Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1864-11-09
The skunk :n the Democrat Once.

The dirty. lying. hypoeritieal, lleen-
siuus. cowardiy skunk who figures as The
f,th-and-liar Editor OF the Dta,ocra'
s,nartiny under the influence Of the aw-
iuI defeat Ui his ia,uIitc coward Guu
boat General, cUmcs out this week IA his
sinking rotten paper, IN the capacity o.
one f he 'Pa tcrsvn Cooks, md il this
,ywardlv. dasiardly, saulkins msuner
tries To let of his peu. up political morti-
hcatiou aud personal spleen by charging
rs with "fyrnieaiion" while at Gettys-
burr and with being dismissed from our
i;.st pastoral charse for too much famiii-
arlty with cooks. We pronounce these
,har.-,s as FA bSE and UNTRUE III every
,.artlrrisr, and the R,can, dirty, ivwiiied,
.,,iI;nr who wrote them, and who mas been
,-uiity o. more low drunkenness aud de-
lsuchery. taking silly women into the
brldcc at night, and sleeping with negro
we,.cies in his own wlies bed, stcsilhS,
lying. begging whi>key, reforming sud
5scks!iiin,. lncaner Ioalcr, vagabcnd aud
iibcr,inc than any nau in town, Is: and nc
Knows il full we'll as black and int-raa! u
aISR. as ever obtrudcd his hlthS carcass
i,,c dcccu, society or blacksaaidei re-
spcotatic r,ia;lies. l
We resigned oar last charge q
ogy own free will and accord and
any n,au that asserts that we were
dismissed is a; uumitigatcd, unvar-
mishcJ liar as anywhere walks uuda,nucd
above GROUND. No power could ever have
forced Us To resign, aud why we did so is nr
botly's business. But We arc not ashamed
Of the reaSon-it was Just because the
,rincipal congregation was chiefly "fiesred
and controlled by Just such wretched hyp-
ocrites as the filthy. editor, who loves to
hear slavery aud Rebellion consnended in
the pulpit snd object to prayers tor the
Union. the President and our soldiers
tod has cursed that congregation n-con
,ontion, repeated pastoral changes, smaller
audiences and the loss OF the bose and
.inew of church from the time we left TO
this day.
The .S.aiiaeI said nothing about ''Pat-
tcrson Cooks" 1t said the Patterson ~e-
mcn were accompanied with few cooks
from this town. Aud VIC leave it to all de
ccncv whether. 4 set of women who will pa
radc the streets at late HOUR, callin. the
citizens ''aigyers' as they pass by. are not
deserving ten fold more than they g"t!
Had the Union ladies dared to do so un-
lady-like a trick, they would have been
branded by this adamantine dirt-eater with
all the power of his Billigsgatc.
The threat of hiding from one
q. the Patterson Cooks" shows that he
would incite others to do what the dirty
coward has neither the courage, manli-
ness, honor or ability to do himself. No
man or other creature, who was not a bla-
tant coward would ever spread such an as
sertion before the public. We court no
personal encounter, but we do RECOGNIZE
the right of self-defence We have been
way laid, stoned in the bridge, assaulted
and insulted by just such towards as TINS
Editor, and always found rapid skedad.
ding when they we're made conscious OF
danger.
If the filthy beast is not satisfied with
this, and assails our personal character
;Sain, we win skin and dissect him from
crown to foot. We regret that necessity
caTpcls this notice, but some things Gan be :
ION. rs vel IL other, !.