Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-03-03
Judge Jeremiah Black, is out in

Judge jeremiah Black, is out in
an article in the North american Re
rier, against Grant, or the third term
as he calls it, He expresses a fear
that Grant might do as Nero and
Domitian did with Rome. The article
of the Judge, is ''rope of sand
and it must of its own weight break
into a thousand pieces when he at
tempts to stretch Roman history
into a parallel with the present con
dition of the Republic The liberty
of Rome had been destroyed by
Julius Caesar, before Nero and Do
mitian saw the light of day. The
days of the Roman Republic, if ever
it could have been called such, had
been ended and the days of the
Roman kings, or emperors again
resumed, before either Nero or Do
mitian came upon the stage of
action. Generally, in the times that
the Judge writes of, the Pretorian
guard, the pet soldiers of the En-
perors chose the Emperor, and the
people had nothing to do with it.
The Judge who can imagine a SINH
larity in the state of society, as found
under the Roman Emperors, and,
the state of society as It exists to-day
in the American Republic, of the
United States, has an imagination
of unbounded fertility, and can do,
perhaps, what no other man can 60,
excepting that class Of men, who
could calmly sit by, and see an arm
ed organization seek to overthrow
the Republic, in the interest of hu-
man slavery, and in the face of it all,
maintain that our Government had
no right to employ the army, to pre-
vent the slave holding states from
dividing the Government. There
is nothing to fear from any man, or
set of men: the liberties of the peo
pie are safe as they can be, and will
remain so, until the people forget to
settle all their disputes by peacable
means. Once they refuse to do that
and resort to arms, or war. their
liberty viii be put in great danger,
for war developes the military power,
which, when in full sway, is despotic,
and rules 20 suit itself, But the Re
public is not a military camp like
Rome was, and it cannot become
such, unless the people throw it into
such a condition, which. when once
done, it would beyond all question
fall to the rule of the soldier. If the
state of society that now exists in
this country is preserved there is no
more danger of Grant becoming
King than there is of Black becoming
Emperor of the Republic. There
are two extreme parties in the country
the one party are the friends of the
Judge; the jeff, Davis, party; the
other party are the Communists.
either of which, if strong enough,
would bring a state of war on the
country, the way out of which no
human being could see, and it would
make no difference, under such cir
cumstances who the occupant of the
Presidential chair might be, for the
soldier would come to the surface,
and bring order out of disorder.
But it is a pity that Judge Black,
has slaughtered Roman history so
dreadfully in his effort to make it fit
on to Grant, and the so called third
term The greater number of the
cultured readers of the magazine
will believe the deliverance of the
Judge. They will not observe that
it is quite as great a mistake, as the
Judges deiiverance to James Bu-
chanan, to stiffen his quaking knees
when Rebellion stared him in the
face.