Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-30

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sight Of you, though l looked for you,
for I vented you to point out to me
6enefal Wistef, the candidate of you,
party for Congress. They tell lne be
was a mighty good soldier. and helped
to smash Secesb, and that's 20 much
like Old Andy did--you know how be
nipped .he bad of Secesh in South
Carolina-that I'm for bin. They say
he's a plain, straight-going man, ol
Quaker stock is good business mau
and farmer. He's just the kind oi
man to send to Congress. The popin-
jay clas, has alMays been too big
there. He's tie kind of q man Old
Hickory would tie to if he we're living
and in this district. You are q young
ster, and maybe you don't understand
what mighty big things hang on the
make up of the next Congress. tell
you If the next Congress is made up Of
the people who winked at the rebels
and said quietly, "Go in, Johnnies,
we're for you if you win, hand, glove
and ALL" we'll have the biggest trouble
you can think of. It'll be the next
thing to the rebellion. The whole
South will put up her back for 6ght,
and then say to Congress, "Just you
keep hands of and we'll settle tbi.
thing down here among the 'niggers,
CARPET baggers aud scallawags.'"-
Why, the South is better armed now
than ever. Every State and every
county has its White League" and
they are armed to the teeth with the
best o. guns, and all they want is to be
let alone BY Uncle Sam, and they'll
murder every man who isn't for them.
| wouldn't live in that part of the
country among them internal heather
for the whole world. If Old Hickory
had fixed the thing up after the Rebel
lion, there wrdld have been some hang
ing done, and that would have settled
them. What they need down there is
the enforcement of law. They don't
respect law any more than a hog re-
spects a parlor. They have more mur-
ders than in the jungies Of Africa, and
there is no punishment. Why when l
heard Of them kicking out : whole
State government in Louisiana and
numbering the people, the other day,
| felt myself all over to know If it
want dream, and then i asked Mrs.
Speak, "Am indeed Barton Speak, in
the the land Of the living, or is this
place another world 2" Said she, "Ah,
Barton, you are not dreaming, neither
are you in the next OF other world you
are in the world in which you were
born" and then l kuoved where the
land lay. knowed it was rebel sork
| tell you, boy. the Speaks have not
had many prophets in the family, and
of all that way inclined, guess l am
the least, but ysu may just set it down
that if the next Congress is made to
suit the murderers of the South, and
they carry the next Presidential elec-
ton, you may just expect to have to
leave for CInada; they'll. drive you
out, as the Mexicans drive the people
out they don't like; and the colored
people will be again enslaved. They
call everything they didn't do them
selves fraud. tell you, boy, if the
people are not wide awake at the cleo
tion, they'll have another trouble that
Will be nearly, If not altogether, as big
as the first rebellion Send such men
as General Wister to Congress and
there will be no danger, and the retels
will settle down.
But | wanted to write something long
about Riverside Park Fair. l have
only succeeded IN getting the letter
long without the Fair in it. lean only
in this last line say it was a tip top
success, and that l will say something
long about it and everybody that l knew
there, by and by.
Yours truly,
BARTON SPEAK.