The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-06-23

On last Saturday week, public rneetinI


On last Saturday week, public meeting
was held in Johnstown, on what is called,
by way of b4.rlesqUe, "Court House
Square" for the purpose of enabling cer-
tain gentlemen of that city of the two
rivers TO relieve themselves Of their super
abundant wrath against the people OF
Ebensburg, and to throw off vast and
astonishing quantity of rant and twaddle
on the question Of the removal of the coun-
ty seat The array of orators on the in
teresting occasion was quite formidable,
az we'll in numbers as in intellectual
strength and personal and political inffu>
ence. We have no doubt that after each
of the speakers had spoken bis little piece,
and had been safely delivered of "thoughts
that breathe ard words that burp," he
felt in love with himself and arrived at the
conclusion that the meeting was a "6ig
thing" that the new Jail would be num-
bered among the things that were to have
beeu-and that "Court House Square is
a fred fact.
Prominent among the list of speak eFs
was A. KoPELIN Esq and while all the
addresses viii afford irst-class light read
ing on a rainy day, the following choice
extract from that gentleman's effort is
peculiarly refreshing:
Standing in the by-way of progress, your
opponents don't seem to see the Eotice, Look.
oWt for the locomotive Can't they see that
'tis commercial and not geographical centres
which control the forces impellirg the mRchi-
merry of society. How absurd that lady Of
seventy should be forced by ancient organ
ization of society to travel thirty miles with
two Witnesses up the Allegheny Mountains to
prove, TBERE, the fact that her dear husband
was dead, and gave her enough to live on out
of their Joint earnings until she should die or
that one of you, having bought lot in ONE
humble spot for loWly home, for twenty FIVE
dollars, should be forced to go TO the same
place to record your title at an (if you treat or
retreat) average expense of FIVE dollars. Sup
pose you have personal difficulties with your
neighbors Won't il cost you less time and
money to have all that settled at home Why
carry these matters some thirty miles away 20
have them adjudicated"
Suppose that this ''lady of seventy" re-
sided in the eastern portion of Chest Or
White townships, or in the northern part
Of .Susquehanna township, and that she
should be forced by a m0dtTn "organ:za-
tion of society" 10 travel, not 'thirty miles
with two witnesses" to prove her hus-
bands will, but be compelled to go to
Johnstown, a distance of nearly sizty
maes, for the very same purpose, what
would Mr.. kopelin say TO the absurdity
of that proposition The rule will work
both ways. The same thing might be
said in reference 20 recording a deed or
mortgage, or to the trial of cause in
court, which Mr.. K. thinks ought to be
''settled at home" IF this convenient
arrangement could be effected, then i, fol-
lows, according to his new tangled ideas,
that there ought to be not only Register
and Recorders Office but also a Court
House in every township in the county,
in order that all these legal matters might
! be ''eettled at hCme." His superlative
nonsense being admitted, forces him to
the other preposterous conclusion. How
ever warmly Mr.. X. may be. welded to
the removal humbug, he enjoys the repu-
tation of having at least a fair share Of
common sense but when he is compelled
to resort TO such puerile arguments as arc
contained in the foregoing paragraph, he
confesses the utter rottenness of the cause
he advocates and presumes largely on the
credulity of those who listened TO and
were possibly delighted with his palaver.