Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-03-15
Letter from an Old Jacssonian Democrat
Of Greenwood TsnnshiY.
NEAR SEVEN STAR TASEkt,
March Ill. 1878.

fever pitch, on account of the fuss that
B, lknsp and his wife kicked up at
Washington, and the way they went for
the woman, nearly made my hair stand.
You see the Speaks are like old Andy
jackson they have a warm side for
the woman always You know how
Old Hickory took down his pistol land
he was good shot with that weapon
and WIS leaving the house 10 shoot
some fellow vino said Mrs. Jackson
smoked corn-cob pipe, when she
stopped him at the door and said he
shouldn', mind it, that she didn't, tisr
it was small talk. He listened, Of
course, and did not shoot the fellow
Old Hickory was always on the side Of
the women when they were right. He
must have come from Kuigbrly race of
mcn. for bis bearing TO the woman who
could claim his attention was the hom-
age of princely politeness without a
shade of weakness or todyism IN it.
Andy jackson never blew foul breath
On woman: he wasn't eternally grum-
bling about Ewes fall. He always con-
tended that at least half Of that load
shouid oe put on Adams shoulders, for
if Adam hadn't eaten, most likely Eve
would have been put away and then he
would have got another Eve, or some
other woman, aud the garden would
vet be IN existence, and We would all
be happy Andy always said the wo-
man couldn't alone make trouble /; it
must be "man and a woman" and he
never was so conceited as 20 declare
himself exalted so highly as to be out
of the reach of temptation, though, to
his credit be it said that during all his
long public career be ever remained
faithful, steady as the needle to the
pole, to Mrs. jackson. Old Hickory
was particularly severe on men who pro-
fessed to be stone blind to the graces
of womaukird, and always held b .mself
in distrust ON the question of "maD
and a woman" for he had read of so
many iIlustrious men who fell under the
charms of womankind, or rather be-
cane parties with womeE in conduct
that was of questionable kind. He
never forgot DAVID aud Uriah's wife,
and there 9as Julius Caesar, who once
was SO exalted that he expressed the
sentence that il SO common now, that
sCesar's wife must not only be vir-
iuous, but Caesars wife must be above
suspicion - and not long after secame
the party to one of the most famous
.smsn and q woman infrigues" in the
history of the world. Old Hickory
always prayed for power to withstand
temptation, or keep from tempting him
self. He always did hold that in nine
ty-nine cases in hundred the man is
the tempter, and not the woman. lie
said that if the Devil has sex he is a
rnan, and consequently Instead of tie
race falling through a woman ID fei'
through a man. How wish Old Hick-
ory could now come TO life and step IN
and help stop the outrageous arguments
that are daily circulated against the
women for their intrigues and extrava-
gance. He would fiDd the Speaks with
him, as they couldn't be found on the
other side without outraging their pedi
gree, for iD the lists of the tourna-
ments of the Old World of centuries
ago, their lances were poised for de-
fenceless women. Old Hickory knew
that II was the virtue of Iucretia that
expelled the Tarqulns and made Rome
a Republic. He never forgot that the
virtue of Esther, through Ahasuerus,
her husband, King of the Medes and
and Persians, saved her people from
the slaughter of the sword and be
could never get done telling OF the
good that has come through woman tc
man at Bethlehem, ON the night when
voices in the sky proclaimed "Peace OF
earth and good will to men," He al
ways closed, in discussing the subject
of ''man aud woman," by saying
that his s' smother was a woman" ant
that when be condemned womankind ht
condemned bis mother. Andy was to'
high strung for that. tie vas righ
when he set it down for fact tba. th,
men are to blame for the shortcoming'
of the women In most cases. l know
if Old Hickory could step about Wash
ington 10 the flesh now, how he woult
give it to Belknap, first for stealing
from the Government, aud then fo
blaming it on his wife. Whenever I
fellow goes into the business that Belk
nap was in, and then when be is caught
which any man who does so will sooUe
o. later be, and sets up cry over i
and blsmes it on his wife, he may b
set down as one of the most contempt
BILE sneaks that can be scared up Oh
Hickory sccrne6 all such people Sucl
howl as is now going up against tn
women for extravaganca. The fellow
are fools for SO howling, and haven
brains enough to reason that the me-
are the cause Of the extravaganza