The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1857-10-29
The Last legislature and tie one
which Is to

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Tie, late election in Ohio SLOWS con-
clusiyely that the State is true to Freet
dom and the Republican cause The loss
Of the Legislature at this juncture Of our
affairs, we regard IS substantial gain.
We have the Slategovernment; the popu-
lar vote, the real triumph; the opposition
have the Legislature, and with it the re-
sponsibility Of making the laws. During
the last two years there has been one un-
ending. never failing, systematic abuse
of the Republican Legislature. 1t had,
according to the locofoco papers and or
stors, done no good thing. Its best acts
were misrepresented, and it's worst ones
exaggerated and perverted. 1t had not
the privilege of having its doings consid-
cred calmly and fairly. 1t was the sub
| ject of the grossest description of lying,
and the meane.t and most dastardly sort
of perversion When the Republicans
asked to have the offensive statutes poln-
ted out. they were answered as black
guard answers gentleman, by abuse aud
SANDER. No wonder, then, that an i'm
preston should have become general
among the people that the Republican
Legislature had been a failure. The out
rageo us gerrymandering of the State for
the election Of members of the Legsla-
ture was of itself alone sufficient, under
ordinary circumstances to have given to
the locofoco party the majority; but when
We take it in connection with the multi
tudnous lies with which the Republican
Legislature was assaied, we should have
been surprised had the result been other
wise than it now appears to be. -
The opposition have the Legislature
and they will be held to aStrict account
ability for the manner in which they dis
charge their trust. We shall see wha
: ,hanges they will make, what laws they
= will pass, and in the end we shall be ablC
to expose the shallow pretences and falst
accusations by the aid Of which they strucl
down the Republican majority, and jump
, ed into the vacant seats Of their Rrpubli
can predecessors.
Since the election, the only reform
which we have heard that they intended
$ 10 make. were bills to establish Sub
h Treasury, with - a specie clause" TO re
: peal the habeas corpus act, and to pass
law giving the free use Of our jails AM
prisons for the incarceration of runswa
slaves. Let them pass either of thes
It things, and the places which they hol
g will pass from them as the shadow Of
;, cloud passes over the surface Of the earth
n leaving no mark behind.
i. While we intend to watch their doingS
!; and hold them to n strict accountable
!, for their actions we shall treat them wit
is fairness and lberaliiy, thus acting in il
| verse ratio to the manner in which the
y treated their Republican predecessors
\ We shall not oppose measure which "
h believe good one, merely on account ,
IS the inherent baduesS of its paternity, fc
/ there may be such thing as goo
l. coming out Of Nazereth,' though W
1t have very few instances Of it.
y Our position. and that Of the Republ
'e cans in the Legislature, will be one {
lei comparative ease to what We allheld las
year. Then We had TO defend-now "
,e have but to attack. Yet, as we said be
r, fore, no attack shall come from us upo
0. measures we believe to be worthy {
t; Ohio aud for the wealfare and hsppines
g Of her people but when we shall fin
le trucking 10 the Slave-power. repealiu
S. statutes that were made for the protet
at ton of the weak and poor and dowutrod
in den, or when we shall find attempts mad
a. to pass laws to make our j'ils slave PEN
we shall not spare them, for to do 1
ne would be false to Liberty, Justice and ii
O. Free People Of Ohio.--O. ). Journal.
il TIE RErURNs,--We thought yeste