Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-03-15

2uo s"r "o5 10 f'a"se VI H''"6 ~
wanted il. " hat seuseless fellow he
vas to raise 1t to such pitct that his
income couldn't stand it. He stole to
keep it up, got his wife to help hlrh,
aud then blames it on her. Old Andy
would say he is mcaner than stdog pie. "
Be!knsp IS one of class that will live
beyond his means, and his life at W ASH
incton proves how much he will take
from other people when he can get 1t.
He is one of class of dumb meD who
believe that 10 be in office means that
man mus. make . great show. Old
Hickory didn't believe that. Belknap
believed that he must live ike the no.
blemen of the governments of the Old
World. 1t would be all right fol. him.
to live that way on his own money. but
he believed that he must live that way
to be something in this Government.
He was too dumb to understand thar
this Government is not built on the
same kind Of foundation as those in
the Ola World. He wanted to be an
aristocra,ic and didn't know how. Ar
istocracy in Europe Is blood, not show
Bclknap didn't know what the sub
stance is, and went after the shadow,
anG got it TO q certainty, and demon
strated his own mean blood. I ould
any business be more shoddy o. more
mean blooded than to extort, steal,
fror, the wages of soldiers who are
serving the country at eleven aud six
teen dollars per month. Blooded peo-
pie dou't act in that way. The pure
aristocrafs are always the same; pow
erty does not crush or make them
mean; fortune does not affect them.
They are men and women regardless Of
the changes of life, aud they endure
for centuries. Just who Old Hickory
was, is not certainly settled, but I'll
bet high on i, that he had touch o.!
some pure aristocratic blood There
was nothing shoddy about him, and he
could no more have acted like Belknsp
than Belknap could act like Jackson.
When the Belknap disgrace came in
to the Stars, or rather whrI the news
of the work of the shoddyite Beiknap
reached the Stars, there was some loud
smiling done on the part of my old
friends who have departed from the
Jacksouian faith, but as the truth,
grain BY grain, came in, their smiling
grew less loud until it died out aud was
nothing but shape on .heir faces, and
now il has even lost shape, aud their
faces are as sober aud puckere1 as il
their diet consisted of unfrosted per
simmons. They thought 1t was your
party that was dong these things, when
the fact is; the men who are engaged IN
the dirty work are nearly all Demo
Gratis. fellows that wanted to shout for
ANDY jackson. Even the women tina;
tb.y blamed, are Democratic women.
Belkuap is Democrat Marsh IS a
Democrat, and the women they are try
ing 20 make shoulder the blame on ac-
count of extravaganza, are kentncks
women and Democrats, and tie inti-
mate friends of the BlackburDs, who
wen; to Canada during the rebellion, and
hired men to burn Northern property,
threw railroad trans off the track that
contained Northern soldiers, AMI sent
goods into the Northern States that bad
small pox matter in them. 1bey even
went SO far as to send Old Abe Lincoln
dozen Of 6ue shirts as present that
were full uf small pox matter. The
Biackburns were never punished for
their crimes, aud there is one Of them
in Congress now.
The false Jacksonians in Congress,
we're in for a certain amount of exposure
on the Belknap question. They wanted
enough to have it said that a member
of the Grant Cabinet !. or was con
cerned in it. They thought your fe!'
lows would excuse whoever ght bs
connected with the Administration, il
the stesllngs but when your party
rose up as one man, they got scared
for most of the people in it are of thei'
party. They said, ''this will never do
instead cf hurting the Republicans il
will Kill US for dozen years more, fol
the men on whom corruption is being
proved are Democrats, aud have alway!
been Democrats 1t is we'll knowI
fact that Grant has put many of bi
old party friends IN office.
1t was a stunning blow to our fellow
when they found out that tlymer dis
charged Marsh, the only witness so fa
that testified to the guilt of Belknap
and the community at large saw wha
miserable tricksters he and bis com
mittee is; they see through it all. Yo'
know articles of impeachment had bee'
started against Belknap. The who'll
case hung on what Marsh had sworn to
Ciymer left him 60, and the result i
that the impeachment itself, that ely
mer also started, or at least he ofere'
the resolution of impeachment in Con