Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-07-17
The Fall-The People will not Sustain 1t.

The Fall-The People will not Sustain 1t.
Horace Greeley has fallen. He was
nominated at Baltimore last week, by
the Democratic National Convention
Of the 1872 votes in the convention he
received CSC
1t is probably the most remarkable
combination of political antagonistic ele-
ments ever combined. The worlds
stands in wonderment at the spectacle of
political organization. numbering mil
lions. placing a man at its head whose
life has been chiefly spent in seeking it's
overthrow. He was champion against
Democracy when it sought to overthrow
American free industry, and when it
sough, to acquire territory in Mexico and
Spain, out of which to create new States
whose corner stones should be that
Capital shall own its labor
In former years he regarded that party
with the kecnest distrust, aud declared
his intention of never having aught to
do with it, as may be learned from the
following-one of the many paragraphs
Of similar character from his pen -
"Of that Democracy which robs the
effeminate Mexican of half his broad
domain, and regards with covetous eye
the last of declining Spain's valuable
essions-w which plants its heels on
the neck of the ahject and powerless
negro, and hurls it's axe after the flying
form of the plundered. homeless, and
desolate Indisn-may i: be written on
every grave that never was follower.
and lived and died in nothing its debtor"
What fall from high and lofty pur-
pose Since the fall of Eve-who was
wooed and beguiled into the eating of
the fruit of death, not because she wish
ed to disobey and forsake the path of
virtue and enter the way of corruption,
but because she wished to please her Sc
ducer, who impressed her with the belief
that there was no death but pleasure in
what he proposed-there has been no
fall like it. The consequences, however,
will not be so Girefull as those that fol-
lowed the fall of the mother of our race.
The Democratic nomination for the
Presidency, formerly despised and for
bidden fruit to Horace, after being
extended to him by the Democ-
racy-his satan-and assured by the
chiefs of the party that there is no death
in it, he takes it, impressed with the
belief that there is no wrong or death to
his former position and views. He will
find his defeat, and in that defeat he will
be spared the humiliating sight of seeing
his country and party humbled and dis
graced
Through his liberal and magnanimous
nature. the Democracy expect to place
themselves again in power, and to re-
trieve for themselves what they lost in
their efforts to destroy free Government
They see in the man who believes that
there is no hell for the punishment of the
who believes in the abolition of
all capital punishment laws, and who in
the kindness of his heart declared that
the confinement of more than few davs
Of the Chief of the Rebel Government
in prison, was wrong, and willingly went
his security for his release, is the char
acter out of whom they can mould
chief to pave the way for future man
,gement in the Government. In these
enient qualities, so seldom met with,
and so utterly untitled for practical
operation in the present state of society,
The Democracy see just the character to
secure for themselves the most advanta-
geous position, if they can but get him
placed at the head of the Government
With the aid of Republican votes they
expect to do it.
Place Horace Greeley at the head of
he nation, with the Democratic party as
his counsel and patron-which they
would be-and his magnanimity will in
luce him to submit to any and all Gov
proposals that are made that
10 not actually SAVIOR of oppression. He
will agree to Democratic management
IF the money affairs of the nation, to the
pay ment of the rebel war debt, to dam
lges done by the passage of the national
armies through the south. and he will
agree TO the payment for the slaves set free. !
md it would not be beyond the magma
lmity of his nature to agree to the pay
nent of bounty to rebel soldiers. This
nay seem like an impossibility, but GER
;ainly not more impossible than seemed |
he nomination of Horace Greeley by |
he Democracy for the Presidency. five
years ago. The safest and surest way is
o elect Grant and keep Greeley and his
nillenial notions out of the White House.
| he people will not sustain the fall.
The Baltimore american Gays that |
Iol. Mcclure, in a speech made in that
ity, declared that he will support Buck
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