Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-05-21
Letter from an Old Jacksonian Democrat
OF Greenwood T0Nnship.
NEAR SEVEN STAR TAVERN,
May II. 1879.

starless as this Saturday night is, l
could not help going down 70 the
Seven Stars, which, with all their
dimmed luster, are the guiding light
of this enti-Andy Jackson region.
But, dark as the night is, the leaves
expand, the grass grows, and the
blossoms send off . sweet fragrance
In the enjoyment OF the refreshing
rains that have been so copiously
poured ont on this May day. You
know May is The love month, and
everything In nature about here
seems TO be as happy IN its new life,
as men and women In new found, or
IN renewed love, when they have told
each other of the mysterious longing
of the heart, but the dark night viii
keep more than few from the Sat
urday night sparkling meetings. Old
Hickory's favorite poetry for such
times, when he was prevented from
seeing his fame, ran thus, and is from
Shakespeare. The bioods about the
Stars nay commit it, and console
themselves by repeating il, when dark
nights keep them away from their
sweethearts
~were with her, the night would post
too soon,
But now are minutes added to the
hoars.
To spite NE now, each minute seems
an hour,
or f,r u
flowers,
Pack night, peep day, good day
Of night now borrow,
Short night, tonight, and length
myself tomorrow.
But 7 don't propose to go off into
an article on love in the month of
May, or to talk Of how old Andy or
other people felt on dark nights when
they couldn't get around to see their
sweethearts and then / want you to
know that at the Stars they were not
full Of Cupid's holiest desires. They
talked oi things of State, and the
powers that be about here talked in a
queer way. They went for Hayes
heavy. for his vetoes, and it is certain
that the leaders hereabOuts have 10
love for hin. They had kind OF
thought that because he threw his
influence in favor OF the old rebel
element in Louisiana, and South Car
olina, and left them flch those States
from the Republicans, that he was
for them certain, and that all they
had to do was to crack their whip
and drive on. You know Hayes tried
the love policy, but it wasn't love that
they wanted They wanted some
thing else. They want the nigger, as
they called the colored folks, and the
doctrine of State rights enforced.
And all of the talk of the leaders at
the Stars to night tended in the same
direction. They said that the nigger
couldnt govern himself; they say ne
isn't fit to manage for himself, that
he should have master, and that the
United States government is med
ding too much in the affairs OF the
States. That's the old doctrine
nothing more or less-and when they
say that the nigger hasn't the ability
to take care of himself, it means that
when they get the power they viii
take care of him, as they did years
sgo in slavery; and when they say
Uncle Sam is meddling too much
with the States it is their way of
propping up the doctrine of State
rights They raised the war for
slavery, and they would soon have
extended it to what they called the
poor white trash, if they had got
through with their rebel Job, and the
excuse or right under which they
claimed to rebel was under what they
call State rights. The mass of the
Democracy don't believe such dan
gerous doctrine, but their leaders pull
the wool over their eyes by directing
their attention to other little things.
But it beats all nature how the old
rebel element twist the northern
Democrats around their finger. Ii
the people were made of such soft,
easilv-worked stuff as the Democratic
leaders in Congress, this government
wouldn't last as a free government
twelve months, for the old rebel ele-
ment would upset it, and restore
slavery, and call the slave-roll on
Bunker Hill.
/ didn't use to Ike Hayes very well
but since be put his foot on the new
revolution of the brigadiers in a sort
cI Andy jackson style think vel OF
him, and believe that he is Of the
true Jacksonian grit. II he had
signed .he two bills that he vetoed
he would have had the South in re
be,Eon in less than ten months, and