Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-09-19
From the Bradford Argus
For Congress, William Elwea

For Congress, William Elwen.
The pleasure with which we announce,
that the Congressional nomination In this
District, is at length settled, beyond all
doubt is not lessened by the premonition OF
the fact heretofore made manifest IN these
columns Hon. WILLIAM ELwELL, as will
be seen by the proceedings of the Congress
sional Conference published last week, was
unanimously nominated on the first ballot
by the Conferees assembled at Bloomsbury
on the 9th inst. 1t is almost unnecessary to
enlarge upon that phase of thisevent, which
hes in the supreme satisfaction every conser-
Vative man In this county will feel for the
result. JUDGE ELWELL is one of the few
men of distinction, who have vast number
of attached and ardent friends, and seldom,
IT ever, an open enemy. He is of that rare
class of men, prominent in public affairs,
who unite generous, kindly and unsel6sh
nature with steady and profound intellectual
strength. His selection to represent this
district was entirely unsought, and illustrates
solely the spontaneous sense of the people
not the management Of a wire-working poll
tician. 1t is almost unnecessary, therefore,
to pass any tribute upon his traits and viz
tues, to be disseminated among his old friends
and neighbors in this county-so well by
these is he known, so thoroughly is his char
acter established.
JUDGE ELwELL, previous to his elevation
to the bench, maintained, at the bar of Brad
ford County and the adjoining circuit, su-
premacy, which never disturbed the equa-
nimity of his manners, or aggravated an i'm
modest opinion of himself His hand was
always ready to assist the younger members
of the profession, and gave cheerful aid to
some even of equal experience and years.
To his clients he never gave advice which
was insincere, or based purely upon motives
of personal gain. He never took those by
whom he was employed, through the expen-
sive complications of doubtful lawsuit, to
get the benefit of larger fee, or made them
the victims of ill-considered counsel
The choice which fell upon him for the
judgeship of the twenty-first district was
made, without solicitation, by bar fully en-
hghtened in regard to his personal character
his eminent fitness for the place Having
attained, In his chosen career of life, a posi-
ton suited In all respects to his ambition and
his tastes, adorned by his purity and sustain
ed by his ability and learning-he has been
put in nomination, at the risk of personal
sacrifice, and with extreme reluctance on his
own part, for an Office, to which, if elected,
he will bring ripe, patient, and most beit-
ting culture, reputation unsullied by per-
sonal trickery, heart unskiledint the devious
dishonesty of political intrigue. He is
man, thus, in every sense of the capacity
and character, to become an honest and en-
inent servant of the people.
The blameless record Mr.. ELwELL has
maintained, is beyond the slightest aspersion
of his political opponents, whoever they may
be, wherever they may be found. But the
friendship of those, who profess with him
sentiments IN common, must not passively
permit his defeat. If these combine, his
election is beyond doubt, and the whole
radical mis-rule, which, sustained by narrow
self-interest in this county, is dying by rapid
degrees everywhere else in the country,
energy and organization will insure complete
success. The lower counties Will give to
Mr.. ELwELL largely increased majorities !;
proper vigilance In Bradford alone, is nec-
cessary to elect him.
We call upon the people, who have made
his nomination, to make his election sure,
to organize at once, and see that no votes are
lost.
If they would break down the reign of
radiealism throughout the land;
If they would have the true sentiment of
the people faithfully represented-a true
man in the right place;
If they desire the complete restoration of
Tue Union, the return OF OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,
commerce and comfy;
If to see the Constitution kept virgin, as
the liberty 1t secures, supreme, as the power
1t has given us among the nations of the
earth.
If they wish the spirit of peace should
supplant the violence of faction and the
vengeful memories of war;
If, that the end, for which their brethren
and kindred have fallen, should be attained
and that the nation should not be cheated
out of the just results the sacrifices these
have made, to make it one;
If they would have the oligarchy destroy
ed, which has siezed and desecrated, in its
use, the common law of our common coun-
try, and turned back the tide of progress
to wait upon the tardy fulfllment of its own
lust for places and power;
If, that the commonwealth of the whole
Union should be liberated from the enor-
nous burden of debt, which rests upon us
the ability of half the resources of the
country to pay halfthe debt, should not be
stified by exclusion from the privilege and
protection of equal laws
If they have faith in the future or pride in
the past
Let them turn out, and vote for and work
for WILLIAM ELwELL, the peoples choice
for the New Congress, which will restore the
Union, and bring on that order of things,
which the present incumbent has voted and
stands pledged to nut down and keen down