Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1867-02-13
OUR ORPHANS.

During two consecutive evenings last
week the people Of our town had extend
ed to them the privilege OF attending, on
each evening, Concert given by mum
Der I! Soldiers Orphans who are attend
ing Col. McFa.land's School, at McAlis-
tersvile. Several Of the children, natives
of this county, attending this school, will
soon have attained that age which will
dcbar them from reapiug all the advan-
tages which these Of fever years have
had nlaced before them by the loyal reo-
pie Of Pennsylvania. But that these few
may remain vet a while longer at school,
these concerts we've given by their fellow
school mates and Orphans under the
auspices Of the Colonel Thus again our
citizens had the opportunity cxteadcd to
them to pay the tribute ofrespect, through
the children, to tie nations heroic dead,
and at the same time contribute a mite to
the substantial advantage and advance
mont of the Orphans. Most of our citi
Eeus saw and heard them, and many came
away filed anew with inspiration drawn
from the actual presence of the children
whose fathers gave up their lives that the
Republic may live. Through history we
know the past, il reflects cleary the char
acter of the Governments Of the people
Of the past We take it up and course
down its long silent vista, turning its
records carefully, searching diligently
those particular pages devoted to the lib
cral governments CT by gone years-the
Republics of :hose days-for some illus
tration of similar regard, for the chill
dren Of those who fell in defence of their
country, but except few isolated cases,
and those individual cases only, history
IS as silent as the grave. Their ciyiliza-
tionhal not reached SO high degree as to
encourage such benevolent enterprises as
''Christian Commissions, Sanitary Com
MISSIONS an schools for Soldiers Orphans
Ncvhcre and at no time, excepting here
and u this time, do we faj an object so
Chr;st;anlikc espOused by people, The
education Of these children in time will
heor is proper fruit, these Boys and girls
will soon raove among Us intelligent men
and women, understanding clearly and In
telii-ca,ly, the great blessing conferred
upgu them By their fellow countrymen.
Through the history Of their country they
viii learc that the germ Of freedom, that
ygincipql to which they owe all they have,
and from which must come for the people
in TIE future all that is worth having,
was east upon Plymouth rock in the year
1920, fugitive from persecution. They
will !carn too that by a strange coinci-
dcnce the germ Of despotism, that prin
clpal that put the black man in bonds,
and today. y.t holds many Of the rurest
blood of the race to which we belong.
tie Caucasian raco-ia q etate of servi-
tude, that principal that swept this land
with the sword, delayed it il blood,
and Orphaned these children and burden
ed Us with debts Of billions, was cast up
on tla shores OF the James Rive-. in the
year 1920. The chilircn as they grow
older, will observe all these facts and
place themselves On the side of justice,
equity and homer as their fathers did
They wi.l constitute the bulworks Of free
dom and By the weight Of their moral and
political influence ronder the participants
IN the shareholders rebellion as odious as
tie gets Of Arnold have become.