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CHAPTER 1 CONTINUED
Newspapers & Politics
Taken from a 1934 Thesis written by Edward Larue Bierce
For The Pennsylvania State College Graduate School
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This next section is mostly newspapers going back and forth on the political issues. I'll include photos of many of the sections, rather than transcribing them all, because, quite frankly, this section does not interest me much at all
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The feeling stirred up by the agitation for and against slavery became more intense as the state and presidential elections of 1860 approached. The Republicans regarded the election of Andrew G Curtin of center county, to the office of governor, as a sure sign that Lincoln would be elected in November, but the Muncy luminary on October 16th 1860 contained the following warning to Republicans:
[In summary - Andrew Curtain was elected Governor, so Lincoln winning the election seemed certain. The Muncy Luminary advised every voter to get out and vote for Lincoln, that there was no guarantee if the voters didn't show up. And the Democratic Lycoming Gazette advised that the voters NOT vote for Lincoln, that the issue of slavery be left for the south to figure out on their own. ]
On November 13th 1860, a week after the election, the Muncy Luminary carried the following announcement:
["The county has done nobly, having given Lincoln a majority.."
When the South talked of seceding if and when Lincoln was selected, the Lycoming Gazette on November 28 1860 expressed the democratic sentiment of the county:
Things went on in this manner until news was received that
Fort Sumter had been fired on and the president had sent out a call for troops.
Even though my coming Gazette forgot that they had said the north could not
hold herself blameless if the South succeeded and now called the southerners
traitors to the union. An article on April 24th 1861 read:
Who can faithfully describe what has transpired in
Williamsport, since our last regular issue? The Gazette frankly confesses its
total inability and abandons any attempt ………….. Never, since white man has
first set foot upon the ground of Williamsport, has the town been so excited--so
convulsed is the word--as since the intelligence of the outrage of the South at
Fort Sumter. There has since been but one voice here, and that is, that the
traders of the South must be forced to obey the laws, cost what it may, even to
the last man and the last scent of the north.
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