Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1866-05-16
EDITORIAL AND NEWS ITEMS.

true bill against JEFF. Davis for treason.
Alexander H. Stephens is expected
back at Washington this week to counsel
with his friends upon the reconstruction
policy of the President, aud the Tolitica!
course of the Democratic party, to which
he is aew devotedly attached,
| There is much cIamor in the Copper
head Journals sga;nst the Report of the
Committee on Reconstruction, whereof
the sum and substance is this "If the
Rebels are not allowed to vote ,il 1870,
how can Copperhead be chosen Dresi,
dent in 1868 ?" We really can't say.
II is stated that four of the officers Of
the Merchants National Bank in Wash
ington, which has just burst with rotten.
ness, are officers Of the johnson National
Club. They have satisfactorily demon.
strated their capabilities for managing a
bankrupt concern and cannot but nave
thereby won the confidence of their pres
ent employers.
The laws Of the Uuited States are
openly defed in every Southern city where
there arc no Federal troops on duty to sus,
tain the civil authority. In such of the
rural Southern districts, from which the
/ Federal troops have been withdrawn, the
Union citizens are petltioning to have
them returned as necessary to the safety
of their lives and property.
The radical Union men of u Maa77y,aaa;;i Ia Il !
are to hold Convention In Baltimore on
the 9th of June. Maryland was prevent
cd from joining the Confederate move
ment at the risk of much valuable life
and treasure, ard the returned rebels are
now laboring to get possession of the
State that they may be able to punish the
Union men. This t!:e radicals are deter,
mined to prevent, and therefore this con-
vention has been called.
Rogers, Copperhead Congressman
from New Jersey, is in favor of paying
the rebel debt, and declares it to be the
DUTY Of Congress to provide for its liqui.
dation. Hester Clvmer coincides with
Rogers on many points of State policy,
and We have seer nothing in his course
to induce US 50 believe that he differs with
the Jersey Coppeihead on paying the
rebel debt.
The Constitutional amendment, report.
ed by the Committee on Reconstruction,
which we published last week, was passed
on Thursday last, in Congress by the de.
cisive vote of lbs yeas to 81 nays Even
Mr.. Raymond. of New York, voted for
the bill. Every Union member Of Con-
gress descrres tie thanks of the loyal
people Of .he North, for their action 10
thus beginning the grand work of max ins
".reason odious" and traitors Infamous"
The whole Coppcrhead and traitor press
from Maine to Mexico calls upon AHdrew
johnson to veto the bill admitting anoth.
er free State into the Union, chiefly be.
cause it will add two to the Union column
iu the Senate of the United States and
the same Copperhead and traitor press de-
nouuces Congress because it will not at
once agree to allow eleven States, after
trying to destroy the Republic, immediate
representation in the councils Of the na-
tion, in the persons of rebel leaders or
men elected under their dictst;on.
The Harrisburg Telegraph says that
the Democrats are SO hard up 10! election
eerinS documents, tia. they have GGo''en
up small card, designed we presume, BY
the Democratic State Central Ccmalttee,
representing the two political gubernato-
rial platforms. Clymer represents the
white man, and Geary represents the De-
gro. We see it suggested that the cop
perheads might make much more strik-
ing and truthful representation of the
principles of the two parties by dressing
Clymer up in a suit of grey and placing
in his hand the "stars and bars, while
Geary would wear his old suit OF blue,
and foat the aap which he bore trium-
phantly against the rebels in so many
deadly conflicts This picture would con
ysy volumes of truth at sight.
johnson Increasing His Party.
The johnson party is increasing, says
the WiIliamsport Bulletin. Since our