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

From the time Of his nomination until
the election no eplthe,s were too coarse.
From :he Inauguration until the death Of
President Lincoln, they Continued in the
same serain. After that they began to
aatter-then to approach. When he or
dered the execution Of the assassins, they
sent forth q loud howl Of indignation
When be ordered trial Of the Andeson-
vile Wholesale murderer, and talked of
trying Jefferson Davis, they were about
to give him up in despair. But now
they profess to grow little mere conf
dent They endorsed him in Maine aud
New York. They endorsed him (pro.
viied he will do as they Hish) in Penn.
sylvania. In 1868, they spoke Of him
thus: Senator Lamberiou. Record OF
1863, page 1853: "But then he vas Au-
drew johnson ,hs Democrat. Now, low.
ever, he has deserted his post Of duty in
Tennessee; he is stvltifying his past re-
cord; he has become a peasioner on poU-
er, and defender Of the xnIrpatiors
of Abraham Liacol n and he appears
among Us today as an intinsrant peddlsr
of aboltionism." Senator Wallace.
page 374; "Durin & all the existence Of
tho rebellion, where is Andrew johnson
In the Senate Of the United States seek.
ing protection for himself and his fellows
under the Sayonea Of the soldiers Of
Mcclellan He is never found 10 arms
In defence of his State, or valiautly fight.
ing in defence OF the liberties Of his peo-
pie, against the armed cohorts Of the re-
oeIhon. Never, never" Seustor ClJ-
mer, page 81; Il say, sir, that his,
(Johnson'C "srpoirtment, By the Prssi-
dent of the UIted STAKES, to that position
vas a unsurp.tior Of power on the part
Of the Presidsut." ~s"T"
| That is my position, SO far as concerns
this pretended Governor Of Tennessee.
But without any regard to any question
Of his official position, take Andrea
Johnson as a. ia,l,yidu7l /
never, by my vote. will allow man to
come into ;hss- halls aud from this place
speak to the people Of this great State, in
support Of what | know to be illegal.
unconstitutional and tyraunical act, OF
the Federal Government. know, sir,
that Andrew johnson has gone as far As
the faI,hest, aud is ready to 90 still
: further. to destroy, to uproot, to npturn
every principle upon which this great and
good Government, of OURS wss founded.
know tia. he has bert with suppliapt
knee before the throne Of power; Ihnou
that for pelf, or some other consideration.
he has succnm6ed to ercry measure p'e-
.ented to him for approval or aisdppror-
al."
These political lead ers now arc simply
watching their oharcas hoping thot some
thing may turn up which may enable
them to return TO power, / n New York
they adopted 4 platform at variance with
all their past professions, and actually re-
fused to condemn negro Suffrage They
hope TO use President johnson to aub-
serve thei- selfish purposes.
THE CHARGE OF NEGRO EQUALITY.
! For many years our political opponents
seem to have large in vestment in slavery
and the negro. Now that slavery is pret-
ty generally admitted 70 be dead, i: was
thought that :hey might allow the old SUBJ
iect to rest Blu. not SO. They return
to the question sith as much apparent
zeal and wtrmth a, ever. With full
knowledge Of the fact that negro suffrage
aad negro equality are not and csulc not
possibly be an issue On the October con-
test, they are making extraordinary ef-
forts 10 m;slcad and deceive their fellow
citizens into a contrary belief. They
think that our hostility aud prejudices
against the negro are so great, and that
they have SO often appealed to thess With
some show of success, that it is only ne
cessary to repeat the effort in order to ac-
complish their designs. They tell you
that efforts are being made to elevate the
negro, and to place the two races on au
equality They seem to be very much
af aid that some poor degraded negro may
ourstrip them in the race OF life. They
tell US that these negroes are weak, igno-
/, rant, and inferior to :he whites. If so i.
would seem that they needed our help and
assistance to educate and instruct them.
The only danger of equality We can see
is. that some white men, BY continuing
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