Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1867-08-28
OF REBEL ARMIES

There are few n.eu in the North ready
TO believe that tie men lately disbanded
as armed rebels are recognizing as vol
uuteer or,panies, says the Harrisburg
Telegraph, under the auspices of traitors
governing the lately revolted States. In
1860 -61 there were few men willing to
admit that an armed effort was being made
to attempt an overthrow of the Govern
| ment The facts involved then were no
palmer than the facts involved now 10 the
effort at rebellion. Buchanan denied the
power of the President to prevent pre-
cipitation of rebellion. johnson denies
the power of the President to punish men
guilty of rebellion. The one INDUCED in
his denials to encourage traitors in their
efforts-the other, to save them from the
penalties of their guilt and prompt them
to repetition of their crimes. Now,
when we tell our readers that rebel armies
are being recognized in the South, we
only repeat plain facts Ia Maryland, ex-
rebel soldiers are organizing into volun-
tecr companies, and to-day regiments of
the men who survived the armed effort to
destroy the Government are once more
being drilled and officered by their old
rebel commanders. Maryland alone to-
day has not less than ten thousand men
under arms-yeterans Of the old rebel ar
mics-traitors who believe in the justice
of the "lost cause" In Kentucky the
same condition exists in military sense,
and there, as in Maryland, rebel soldiers
are being organized as State militia. In
fact in all the lately revo.ted States, there
is at this lime as much activity in the or
ganization of State militia, as prevailed
before the precipitation of the late rcbeli.
ion, when Buchanan urged that he had
no power to coerce a rebeliious State
Why is this military organization in the
lately revoited States so persistcntly pre-,
served Why is Andrew johnson so
anxious to place the military commands
of the South in the hands of men not9ri-
ously opposed to holding rebels response
bic for their crimes Il is not for us to
answer these questions. 1t is the bust
ness o! the people to ponder such inqui>
ries. 1t is right that the North should
know where it stands and by whom it is
opposed, and not he surprised unprepared
to meet Andrew Johnsou's S conspiracy as
it was caught totally unarmed TO confront
the first menacing demonstrations of JEFF
Davis rebellion aad James Buchanan 5
treason.
While Southern rebels are thus arming
and drilling-while volunteer regiments
of ex.rebel soldiers are being formed,
equipped and armed in almost every coun-
ty Of Marylnnd, Kentucky, Texas, South
Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, Mississippi
and Florida, what are the Northern States
dong in a military sense? What is Penn
sylvania doing to maintain her militia OF :
ganizaion :? During the session of .he
last Legislature an effort was made to
frame and pass bill for the re-organza-
ton ct the militia Of Pennsylvania, but
it failed in the Legislature because there
'cas too much pirate business pressing on
tie attention Of legislators. The business
Of tie State was neglected =. So that TO-
day, while a bordering State, swarming
with men who would gladly invade Penn
sylvania and lay it waste, is organizing
her militia, We are haud bound, lethargic
and indifferent TO the situation. Outside
Philadelphia ard Pittsburg, there is moi a
military organization in the State. In
TACT, there is no encouragement thus to
organize the militia. The law in force
makes it difficult to form volunteer organ
izltio.s. It's exacting and stringent only
! to embarass men desirous 10 form military
comp. mics. What is needed is more
liberal law. Certainly the facts of South
ern activity in organizing ex-rebels as M
litia, bodes no good to the people Of the
North. Men are not fit to be trusted with
arms in their hands who struggled for
years to cut our throats. The loyal States
must calculate to take care of themselves
while Andrew johnson is President.
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