Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-01-01
Letter from an Old JacksOnian Democrat
OF Greenwood Township.
NEAR SEvEN STAR TAVERN, !
Dec. 81. 1872.

Of Greenwood Township.
NEAR SEVEN STAR TAVERN,
Dec. 81, 1872.
My Dear IHr. Eator:-
This is the Saturday night before
Christmas and that makes it doubly dear
to me. You know how Saturday night
and the night before Christmas affected
old Andy Jackson You know that
they are the nights that bring Peace
upon Earth and good will TO man., they
bring peace good will and rest to millions
of poor and heavy ladened. God bless
the Saturday night and the night before
Christmas. For all that you or l know.
or any body else knows this Saturday
night .siEe 21rt, day Of December,
may be just the very night before Christ
mas, for we all know that the men who
are fu lest of book learning do not know
the exact day on which the Reedemer of
mankind was born. 1t was a night
somewhere about the close of December,
that is known and nothing more. Who
knows but that it was on the night of
the 2lst, Dec, that the star of Bethle-
ham stood over the place where the
young child was. Perhaps this very
night eighteen hundred and seventy two
years ago. the greatest proclamation ever
issued to sin cursed race was announ-
cod to the shepards watching their Aocks
as the wise men of the East, under the
guidance of the star of Bethlehem,
reached the stable where Christ was
born. hear it again "peace upon earth
and good will to man.
Do you believe in stars2, Andy Jack
son believed in them, and that he was
born under lucky one, and that it gui-
ded him all of his days. We people
down here used to believe in stars in
the.seven-that used to be painted plain
ly so that all could see them, most people
here abouts once thought it great thing
to be under the guidance of them, they
are are dimmed now, they ere loosing
their brightness in the. 6r mament, and
soon they will be no more
Ny star tells me that l shall write
their glory, their decline and fall. They
are part Of the history Of Greenwood,
and amt eoing 10 let them die. No
Sir,thcse stars shant be blotted cut, they
shall shine mighty bright in my great
book. | do know stars though, that not
only got dim but went clean out, stars
in the hearts of men and women that
went out and now sicken them with
their heavy, thick darkness.
If would, / could name to you men
and women who carry dark dead stars
in their hearts aching every day. Men
aud women pledged in the bonds of mat
rimony with beings who have brought
them but the deepest disappointment in
everything connected with the marriage
relations. could tell you of men who
keep their vow to the letter. They vio-
late no pledge in the letter. in those things
they have been faithful but whose disap-
pointments lave carried them to be faith
less in the spirit. ! could tell you of men
and women who in the spirit regard not
the letter, AID who madlx love and arc
madly loved by congeniai ones, but who
keep the gulf of separation between :hem
in honor to themselves in honor to society
and in honor to their friends. 1 follow
old Hickory only in his good points, You
know, and just here I drop him like a
hot potatoe, for you know be took some
other fellows wife and married her. The
old fellow wasn't satisfied to let his and
her spirits mingle lovingly. but be must
viJlate the law. lie must have her for
his wife. l can never forgive Andy for
setting such bad example.
A have had stous hearted men to really
cry in my presence and say Barton what
shall | do am almost dead with nv
disappointment at home l love another,
I'll leave everything behind and go to
distant part Of The world and their begin
life anew, and be happy. tell these
unfortunate people that they must stand
by the letter of the contract if it kills,
and conduct themselves lawfully and not
help spoil society more then it is spoiled
in that way think talked to them
right. 1 talked like old Andy when he
talked right.
I have mighty big feeling Of sym
pathy for folks when they get into such