Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-02-07

NsAR SEVEN SrAR TAVERN, I
February 8. 1872. J


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\ - MAR SEVEN SfAR TAvERN,(
| February 8. 1872.
! N.Y. Drar Mr. Editor The Wheel
of time are moving. aud carrying US on
Another Saturday night has come. Til
one snch as used to rejoice to see. 1
was the sure forerunner Of fun at jolly
sleighing parties, with horses bedecket
with bells as large as cannon balls, ant
80 loud sounding that you could beal
them q half mile of. There was NJ
sleeping behind them bells. They wer.
not like the wee tiuny things that tinkl.
on the sleigh horses nowadays.
The evening is very quiet The newly
laid beautiful snow is 90 soft that il
catches and almost smothers every sound
As it is uttered. How pure and white ii
is-pure as it could only be when coming
from the clouds. lock out at it in itf
whiteness. stiffness and purity. and il
makes me heave mighty big sigh; fo'
| have learned in nv journey through
life that man is not pure as is the IRE
sponsible snow.
4 sigh for an Andy jackson to lead us
to pure still waters. and political pas.
turee. fresh aud green. l just expec,
that some of you fellows will laugh and
and say that mean by still waters that
we ought to run the machine ourselves,
without anybody saying word against
it. That would be stll running. And
by green pastures they will say that l
mean that we ought to have the Offices
Well, let them keep saying. There is
one thing that believe. and tina, ia, that
if Old Andy had lived in the Fourth
Senatorial District in Philadelphia, or if
few good disciples of his had lived
there, that he or they would have run
one of our party iuto the State Senate
while your fellows we're fighting each
other. They missed a chance. The
Andy's are all dead. l guess. 1t makes
my heart roll like the ocean-and that g
pretty heavy. you know-to think so,
but it's so. Look how our fellows patted
Mcclure on the back and said Go in,
Aleck we bet on you" He went in
and he came out. If they had jus: left
Mcclure and Gray fight. and run one Of
our fellows. he would have gone in like
a pop. Such work makes me feel like
leaving the party forever and forever.
There is no more of the Jackson stuff
that's worth looking at. 1t can't say
one thing twice in day. ! don't like to
come straight out for you fellows, but if
there are more of such carvings on I'll
do it. I'm down on corruption. That
rebellion that the anti jackson Demo
Gratis got up WAS but the ou,crop Of cor
ruption. Them fellows South were the
princes of corruption. They would qui
etly pack county or State
and then the action of such convem-
tion would be held to be binding on the
people ; and they often passed resolu-
tions on questions that had never been
considered by the people, and that is the
way the corruptionists in many cases
worked their caae up to rebellious state.
There can be no corruption SO foul as
that which plunges a people Or nation
into bloodshed. That is the essence of
corruption.
There is heap of corruption in your
party, but it has not stepped the country
in blood. There was mighty sight of
mean work and corruption among you
fellows in Philadelphia, a: the late elec-
ton for Senator, between Aleck NJ Clure
and Harry Gray. Aleck says Harry
cheated him, and he has prosecuted par
Gel of fellows pretty high in Office for
fraud, and is agoing to contest Harry's
seat in the Senate. It was high work
that was carried on in Philadelphia; but
l guess not any worse Than the fraud and
corruption used by our fellows in the
election of Dechert. I used to know
Aleck when he lived in this county and
edited the Sentinel lie is a growing
man intellectually, and will SO grow on
if he lives to be 20 years old. But l
don't know just whether he has grown
so fast in morals. They called him the
reform candidate. Them city folks ought
to know how he Glands. But it would
be pretty heavy if he had only pulled
the wool over their eyes. don't be
lieve Aleck would send around party OF
fellows to stuff an elec'inn box or break up
the polls. don't think he'd touch thing
such as that, not him Tut his course
about the Legislature and other places i,
not as straight as a bee line, and I'm
sure he is mt an Andy Jakson. l don't
claim that Andy was saint. and I'm
sure that Aleck is mt. l heard that he
was on the ground floor of some pretty
big coal oil jobs, and mining job or
two about the Rocky Mountains, and he
was a third House member last winter On
the Border Claims BILL and it is raid
Il at he knoxs that there l. nine nilIions