Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1867-10-02
MIFFLNIOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA, OCTOBER


three months. What is needed to realize
the worst of these forebodingst Only
Democratic success in the fall elections !
I If the ever-loyal city Of Philadelphia,
the rock against which the tempests of re-
bellious Democracy have spent their force
in vain, should prove recreant to her WELL
earned glory-if the great State Of Penn
sylvania should belle her splendid record
what fearful encouragement would it
not give to the miserable band who are
plotting and scheming for the overthrow
Of our institutions !? Pennsylvania is
again the battle-ground Of the Union, and
not at Gettysburg were the lines more
closely drawn or the issues more distinctly
balanced. As Meade and Lee then led
the opposing armies, so now are Williams
and Sharswood, Thayer and Ludlow, Co
we'll and Lyle the leaders Of their resPec
tive parties. In such contest, for ends
so momentous, personal preferences are as
naught. The man disappears in the cause,
and the country claims the devotion OF
every citizen at the balotbox, as she once
claimed his services in the field.
Should We, through fatal apathy and
shortsightedness, permit the enemy to
carry Pennsylvania, what hopes can We
have of New York aud New Jersey ?
Our example would be contagious, and We
may we'll look forward with unaffected
dread at the results if the great Middle
States should appear to rally to the sup
port of Johnsonism. Who can predict
the mad career of President thus en-
couraged by the apparent applause Of the
peope-of a President who has so obsti
na:ely misuscd and transcribed his pow
election have warned him to desist? In
toxicateG with success, there is scarcely a
crime against the State which may not in
advance be imputed to him on the testi-
mony Of his own adhereDts.
Even should Heaven avert from us
these unmanigable evils which We SHOULD
have Invited, hardly less disastrous would
be the result upon the settlement of all
the great questions arising from the war.
Congress is the representative OF the peo-
pie :; politicians there are in it. quick to
discern and apt to magnify the evidences
of apprehendcd popular reaction. Sup
ported by tie people, Congress has brave
ly withstood the assaults of the Execu-
tive, aud has laid the foundations of Ie.
construction based upon broad and endur-
ing principles. Abandoned by the peo-
pie, the moral force of Congress would be
gone Doubt and indecisiOn would take
the place of frmncss and well-considered
action. Every rebel would spurn anew
the idea of submission. Every hostile ell
ement would unite for cooperation. An
ticipated triumph would draw around them
the venal, the unpriucipied, and the
thoushtIess, and with aggregated strength
they would control the position. Forcing
heir way into Congress, all possibilities
of evil would be open 20 them. ASsump-
ton of the Confederate debt, reputation
of the national obligations, free trade,
desperate tiukeripg with the finances,
slavery revived under guise of peonage-
such would be the programme before US,
and il is worse than useless t. shut our
eyes W Ito ptopapiii'y "itch eh""SO l."
little over one per cent. of the voters in
Pennsylvania and New York would give
the prestige of success to those whose
p 'nciples and whose policy would bring
about such catastrophe.
1t matters little to US which of twO em-
inent jurists shall SIT upon The bench. 1t
is absolutely unimpcrtant TO us which of
two men, both equally indifferent to US in
dividually, shall collect the fees of the
Sheriff. office or shall draw the salary of
the City Treasurer. But, by the sport of
circumstances, questions Of the highest
significance that can affect the existence
of great people underlie these local and
trivial issues. When Pennsylvania speaks,
her voice is heard throughout the nation
and when she speaks in October, it will
not be merely to decide as to the iucum-
beuts of local Offices 1t is Andrew John
son who is upon trial, and it is her voice
which will then pronounce the verdict