Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-08-02
Democracy Fishing For Gudreops.

had yielded to copperhcadism, and that
the end OF the war had killed off both
But the recent address of the National
Committee of the Democracy Of the
United States" proves that We were mis-
taken. Mr.. Charles Mason, as chairman.
an old Office e-holder under Presidents
Pierce and Buchanan, speaks in the name
of the national democracy, and bursts
forth in most extravagant eulogy upon
President johnson for his reconstruction
policy, admitting at the same time that
he and the democratic party have been
widely separated by what the address cho-
ses to call "extraneous circumstan ces >
The strangcness of this attempt on the
part of the Democratic party to claim An
drew johnson, by reason of his recon-
struction policy, is apparent from the fact
that johnson is carrying out Mr.. Linco,a's S
policy and for which the latter was 80
cruelty abused by the Democracy. We
thus have the same thing which made
Abraham Lincoln's 'tyrant" and ''usur-
per- making saint Of Andrew johnson.
SO manifest is this Inconsistency, and
so ridiculous Go its authors become, that
they are doomed to inevitable defeat
The idea that President johnson will
abandon the true and loyal men who have
elected him and saved the country for the
purpose of going over to the semi-rebels
and political pettifoggers who compose
what is left OF the Democratic party-for
such is the object of this fattery-is
ridiculous in the extreme. The garb is
too clumsily baited to catch evea the
bEnde.t of sudsoon-, aud cannot Deceive
politician so sagacious and experienced
as President johnson.
The servility of these men is pitiable
in the extreme. As long as the rebellion
continued, and the Southern Confederacy
stood for their support they leaned upon
it and their political nope entwined about
it as affectionately as the vine around the
tree That reliance gone, we now find
them reaching desperately in every direc-
tion to find something else to cling to-
1t matters not, apparently, what the char
acter Of the support may be, if it is only
sufficient to keep them out Of the :nire
and sustain their worthless political exis-
tencc. Consistency, principle, manhood
are all utterly disregarded in this eager
search for 4 position. The professions Of
the past are forgotten or treated as worth
less, and every desire fer the future seems
to be centcrel in the one idea of finding
so the measure or some individual upon
which they can lay hold to sustain them
selves, and keep their organization from
utter extinction.
OF course, such policy is liable to
lead those who practice it into the most
Inconsistent and awkward positions, aud
place them in attitudes which would be
irtolerable to men capable of shame
The leaders Of "thc Democracy" hewev-
sr, were never particularly sensitive in
hat regard, aid hence We fud them bear
ng up under the ignominy and humilia-
lion of acts Of selfabasemcnt and under
1 load of public scorn, with the callous-
ness bcitting their cause. A rebuff in
one quarter, apparently, makes them only
.hc more eager for smile in another
Like unfortunate suitors, who have Who'll
y failed on the objects of their own de-
';res, they arc ready to make love TO the
nistrcsses Of any and all others, who lap
ben for the time to DC alienated from
heir natural aud legitimate attachments.
When General Sherman lost caste for the
ime with the loyel men Of the coun-
Try, who always sustained him, on account
If his unlucky negotiation with Joe. John
Oh, the Democrats rushed fawningly to
lis feet, and obsequiously vowed their
willingness to adopt him as their own.
30 with President johnson when they
ind a disagreement prevailing between
lin and some of the more radical Of the
republicans. on the subject of reconstruc
ion it matters not that he has been
heir most hated man for the last four
ears-they rush eagerly forward, and
all upon him to come to their arms
hey have abused him without stint or
iercy, and he has by no means been
complimentary in his expressed opinions
them /; nay more, he is even now en-
aged IN carrying out policy Of pro-
,ription and punishment towards the
,bel leaders which must he in the high !
st degree distastcful to the Democracy, |
ad yet they are perfectly ready to take