Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-08-18

.aa' Is close enough, close enough 10 NOT h,
"rant. To be sure be knew Grant a. MANI
another man does who went to the White
mouse He gave Grant present or two.
out mat goes for nothing in the face of the
TACT mat thousands of presents have bes,
presented BY both Americans and R,,o
peans' Even the Sultan of Turkey present.
Cd Two valuable horses. Why don,t ,bsv
sag nat Grant and the Sultan and his bar.,n
are connected. The fellow from the West
who gave Grant two horses did no -.
than the King of Turkey did. Win any.
"ouy say that the Sultan was giving pres.
ents TO Grant TO help run Republican cam
paignf Don't you believe it. The ,h;es
VINO was getting rich in the whisky frapa
business no more -bargained with Grant as
10 the whisky ring transactions, than Grant
oargained with the Sultan of Turkey for the
purchase Of the Ottoman Empire. By the
statement OF the man @ho cheated the gov.
erhment out of whisky revenue no bargain
was made with Grant. The bargain was
always made with Babcock; Babcock WAS
the man; he was the unfaithful nan that
stood near 10 Grant Men often ge, into
responsible places and are no. true to the
men who put them in place. OldApdy had
to change his whole cabinet because they
got to kicking over the traces here ard
there, on various subjects. To-day the men
who are Kicking up such a dust because one
or more Of GRANTS cabinet was engaged in
the whisky fraud business and in the Indian
post business fraud, know that one of Bu-
chanan's cabinet was engaged in stealing
the ships Of the Navy of the government,
ahd another one was engaged in stealing
guns with which TO arm a new government
and start rebellion. II they know anything
they know that the whisky frauds were
great wrongs but they grew ont of the first
frauds or thefts of the Buchanan adninis-
tration. Old Hickory would FAY SO, if be
could talk TO us tonight. But if Babcock
and Beiknap were unfaithful as ministers to
Grant, and We're running an underhanded
game of their own, il is not the first time
that such scamps got into place, and shut
the eye of their master while they were
wronging some one else. II is often done
in families. / could name people in this
community who have been wronged by their
own children. could name parents who
have had unfsithful children, and when the
children were suspected of wrong and were
challenged, they persistcntly deried it.
could tell you of girls who loved unwisely,
and denied their misstep till denial was of
no use. could tell OF sons who forged
their fathers name and denied their bad
work till denial was of no use. So ii is
in matters of state. Old Hickory said it
was so, and his experience taught him. 1t
is no uncommon thing for 4 Governor, |
President, a King to get man or two into |
his political household that should not be |
in il. could state many cases in these /
times when such things tcok place, when 1
the trusted officer used the name of his mas
ter TO carry On things that his master or 1
employer knew nothing OF. Last week when |
talking about Tanner | referred TO the Bible. |
will speak of it again. 1t is the greatest |
of books. 1t gives pictures Of every shade /
of human character, and it gives us char
acter of minister like Ratccck, who was
in high favr-, and who was doing things |
that should not have been done. Old Andy
read the Bible great deal. II was the
that he looked into to find a
likeness as 10 what Humankind will do. Do
you know how a number of ministers con-
spired together TO rriia Daniel, ard how they
got the king into certain wrong things, when
he was as far removed from the spirit of
ioing wrong as Heaven is removed from
Hell. You have not forgotten how Hanian,
another trusted mislster or cabinet officer
,f a king, stood so close TO the king, and
had his confidence to such degree that he
yot Ahasuerus worked up to tie dreadful
wrong of issuing an order TO slay all of the
Jews in the kingdom. Minister Haman was
! conspiring fellow, and his plan of murder
included even Queen Esther, for the order
N1s 10 Nil al tut VI Nus~s w
ion within the limits of the kingdom. The
plan was so secretly guarded by the devil
sh Haman that the king never once sus-
oected that he was made a party to a mur-
lerous outrage. Grant knew no more of
he wrong-doinE of Babcock and Belknap
han the kings mentioned knew of the wrong
ioings of their ministers or cabinet officers.
rhe cabinet officers were running the mat
ers so cuhningly that it appeared as if the
Whole transaction was an open secret to the
government that they represented, when
he truth Of the matter was, no one knew
If it But themselves and the ring that they
ep-esented; and that is the way precisely
With the whisky ring and the army ring that
3abcock and Belknap headed. 'lltell you,
,oy, Grant knew no more of their work than
-oH or me.
Good night. guess III reach Hancock
" the next letter, unless the Democracy
~ 10 drench us with another whisky story.
Yours, truly,
BARTON SPEAK.