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This rebel gentleman, who, instead of dying in the lat ditch, as he oft declared he would, delivered a speech recently at Selma, Alabama, in which he declared that the Southern cause had been defeat ed but is not dead, but will ultimately triumph he declared that he had never asked pardon for what he had done, and that he never would. “He was always willing to give his life for his people,” whom he loved so well, but, somehow he forgot to say a word about the effort to escape in petticoats through the Yan kee lines that were drawn around his quar ters one night. Davis would head an other slaveholders’ rebellion today if he had the power. Why do so many papers seem to de light in asserting that our branch of the Joint High Commission is vastly inferior to the English branch? The English gentlemen have never in any instance given any evidence of great genius or unusual ability, and though they have titles and one of them a count is at the head of English Masonry, they have yet to chow that they are better than our men. In fact, taking the average Parli ament, and the average Congresses, and you will find that it is in sound, not sense, that the English Assembly is superior, Lord Skillingdale sounds great er than Simon Grubb but don’t often have the brain. —£ xz. The Washington Pa. Reporter says: Te is a noteworthy fact, over which Wash ington has a right to feel proud, that the two rival candidates for the Speakership of the National House of Representa tives are both natives of this place. Mr Blaine and General Morgan were born and educated here, and their respective residences in this town were within a stone's throw of each other. Ibis a re markable illustrations of the mutations, as well as coincidences, of life that they appear in Congress together, one repre senting Maine and the other Ohio, and as competitors for the honor of presiding over that body. The literary societies of Lafayette College, Easton, Pa. have selected Col. Alexander K. NeClure, of Philadelphia, to deliver the usual annual address be fore them at the approaching commence ment in June next George Bergner, proprietor of the Harrisburg Tierayh, has been sued by Jeremiah Black, for libel. The New York World declares that the Democratic party is the party of free trade. Connecticut has gone Democratic by a small majority. Seven out of eight blast furnaces at Danville have blown out.
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Mifflintown Juniata Sentinel
Mifflintown, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Apr 05, 1871
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