Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-03-08

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Of any body that wanted to Investigate
the matter 10 the. Dsuoeratis party. |
Since Andy Jackson tanied to invsssi-
gate John c. Calhoun, they have never
investigated, never, never since. Il
they have, tell me where. and III JOIN
them once more. It's . mighty big
difference in the acting Of the parties
IN dealing with corrupt practices among
their leading men. Every body kaows,
even down here Among abe stars, ihst . !
nun Der of tue Cabinet officers Of the
Administration OF James Buchanan
we're guilty Of crimes that are as noun
tains to MOLE hillockh when compared
to BeIknap's crime. Buchansn's Sea
retary of War, Floyd, for months VAS
secretly in communication, rot with =
few post traders who raised the prices
of goods they sold TO the soldiers at
the forts and then divided tho profits
on the goods sold at enormous prices,
but in communication with as many
people as he could get into the secret
of organizing TO overthrow the govern
ment, secretly organizing to take up
arms against the government, organiz'
ing to extend an institution that took
away the rights of whole race. It
was not selling goods to few thousand
at monstrous profit, but it was for the
purpose of cheating them out of their
labor and the labor of their families.
His combinations we're on no small
scale. FROM one armory alone be took
one hundred and twenty thousand
stand of arms, and put them in tie
hands Of men who afterwards used them
to shoot Northern men because they
refused 10 consent to let them break up
the government. Aud there was Cobb,
another of Buchanan's Cabinet officers.
Ton know be was Secretary of the
Treasury. lie was running the Trea-
sury of the Government as fast as be
could. The Indian Trust Fund disaS-
peared, and where. The paper OF the
United States was On the streets Of the
cities among curb-stone brokers at IL
per cent. discount, and Cobb was doing
it on purpose. Aud that's not the
worst of it. The whole business was
known to the leaders of their party.
Not a man wanted an investigation, and
when any Of your fellows said they
we're robbing the Government to break
it up, they said, it's not true. Ttere
was no grand sight of the party that
wanted to claim Old Hickory as its
head coming up as one man 10 condemn
Floyd and Cobb aud others for their
,hieving aud pIuder'ng work, and no
prosecution against them demanded,
and poor old xeak-kueed Jimmy Blu,
chanan didn't say, '.Let no guilty man
escape"
No one .akes Belknap's~ part. His
party as one man is in for his punish
ment and all who were concerned with
him. 1t wasn't SO with Floyd and
Cobb, Buchanan's Secretary of War
and Secretary Of the Treasury of the
United States. No, SIR is Was not 80
with them. The leaders cf their party
denied their work as long as they could,
and when they started their murderous
work of breaking up this g'vernmen,
they even went SO far ss to make ex-
cuses for them Belknap's crime will
be speedily punished; it is as nothing
when compared to the crime of the
Cabinet officers of Buchanan's Cabinet,
such as Floyd and Cobb, and they went
unwhipred of justice.
Now, my boy, be careful that you
don't get wrong in this matter. Stand
to your colors There is enough of the
right stuff in your party to punish al
such crimes and purify itself, as there
was in Old Hickory to punish and pu.
rify our party whilst he lived.
1t is the healthiest kind Of sign tc
see men punished for their shor.-cou-
ings in Office, and at no time in the his
tory Of the world has there been such 4
bunting out Of all manner of wrong
doing as that accomplished by the Re-
! publican party. Belknap is as dead a.
a mackeral saIted for thousand years
and every other fellow that may bt
caught 10 similar work will be served
as he has been.
Be sure of it, my boy, if there's !
difference between the way your party
aud the way Old Hickory ousted feI
lows for their crimes your fellows have
the benefit of the difference. So gooc
night, and don't be discouraged. l
you don't hear from me, we'll see eacl
other at the Mifii,u or Port Royal Fair
Yours truly,
BARTON SPEAK.
F0rt Sill.
Fort Sill, the post that has becom