Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1870-10-19
The Result.

"Toe the mark, tell the truth. and
shame Old Satan" We have met the
enemy He is not ours, but We are his.
People in this Senatorial and Reprerenta-
tive district call it defeat The word
defeat and the word trout" are geuer-
ally understood to mean one and the
same thing. By consulting Webster the
reader may learn bow nearly the words
agree in meaning Let the words agree
or disagree. We leave the reader to
decide aud suit himself, as we do, by de-
claring that of the occasion of which we
write, the word trout" suits us best. We
cay tnal our party was routed. We say
that it was a rout. A regular nll,hedged
Bull Run" rout of the Republican party
in this the 2lst Senatorial district, and in
the Representative district of which Ju-
niata county forms a part. Russell, of
the London Times. who was pr,.srnt at
the first battle of Bull Run when our
"Grand Union Army was ingloriously
routed, said in his journal, of our beaten
soldiers. who struggled so manfully on
the bloody field to uphold the national
cause-that same cause that we struggled
for at the balletbox. on Tuesday, the
llth inst,-that our soldiers, on their
fearful rout from alapasses, yelled and
beloved with fright" 1t was not true.
1t was the falsehood of an Euglishman,
whose aristocratic proclivities prevented
him from seeing anything pleasing or
good in the Union cause. 1t was not
true. 1t was the misrepresentation of an
Englishman who was opposed to a repub- |
liaau form OF government. If John Bull
Russell had been up in this district the
day following the rout of the party of
the national cause, his ears would not |
have been disturbed by the yelling and
believing" of frightened men. but his
piety, if be had any, might have been a
good deal hurt by the low, long and deep
expressions, more expressive than polite,
that escaped the lips of many of the
earnest men who manfully struggled for
the national cause We do not here an
athamatize. We do not here chide. but
if required to do so by the force of cir.
cumstances, we think we should CON-
mence with men outside of the district,
who are wearing the badges of power
and the decorations of honors conferred
by the Republican party. The rout was
complete. The Democracy gathered up
in their sweeping course, d" bag and bag
gage" The county ticket, the Assem-
bly-men, the Senators, everything, every
body, excepting the Honorable John b.
Packer. He alone is left to US. We
thank fortune for that We can sppre-
ciate him better now, since all the others
are lost. Though routed we are not ,
dismayed. The result of the late elec-
ton leaves the State Senate with one of
a Republican majority, and the Lower I
House with a Republican majority of
twelve. The Republican delegation in .
Congress from this State will be five less. ,
This looks badly at first sight, but when |
we consider the State as a whole, and |
learn that, as such, it has given the party .
several thousand of a majority over the |
State ticket last fall, we have reason to ,
rejoice and say that Pennsylvania has {
declared in favor of her old principles. I
The free trade interest overcame our men r
in come of the districts.