The following appears as a communication in the Philadelphia Press :
“I am a citizen of West Hempfield Township, Lancaster county. Our taxes are heavy, mine amounting to about $2OO a year.—I wish to know whether I have not as good a right to secede as South Carolina or New York. I desire to establish a monarchy in a small way, myself to be king, and to be entirely independent of the world. I have very many friends, in number about equal to the the while population of South Carolina, two. guns, a revolver, and three bull dogs, six months provisions, &c. If you think l am right, say so, and I will fight it to the bitter end.”
The Cecil Whig, Elkton, MD