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SJITVIIDJIV, SEPTEMBEIt 24, 1812,
"1 ho assertion of Webb, that Richard
Fruit, the democratic candidate, is pledged
uy any connection, or by his won), to
'sustain division,' is an unqualified false
hood.'
Jllgerine.
When we made Iho assertion lhat'Richard
Fruit, was 'pledged by his connection if
not by liis word, to stistain division,' we
thought we had sufficient evidence in our
possession to st tisfy even liio most crcdu-
ulous of the fact, and not having seen any
reason to change our mind since, we still
think so, It is well known that a bill was
passed by the senate last winter making a
new county out of parts pf Columbia and
Luzerne, and that Daniel Snyder, in oppo
sition to all the influence that iho Berwick
and Danville gently could bring to bear
upon it,defoated it in tho House, fc well do
they know that so long as Daniel Snyder is
a member of the house, this unholy project
of theirs never can be effected. In addition
-senator Headley's term expires after anothe
session, when they must give up all hopes
of a division thereafter. Knowing this, it is
necessary that they have a member in the
house thai will not defeat his bill, and who
eball be the man. The Danville borers, ai
Hatrisiiurg last winter, openly proclaimed
that they preferred a division to a leraoval.
and threatened that unless the remove
question was abandoned, that they could
and would effect it. The Berwick gentle
men, after the adjournment, asserted thai
either a removal or division must take place
and that they had made arrangements wiih
the Danville faction to sustain a division man
for the Legislator, and that they would stis
tain no other. John S. Fulmer.nnd Richard
Fru'ifwcre proposed below as candidates for
nomination. Tho 'democratic lash' must
be applied to ascertain their qualifications.
Fulmer is asked, whether he would go for
lmsfon.if elscted. He indignantly replied
NO. Then, said the wire workers, you
cannot be the candidate, Richard Fruit,ill
go for the division, and must bo our man.
The convention is held, the Berwick del
egates, elected by the division men, cast
their votes for Fruit, aud by cutting and
taming of delegates, Fulmer is cheated out
of the nomination and Fruit placed upon (he
ticket. Would the Berwick delegates have
given their votes for Fruit, It id they not
Bssurrance that he would sustain their favor
ite measure? Would it not have been a
complete abandonment of the division?
J hoy are not men who are to go into a
measure calculated to destroy all their fond
est hopet.witltout some show of grace being
held op to them. It may be that they have
been deceived and cheated, as' others have
been before them by the same wire workers
but if they were.il was by promises to the
ear which were broken to the heart. That
they had asstrance that Fruit would go for
the division, no one can doubl.and certainly
not, if the word of a division man is to .be
believed. Since the nomination, the Sena
tor and the Judge have been electioneering
for Fruit on tho grounds that hs would favor
a division. And yet wo are told that the
assertion that 'Fruit is pledged by his con
nection' to go for 'a division,' is an 'unqual
ified falsehood.' But let ns lake another
view of the case. It is well understood,
both at home and at Harrisburg, that the
question is not now 'removal' or 'no remo
val,' but 'removal or division,' and that the
October election derides tho question. It
was claimed by Ilea iley and the Danville
borere, that a majority of tho couniy pre
ferred a division to a removal. If Richard
Fruit is elected wBI it not be ratifying this
assertion, and if Daniel Snyder fs elected
will it not be contradicting it. Will not the
Legislature so understand it? Most assur
edly they will, and it is so intended to be
nnderstood by the friends of Richard Fruit
abcnld he.be elected, although they now
refuse to call their ticket any othrr than the
democratic ticset, thinking by this means
to gull many art honest, well meaning dem
ee'rat into it support. Now ihe.i.by whom
js Richard Fruit supported T By the divi
ioa mens If elected, by whose votes wil
jjt b done! By those of the division men.
Well then, he is elected by the votes of iht
division party, and suppose the question
should coma up in t!ie house between a
friends of which, opposed him, or would
hn tnUR Ilia diiln nf ilivisinn. ilm fVinn.l. -I
ho take thesido of division, tho friends of
which.elected him. Most assuredly tho
latter would be his course. It would he
natural for him to stand by his friends
unless, indeed, ho would turn tiaitor, like
others for some immediate supposed per
ho take?would he go for removal, the
sonal interest. Ia he not then 'pledged
by his connection, for the division?' Whero
islhcro a man in tho count) who does not
believe it? Not one. No, not oven the
Jllgerine himself. All believe it, in fa
-oh know it. The Jllgerine may assert to
the conlrary.as ofien as he pleases. Richard
Fruit may now pledge himself against it
and in favor of removal if ho pleases, who
will believe him. If before his nomination
he pledged himself to go for a division.who
will place any confidence in a pledge given
when he finds he is compelled to abandon
his old ground, to secure the least possible
chance of election. If ho has abandoned
removal for a nomination to Assembly what
will he not do V 6ec-re his election? And
if elected, what will he not do to pay back
some of the debt of gratitude for the 'gener
erous, confidence extended to him, whe-i he
was in a state of 'betwixt and belweenity.'
lie would be an ungrateful man indeed, if
he would not extend to them the helping
hand in time of trouble. Is the assertion
'unqualifiedly false' that Richard Fruit is
pledged by his connection lo sustain divi
sion?' 'We merely ask these queatiuns for
informaiiou.'
"Having no disposition, if we had the
power, to dictate, we purposely refrained
from interfering with the action of the peo
ple in any manner previous to the nomina
tion." Jllgerine.
Did we not know how little reliance
there is to be placed in tho word uf the
Algerine we should have been astonished ui
his making tho above bold assertion, but
knowing the recklessness of Ilia course, in
false electioneering, wo must say,ihai mull
ing emulating Iroin that source, however
ridiculous and absurd, it may be, create
any surprise in us. What, the Algerine
take no part previous to the nomination?
For what purpose was lie scouring the
county, foi weeks before the county con
vention, advocating the nomination uf John
Fulmer and urging the people to send dele
gates for him? Aud not giving him up, until
he was ivhipt into the harness for Fruit,
during court week. So severe was the
lashing, so humble a slave had he became;
and so well did he work in the collar
placed upon his neck by a couple of men,
against whom, no abue of his had been too
vulgar to be hurled by his democratit
lash,' tint he turned round, spaniel like, and
undertook to whip Fulmer ir.to the luces
too. But he ran against a snag, and found
a man not quite as pliable as himself. For
what purpose was he 'lying up the creek'
a short time before August court, but to
make arrangements to secure the election of
John Fulmer, while Fruit's particular
friend and fugler, was in the same neigh
borhood, heading his movements. Did he
not, at that time, get quite angry, and
n, a particular individual because he
Would not draw into the same team that he,
himself was then harnessed in, and out of
which he was so soon after whipt? For
what purpose, during court week, while
his back was still smarting under the 'dem
ocratic lash' that had been so liberally ap
plied to him, did he catch every man by the
sleeve that came in his way, and urge them
lo sustain Ftuit? Was it merely, that he
might 'not interfere wiih the action of the
people before tho nomination,' or was he
not acting himself, but merely as a 'stool
pigeon' for others. For what purpose was
Jib applying his 'democratic lash' to two or
three oilier individuals lo keep them out of
the field, that they might not 'interfere with
the arrangements' that his masters had
made? For what purpose was he promis
ing an office here and an office there to
6ecure friends' for Fruit? Was all this done
that he might not interfere with the action
of the people in any manner, previous to
Iho election? 'We merely ask for informa
iiou.' The base and malicious attack upon the
character of Daniel Snyder.in the last Dan
ville Intelligencer will be duly appreciated
by the citizens of the county who know
him, If there ever was an honest and faith
ful representative within the walls of tho
capiiol, Daniel Snyder was that man, and
with all the (dander thut Valentine Best,
Peter Ualdy, and the Dauvillo delegation
heaped upon the heads of others at Harris
J igairtsf the integrity and honesty of -pur
.rn''i:.i a ' "j ' ri. : l ....
jjuoo ui Lamci onyucr. ne was Known
there, as well as at home. But it has. been
left for them to return to the county, and in
order lo defeat a measure of immetiso im
portance to Its citizens, to traduce not only
him but every oilier individual who takes
an active part in the question against them.
Will it have its intended effect? We trust
not. What has the private character of this
or that individual to do with the justice of
the removal? Shouhl they mafto out that
the principal actors are 'knaves' and 'Mool
pigeons,' will it relieve the people of the
county from the burthens' now imposed up
on mem, in consequence eit tiio improper
location of the public buildings? Will the
people be any better satisfied with its posi
tion? Would any slander heaped by us on
the heads of some certain gentlemen in
Danville, who have been, anil are now, ready
to deal d a u around the land to keep
the courts at Danville, advance tho justice
of lite removal cause. We answer emphat
ically, no that ihe'e is too much intelligence
in the people of the county for it to have
any effect on them, other than a feeling of
indignation upon its authors. We shall
not therefore follow in the footsteps of the
Algerine, but keep on in the even tenor of
our way, and advocate lite cause upon its
merits, alone, leaving lo them the Aonor of
attempting lo destroy private chancier for
privaie or public ends. We will wash our
hands of so foul and dastardly a transaction.
It can only originate from those who know
themselves in desperate circumstances, and
that i'. requires desperate means to extricate
themselves from them. An honest man,
with an honest cause, will not, resort lo
them. He requires not such weapons.
The villian onlv uses them.
As the flood jies of abuse, slander, aud
defamation, which the Jllgerine has been
eolleciing for months past, has now been
opened, we must expect to see a continued
torrent heaped upon the heads nf all remo
val men, until alter the election. The
Algerine is not to be a candidate this fall,
having concluded to postpone being a can
didate for Congress until the next election,
and he thinks by that time to smooth over
his unprincipled attack upon private char
acter, for the purpose of chealiijj the people,
out of their just.righls, and that he can
again go "up the creek," ami beg of the
democrats, as he did tins fall, to throw away
sectional feelings, aud sustain hitn for that
exalted station. Nay, he may now so lo
the very man whom he now calls a 'knave'
to give his influence for him. He has brass
and impudence enough for any thing, hut
we should suppose thai the lessons he has
heretofore been taught, in relation to his
popularity, would be sufficiently satisfactory
without another expression, Having been
defeated as prothonolary by receiving but
aboiit 1100 ouioflhe 2800 democratic; votes
in the county once as a delegate to the
Harrisburg. Convention, and receiving but
G votes out ol'40 for Senator in Convention,
wo should think he would be rather eartfu
of boasting of lite confidence reposed in
him by the democratic party in the coun
ty. Much less should he boast of his pop
ularity abroad, when, having electioneered
for weeks lo procure the situation of Clerk
lo thu House of Representative ho was
compelled to withdraw, without allowing
his name even to go into caucus for nomi
nation, then offering his services to the
Slate to act in opacity of Treasurer, he
received but some half a dozen voles in the
house. If these are nut demonstrations of
confidence, wo should like to know what
can be called so.
"They aim at a change in tho county,
that would put the lax payers to some
twenty thousand dollara expense, for the
benefit of a few greedy speculators at
Bloomshtirg."
Thus saith tho Algerine of the Intelligent
cr, with his usual want of candor and truth,
as we presume he refers lo a removal of the
seat of justice from Danville to Ulooinslinrg.
If such be the fact, wepionounce it n wil
ful wicked falsehood, uttered by him to de
ceive and dupe the friends of removal, into
lite support of a man, who, if elected, iho
D&nville faction can use to enrich themselves
'al the expense of tho county,' by lopping
off one third of the county, and compelling
the other two thirds to put up new buildings
at Uanvillo, in place ol (he old now there.
That the avowed ohjeel of electing Daniel
Snyder is to defeat the division, and procure
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inn iiiuuvui id nuuwu in an, i uti irienu
o removal do nut skulk behind iIih btislr,
and resort to 'false eleciioneriini;,' to effect
njusi ratme ihey come boldly up tn thu
work, and piueluim their iuieiiiious, but the
Danville fai lion, ari resorting lo all the
falsehoods and misienresentuiious that in
ginuity and their wicked hearts can invent
their division caaa! Thin story the
twenty thousand dollars is one of their ma
ny falsehoods by which they calculate to
defeat him, They attach to this, in their
secict electioneering, another falsehood,
which they dare not publicly speak, because
ihey know the refutation 'u at hand. It is
that the friends of removal were tint bound
by the bill lo pay a cctil towards the erec
tion of new buildings, but would put iho
whole expense Upon the couniy. Of the
baseness of this electioneering story, wc
need say nothing more, but lo refer the
people of the county. to tho bill, ns it passed
the house of representatives which wc pub
lish below. By this it will be perceived
that the county buildings were lo be ap
praised by disinterested Commissioners, and
the appraised value lo bo secured to the
couniy by good aud sufficient bonds, and
that land, also, upon which to erect the
bui dings id to be deeded to tho county free
of expense, befoie the Commissioners can
contract for putting up new buildings. This
will place tho county upon is good grounds
if nut better, than she now is with regard
lo her public buildings. She at least gels
the value of her buildings. and what is more
a good title lor thu land upon wjiich they
ntft to bo eiccted. And what more can be
aiked? We answer nolhinj; in justice, and
when people are contending for justice for
themselves, they shuuld not, ant! will not,
ask for any thing but justice from others
The assertion that the buildings would
cost tweniv thousand dollars is equally ri
liruhius and fabulous, Less than one half
the money would put up good buildings at
the present low prices ol lumber and mite-
r'uls, and as they are to be pin up under thu
direction of (he county Coiumiss oneis ihey
would not permit any extravagance in them,
But why do the Danville faction chaiu'e
their tune as lo the cost of public buildings.
U hen advocation division, ihey declared
that the eight thousand dollars subscribed at
Berwick lur the new building!) of thai conn
ty. was amply sufficient t, defray the ex
penses, 'Wihoul laying a dollar tax. Why
the shop pinches their toes now, while it
pinr lied others at that time. I his is all the
difference. Wo cannot, therefore, loo olteii
repeal the wjrniue bewa.e of 'false dic
kering We cannot close this article
without one further remark. If the hill was
calculated to work such ureal injustice to
the people of the couniy, why were they
afraid of having it submitted to them foi
their division upon i. The people of the
county are certainly as good judges of what
is lor ineir interest as a lew individuals in
Danville can be? We answer, it was be-
cause they knew, that the bill asked for
nothing mine than justice, and thai a major
ity of the penpU j.niuld understand it right-,
ly,- accept it without" heViiauoiiand Unis
mete out justice Vi the county, and lo the
Uauviiie taction. I hey were in fuel in the
situation of lite criminal, afraid that justice
won d he mcud out to litem.
I'he following is the hill referred to, as it
passed ite. house, It speaks for ilsejf.
Resolved, That it shall and may be
la wliil for ihe qualified voters of t' county
of Columbia, at the next uenenl c.leciion.
lo vole upon the question of the removal
nf their seal of Justice from Danville io
IMoitmtthorij, in said county, in the man-
iter loHowing, to wit: Tkosn in favor of
a remoal shall 0te a written or nrinied
ticket, labelled'Stsat of Justiec,'& cotitainini;
ihe words 'For a removal; & those against
shall vote a written or nrinted iickt. hi.
helled as aforesaid and containing ihe words,
Airainst a removal; the said liekests to he
deposited ir. a hox.which shall he provided
for lhat purpose, at tach and every of Ihe
election polls of said county; and Ihe re
turns ol said election shall be made in the
same manlier, by the returns judges, as in
tne case ol lite election ol members of tho
Assembly. 'And if. on the meeting of tho
returns judges, it shall appear thai a ma-
jority of the votes have been given in lavor
oi a remvoai men liio lollowing sections of
mis act snan oe oi run lorce and effect-but
if it shall appear that a maturity of voles
have been given against a removal, then
the following sections of this act shall he
null aud void: Provided, That if, within
fifteen days after ihe result of said election
hall have been known and officia Iv nuh.
lished, twenty or more qualified voters ol
said county shall lake and subscribe on oaih
or affirmation, a before jtisiice of die
said couniy, that lltev believe said election lo
lavn heen conducted fraudulently and illegal
ly, then it shall he iho duty uf "the counts
commissioners of said county, iion hr-ins
luruished wild a copy of 'said oaths oi
affirmations, notify in writing lite nresident
judge of any adjoining district, lo hold a
special emit i at Danville, at such time as
may suit his convenience; hut nnt exceeding
two months alter he shall have been notified
as aforesaid, to decide upon any matter nf
dispute growing mit of tho holding, . ou
diiciing, or reiums of said election, as well
(he legality or illegality (l any votes given
at said election; and if the said court, afier
a full healing of ihe case, shall bo satisfied
that said election has been illegally or
fraudulently conducted, it shall be hn
duty of the president judge thnrof to dir.
ect the sheriff nf t-aid county to hold n new
election, within sixty days thereafter, upon
giving al least fifteen days's public nnnre
of the same: aid election to he conducted
in all respect as hereinbefore directed
Provided further. That the Sheriff of said
county shall; immediately after iho pasne
of this act, give notice (hereof in at least
two newspapers, in said cnuiilv; tnd shall
also notify tho citizens thereof of tha kIpm
I licit ia ha held uudfjr this sot, ui ths tm'
' ' p
rrwnwr thstt nplica ie.givch of hjs LpMiQ,
of tho general clettlon.
Resolved That if a majority of the peJ.
pie of said colmty shall decido as above, in
favor of tho removal of tho seat of justice' it
shall be the duly of the Governor within
three months thereafter, to appoint three
disinterested citizens of this State, nono of
whom shall bo residents of tho county of
Columbia, whoso duty it sl)a
be as soon as conveniently mi)' bo, after
receiving notice of their appointment, tons-
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ewuwij u iiiu iiMvu ui jjaiiviiiu, itl Sail
county.and after being duly sworn or affirm,
td, sIilII proceed to valuo and appraiso iho
court house, jail and all other building
belonging to the said couniy, situate in the
lown of Danville aforesaid, at a reasonable
cash price; and shall make out duplicatu
reports of such valuation under their handa
and seals of a majority of them, one of
which reports they shall deliver to ilia
prothonolary of said county, who shall fila
the same in his office, and the nihor shall
be deposited in tho commissioners office of
euiit couniy.
Resolved, That as soon as it can con.
venietilly be done, after the valuation or tho
public buildinc'S nf the nnontv- nf rsl i
situate in Danville aforesaid, shall bo made,
iiuu iiiu report men aa iiinresaid, it
ahull be the duty of the Board of
Commissiontjts of the county of Columbia
aforesaid, and they aro hereby authorized
and required to take and receive a bond
or bonds of indemnity or other sccutitics,
payable to iheui and their successors in
ill offiie. for the usn nf ilm xnnm,, .r n .i
I ' 7 i v "Jul-
uinbia aloiesaid.from such responsible per-
" icmuiia is ma- oner CJ. willing to bo
bound in the same conditioned, thai upon
sale ofihii publio buildings aforesaid as hcra
itufier provided for, the full amount of tho
valuation heretofore mentioned shall bo
realized for the use of the said county of
Columbia; and in dcfalut ihercnf. tint ill aif
the said obligor or obligors, shall make up'
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amount of such deficiency.
Resulvedf'Vlm as soon as the foiegoing
proceedings shall he fulfy completed, the
Commissioners for the county of Columbia
for Ihe limo being be, and they are hereby
authorized and required lo take and receiv'o
a deed or deeds of conveyance to bo made
to ihem and their successors in offi-o, of any
quantity of land not exceeding one acre,
in the town of Bloomsburg, in trust for the
osfi and niirnrwA nf (i.it,itn,t,iifl..i:.. t
lic, buildings to he erected thereon, & for such
inner purposes as me grand jury or juries
of aid county, wiih the annrnhatinn ..fili.
courland concurrence of Commissioners of
the couniy. may and shall.from time to time;
order and direcl.fbr tha hip unit U,,Br,, p,i,
(Mid.couniy.Theaaid lapd shall bo furnished
wiihoulrharge to the county.
Revived, That the said Commissioners,
when the site, aforesaid shall be ascertained
ami the lote or lots of ground shall be con
veyed as afore saidl shall mmlo an estimate
of the probable expense of erecting suitable
buildings lo be of of brick or tone, for court
house house, prion, ana couniy offices; and
the said Commisn'oners are hereby author
ized to receive subscriptions from individuals
that may be offered for the purpose of creel,
ing ihn public buildings.and also to increase
the county rates and luoles from time, so
as lo enable ihem to make up any deficien
cy in the same necessary to crecUaid build
ings.
Resolved, That said County Commis
sioners are hereby authorized and required
to erect, or cause to be erected on (he lot or
lots so fixed upon as aforesaid, suitable
buildings to be brick or stone,for court house
prison, and house for the county records,
and cause (he same to be built and completed
within the. space of three years fiom iho
lime of passage of thit act; and as soon as
the buildings aro creeled and completed
as aforesaid, ihe said Comissjoners and
Sheriff of Ihe couniy shall case tho. prisoners
(if any, )ihete confined in she old prison,
to be safely removed (o iho new prison and
the publico papers and records ihen remain
ing in the public offices at Danville, lo be
sah ly depoisted in ilm new building built
and prepared as aforesaid for the reception
thereof; and from thenceforth Iho seat of
justice in and for tho county of Columbia
shall cease to bo al DanviiJe, and the sanio
is hereby removed and fiixed at the town
o Ulooms-biirg, in the said couniy, and tho
puhl o offi es heretofore kept.and tho churls
of ju-nica heretofore held at Danville, in
and for the said county of Columbia, shall
bo kept and held at Bloumsburg, in iho
buildings erected for their accommodation
as aforesaid.
Resolved, That (he said County Com
missioners and thoir successors in office bo
and they aro hereby authorized and requir
ed O sell at publie auction, after due and
publio nniice given, to Iho highest snd best
bidder, lite old court house and prison and
all other real estate in the town iff Danville,
belonging to,or held in trust for the said
county of Columbia; and on the sale tltcro
of to make and deliver good and sufficient
titles fur the same fo the purchaser or pur
chasers lhererif,iind lo pay tho nell pioceeds
thereof into dm county treasury, to be ap
plied towards defraying the expenses ol said
county.
Resolved, That bo much of tho existing
laws of ibis Cominotiwealln as nro attend
and supplied by ihis Act, be and the saiuo
are hereby repealed.
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