Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-08-30
The Innocent woman.

death o: Lincoln and that all their, profess
sions Of sorroy for his sad death ii the
h.sds Of a heell-deservihg murder, rers.
al, from, The seeth.vu.is 8 beoSniSs. moro
AID more apparens, Ia the Demoe "a
few weeks ago, in an editorial President
Lincoln was referred to as our hero pAO
had ordered Jim ALONG JosY" to be
sung Oh the battle field of Ant,etam.-
This story is too we'll known to be dirty
mean copperhead lie, to need denial OF
further notice. Last week the same pa.
per declares Mrs. Surratt, who was deeply
in the plot For the assassination of Presi--
deut Liucoln. to be an sinnocent Woman
And in their Platform set up at Harris
burg last week they refer to the. trial of
Mrs. Surratt IL Co, to the pending trial
of HyeHa Werz who killed and starved
$4,000 Union prisoners, number of
whom were from our own county, and to
the coming trial Of JEFF Davis the king
rebel and murderer as Efforts Oh the part
of President johnson to "mrder citi-
=ens By military Commission" --
Now no one need be in doubt as to
where the bastard democracy now stand.
They wish to screen Davis, Werz, 4 Co.,
from the penalty of the law and they con-
demn the hanging OF tie conspiraters.
A pretty party indeed The apologists
of treason and traitors, assassins and muir
derers! There is no crime emenating
from slavery for which they will not apol-
ogise They declare people innocent
who have been proven beyond doubt As
guilty of the most enormous crimes. The
sly planner of Q crime which is without a
name and which shocked the whole world
with its enormity is declared au innocent
woman !! People that can do this are
surely filthy prepared for the denial Of any
truth, to apologize fc- any criminal and
to perpetrate any crime.
But after all it IS nothing more than
what is natural Booth and his accom-
plices were only what they were made of
by the copperhead party. They received
their principles of hatred to Lincoln and
imbibed their spirit of murder from the
teachings OF the very men who now apol-
ogiaes for them Copperhead editors,
writer's and speech makers trained Booth
and Mrs Surratt For their deeds of blood.
They ,eere not rebeis-they were copper.
heads The awful crime of having as
sassinated LINCOLN the Savior of his
Country must be attributed to the teach
ings of the copperheaded concern falsely
calling itself by the name of Democracy.
We repeat therefore that it is only natural
for those men to pronounce Mrs Surratt
innocent Just as natural as it is for
father to look after his child, just so
these men feel for the innocent woman
of whose guilt they are the father. Yes
they say Mrs Surratt is an innocent wom-
an ! That. right daddy love your chill
dren. 1t would be cruel to teach your
children that .'Lincoln was not fit to
live" "a tyrant that ought to be killed.
aud then condemn or forsake those chill
dren when they carry out your teachings
Would you like US to republish some ex-
tracts and evidence that such were your
teachings? The reason why no one Of
the assassins hailed from Juniata County
was either a want of courage or oppor-
tunity-surely not at least ill want Of
teaching that Lincoln was not fit to live,
hut deserved death, t.