Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1866-11-07


vantages, which prolonged the war fol
years, and cost the lives Of more than q
hundred thousand loyal men, and thou
sand millions Of treasure ? Will she be
Ijustiiable now, in. entering on the second
phase of this traitor war, with a similar
reck!essness of. expenditure Has not
Mr.. johnson given sufficient notice of his
policy, or did ever conspirator more openly
prosecute his plans? His purpose to con-
quor the free North to turn it ou. Of the
Union and put the Government into the
hands of traitors lately in arms to over.
throw it, could not well be more clearly
aud per'inaciously expressed than by his
,eords, since February 21st, 1865, and his
,corks since November 9th, 1864. Stead
| lily, as the needle to the pole, has been
the entire line of his actions, since the
day of his election az Vice President, and
he is no more in the interest and conf
dence Of the leaders Of the rebellion, to-
day, than he was when the assassin's bull
let placed him iu position to do this work.
When he threw off the mask, on the
ga of February, he already had the I've
hundred thousand paroled rebel soldiers
reorganized, arms within their reach, or
in their hands ; and then more defiant
aud in better condition to igh., than at
any :ime for the three years previous
Now, the Northern people are waiting for
him to commit an overt act. Suppose
that Davis subtle intellect is guiding the
brute force of Johnson's s.olid belief in
himself, and that seeing the uselessness
or rather danser. of his wasteful haran
CUES, he keeps quiet until Congress meets !;
and large proportion Of our civi. and
military leaders are congregatsd il Wash
ineton that he then seizeS the city, shoots
Stanton and Grant. for disobeying orders,
hangs all the Republican members of
Congress, as traitors, place Beauregard in
command of the defences Of the city, Lee
at the head of the army, for restoring the
Union; makes Davis, virtually, Secretary
of War; and holds, as hostages, all the
loyal people found in the Capitol who ma,
be thought of more value for this purpose
than for execution.
IF something like this shotld be the
outline of his ''overt-act," and he should
have secret organizations in our principal
cities to strike simultaneously and occupy
lovai men, even a short time, in restoring
order at home and Governor S~ann
should be at all active in barricadins Bal
imore aud Annapolis, General Dow's
Northern soldiers would have warm work
before they should camp on Capitol Hill !.
Thirty years ago | was voted insane for
saying that God could not be just and per-
nit this nation to escape fearful and
bloody retribuiion for the crime Of sla
very, and | would God it were anything
but an overwhelming condition of truth,
drawn from facts ard their inevitable log
ical conclusions, which makes me certain
to-day that the above is an outline of Mr.
Johnson's purpose, and that he will be
permitted to carry them out far enough
to scourge this nation iearfu.ly, for her
breach Of faith to her faithful allies, for
the tens of thousands Of murders and
outrages committed upon them in the past
eighteen months f.; and our national repu-
diation of the claims of justice under a
maudlin pretense Of mercy alien to every
law of christianity. which ever requires
as essential to pardon.
Many people, in looking on the dark
prospect before us, throw aside response
bility with the comfortable thought that
Providence is attending to the nation, and
we can look after our own private affairs.
Providence works by means, and those
who trust God, intelligently, must be Ger
tain of being on His side, and in the day
Of battle, keep our powder dry.
When this government was organized. /
our fathers, at the bidding OF French IN
fidelity, deliberately excluded from the
Constitution all acknowledgment Of the
existence and authority Of God. They
even erased His name from the cath of
office required by our chice magistrate,
and to-day, for anything which appears in
our fundamental law, the God of this ma
ton may be a crocodile. They expect /
the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, the
Saviour into whose hands all Judgment is