Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-05-03
GRAND MASS MEETING AT HAIR.
RlSBURG.
In faror of the Univn and the COnai.
tuition, aud ihe Support Of the
Nutiya1i ddm.atstr1iton.

One Of the larges, and most enthusias.
tic meetings ever held in the city Of Har.
risburg, assembled in the Court House.
on Thursday evening, April 27, 1865.
The purpose was the reiteration Of the
determination Of the people to stand BY
the Government and sustain it in the
exercise OF all its power, and to extend to
Andrew Johusor, President Of the
United States, the assurance Of hearty
aud manly support while he is in the dis
charge Of his Constitutional duties
Speeches were delivered by Hoo. j. c.
Kunkel, Col A. J. Herr, Hon. NJ. B
Lowery, Hon. W. II. Armstrong. Rev.
j. " alker Jackson, Hon. I. j. Bigham
and Brigadier General Hiuks. The fol
lowing resolutions were adopted, and We
pespeak for them careful perusal.
WHEREAS, The loyal people Of the
United states have, for four years past,
been conflo by rebellion unparsIell
d iu its proportions, unpre ;eden sd y fero
cious in its temper, aud directed to ends
not only destructive of existing order and
institutions. but designed to subvert the
liberties of the nation and prepare the
way for despotic forms and organizations
Of gOvernment and
Whereos, The rebellion, after imposing
on the people an immense burden Of in.
debtedness; after attempting arsoDs, in
which not only vss: properties and vigor-
ous manhood. but venerable age, beanti.
tul womsuhood and helpless infancy
should prom,scuously perish; after filing
the streets with manned men, despite
their abrId gements, symmetrical ard
beauteous through valor and patriotism
after organizing murder by starvation
into system. and multiplying the dead
by this horrid barbarity by tens Of thou
sands; after ridging one.third of the
States with new made graves. and dra2ins
one half Of the families Of the nation in
the habiliments Of mourning: has at last
eliminated in the assassination of Presi-
dent Lincnln. a Chief Magistrate who
had sigualized his administration as much
by moderation and leuiency towards enc
mics overthrown as by wisdom, prudence
and energy in the prosecution of the war,
and
Whereas, The chiefs of the rebellion,
though baffled in their designs against
the life of the nation, have lost noue Of
that amin osity and antagonism to the
Federal Government, which furnished
the impulse to their gigantic crimes ;
| therefore, resolved,
l. That while, io common with all
good citizens, we deplore the loss of the
late head Of the nation. and tender our
heartfelt coincidence to his bereaved fami-
ly, we have the fuIles. confidence 10 his
successor. President Andrew johnson,
whose former public services. sttestipg
the emiucnce Of his abilities and the pu.
ritz Of his patriotism, inspire iu Us the
profoundest respect and command our
most earnest co operation 10 his great
work of delivering the republic from re-
naming periis. of eliminating from our
10 .titu'ions conspicuous elements Of jeal.
ousy and slienstion, Of restoring the
bonds Of former amity aud concord. and
Of preparing the way for future national
development, power and glory.
2. That in the person Of Andrew John.
SOD, now President Of the United States,
we believe the people have man In whom
they can implicitly con6ds; that his pas.
history, in its connection With public af-