The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1857-04-16
The Recent EIectiOns--..Fhe Success
of the Kepublicansss.Thc C Future,


The Recent EIcctions---The success
of the KepubIicans.--Thc C Future.
The bold, unscrupulous and daring ef.
forts ofthe iron league Of Southern Slave
holders, supported by the locofocos and
doughfaces Of the North, to subjugate
this glorious heritage Of ours to the do
minion of Slavery, has at times appeared
almost as If consummated. Yet Free
dom's battle. though oft begun and often
lost, has by every new defeat added
strength and character to our cause
There is a God like vitality in it, because
it has its foundation in righteousness, and
its throne in the heart of every true man.
We notice that the Democratic papers
have given new exhibition Of their par
ty and personal humiliation. in their as
saults upon the recent report made by the
Republican committee Of the Legislature,
in regard to the attrocious decision of the
United States Supreme Court in the case
Of Dred Scott, a decision which would
have been regarded as inhuman in the
dark ages, and would have failed to OBJ
tain the respect of the Feudal barons in
the days of Richard the First. And now,
because the Republicans Of Ohio speak
through their chosen agents in the Legis
lature, their adherence of such decision,
and express their determination to with.
stand its application to the soil of Ohio,
the sachems Of Democracy who min
lister at the altars of an Office dispensing
Administration, and whose ideas of Lib
erty and Constitutional law are bounded
by the edicts of caucus, or the hope of
an Office, set up their howl of opposition,
as if the report had advanced the treason
Of despotism, and not the sublime and
Christian doctrine Of liberty and love.
These things will have their day, but it
will not be many years before the sun will
close that day, and the darkness of night
will cover them and their advocates with
its sable pail. The last Presidential cleo
ton was not only sign that the day was
far spent, but that the rays of new NOR
row was breaking upon our land and peo-
pie. The poor will not be forever op-
pressed, on the contrary the day is com
ing, when the eastern fable, so well and
beautifully expressed by Ligh Hant, in
his "vison" OF Abou Ben Adem, will be
fulfilled, who asked the recording angel
to write his name on the book of Life, of
those "whom God had loved" as one
who loved his fellow man. and when the
vision next appeared and the book was
opened, Ben Adems' name led all the
rest"
We have reason, even now, 10 feel en-
couraged at the present which is presen-
ted of the future prosperity and final tri-
umph of the Republican party. We have
recently carried New Hampshire. Rhode
Island and Connecticut against the pow
er and patronage Of new administration,
flushed with recent victory in the Nation
al contest. Cincinnati, the Queen City
fine West, which, less than Two years
ag3, gave Governor Medill majority of
some eight thousand over Salmon P.
Chase, now elects Republican Mayor,
and no doubt that Governor Chase could
this day receive much larger majority
for Governor of Ohio, in Cincinnati, than
was given on Monday last for Mr.. Thorn
as, the Republican candidate for Mayor.
These signs portend results. The Re
publican party maintains its position. 1t
beats no retreat, but like the allied for.
ces before the Redan and the Malakoff,
they make steady approaches in the very
face OF the fortified enemy, and in the end
will gain the victory and rout the foe.
Not only in the free States have the
Republicans held their grouAd, but in the
slaveholding city of St. Louis a Republi-
can abolition Mayor has been elected
by a large majority, thus reindorsing the
liberal and progressive principals of lheii
Congressman elect, Francis p. BLAIR, ir.,
and also putting the seal of condemnation
upon Thomas Hart Benton, who in the
middle ofthe canvas, discarded his friends
and went over neckand heals TO the oil,
Igrachy.
These are portentous signs of the times,
and he who talks about defeat in Ohio,
has either spoken inconsiderately, or has
not the fire of Republicanism lighted in
This heart. The hopes and the impulses
, Eofonrpepple are all true to freedom, and
flit is hardly necessary to repeat to them
Ethe dying words Of old Ranald to his
grandson "In the thicket Of the
Wilderness, and ia The mist Of the noun.
hqiar4senneth, son 6f EmcBt, keep thou
unsoled The lread59k which / leave thee
bFlhright, .BatgSit not, neither fol
the rkh garment, no1 for the stone roof
; nor folvthe covered board, nor for the
couchSof down. on the. rock, or in the
, yallcy, ii abundance or in famine, in the
lleafy summer, and in the days Of the iron
winter, Son OF THE MTsT, BE FREE As THY
TArnras."-O. S, Journal,