Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-09-20
AFFLINTOWN COUNTY sEPTENBER

Lincoln, IN his sphere, has fired Into the
Constitution, and has literally attenp ted its
destruction. II the rebels, for firing at the
flag, deserve to be devastated by war, whst
punishment should be visited upon the Presi-
dent for firing into the Constitution ~ -
And Mr. William B. Reed, in letter
to the Hon. f. F. Chambers, Of Mary
land, published in the Age, Nov. !, 1864
draws a picture of the time when, in
case Mr.. Lincoln should be reelected,
''Lee and Beaureguard, johnson and Long
street, and Breckenridge and Eweli and Ear
ly are killed, or captur ed, or ied to the meup-
tains, or gone, like the unfortunate but gal.
liant Jacobites, like Berwick and Sarsfeld,
into foreign service, while ''the work Of con-
quest, or even subjugation, il that be the
wretched woId," is entrusted /" to the unastu-
rated Moloolis whom three years of bloody,
fruitless warfare have not satisfied"
So the Philadelphia Ereniny Journal
of Jan. 20. 1868, commences an .elabo-
rate article devoted to the praise of JEFF.
erson Davis, as follows hr ~ .s~
"The third annual message of Jefferson
Davis to the Confederte Congress and Abra-
ham Lineoln's last message to the United
States Congress, provoke a comparison quite
damaging to the intellectual capacity of the
Federal President" as.
At the great ratification meeting of the
Chicago nominations, held in Philadel-
phia Sept. II, 1864, the Hon. Emerson
Btheridgc made speech, in which he
said, as officially reported IL the Age.
''There is not an honest man in my State,
there is not a man with an honest reputation
who will vote for Abraham Lincoln. Laugh
ter and cheers. They think the unlawful
despotism Of Jefferson Davis is no more ur
and dangerous than the arbi-
trary usurpations of Abraham Lincoln.
That's so, and applause -. Before the
war, no Southern man ever madc war. upon
liberties until Northern aggressicns converted
them from our friends to our foes, and to-day,
Abraham Lincoln stands, according TO his
own confession, as much opposed to there's
toration of the Union as jefferson Davis
Lincoln says they cannot come back unless
under an unconstitutional condition, while
Jefferson Davis says he will not come back
unless he can have his own way. Now who
is the worst traitor, Jefferson Davis or Abra-
ham Lincoln lCriss of ''Linc Oln,' and
cheerse. j. ..
Even the Hon. s. S. Cox, of Ohio,
who was the leader in Congress of wha.
was called the War Democracy, while
protesting opposition to the rebels, ir his
Chicago speech denounced the Admins
tration with equal or greater bitterness.
. '.For less offences than Mr. Lincoln had
been guilty of, the English people had chop
ped off the head of the first Charles. In his
,pirion, Lincoln and Davis ought to be
brought to the. same block together The
other day, they arrested friend of his,
member Of Congress- from Missouri, for say
ng. In private conversation, that Lincoln
was no better than JEFF. Davis. He was
ready TO say the same here now in Chicago.
Let the minions of the Administration ob-
ect, if they dare" --.-.. ....
AT Democratic celebration. in New
York, April 13, 1865 just after Lees
surrender, ard the day before the assassi-
,ation of MF. Lincoln, Mr.. Edward In
yersoll, of Philadelphia, made speech,
'eported in full in the New York Neus,
n which he said: ss4 7gdi.1. 1..ssI..Ia..
II yield to no man in sympathy for the
people of the South gallant people strug !
,ling nobly for their liberty against as sor-
lid and vile tyranny as e7er proposed the !
degradation of our race. Nay, go furthur,
nj with Jefferson Madison, and Livingston, (,
fully embrace tLs doctrine of secession as
N American doctrine, without the element
Of which American institutions cannot per-
n nanently live. = 'ao r -i. 3. 7a-5. .r .ut |
Thus in the beginning, the Democra- I.
J invited secession, and, to the emo, it !
ncouraged rebellion With sympathy aud
prospects Of ultimate success. Let us
low turn to the relations held by the
arty to the Government which vas
ghting the desperate battle for national
fe. Il E1.L Il. II. g...s ..l
H.-OPPOSITION, |
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