Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1866-11-28
From Foraey's Press.
LETTER FROM ssOCCAsIOSAL.-
WASHINGTON, Nov. %, 1866.

ASHiNnION, NOV. 20, 1870.
Everywhere the sharp Copperhead man
ayers are throwing their old lumber over
board, and if they can tighten the ship
for successful voyage by casting off uu.
popular leaders, who, like SO many eorpses,
have only served to poison and to over.
weight their craft, they will assuredly do
so. What is the lesson here taught to
US T? Undoubtedly, that as they give up
their false theories, we should the more
firmly adhere to our weIl-tried princlp,es
Such concessions to the popularsentiment
as have come irom the Chicago Times,
the st. Paul Democrat, :he Boston Post
the Albany -1yyas and the Washington
E9en;aa. ,StGr, are chiefly valuable be-
cause they prove the necessity Of sternly
insisting upon the new constitutional!
amendment | perceive that even Mr..
Wendell Phillips, in his last speech at
Philadelphia, had the good sense to de-
nounce universal amnesty" daily prov
ing itself to be most mischeyious heresy,
and to add, what ezper!ehee IS constantly
demonstrating, that "imp;.rtial' or even
universal suffrage, received as price
for universal amnesty, would be only glT-
ing the traitors a Lew weapon to degrade
aud destroy. 1t was p.easing to note that
While Chiot Justice Chase, at the Acade-
my OF Muslc, pronounced glowing trl5-
ute to the constitutional a'neadment-
Nerd Il Phillips iocidtn'aiiy dI the
same thing by a'feS'"s that the other
remedies noT suggested as a substitute,
were III themselves Imperfect or'c'S'NHr
''"s, lhe constitutional amendment IN
Inc late elections was our stTongesrargu
ment. Ii seemed to have been construct
ed 10 stand all the assaults Of faction, and
TO become ;he lIai 'aivatjoc Of tie great
Uul'b party. No one fears the success
Of the amendment more than Andrew
j johnson aud The traitors, aud the recent
referred to are simply intended
to weaken 1t, Or to utterly break it Gown.
The Fs,rle, the larger maiorities, and
against oids more Tremendous, than his.
tory can parallel, decided ihat he cousti
tutioual appointment was the remedy, and
that the next Congress should see to it
that thei. verd;e;. alike The verde; Of the
men who defeated the rebellion with tie
bullet and the ballot, should not be fit
tered way by weak men 10 our own ranks
or perverted by corrupt mep il the rank,
Of the common enemy. Now more than
ever are lis u'od-es ana guarantees pre-
cious in our eyes. Look at the dykes it
erects agafast future rebellion and repu-
4 a.ion. Itperpetuaiiy secures the rights
Of ;he loyal citizens; ii disirsnchises the
tra;'ers; Il coCsccEatcs the national debt,
(and who can doubt the necessity of this
clause in the new Article who studies the
efforts Of the 'Eag,ish hollor- Of rebel
bonds to give value to those infamous Sc
curi:ios , and it deoies to vaoquisLed
trerson the right Of representation at the
sacrifice Of the loyal millions Of the South
Refused and rejected By the insursent
States, every cuc of which is now on re
c,TJ as resolved tle, it shall not prevail
il they can prevent it. the duty Of the
victorious millions is imperative. The
amendment must be carried. Let the
whole power Of Congress. which is now
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