Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-09-20
$1,000 Reward.

The last week issues of the Juuiat.
Register and Juniata Democrat both dis
tinctly qoutc these words As having beer
asserted by, and found in the SENTINEL
Remember when asked 20 vote part Of III,
Republican ticket, that their party organ sayi
"Mat a negro has a Better conception as his d.
ties than democrat" -
Now We will give the sum Of one thou
sand dollars to the families of the Juuiat.
soldiers, who perished in the slaug htel
pens Of the South under the administra
ton Of such distinguished Democrats a
Winder, Werze, l. Co., if the Editors o
those papers will produce SENr1SEl
with the alleged words. ed b so
And on their production we viii: run u,
the entire copperhead ticket and agree t
vote it openly, if they will agree to ru1
up and vote the Union ticket on failure
to produce such assertion.
Here is chance to establish your re
pution for truth and veracity and beuef
your party-or to suffer the just penalty
Of wilfully, deliberately, maliciously ant
libel!ously putting into ano.hcr's mouth
words which he did not use.
The devil did not more positively mis-
reprent the words Of the Almighty wher
he told our first parents that they should
no: die, than do these Editors We are
willing to stand by our own assertions
we do not 90 back on our record--thi.
is what VIC did say; . -.r..i
"Tbe history of this war proves that ever
uneducatcd negroes have had better cou
ception Of their duties as citizens than thu
democrats, and hence are better qualified t,
exercise the elective franchise than rebels Of
coppcrheads. If there is any virtue sens,
enough to be loyal, over having stupidity
enough to be u traitor, the negroes of tn,
South are better than Hs white traitors"
And these words we can prove by in
contestible facts. Let any man Of com.
mon intelligence look at the South. Were
not Davis, Lloyd, Breckenridge, Cobb
Mason, Yancy aud host of others who
were the instigators and leaders Of the
rebellion, all prominent aud recognized
leaders Of that party? On the other hand
who ever heard of even an uneducated
negro in the south being traitor to the
United States Governme ut No one
With therefore had the best conception
Of duties as citizen the negroes Or these
democrats ? Answer will you As a
clas, the negroes in the South were all
faithful-as a class the democrats we're
nearly all traitors. Deny it il you dare
And if they contend that VIC were
speaking also Of the North, which, how
ever, was not the fact as the connection
clearly proves, then we again assert that
what we said is fearful but positive fact.
The few negroes in the North were all
true conception oS their du-
ties as citisehs Was it SO with all those
that styled themselves democrats? Come
now face the music. Look at the record
of the so-called democrats Look at
jim. Buchanan who said the government
had no right to coerce State that had Sc
ccded a, Congressman Long and Harris,
praying God that we mi ght never con-
quer tho South at NalIandigham and
others whose very names stink with trea-
son look at the thousands of democrats
who skedaddIed to Canada : at the draft
rioters; at the internal gang who declar-
cd the war failure at .he assassins-
and oh, God, the heart sickens to recall
or enumerate either the men or the man.
nefs in which those who have boasted of
their democracy have proved themselves
traitors and sympathizers with treason,
murder, starvation, assassination and
crimes without name or paralell--black
and damning as hell itself.
The course Of the so called democracy
or copperheads during the war Is SO out
rageous that it would have damned to
6 ternal infamy any other party or set Of
men-but these fellows calling themselves
democrats ~ glory in their shame and
charge their disgrace on others Now
has their record parallel? No Sir, the
blackest negro in the North is ashamed
Of it-eveu if his skin is SO black that
charcoal will make a white mark upon it,
be would spurn to be a Vallandigham, a
Long, Booth, . Wallace, Clymer, a
an In6ersoll, Wood, Davis, a Bill
Miller or any of that tribe who are noto-
rious as opposes of the Government in its
effec is to crush the rebellion. Yes those
very negroes, SO much abused by these
Surratties, had better conception of
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