Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-07-26
" Written for the Seatinri.
WHAT'S TO BE DONE.
pY JOE D1MMYcRAr.

Nh. EDircR The following Address
was delivered the other evening IE a
Democratic Club Room.-EAST END.
fenou Democrats We are in bad
fix, and we must try to work ourselves
GU. cf it as best we can. Four years ago
last fall wc done all in our power to de.
feat Abraham Lincoln. II va. nc 60 !!
He was eleced in spite Of our teeth
The South rebelled We thought it a
good opportunity to break down that de-
testable party, called the REPUBLICANS.
We done all we could to arouse synipa-
thy from our Southern brethren" We
discouraged enlistments and sent our men
to Caoada. 1t vas all "no go" An army
was raised the Democrats in the South
we're enc,mpassed round about BY Yam
kee Soldiers The time arrived for anoth
or Presidential election, and move was
made 70 extend the right Of suffrage to
the soldiers. We always said me had
more soldiers In the army than tho Re-
publicans, yet, as matter of necessity
We opposed the soldicr,' vote. No.w;th-
standing Our opposition it carried They
got their votes We then dared not say
much against it. We yielded as au
honest man should do. We commenced
begging for their votes for Gen McCiel-
Ian, but all in vain. When the returns
came in, it appeared as if though the
name of Mcclellan had never been known
in the army Lincoln was reelected and
with hlm Andy johnson, notwiths.and-
ing the declaration in the Chicago Plat
form that the experiment Of the sword
to restore the Union was failure. y
Although We represented Mr.. johnson as
a "broke down politician" the "Teunes-
see outlaw" "ruflian," and every other
bad name imaginable, and our party re:us-
ed to let him speak in the Halls Of the
State House at Harrisburg because he
was an abolition einmissary, yet we could
not gain the day We also told the peo-
pie that ere long the niggers wouldswarm
up North, and take all the work from the
poor white men. Now these scamps won't
come after ALL Now Lincoln is dead and
Andy johnson is President, and We have
tried another game. Since everybody
has liking to him and We have lost SO
much by abusing Lincoln We thought We
would own him as Democrat, and
through him build up our party, but that
appears to fail again, although we have
been doing all in our power to make peo-
pie believe he belonged to our party they
tell u, they remembered too we'll how we
abused him only few short months ago.
And when we tell HIN. he belongs to
7ur party, the old cuss always gives US to
understand that We do not belong to his,
that he don't want to associate with U.S.
lie did lately manifest in unm;stakable
,igns that he followed in the vorJ foot
steps Of Mr.. Lincoln, by refusing to allow
the Writ of HuJeas Corpus to operate in
The case Of Mrs. Surratt. He is also
now telling the Southerners that they can
not be recognized as States in the Union,
unless they abandon Slavery, which ap.
pears to have been the bone Of contention
FOR so long a time '.'' '1' q
No1 Gentlemen, what's to bc done -
The party must be built up again, aud We
must exercise all our ingenuity to get it
accomplished. We arc in bad Ax, in.
Iced. We arc lacking in three essential
points viz: L. We are very scarce in
2.) We have hardly an Archi-
,ect able to devise plan for the s,ruc.
lure, and 81 We have no Foundation.
would now suggest that We try our
kill at it, and if VIC can't succeed, we
will submit the matter to our High Priest
vallandigham, and fits no 80 then, then
[aknow better way than to abandon the job
Is one of The ,'Impossibi!ities" / have
read Of once, and let the Republicans
rule. yr ts.-f ..-sg
In fact, Mr.. President, our party re.
minds me Of man who heard, some
years ago, tkat the old Lewistown Bank
had broken, and came running home TO
sec whether he had any notes on that bank,
and then felt greatly relieved when he
found he had nome on that bank nor or
any other bank. So we have been growl-
ins about the abolitionists breaking the
Constitution and having such bad princi-
pies until 10 aad behold when We cone to
look at ourselves We 6ud that v. have
not siusle principle left,
| am thankful for you, attention. and