Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-03-15
Letter from an Old Jacksonian Democraf
of Greenwood Township.
NEAR SEVEN STAR TAVERN.
March IL. 1882.

could not stay away this evening. 'Tis 10
O'Clock now, rather late to write you let
ter; but you know that Saturday night i,
my great night, and Sunday my great day
for rest. So it was with Old Andy. He
was a great Saturday night man, and great
Sunday Christian. He was Scotch Irish.
Won know, and the Scotch Irish and the Pu.
ritans are the greatest Sunday Christians on
the face of the earth. They got their sam
dav notions from the Cromwelian party.
that fought the Royalists of Scotland and
England so hard. There are lots of fellows
down here that are great Saturday night,
and Sunday people. They love the Satur-
day nights TO spark the women, and the
Sunday to rest off the drowsiness that
comes of sitting up with their sweet-hearts
all night. All the beaux down here know
what is meant when one says, ..and We won't
go home till morning"
We had good time at the Stars tonight
We first smiled all round, and then began
on the Mormon question, that is shaking up
wife is enough for me; it keeps me busy
working TO keep her." Another old fellow
said that he loves his wife so well that even
if the law would allew him to have another
wife he couldn't think of getting the second
woman 20 divide his love with his iirst wife,
We gave him a cheer, and all agreed that
he is regular Andy Jackson man. Andy,
you know, stuck TO one wife; she was
other mans wife, a divorced woman, but a
l.wfrl wife with all that. third said that
he had no desire for more than one wife,
but he could not understand that having
more than one wife Is unchristian, if Abra-
ham, Isaac, Jacob and David and other BIZ
BILE worthless were Christians, for they all
had more than one wife. We took his case
into consideration, ard unanimously con-
cluded that he is in great danger, and ad
vised him to consult preacher, as the theo
logan that occasionally comes to the Stars
was not present number of others gave
their views, but they were too common
place 10 notice.
Mormon poiygamy is an imitation of
Eastern systems of civilizations. Ny boy,
if you are student of history you have
often wondered why all of the systems of
religion and government Of the East allow
ed as many wives or concubines as a man
could keep. Abraham and the long line of
worthy successors that followed him could
not rise above the habits, and instincts of
the people of the East. 1t was not SO with
the Europeans, from whom most of the
people of the United States of America
have sprung. Leaving out an exception,
here sad there-exceptions, you know, are
always in order-the European has alway S
been a one-wife man. Away back in his
heather state, before he heard OF Christian
ity, before Christ was born, he was a one
wife man. Tacitus, Roman writer, his
torian, and LAWYER, who lived about 15
years after Christ, in his s' Manners of the
Germans" says, Marriage among tie Ger
mans is considered as a strict and sacred
institution s In the national character
there is nothing so worthy, SO truly COM
mendable." To be contented with one wife
is peculiar 10 the aermans." The German
exalted the woman to the position of a com.
panion, and so close was the bond between
the sexes that the women would often go
with their husbands TO the verge of the bat
tle-felds, TO encourage with their presence
during the battle and to give aid and COM
fort to the wounded after the battle. The
Germanic race stands at the head of the
list as the greatest champions of the one
wife system. II stands at the head of the
champions of Professionalism. II it had not
been for the German race, which fought
Professionalism to a recognition through the
Is wears Hussite war, and the 80 years war,
Professionalism would now only be known to
the close student of history as the name of
movement that had been made for some
indefinite purpose BY few visionary men.
Professionalism, and the great Republic of
the United States of America would not be
IN existence, and the eulogies of the Scotch
Irish. and the Puritans would not be heard
of if it were not for the one-wife Germanic
race. The Speaks do not regret their own
race extraction, but if a change of exfrac-
ton conld be the choice it would be in favor
of the German. The great fundamental
qualities that underlie the Republic hac
their found ation stones laid in Continental
Europe. The foundation stones of the he
pubIic were laid in the woods of Germany
1900 years ago, among its one-wiie people,
and the inhabitants of this nation are stili
true to the instincts of the early Germanlc
race; and that is why Mormonism is such
blotch in their sight. Mormonism IS a
stolen Eastern system of religion and gov
ernmeut, and if the people of the Repuoic
were of Eastern extraction they would take
kindly to it.
We all agreed that Mormonism must 60
We were Andy Jackson on that, out anu
out. One wife at time, and If you can
agree with her, be divorced and get another'
That's American Andy Jackson doctrine 10
4 letter. and they are acting up to it in liii-
nois and Indiana like fun. Perhaps fro'-
estsutism is little loose in the matter OF
granting divorces. The Catholics are more
particular. 1t is no easy thing to get III
yorce among Catholic people. Their church
rules are very strict on such things. ihey
consider the marriage as the early Germans
did. as a sacred obligation, and not as
civil contract.
One of our crowd was over 10 Kicnne'o
Yesterday, and be gaveit to Brigham founs'
the old dead boss Of the Mormons' natu'
He said that he heard at Richheld tha' 'no
boss i, not dead that he didn't die when the
Normous reported him dead; that he only
let on to be sick, and then had bis most par
ticulr friends to have it appear tna' NC
died. They got up q big funeral, ana
s,-oat fuss- and he kept shady whiie 'ney