The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1866-08-16

to any person within its juisdetion the equal pro-
lection Of the laws"
Oppose this section who can. can
not comprehend how any right minded
man who is not believer in monarchy
or slavery, can take issue with any por-
ton Of it. 1t establishes the fundamen-
tai principles upon which the Union is
based and is an expression of pure and
unalloyed Democracy.
The second section equalizes repre-
sentation in Congress and in the Elec-
toral College, by taking from the white
people of the States lately in rebellion
the right to represent in Congress more
than four millions of negroes living in
their midst, whom they deprive Of all
political rights whatever. As the mat
ter now stands the white people Of the
Southern States have sixty per cent
more Of political power in the House OF
Representatives and in electing the Pres
ident and Vice President, than an equal
number of white people in the Northern
States. This is gross and unrighteous
inequality and an absolute injustice to
the Northern people. Even if the
Southern people were all loyal they
could not have the slightest claims to
any such advantage But when we con-
slider that nearly all of them are Demo
cratic rebels, and but a few months ago
waged bloody war against the Gov
ernnent, the idea of their retaining such
: an enormous and unholy advantage is
y too monstrous to be calmly considered.
If all were equally loyal, North and
+, South, the proposed amendment would
8 be measure Of simple but imperative
- Justice; but when we consider the
: character of the Southern people and OF
IS their Northern allies, and the terrible
!, calamities they have brought upon the
q country, the claims of justice are inten-
. sifed, and longer submission to the ine-
q quality on our part becomes an hulnilia-
r ton. The Democratic leaders in Indi
d ana have declared themselves against
g the amendment, and their members o.
% Congress opposed it by their votes
n The personal degradation which the!
10 suffer, ,chich each one Of them suffers, IL
:e being practically treated as sixty pc
l. cent less of man than his fellow Dem
ocrat of Georgia they care nothin!
Or about. They will swallow with ayidi
g ty this or any other indignity that ma.
y be thrust upon them, provided it come
as from men who have been STAKEHOLDER
D. and rebels in arms, and who give rea
ID sonable assurance that they will vOt
IN the Copperhead ticket. A greater pc
" litical degradation towards the people 9
n one section of the country than tina
g, which now exists in the inequality c
ut representation, cannot be imagined, an
IL the cheerful submission to it by North
IT'S ern Democrats for the low and selis
e. purpose of reaping little political gai
,s, presents spectacle which it is nc
he pleasaat to contemplate. The ratifca
,s, ton of this amendment is one OF tn
w most important issues submitted to tn
lp people of Indiana at the next election
no The Justice of it, and the necessity TO
Is it, lie upon the surface, and are to
lg plain for argument. We might as we
ed argue that two and two make four,
NJ that whole is equal to all its parts.
II n The third section provides in sui
~ ~ stance that every person, who, as
y u member of Congress, officer Of the Uni
- -. ted States, members of the State Legii
III lature, or judicial officer of any STATE
=. had taken an oath to support The Con
Gu e. stitution of the United States, and al
aif It terwards committed perjury by engag
eH ing in the rebellion, shall be ineligibI
u u to any office under the United States, {
,ts ~ any State. The object of it is to exclud
" W periured rebels from power. If ma
~ u has once taken an oath to support tn
u. Constitution and broken it he should NJ
s y be permitted to take it again in tn
~ ~ same way. You will doubtless agrt
y y with Congress that men enough can
- -, found who have never committed tn
ho ~ wicked and bloody perjury to fill all IL
ho ho offices, both State and National, and tn
,ro mo it is but reasonable precaution for pu'
ho he lie safety to prevent these men fro
III II again coming into power. There is
" " political or moral obligation to tru
l' them again, and every dictate of pr
dence, justice, love for the Union, an
adherence for the rebellion deman
re- that they should not be again trusted.
me The fourth section proclaims the V
N, lidity of the public debt of the Unit
'ed States including debts incurred for pa
ment of pensions and bounties for sc
zen vice in suppressing the rebellion, al
10 prohibits the United States, or Al
yes State from assuming or paying any de
all incurred in aid of the rebellion or a
ac, claim for the loss or emancipation
-" slaves.
r1 S The strong sympathies manifested
ho I Northern Democratic leaders for
~ ;"n holders of the rebel war debt, and tn
t" % malignant hostility to the holders of I
~ - bonds of the United States make Il
~ amendment necessary. Should
tu M great calamity happen that the Natiol
,,I,, M Government should pass into the p
IVY session of the Democratic party we
Nm not at liberty to doubt but what tf
Nv - would cause it to assume the paym'
one of the rebel war debt. Not only
~; G the inclinations Of the Northern me