The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1866-12-20
RANDOM THOUGHTS No. 81.
BY TIE EDITOR.
Alexander Pope said:
"Wbatever Is. Ia right"

Alexander Pope said:
Whatever is, is right"
A great many people are of the same opinion
now. few years ago-lttle more than half u
dozen, an old man thought that when Christ said
"All things whatsoever that ye would that men
should do unto you, do ye even so to them, that
he was In earnest and meant what he said. This
man found four millions of men, women aud chill.
dren, forbidden TO learn to read the word of God,
aud treated IN all respects as chatte property
lie thought that If he were so treated, he should
desire aid. Acting upon the above declaration or
command of the Savior, he remembered those
who were In bonds, as bound with them. For
thus attempting TO carry out plain injunction Of
the Scriptures he was put to death. and whole
nation appauded the deed Soon after this ma
ton was cursed with war, and the murder of John
Brown cost half million of lives, and three thou.
sand millions of dollars.
Soon after the national forces were routed at
Bull Run, a slave was seen in Wash ingon City,
with manaccs upon his limbs His fetteys clank-
cd harshly against the marble pillars Of the Na-
tlonal Capitol. What do we behold to-day1 In
this same National City, and In the Federal Dis
trict, the black man has his freedom and his vote
while the Democrat or rebel, which means the
same thing there, Is dlsiianchsed by the National
Congress- aud this radical Congress has been sus-
taIned by the people as Congress was never sus-
| talned before.
am not superstitious and not too religious
but cannot believe that this great triumph of
truth and justice Is alone the work of man. The
hand of Providence is In 1t oil.
But one thing which set out TO say was this;
that the press OF the country Is too much inclined
to agree with Pope, and acquesce in the existence
of evil When slavery aOurished, the press said
Now tho women are asking for equal political
rights with men. The press generally sneers at
the demand II an argument Is occasionally at-
tempted. II only amounts to this all women are
married, or If not they ought to be. II married,
they will vote just like their husbands, and then
tho results will be the same. II they vote differ
emily, then there will be endless quarres. Hence,
there should be but one and that one the husband.
According to this argument, no man ought to
vote, because oil men have fathers, (or ought TO
have, and II they do not vote the same as their
fathers, there will be quarrels, Then again, wo-
men should not have any religious opinions, be-
cause IL they do not believe as their husbands do
Il will cause quarrelng. There Is more bitterness
between different religious sects than between po.
itical parties; aud yet We all know that husband
and wife very often belong to different churches
or what Is more common still the wife belongs to
q church, and the man Is wicked sinner, and yet
they live together most harmonIously.
| am for womans rights, and hope to live to see
the day when all class legislation is thing of the
past, and when the laws of man are as perfect In
this respect as the laws of God, knowing no dis
tinctiou whatever but placing oil persons upon
an equality In the race of life,
know | will be called a visionary fanatic for
saying this; but suppose had predicted at the
time of John Browns martyrdom, that in the year
1867, slavery would be abolished throughout the
United States, and that in the District Of Colun-
bia negroes would bo permitted to vote, while
their late masters would be disfranchised, what
would the knowing ones have saidf Let the
friends Of progress walt aud hope and work.
rs.--.... DIN.