Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-11-06
A Certain Course will Produce a Certain
EesuIt, both in the Affairs Of Men aud
Nations - The Certain Results Of the
Elections.

Nations - The Certain Results Of the
Elections.
It is an axiom that certain line Of
,ction or conduct will produce certain
result, and that no two live an.agonisiic
pm ciples can live in harmony with each
other. To illustrate: 1t is certainty
daily and saves one quarter OF il, at the
end Of stated time--say one year-his
purse will contain given sum, above all
expenses. Il is equally certain if a man
earn a certain amount daily and expend
it ali ard borrow additional sums from
Ills friends, Or contract debts above hi-
income. at the end of stated time-say
one year-his purse will be empty and
he will be in debt.
The first man will become the posses
-sor of means. tax payer, supporter OF
the State 7 he second man will become
bankrupt, a consumer of other peoples
means aud a burden upon the State
Men entertain and practice antagonistic
views in the pursuits and conduct of life
One determines, no matter what others
may do or say, that he will be honest,
sober and industrious and always hold
Iii. passions and impulses under the con-
troll of his Judgment Another deter
mines he will take people and affairs
az he finds them aud give license to his
passions and impulses, disregard his
Judgment and accept honesty, sobriety
and industry, only when he cannot do
otherwise Their antsgonisms each pur
sue a different course and each reach
different end or result. The one leads
an honorable life and reaches an honora-
ble end The other leads "A dishonorable
life and reaches a dishonorable end. This
is individual action or conduct AZ with
individuals, so with Churches, Nations
and governments, with this difference
that the antagcnisms Of individuals ef-
feet but few people, while the antago-
nisms of Churches and Nations effect
mlny people. The Roman Catholic
and Protestant creeds constitute the
churches OF Europe and America, and so
anita gonistic are they that there is great
gulf between them that can never be
bridged. The one or the other must ul
timatcly triumph. The antagonisms Of
different elements in one Nation and un-
der one Government is forcibly illustrated
in the history of our own Government
that united in one common whole two
of the most deadly opposing interests
those of Slavery and Freedom For
years they struggled for the mastery OF
this Government at the ballot-box, the
place designated by our free system Of
Government to settle all disputes effect
ing the general interests. In 1850 the
sentiment against the extension Of sla
very was so strong that Abraham l.in-
celn was elected President over John
Breckenridge. The slavery extension
candidate failing at the ballot box, the
slave interest unsheatEei the sword, ho
ping thereby to conquer and bring into
subjection with that instrument OF tyr
any and despotism the "audacious free
men of the Northern States" that dared
denounce the sale and barter of human
kind as wrong, and to vote against men
who declared the broad and despotic
principles that capital should own its
labor" was the only true foundation for
society to rest on. The sword failed in
it's mission. For their efforts at the de
siruction of the free principles of this
Government, nothing has been required
of them, further than the liberation of
their slaves, and the comforting upon
them of the rights of suffrage and the
right to vote, the right to sue and be sued
in the courts, as so many safeguards
against the rc-establishment of slavery
and the doctrine of caste. They have.
however, never recognized this action
and result as binding; but to the contra.
ry, through their representatives and
leading men in Congress, in conjunction
with their Northern Democratic allies, no
later than last February, voted against
resolution declaring that the Northern
civilization. as embodied in the late
amendment to the Constitution, are bind
ing upon the whole country. This Con-
gressional action was but true exhibit
of The sentiment of that party toward
the principles that had triumphed agains,
rebellion. 1t is an unmistakable evidence
that the an,agonism that hurried on the
war was not dead but alive and oulv
needed an opportunity to assert itself.
In The issue of the SENTINEL, of DC
tober 23rd, we presented the turning
points in the contes. between Carthage
and Rome, for the martery of the world,
as an illustration Of how one Govern
ment or Governmental principle, may
nearly have reached permanent basic,
over Its antagonist when in an unguard-
ed time negligence. inactivity OF mis-