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From the "ORACLE of DAUPHIN."

Extract of a letter from Huntingdon, dated September 19, 1799.

"Mr. Wyeth has been in this town last week, and has said in public, that he has been offered one thousand dollars not to write any thing in favour of Ross, and five hundred of it in hand; and said he did not know who would carry the majority in that county."

REMARKS ON THE ABOVE,

The above was handed me one day last week, by Mr. Stacy Potts, Gen. Hanna and Mr. George Whitehill, who requested an explanation of the same. I observed to them, that this was not an accurate statement of my assertion in Huntingdon; but that I had said, and I do hereby declare, that at the last June Court in Harrisburg, one individual, offered to take FIVE HUNDRED additional papers of my publication, (which in fact would be 500 dollars) "if I would turn a Good Republican, and PRINT only on THAT SIDE," to which, if necessary, I am willing to be qualified to be as near the very words made use of to me, as the best of my recollection will admit.

I do not hesitate to say, that I have both in public and private, in Huntingdon and elsewhere, asserted, that I did not know which of the candidates for Governor would have a majority in Dauphin county; and when I reflected on some of the committee for promoting Mr. M'Kean's election, declining to serve, and others displeased for being nominated, I cannot persuade myself that I committed a crime in either thinking or saying so—at any rate, I know several who exercise their thinking faculties in a similar way.

THE EDITOR.