Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-09-13

faetious opposition. Since the surrender
Of the rebels ard the assassination Of Mr..
Lincoln, also, the hopelessness Of the
cause of slavery and, state rights has
'stilled all rising agtatioa; and the mourn.
ing Of nation has forced those who lately
attacked our late Chief Magistrate with
ceaseless venom to beslime MS memory
with yet more nauseous praise. These
.scanty proofs Of patriotism are now ap
pealed to in. the hope that an easy public
may in a few short years forget the con
sistent policy which lost no opportunity
Of embarrassing the Government and en-.
couraging- the Rebellion, during the
gloomy period when the national life
hung in the balance and destruction
seemed only to Ire averted by unanimous
effort Il Il not pleasant to reflect that
powerful, party, which had for nearly
half century controlled the destines of
the country has played SO base and trea-
sorable partein the hour Of peril )! and
the people will be ready TO Danish all
memories OF so disgraceful and humili
ating a fact. 1t is important, however,
that in the future we should know who
are to be trusted and who to be shunted.
The problems to be solved witk.H the next
zen years arc too momentOus to mankind
to be confded to those who have prov ed
themselves recreant alike to republican
ism and to true democracy. 1t may there
fore net be amiss to throw together, in a
shape for preservation and convenient
reference, a few of the innumerable
proofs that the great Democratic Party
has tmoughout the contest been the CON
sistent and faithful ally Of the Rebellion !.
that it invited secession, declared that
coercion was unconstitutional and war H.
legal, and that it opposed every measure
adopted by the na tion to carry on the
sar-suspehsion Of the ha5eds corpus,
enanc cipation, loans, legal
tender money aud taxation-everything,
in fact, to which we owe the fortunate
result of our unexamped struggle. II
% HOW THE SOUTH WAS TEMPTED
fs-sf a7- TO sECEDE. a1i
60 one imagines that, hal tie South
that its revolt would have been
resisted by a united and determined
North, it would have plunged into the
fiery gulf of rebellion. Its people we're
assurGd by their lsaders that secession
would be peaceful, that it vas justi6able,
that it was tie only REMEDY for innumer-
,ble wrongs, that any attempt by fanati-
;al abolitionists to Interfere with the
would be met and ueutrali,ed
BY their Democratic. allies irfothe North,
md that eventually the Union would be
reconstructed under pro-slavery consti-
ution of their Own dictation, with New
England left out, Or only admitted as one
consolidated state. How fully they were
ustified.in promulgatirg these fatal cr-
-ors can easily be proved by reference to
HE utterances of chosen leaders Of the
Democracy. --..- re, ~
OFFERS OF ASSISTANCE TO REBELLION.
Ex-Presidcnt. Franklin Pierce, IN.
etter to Jefferson Davis, as early as Jan |
larry 6, 1860, thus assured him that his
Northern allies would be faithful TO the
asst extremity. ;.a aze H,.. a.ss sraf
ss do not believe that our friends at tie
south have any just idea of the state CT feel /
ng, hurrying at this moment on the pitch of
intense. evaporation between those who re- !
,pect their political obligations. and those
rbo have apparently no oinpelling power but I
hatbrhich finatical passion on the sdbiect |
If domestic slavery imparts. Without dis |
'ussIng the question of right-of- abstract |
,ower to secede, have, never believed that
lctual disrupticr CT the Union can occur with !
nut bloot; and If through the madness of
Northern iAbolitisnists that dire calawity |
must come, the fighting will not be along I
Mason aud Dixou's line merely, 1t will be |
sitkin our vowo borders, in our own. streets, {
'etween the two classes of citizens to whom / !
lave referred. 'Ttose uho dcty la,c and scout
onstautiondL obligations ,eiLt, If eyer oc reach
he arbitramcnt Of arms, ind occupation fnavyh |
= hos"eci onb as irsdj 7uo 's5' bcs
p Few Democratic statesmen were found
'old enough to defend secession as
Constitutional right, bat. the South was
ssured in the most formal way that the
frongs inflicted on it were ample to JUS
ify secession as revolutionary remedy.
Thus President Buchanan in his Mes
age of December 5, 1860, proclaimed to-
he world, that 's'i1 esIs4o.sa .ieias
''The long continued and incorporate in
erferenes Of. the Northern people with the
uesiion of slavery has at length produced
Is natural effects...... Self-preservaticn is /
he first law of nature, and has been implanted }
1 the heart of man by his Creator for the /