Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-06-26
Letter from an Old Jacks0nian Democrat
OF. Greenwood Township.
NEAR SEVEN STAR TAVERN, I
June %. 1872.

My Dear Mr.. Edtor:-H Clear
how cloudless, how calm and quiet the
night is Nothing is heard but the lazy
croak of the frog in the warm stream and
stagnant pond, and the ch;rk of insects
peculiar to midsummer time. The moon
has not yet come up to simmer her ell
very rays over this part of this sin-cursed
earth. ! love such evenings; they fill
our hearts with the most delightful feel
inss, emotions and longinga that in many
cases never can be gratifed but you
know that it ia better to feel and long
and never realize, than never to feel and
long at all. So with me. Many of my
loncings can reach no further than wish
and hope, for you know that l am get
ting old and have passed my hay-day,
and have got into groove or rut, and
can't get out.
A lovely evening like this awakens
feelings and longings so far different from
the feelings and emotions that a dark,
tempestuous night start in ones heart
that we almost wonder whether we arc
always the same beings, spiritually. We
are told that the body-hair and nail,
flesh, bone and blood-undergoes an en-
tire change every seven years. Tell me,
don't we change of.ener than that in our
feelings and longings. If i: were not for
Andy Jackson and few other good men
that were the same thing always, I'd
think that man can be one thing to day
and another thing to morrow.
Time, circumstances aud weather
change, and. generally speaking, men
change with them. Few are stcadfsst.
Old Andy was as steadfast to his cause
as is the needle to the pole. but he was
Andy Jackson. you know.
A man vows and weds to-day-to-
morrow another crosses his path deeper
and more material depths are struck -
The cords of fidelity that bound him to
his former vows are snapped asunder,
and he is caught up in the whirling vor
tex of his new alteration, and hurried
along to happiness or misery,
But don't get scared, Mr.. Editor, /
amt agoing to caper off into love story,
though these Saturday nights are just
the time for such tales and actual love-
making. for, generally speaking, the mind
is free from the cares of the week at
least so it was in my younger days. and
when Andy lived Neither am agoing
to phlosophize on the why and the
wherefore of these whims, fancies and
changes, and try and find the exact cause
that moves them in matters of love In
the first place l ain a philosopher, and
in the next place there is the great phil
osopher, Horace Greeley, making such
changes and somersanlts so fearfully that
am commencing to feel a little doubtful
on philosophers. too
Goodness. gracious We'll. mercy save
us when such old philosophical chaps as
Horace Greeley are ready TO change from
life long course into course that he
denounced and fought against and de-
clared was wrong ! gag at that kind
of philosophy. We've lots of such phil
osophy in Greenwood so have You in
Mifflin. Bat l won't roint out just now
I'll do that by and by. l only say
that if Old Andy Jackson-who they
amt agoing to vote for any more in Berks
county since the Reading Convention
were living, he'd make the dust and
hair fly out of them fellows that sold us
out and are a running our party into The
ground SO deep that it will be buried too
deep for resurrection
l shiver and my hair stands up when
zee Old Greeley at the head of our party.
What did he ever do for itl lie bailed
jeff. Davis the man that Old Hickory
would have banged in the pettcoa. that
he was trying to sneak away in. For
that bailing the rebels feel mighty kind
toward Horace, and it was most blamed
kind, that's so. But that isn't al, that
draws them tarnel Southern chaps 80
lovingly to Greeley; not by long splice.
The cause sticks good deal deeper than
that. You know Horace has been
against free trade all his life. He has
preached protection to home labor for
thirty years. Old Hickory was a pro
tectionist. too, but he never showed the
white feather. He did not change, but
he told Calhoun "If you take the State
Of South Carolina out of the Union on
your free trade and State Rights doc
trine. you'll stretch hemp" How's that
alongside of Greeley, who. after shouting
"Protection" for generation, changes,
grows tame, wheels, turns his back on
protection and says, Here, take it into
the States and Congressional districts.
ana do with it as you please. Only
make me President and | shan't inter
fere bit | won't say word. I'll have
no policy on free trade and protection"
| tell you there is the nut, and it's the
next thing to the doctrine of State Rights,
under which the rebels left the Union,
and that's why they're patting Horace on
the back aud saying to him, GOOD fel-
low, we'll help you" Do you see itl
Old Andy never believed such doctrine