The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1867-09-05

rebellion. proposed to give them no.
lice that we had taken so many of their
men, aud would treat them as they did
ours, Was this new thinga No, sir.
ttook it from all publicists who had
written on the laws Of war, and found
it sanctioned and prscticed in the Rev
olutionary war, and in the war OF 1912.
Ii this law OF retaliation had been
adopted | have no doubt it would have
saved the lives Of thousands. What /
wish to say is that the men who assisted
in prolonging this war, and bringing all
this misery upon our soldiers, had the
impudeuce to come before you, the
people of Ohio, and canvass for your
votes Boys in blue, will they get your
votes No, sir; they will not get one.
lie would be a sorry soldier who would
go to their side, after knowing what
they had done want to say a word
20 YOU who have been with IT'S through
all those triumphs, and encouraging
words, in regard TO the success Of these
great and glorious principles we have
held 50 long. Such spectacle never
was presented to this world before.
What has this party done that has
caused us to be branded as Radicals
and Abolitionistsl Have we not grown
from cloud not bigger than a mans
hand into a power that now predom-
mates in this land for goodi Why
don't the Democrats reflect on that
which has debased them to nothing and
built us up7 1t is the great spirit Of
righteousness permeating the great
party that you have stood by so & ori-
ously. We have never finched Ex-
cept one year, since the Republican
party was organized, it has met with
nothing but victory. But these men
don't understand why the Democratic
party, which they say was once so strong,
has fallen under the ban, and become a
Kissing and by-word among men. 1t
is because they departed from every
principle of republicanism. Why,
brother Thurman, on the principles you
advocate to-day, if you gain victory,
you must plant your batteries very high.
You must storm the Seba8tapol Of the
Almighty, and shell him from his throne,
before your principles can predominate.
Great applause. lie will give you no
help. You are warring against Om-
Impotence, and the benevolent designs
of tho Almighty as to this nation, aud
your puny principles Of partiality will
be trampled under foot, and be moro
scoffsd and jeered at, in future genera
tons, than you are now. While you,
my Republican friends, you that have
stood so like a rock against all those
inundations of slavery and wrong, and
in good report and evil report have
never sweryed from your integrity, in
future history you will be praise to the
name of tho nation, and your children
and your grandchildren hereafter will
rise up and call you blessed You must
look at these grsat revolutions, and see
to what end they tend--whether there
was ever more glorious consummation
of any great political controversy than
that which shall eventuate in striking
the shackles from five millions Of enslay-
ed peopIe2 You have taken by the
hand the poor and the needy; you have
encouraged them to labor, have taught
them their rights, aud placed them on
the firm rock of your Government, to
participate in and be q part and parcel
thereof
You may search the history Of human
revolutions, and you will find nothing
so dazzllDgy glorious as this in the his
tory of man. This is the achievement
already attained We have got almost
to the end. We have all but placed
them on the eternal rock of justice and
security. Will you fail in the last stepl
Is there any man here that meditates
taking step backward, and forfeitng
bis right to glory in tho future7 "a
voicO-"No such man here" You may
have been so educated that you at times
feel like it, but | believe you will be able
to endure to the end. The great prom
ise is made that not to him that begins
and looks backward, but to him that in
any good aud glorious work perseveres
to the end, shall tho reward be. know
You will persevere to the end 1t is the
last account the Democracy are to have
with us. You know they have been
nibbing at the nets of the negro now
for twenty years. 1t has been their
only capital in trade.
Now, soberly, what the Democratic
party trying to build upl Are they
advocates OF any great principles that
you know OF II there is n Democrat
here, ask him, "What is your plan r.
! ask Judge Thurman His answer is,
ooh you are tyrannizng over the Sc
ceded States You want to let niggers
vote. You have tramplCd the Consti-
tuition under foot" But what is your
plant Suppose We put you into the
gubernatorial chair, aud Vallaudigham
into the Senate, what will you do when
you get into poworl All he said in his
speech is against the poor negroes, TO
prove they are lower in tho scale than
he is. But want better witness than
he gives. They say the Republican
party has not done single thing right
When we raised armies they inveighed
against it. at would bo terribly OK
psnsiye" When wo had to raise mon
ey to pay them, why they said to every
body, Don't you put dollar in there