Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1866-06-20
Clymer and the Fourth of Ju,y

Ciymer and the Fourth of July,
| The Mtetiiyeacer Of last evening. in =
preientious editorial announcement. which
reminds us of heavy blast on small
horn, Informs the awaiting world that the
campaign, on the part OF the disatfectea
Democracy, will open on the 18th of July
next, with a grand mass meeting in Berks
county, that land of darkness, where Cly-
mer was born. The terrible peace men
are on the war path.
Why select the 18th of July for inau-
gura;ion day? Why not take tie 4th of
July? Why not be national in some
things? Moreover, Clymer's grandfather
signed the declaration Of Independence
on the 4th Of July, l776, which was
the nearest approach Of Hiester to ever
doing any thing patriotic, and the day
would be consequently appropriate, ana
its selection dramatic. An the recreant
democracy have uo heart 10 celebrate the
Fourth Of July any longer. 1t is their
day no more. AT Chicago, in that shame
full white flag and surrender Convention,
they formally gave it up. They surren-
dered it, along with their honor and his
! tory. When they abandoned the Stars
and Stripes, at that very moment under
fire from Richmond to the Mississippi,
they turned their backs on Nation al hoii-
da,s aud National memories. They ab-
jured, deliberately, their land and country
and with it all the glorious rccoliections
Of the past, and all the sacred associations
which centre and cluster around the
grand historic days OF Revolutionary sto.
ry. Can Nailandigham, Cay"'er or
Voorhees, democrat ever again think Of
the Fourth of July or Twenty second OF
February without conscious blush of
guilty shame They have deniei their
country. Could Ciymer dare to meet the
shade Of Washington, or would his bones,
even rest easy If !ald III the same grave.
yard with the body Of his patriotic arces-
tor? No, it would be sacrlige for the
democracy of the modern poisonous and
serpentinc school, to inaugura.e their
parricidal campaign on u day that has
l., hi
our patriotic foretathers. Ii is meet aud
right that the hiss ot :he cupperhead
should not be heard, and that the slme
OF Its trail should not be seen On that hal.
lowed aud eventtpI day-that Cay conse-
Grated to victory and patriotic suffering
by Washington and Gran.-that day
which records the wiling sacrifice OF pa
tr,ots. even the sacrifice of death from
Ph,iadelp phia to Vicksburg
There Is anoIher reason why the bo-
gus democracy could not use that day.
The soldiers won it, and OF that day they
offer TO their mother the State-a gift
second only TO the precious lives OF the
children of the commonwealth. On that
day, in Philadelphia, 10 the old State
House, where Clymers grandfather sign.
ed the Declaration Of independence. the
soldiers OF the Keystone return to the
keeping of the commonwealth the histo-
ric banners which they have borne so
well through four years storm Of fire
and death, and made the most precious
treasure OF Pennsy ylvania. They giveu up,
on that day, the cclors for which twenty
two thousand usylyaaians have dIeu.
They give up, on that day, the torn and
tatteged banners forever hallowed in the
tears and blood OF a amonweailh, and
which are glorious record OF the honor,
devotion, and manhood of the people.
What part or lot has Clymer in this
grand ceremonial, where the heroic emil
dren OF heroic ancestry gather around
the historic Glldt Ul lue IcNOlutlOD, W IO'
new thelr faith in their country, and to
show to the world aud to posterity that
they are the worthy sons cl their sires
How would Clymer appear among the
ulen Of the State, and at the shrine Of
his fathers? No. i. was the part Of pru-
duce aud propriety, as well as the instinct
Of shame, which made Hiester Clymcr,
he Hessian of 1861, avoid the day aud
the memories OF I776. How Can Ciymer
be thought or spoken of on our natal
day-Clymer who voted against armInS
the State, when the echoes of Sumpter
we're ringing up the Aiieshenies-Cly-
mer, who voted fog com promise and sur
render under the very smoke OF Gettys-
burg?
Let every soldier, let every man, let
every woman think of this. Ciymer
dare not celebrate .he 4th of July
Clymer dare not open his campaign on
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