Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-10-04

Thanks to the heroism, courage and
skill Of American soldiers, sailors and Of.
6cers, and to the God of battles, the war
is over, our nation saved, aud the good
old Republic still lives, Peace has again
spread her gentle wings ever our once
happy and still beloved land. The sound
Of trumpets, the noise Of cannon and mus
kerry, the tread Of armies, the victorious
cheers Of our brave soldiers, aud tho sick.
sning groans of the wounded and dying
are no longer heard in our borders The
nation, as in fromer times, comes oat Of
the fiery ordeal triumphant, aad now re-
deemed aud vindicated before the world,
stands forth more bright than ever before
as beacon to the down-trodden aud op-
pressed Of all lands, az a terror to the ty-
rants of the earth, Is an ASYLUM for the
oppressed of al nations and as the wonder
aud admiration of the lovers Of Freedom
everywhere.
The grass which We we're told would
grow in the streets of Northern cities in
case OF war, is now growing in the atreets
where the prophecy was made. The ruin,
poverty ana suffering which we're to over
take the people of the North, are resting
upon the people who prayed for such
blessings upon our heads. The new par
adise which was to be discovered to delight
the saints of the Southern Confederacy,"
is filed with darkness and gloom, with
SORROW and woe The large aud mighty
armies of treas Oh have been overthrown
aud scattered before the larger and more
powerful armies Of the Republic. Taai:-
ors and their friends everywhere have
been compelled to yield TO the greatness,
the power, the energy, the resources Of
the nation, aud the courage, skill and en-
durance of her heroic soos.
Some of the leaders Of the rebellion
sre buried beneath the soil they attempt
ed to desecrste, some are fugitives in for
eign lands, ard others are swarming the
National capitol and crawling into the
White House, begging pardons from the
man whom Of al uthsfs in the land. they
have most dercely denOuced, and most
bitterly hate. The chief Of the rebel
lion himself from his prison At Fortress
Monroe, surveys the ruin he has wrought
among his own people, and silently aud
sullenly awaits the action of the Nation
he vaiuly attempted to destroy, to make
known to him, in its own good time, the
doom he 80 richly merits.
In the North, we have prosperity and
plenty, all the evidences Of increasing
power and greatness, everywhere present,
aud the nation surely and certsinly ad-
vauciug more rapidly than ever before in
the path of progress. Aud, notwithstand-
ing all the calamitiss and sacrifices Of
four years of bloody war-made more
destructive by the inhumanity and bar
barism Of our enemies-we have just
welcomed to their homes more than one
million Of brave men who have saved the
nation and made their names Immortal.
THE ISSUES OF THE PRESENT CAM
PAfGH
After the settlement Of the issues Of
1865, 80 di.astrously in the field, and 80
overwhelmingly at the ballot box against
our adver saries, it would seem most sin
gular that the Same question should be
again presented to the people Of the Key.
stone State. But they have selected their
ground and We willingly and gladly &C.
cept the challenge, At the convention
of their organization, recently held at
Harrisburg, it was resolxed, that "the
men and tn. party administering the Gov
ernment since 1861, have betrayed their
trust, violated their sacred obligations,
disregarded tho commands of the funda-
mental law, corrup:ly squandered the
public money, perverted the whole Gov.
srnment from its original purposes, and
thereby have brought untold calamities
upon the country" The measures of the
administration of Abraham Lincoln, so
recently endorsed by 80 large majority
of his countrymen. are here foolishly aud
wickedly denounced by the members Of
this convention, and the people of Penn
sylvania are gravely asked to sanction the
act, reverse their own judgmen: and re-
pudiate the verdict Of the nation solemn
ly rendered at the ballot-box.
The Sc Semper 7yrannis of the ever.
to-be execrated Booth, uttered as he rush
ed from the scene Of the great crime Of