Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-01-10
Letter from an Old Jaeksenian DensO,
Of Greenweed Township.
Man SEvES SrAR 1Assnx,l
81 January 8, 1872.

This is the hrst Saturday evening sanc'
the new year commenced; 'tis cold, cloud,
and windy, but in the heavy clouds ther'
: are great big breaks throug h which shin'
; the bright star..and seem all the brighter
} by being along eide Of the heavy inky
colorcd clouds. If the great dark and
heavy Republican cloud that has come
over our party. only had few breaks
in it 60 that star or two of the Andy
Jackson kind, could shine through on
our old party that has been torn, and
torn, all to pieces SO that there is only q
chunk here and there left that can't be
made to fit up to each other no how
How good it would make me feel to
have little of the good old fashioned
Democratic star light. How sorrowfull
feel / can't tell, when think that our
Southern stars went down and sunk
forever in a bloody rebellion, and oul
Northern stars were 70 much attracted
by the sinking rebel stars that they
) followed them down almost into the gull
of Rebellion, too. That was the time
when said. by the Eternal, that's not
the way Andy Jackson used to do things
and amt agoing along" And I didn't,
and I've been mighty glad thousand
times since that l stopped just there.
That following them southern fellows
down so near to rebellion that one step
further would have landed them plump
among the rebels, was confounGed bad
move for our northern fellows. They
ought never to have shook the hands
of the johnny Butfernuts. Never. no,
never. That was a crab fashion move
ment. backwards, that they made and
the people seen it, and thousands left
them, as l did, then and there, 1 guess
for good while to come. at least until
they get turned from their crab fashioned
movement
Since the Southern fellows are licked,
our fellow. North have been trying to &c:
things fixed in better shape; but every
time they fix, they fix things in worse
shape than it was before, until they have
the thing to look so ugly. politically,
that no one can tell what it does look
like. Some of them want to turn the
machine and run head foremost after YOU
fellows. and try and catch up with your
party. and run on track of the same
kind. They don't care if the engineer
Of the machine is an old Republican
But my notion is that they can't get any
good Republican to go into this arrange
ment. They might gather up a few
Johnsonites for the business; they are
good for anything and everything but
faiihfulness to the men they ought to be
faithful to. They can be bought for less
than thirty pieces Of silver Judas's
price They are faithful only when play
ing the traitor. Some of our fellows
want to keep the machine running hind
end foremost. as it has been ruun ming for
the last ten years They are opposed to
any and everything like change. They
believe that what is to be will be, and if
the machine is to turn around it will do
go. and il it is to run into the ground
they can't help it; but all are looking
and hoping for something to turn up that
will help them to lick you fellow. at the
next election.
have been 10 the Seven Stars this
afternoon. While there l was told that
the State Senate had organized by the
Democrats getting Charley Buckalew,
one Of our Senators, to vote for your
man. Rutan, for Speaker. Our fellows
made a great furs over Charley going
and voting for Republican, and giving
the Senate over to your party. They
say-and you'll find that the'll say it in
their papers all over the State-that the
Democrats gave, the Republicans the
Speaker 90 that the business of the Leg.
islature might go on. They are agoing
to try and make good thing out of it
for their party. If the Democrat and
Register don't come out heavy on how
a great thing the Democratic Senator'S
did when they told Charley to vote for
Rutan, then the region about the Seven
Stars will be surprised. 1t wants feed
Of this kind The Democrats are good
at getting their fellows to look at mole
hill. and then presto change, come right
along. and they imagine it a mountain.
Our party already think they see big
mountain in what Charley did. with an
icy cap on it that you fellows can't crawl
over. If Andy Jackson could be heard
from. III bet high he'd call it small
mole-hill, not worth looking at. When
our fellows told Charley to do that, they
only did what was right. No man who
is fair-and knows that the State is
Republican and that the election in the
Fourth District Of Philadelphia. to fill
the place made vacant by the death of
Senator Connell, can 60 no way but Re-
publican. which would give the Senate
to your party-will ever dare to claim
that our fellows did more than the fair
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