Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24
Lasr week the Democrat and Register

LAST week the Democrat and Regisfe,
denied that Democratic members in the
Legislature and Democrats outside ol
that body denounced Grant, Sheridan
Sud the Republican party generally, foi
IFS Southern policy. Such a denial i:
the embodiment Of stupidity in the face
OF facts There is not Legislature il
the country in which the Democratic
PARTY have a maj 'rity but what La:
passed denunciitory resolutions of some
kiud or other The Democrat md Reg
lStsr itself has been ladened with de-
nuhcia;iou, and in Mifiiin;own, as else
where, men who wish to be claSsed among
The lea ers of the Democratic party
Rave In their denunciatiOn declared that
Sheridan should be shot for his inter-
ference ut New Orleans. So much as
10 the denunciation that the Democrat
and Register denies.
As to whether the rebel element that
comes into the next Congress to the
number of eighty some. enough TO con-
troll all Democratic caucusses and there
By shape the policy of that party, will
pass laws pensionIng the rebel soldiers !;
laws to pay the rebel debt, and laws to
repeal all measures obnoxious to them,
no one but leading aud blinded Demo
Gratis believe to the contrary. All that
is wanting to bring about such an end
is the opportunity for the rebel ele-
msnt TO have the chance to manipulate
the Northern Democracy. They will
shape the sympalhyzers as a potter
shspeth his clay.
The Northern leaders Ct the Demo-
cratic party apologize always in some
way or other for the massacres that are
committed in the South. Men who thus
spologize need but to have the oppor
,nnIty and they will become the open
co-workers in whatever their Southern
masters propose. The latest apologies
that they haze been making for the
murders, aud other ou.rqges committed
II the South, is that the people of that
section Of the country lave been and
are still being robbed by excessive tax
alton, under the forms of law, aud that
Is so provoking aad 50 outrageous that
the work of the White Leaguers-
Banditti-is not TO be wondered at
indeed nothing else can be expected.
The four thousand murders and wound
iugs in Louisiana alone since 1865,
are apologized for in that way. Peo-
pie who so apologize will not hesitate
moment to help enact laws to pay the
rebel debt, pension the rebel soldiers.
repeal the new amendments TO :he
United States Constitution, break up
the present system of national and
greenback currency, aud do whatever
their Southern leaders may desire them
to do.
Before the late Congressional com
Inittee in New Orleans indisT u'abIc
evidence was given that the good lands
adjacent to New Orleans, and in other
places in the State, on which are raised
cotton, sugar, and other profitable pro
duets, which yield per acre doubly more
moRey than the best lands in Pennsyl
vania, cultivate them in whatever you
NAV, are assessed at ten dollars per
acre, and that the most excessive taxa
tion is seven per cent.
In Fermanagh township, in this eoun-
ty, the assessment of land reaches as
high as forty collars per acre. This
land will not make the owner half the
money per acre that the ten dollar as
sessed lands in Louisiana will Ii these
lands in fermanagh township were as
sesscd at ten dollars per acre, the taxa
ton on them to pay what was paid in
1874 would haze to be thirteen per
cent that is six per cent. higher than
tue tax in Louisiana, which, as stated
above, was seven per cent.
If Southern tax payers murder peo
pie who tax them seven per cent, what
should be done with people who burden
the tax payers with thirteen Per cent !
If tie Democratic leaders would hint
that the numbering of the officers of
fermanagh township and the driving
out of the families of the same Cor the /
taxation Of last year would be apollo /
gized for BY them, what would ,he mass
of the people think How would they
act +, The Democratic leaders every
week, every dsy, apologize for the acts
Of the Southern BandItti that have as
little cause for their murderous work as
have the tax pagers in Fermanagh /
township. Men who murder, as they
do in the South, and men who apologize
for such murders, as the leaders Of the :
Democracy are doing, will not hesitate !
a moment, once they get the full power,
10 enact 10 pay Tie rebel debt, pension
the rebel soldiers, repeal the amend
rsents to the United States ronstiru
iion. and what they will do with the