Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-10-23
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''Ehc EsOyS who Never Tel! iHeir
Own FaulsS.-

Mr.. EDITOR II picked up Democratic paPc
. to-day, and read column and more devoted Il
The Honest Boys who Never Steal" and wheT
done, we failed 10 see the point the editor wat
driving for. The writer says There are many
persons who cannot be made to believe tnal
Messrs. Nustiue and Durham. would allow one
man such q soft sup as they gave Cummings
without making little ont Of fl themselves.
Now, this may be all true, fUraitgr the teachings
. that many Of the Democrats have received, we
do NOT believe il would bu hard 10 make them be.
. licrc anything. They believed Horace Greeley
once 10 b. ono Of the ycriost villains on earth,
and Ia short time voted for Him for President
and since his death hc IS cGrOGize, Is I. patron
-aiut in democratic Almanacs.
WY does not Tax Payer seek for the truth
Northumberland. at the time the lands sold ana
purchased by the county Commissioners, Was a
. ar@c county. Land was sold 1t Commissioners
stle, aud from lSlu upwards, mostly il lSli-lo,
thi, land was sold. just at OF after the close OF
the war, tImrs-DCmoCratic times-wCrc hard.
: Wheat sold as low as Ttv cents pes bushci, con-
scqucHtiy there were no purchasers, hence theme
ccssilv ut the county becoming purchaser.
Now, Tax PAYERS. the Deeds fort this land have
been in the county safe for sixty years, and inte-
rest accUmU!Itiug thereon. The county beng
blcst with Democratic county Commissioners for
iittyscycn years Of that time, yet they never at
tempted to collect the amount due the county
Why this negligence on the part Of the officials
you can think Have not others as good reason
to believe that they were paid for their negli-
EcnCC as Nastinc and Durham were for their ac-
tive CycriOns in collecting it, and placing it to
the credit of the Indebtedness of the county, made
so by Democratic misrule Most certainly.
We believe that they deserve more credit for
Ofcl, activity than their predecessors do for Of
fetal dUpiicity. Nor Is Mr.. Cummings TO blame.
He agreed with the Commissioners that he wOuld
pay principal, interest ANA cost to the county
locate the lands. and sell some foI what they
would bring. first giving the owners a chance to
redeem the same Suppose he had not made a
dollar, would the fault-tindcis have reimbursed
him We unhcsitltiugly say no! Then, if be
made something by the operation, and paid the
county all that was due her, has he done wrong,
or have they who employed him Better 10 col
leCt The Indebtedness due the county than 10 pay
tax for interest !or the debts Of the county. So
We thinks nor will we be alone on the Sd Of No.
ycmber.
Why did not former Democratic Commission
ners do better Why did they not collect the
dues Of the county! Why let Is pay eight mills
on the dollar, and interest on the county ndcbt
cjncss, leaving her claims uEColiccted for fifty
seven years Answer. sc Democratic iinaucicrs
Of Old Northumberland county. By the state
mcut made by the writer from whom We quoted,
you have not proved that the county lost ii cent,
but that She has received nice SUM from her de-
iuqucht creditors.
We very well know how the finances Of the
county have been managed ior the last quarter
OF a century. We have been taxed to pay inte
rcSl--to ay tOr deficits IN Treasury accounts year
after year, while tax collectors ngld the tax IN
iheir owa hands Tor two or three years. One
bua-trd that ne repaired his house with il, and
WAS shcrii-G Hy ihess awful men NasiiHe and
Durham IT, then had TO borrow the money to
pay wl au iiuaucrs were in such fine state
Uurr thut =, became necessary 10 yet = law pass
ed empowering the Court to appoint auditors 10