Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-05-29
Letter from an Old JacksOnian Democrat
of GreenMeod Township.
NEAR SEVEN STAR TAVERN,
Nav %. 1872.

be as bad as the beathens, you'd say,
without them. They are our moral and
religious safely valves. through which
escape the cares that have burdened us
during the week, and give us chance
for moral and religious relief. Our glo,
rious Saturday night is but the lniroduc,
ton to Sunday If we'd have no Sun
day of course, you know, we'd have no
Saturday night. Saturday night is the
vestibule to Sunday. and some fellows
like only the vestibul.., just like some
fellows at church. They're wide awake
in the vestibule. but sleepy in church
and sleepy on Sunday. | don't know
whether Old Andy Jackson was sleepy
fellow on Sunday, but rather guess not
He was always wide awake, you know,
and then, besides that, he was a Presby-
terian in his later days, and you know
that's enough to satisfy any sane man
how Sunday is kept. Why | know some
?resbyterians that won't grind coffee on
Sunday. | know how the Methodists,
the Lutherans, the Dunkcrs, the Omish,
and other christian denominations keep
Sunday, for we have sprinking of most
every sort of people in Juniata, except
Universalists. l tell you that Id like to
know how The Universalists keep Sun
day, and what they think of the day.
If WASH afraid that Old Horace Greely
and the fellows down here that have an
eye on me, would think that In agoing to
try and get into his good graces, SO that if
he's elected President I'd get an office.
/ I'd write to him and ask him what he
thinks and knows about Sunday. Id
ask him if he's one of them kind of old
chaps that think that the day is mostly a
human institution got up more for the
rest of the body and mind after six day 3
work than as day for religious worship.
Well, wouldn't be surprised bit if the
OLD fellow believed just such stuff as that.
don't say that he does, but it wouldn't
be more unorthodox than to believe that
there is no hell. lie don't believe in
hanging Eurderers, you know. He's
down on capital punishment. and if he
has helped to bring about by his teaching
the state of affairs in New York city that
gives the cut-throats and murderer the
assurance to say that hanging is played
out in New York, why his liberal friends
should stick that among his great reform
measures Well it's pretty high reform
that teaches that there is to be no more
hanging in this world for the highest of
crimes, and that there is no hell in the
next. That fellow who believes such
stuff as that in this sin cursed world,
and wants 10 become the President and
ruler ot great nation, is almost enough
to mako Andy jackson restless in Lis
grave.
Old Horace is just about as uncertain
in his politics az he is in his religion. lie
got down on them Southern fellows just
at time when Ike fight for power in the
territories sprung up, and went for them
as he goes for meat eating. You know
he don't eat meat; he cats vegetables,
and when he gets into the White House
| just expect that he'll have law passed
that we II ali have to eat vegetables
onions and sich Ike, to keep away the
scurvy He pitched into them heavy,
and he got his name up as great anti
slavery man but when the South
showed its teeth the old fellow got
scared and said let them 60. But the
North, Andy like, said no, no !!
and Old Horace caved to popular opin-
ion, and his first war cry was, On to
Richmond. Bat he got silk of that by
anG-by-as he will get sick OF his liberal
friends by -and-by, and as he got sick of
the tariff question to get the nomination
and turned out a peace man. You
know what time your Andy Jackson
Abe Lincoln had with him when he lis.
tened to the rebels Clay, of Alabama,
and Ho!combe, of Virginia, and wanted
to, and did go to Canada TO arrange
terms Of peace with them tarnel scamps
Among the numerous things that he pro-
posed was this, that the Union pay four
hundred millions of dollars to the slave
States for the abolition of slavery. This
was in ga, just when Grants strong
grip was beginning to shut off the rebel
wind.
If Gid Horace felt SO toward the
Johnpies in 1854, how would he feel if
they helped to make him President in
1872? Who knows but that he'd put
one or two in his Cabinet, and go in for
the payment of the whole rebel debt
Old Abe, however, put his foot on that
little peace scheme of the Sage of-well
l forget what, but l mean Greely-and
came out in a proclamation on the sub
ject on July is, 1864 Horace didn't
like Abe for that, and l am told that he
wasn't for his nomination the second time.
but did after all support him after his
nomination.
I'm agoing to drop the fair, but can't
help thinking how good Horace would
feel at fair, particularly when among