Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-05-08
Letter from an Old JacksOnian Democrat
of Greenwood Township.
NEAR SEVEN STAR TAVERN,
Msy 4. 1872. !

| NEAR SEVEN STAR 1ASkkS, [
May 4. 1872. !
My Dear Mr.. Editor: 1t is good
while since l wrote you letter be-
lieve the last / wrote you for the SENTI-
MEL was on snowy Saturday evening.
l feel right well now after walk down
to the Stars and back. in the fine cool
invigorating air Of this grand Saturday
night. Who wouldn't live down here,
among these hills and fresh running
streams, where the burning cares of an
ambitious world never Gomez We don't
have any care down here, only what
comes of farming our land, which isn't
noted for its flow of milk and honey. A
freer and more independent set than live
down here needn't live anywhere. Our
eyes and hearts amt all the time going
out into every part of the world for
things to make money in. and after places
that seem to give rest and comfort but
when the truth and nothing but the
truth is told, as Greenwood Squires say
when they swear our fellows, the places
are full of thorns that stick fellows
head awfully at every turn. and make
him miserable. Just think what thorns
are tagging the fellows that are in Office,
because, may be, something will turn up
and turn them out just think what
thorns are tagging the fellows that are
scrabbling to get into Office. Golly, how
they are jagged. We are never jagged
down here, only sometimes about elec
ton times No, sir, we don't feel the Jars
of the great outside world down here
often, and we don't want to. Its TO our
comfort not to. Ali is vanity. and so on,
and so forth, you know the good Book
says It's fact that can't be rubbed
out, that for free life, free from heavy
mental care, the life of farmer is the
one. to lead 1 guess Old Andy would
have been farmer if he'd had one to
farm in his young days. lie was strong
enough for that business anyhow.
You might bet never liked Horace
Greedy, because he wasn't a Jackson
Democrat, but was wooly-head but
when he bought fifty acres of land, and
said in his paper. that of course he would
be doing wrong to wish that he could live
his days over, but if he could he would
be farmer, l let up little, and didn',
think go hard of him any more; l thought
that i; was all just SO. But when we
were told at the Stars this evening by
neighbor that had come from Millerstown.
that the soreheads Of your party nomi-
mated him for President, Greely stock
went down for me lower than ever before.
I said, by the stars that twinkle and
shine, Old Greely has a thorn in his head,
too, and that thorn is the want to be
President of these United States Well,
if he isn't a cunning old fellow, as we'll
as intelligent, don't know nothing. l
now solemnly and seriously believe that
lie bailed jeff Davis-who Old Andy
would have put to hemp stretching if he
had lived-just because he expected some
time to run for the Presidency. and that
would give him strength among our fel-
lows, and get him heap of votes.
If our neighbor hadn't brought a paper
along that had the latest news about the
matter in, l wouldn't have believed it,
but l guess it's so The paper said they
had big time at Cincinnati, where they
nominated him 1t said that the great
woman's rights man-that fellow that
writing that free-love woman, Mrs. Wood
hull, up-was there, was a following
louder for Horace than our fellows hol
lowed Sharp's rifles and the Tribune,
when We were trying to gouge you fel
lows out Of Kansas. They say that
Greedy is free-lover, but you know that
isn't true; he is only universalist. That
he don't deny, but declares it open aud
above board. But that isn't here or
there. Religion isn't politics, aud politics
isn't religion, but the world must have
them both, and can't get along without
them no more than people can do without
eating, you know. Old Andy had both
politics and religion, and both of them
the best kind, too.
lguess that you fellows are commen-
cling to think that Greely's religion and
politics are both good deal unsteady
and fishy. Now, don't get mad when
speak my mind and say that he reminds
me Of the fellow that has been Baptist,
Methodist, Lutheran. Presbyterian,
and almost what not. Horace is Ger.
tainly fshy. He helped Old jeff into
trouble, and then he helped him out II
May be that's the higher law He cried
protection; now he and the free etrade-s
are singing song together. They'll
fight by and by, just mind. When you
think he's orthodox. as the preacher says,
why he isn't. When you think he's
with men who are sound on the political
questions that he taught, why's he's for
some other fellows, and is kicking up a
row. He's been fighting Grant hard for
some time, you know. By the Eter-
nal, as Andy used to say, l believe he
was fishing all the time for the place
himself Horace ain't an ANDY J..L