The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1866-11-22
GENUINE DEMOCRACY.


portunity of studying Democracy in it's
purity, might think that Petroleum V.
Nasby's letters werel caricatures; but
they are true to the very letter.
We have been reading the New York
Day Book, of Nov 8, 1866. 1t is per-
haps the aBiest Democratic paper in
this country. We propose to furnish
our readers a few extracts from its
editorials. Eg 5..--Ej t.n-r
The Day Book thinks that somebody
ought to have fought more during the
Democratic rebellion. Hear it: NJ
THEY ARE cowARns ALL.
The backing down Of the Mougrels at Balti-
more will have beneficial effect on the country,
for they are instinctively and necessarily towards,
and only need TO be bravelv confronted to exhibit
their cowardice How can it be otherwise?
The negro, with his inferior nature naturally
shrinks from q combat of any kind with the
superior white man. and the whitr nigger, the
man who voluntarily aboishes his supremacy, and
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the lower nature. must be a coward, Of course.
IT, when the ''higher law" was fashionable those
Democrats seized aud thrust In Fort La Fayette
had shot down the villains that without any legal
process dared to arrest them, we should have
heard no more of Stewards little bell. or Of STAN
tons kilograms, In fact it was the duty, the high,
imperative, unavoidable duty of the citizens to
KILL right on the spot, any man and every man
who, trampling the law under his vile feet dared
TO arrest free born American. Had this been
done at the beginning no doubt the valuable life
of the late Abraham Lincoln would have been
secure, ard the cause of freedom" might now
rejoice in its great leader. But 1t was not q
thousand free born Americans were SO false to
their own manhood as to submit to unlawful
arrest without resistance. and it NAV be doubted
il they are not morally responsible for Lipcolns
death. But he this 0s II may this backing down
Of the Mongrels at Baltimore will do much to
expose their real character, and to strengthen
legal order.
1t will be remembered that a certain
rebel General, during the war, told the
northern copperheads to call Union
men aboliuonists, and said it would
have "stinging effect" The cops
tried il but it failed. The Day Book
has found out how to do it. Listen:
THEY ARE MoNGREIs
Words arc often things, and deadly things, too.
The word slavery, alas has murdered half mil
lion of men within the last six years. Neverlhe-
less, we find our Democratic contemporaries are
blindv and stupidly playing into the hands of the
enemies of Democracy just as fatally as ever.
They call the Mongrels RddicdS fOrsoOtb, q word
that always carries with il a notion Of honesty
and earnestness, and therefore Is in itself tre-
mendous weight in the scales against us.
These so called Radicals propose to mongrelize
our institutions, TO degrade white men and me-
groes to a common condition or status, and to
reach this end they propose to overthrow the
Constitution of Washington and make n new one.
Every man, therefore, that is not fool, or Sc
cretlv Mongrel at heart himself, will see that
they are not Radicals, but MOngrels, and the
vilcst Mongrels, too on this earth, for the negro
il vastly inferior to any other race. When the
Democratic party and stump speakers have sense
enough to call these so-called Radicals by the term
that truly expresses their principles, we shall
have more than half conquered them. ...
The Day Book does not like negroes
This is how it talks:
''ENFRANcHIsEMENT OF NEGRoDoM.
Certain of our Conservative" journals are bit
terly hostile to negro suffrage" What ! they
sav; 'let those ignorant negroes, Just emerging
from slavery, vote! 1t Is absurd, prepo5terous,
monstrous" But they are mistaken The negro
is better prepared to vote now than next year,
and next year better than the year following &c.
| If he were permitted TO vote now, he would, IL
some extent, he governed by his old master and
the healthy aptitude OF his normal condition, but
after being sent 10 school by Howard II Co., he
would become dangerous tool III the hands oI
| n,tt f., akill yiin
objection to putting of the day of negro 'cnlran-
chlsuInent" OF course he cannot permaentl!
exist in the status or condition of the white man
unless, indeed the late Abraham Lincoln, by
proclamation, has actually created new world
and therefore II the day of ''enlranchisemGnC" il
put of beyond certain time, the negroes will bt
| extinct and Will never have enjoyed thcil
rights at oil. IT. for example, Slavery had beer
abolished when this government was formed
there probably would not be fifty thousand ne
grOes now, and therefore, If voting at electioni
had been put off until now. but few negroes could
ever have enjoyed" that blessing" The lPoriC
and other Conservative gentry, therefore, who
oppose negro suffrage and demand "educatiOn
&c, which, of COURSE hastens ON their extinc
! tlOn, win chisel SambO out Of his rights alto
gether If not closely watched, and they should bt
forced to name time for his 'eniranchlsement,
or IL will come too late--he will be as dead as
Julius Caesar. But the Friends of freedom may
rejoice, for ns many whites as negroes will di
out In this grand effort TO create a new world
and II there must be four millions OF dead negroes
within the next century, there will no doubt b'
an equal number Of dead Yankees to bear then
company.
The Day Book comes to the rescue o
that cursed, perured traitor, Jeff
Davis, thus wise:
WHAT II DEMocRAcY7
After eighty wears of Democratic government
our people, especially in the North, lave bu
faint conception Of Democratic truth, and Dem
ocrNcy ls almost rs impossible In New as in oil
England. For example-the clamor set up To-
the punishment Of Mr.. Davis and other leading
men in the South is as illogiclcal aud nearly al
irrational as to hold the employees of Mr.. Stewar
| Responsible for his bad conduct.
Admitting for moment, that the people o
Mississippi did wrong In refusing to submit to thu
rule Of Massachuset and other States through
Abraham Lincoln, what then1 Mr.. Davis was
citizen who had the respect Of the whole country
with q record Of public service that would secure
him, or might secure him, the highest honors o
| auy State he chose to become 4 citizen OF, an
aside from this with sufficient means and blessed
with pleasant family relations, he was preparedtC
enjov oil that rational man might desire In thl'
world. But all this his national record hi
property, the happiness even OF those he lovcC
more THAI his own life, were, TO certain extent