Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1867-08-07
OF THE DEMOCRACY.

for thlrty years the democratic party
was virtually supreme in the United States
In the main, it put up and put down
whom it would. 1t Gid more. 1t chang
ed both its measures and its principles as
its listed. What it denounced one year
as unsound, dangerous, and intocrable, it
accepted ten years later as most wise, be-
nefcent and desirable These mutations
continued until it ceased altogether to be
what it was, and became entirely what it
had previously despised. Amid all
its changes and vagares it managed so to
pander to the prejudices and passiSus, the
animositcs and hatreds of Tie hour, as %
maintain an assured and augmen.iug mi
jori;y. In this sense it was the people. =
1t was the many. A long careerof pros
perity inflated its pride. 1t BECAME AFRO
sont, naughty, imperious. In fac pienti,
tude Of its power, it thought it might do
what it would, and that none could sue
cessfully call it to account, or dispute its
right to govern-much less degrade it
from its high eminencc inb the lowly
condition of powerless ani abject mi
nority. This infatuation w.s its ruin.
Believing that it had charmed life,
which no arrows Of Fate cold pierce, and
that there was a sorcery ii its name that
would continue to enchan its followers
when the substance had totally exha!ed
and foated away into the receptacle of de-
parted things, j: entered into conspiracy,
first with Slavery and afterwards with
Treason, confident in the expectation Of
substituting its behests in the place of
Conscience. and of giving it's DEGREES the
force of public law.
1t would naturally be inferred that the
events Of the last few years, would have
abated TO large and wholesome degree.
this insuhcrablc cgotism. Never was
party more absolutely abased and repro
bated by an outraged and indignant pco
pie. Not only have it measures been dis
carded and its principles been contemned,
but its real leaders are resting under
weight of popular odium altogether un-
matched in this country, if in any other
Successive appeals to the 5allot-box have
disclosed no indications Of reYersa, Of
:he great and solemn verdict rendered in
1860. On the contrary, there are multi
plying signs that the Judgment prorounc.
ed III the autumn of that year will be re-
peated in 1868 wish increased emphasis.
Still, the democratic Journals aud ora,
tors retain their old habit, and swaggcr
away as if actually under the concclt that
they are tie people, whose rights in the
government have been temporarily usurp-
ed, but will be speedily vindicatcd They
remind us of debauched and pauperized
cadets of ancient and honorable families,
who are swollen with pretensions for which
they have nothing to show but the names
Of ancestors they disgrace, and traditions
of illustrious deeds which they dishonor
1t must be confessed, however, that
while there is repulsive side to this
there is also 4 ludicrous one
When vanity survives the power or dis
position to perform great actions; when
empty boas.ings proceed from hopeless |
seniliiy; one knows not whether to let
play the laughter of dcrison OF to let fall !.
the tear OF compassion.-PW. Gazette.
THE Cholera is raging with fearful yio-
lence in the distant West, on the great
routes Of travel beyond the Mississippi
river. A correspondent at Fort Harker,
writing to the Leavenworth DoHY Bulletin
under date of July %, says that in the
previous thirty days there were more than
three hundred deaths, "Besides what have
been buried after night to prevent people
from leaving" The BpNsHn thinks this
need excite no alarm, as Fort Halker is
in newly settled region, which has been
subject to great falls of rain and high
water, besides the accommodation for
travellers of the poorest. People are hua-
died together like animals. Poor whisky
has been freely used, and also vegetables
of a very poor quality, which have been
shipped there.
The Commercial of LeaYenworth re.
ports the cholera still raging IA: Ellsworth,
Kansas. On the 9th there were thirteen
deaths, and many citizens were leaving
For three weeks there has been an aver
age OF about dozen deaths at Ellsworth.
Upon the nomination of MIR. Sbars
wood the democratic organs made extray