft
is accompanied with violence. Geary not
only stole the Massachusetts Governors a p
propriale aud cOrrec; English but twistse
them into Geary grammar and dreary sense
no, quite destroying the ideniiiy OF The
passage, however.
Gearg begins his theft by paying two
compliments 10 the Deity in place of the
one which he seals. ''Gracions Bsiug7
becomes ''Ihe all-wise and benificent Be-
ing" With this change we find no fault,
for il may signify thai the man who now
solicits Pennsylvania sufrages has the
germs OF a conscience in him, and, like tie
HouenIot and the Ting, whose religions
are also OF very rudipenlary sort, though,
i, possible in the act OF siu 10 propiliate lis
rewarder by arnpler Inscriptions to his awful
name. Bet The next Disagreement which
Geary practices upon this stolen properly is
villainous. Gov Gardner's Yankees were
permitted TO ''asse bIe, +" Entrusted" with
convene" his legislators ''charged." and
SO be goes or, butterug his stolen subslan-
lives with supeIfuous adiectVes, in The
hope that the loaf will will be swallowed
ere it is known TO be stolen. "Prnciplss
ere enduring" +" was lts phrase al the Hnb /;
but Geary strains over The sentence and 4
na;ly proclaiG-s hat principles and justice
are eternal" We will 90, quarrel with
Geary over this iransmogi6caiIQn though
II is a rule of truth as well as OF rhetoric noI
10 S!TetCh tus idH Eed=S OeJ ouN tttS ''O''Iti
Of The isct. justice probably ls.elernal: but
Geary must see that in the present instance
it has been only nine years in coming
aroDHd, and as for principles. which, he
says, are eternal too, i Is quite enough Tor
him 10 prove that the sock which he had IN
Kansas IN The winter OF 81 will last h:m 10
The iail Of '66, 10 satisfy honest Pennsylva-
mans whom 10 cast their votes for.
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We have added 10 our list Of subscribers
first OF March. This is highly gratifying 10
rs. The Democrat and Sfa' is now regard
ed aud recognized as The leading Democrat
ic organ OF the county, ,snd is acknowledged