The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1867-09-19
RANDOM THOUGHTS No. So.
By TIE EDITOR.



At the Debate last week, held at Monroe Fur.
mace, Mackley undertook to debate with the Hon
A. Mayo. From all reports there never was
man more completely used up than Mackley.
Republican told us that be thought Macklcy
would not be heard from on the stump this fall
again, and the Union Central Committee ought
TO have more sense than to permit him to debate
" ith a man of the intellectual capacity Of the
Hon. Mr.. Mayo.
Now propose TO notice that article. and the
matter to which it refers. In the first place, no
Republican ever told Monahan the above. Some
time ago he said in his paper that l pursuaded
Mr.. Cherrington not to be candidate for Re-
cordcr. When Mr.. Cherlington and both de-
MED this, Monahnn said that radical had told
him so. then demanded the name of that rad
cal. That was several weeks ago, and he has
been as silent Ns the grave upon the subject ever
since, thus admitting that lie conjurcd up that lie
himself. Just SO in tn is case. No Republican
ever made any such remark to him. What hurts
Monahan is that the Union Central Committee
sent me to debate with their strongest man,
while the Democratic Committee will not let him
open his head upon the stump, even with our our
weakest debaters.
If Mayo used me up so badly at Monroe, when
was sick, why are rou so silent abount my de-
Latcs with him at jackson Furnace and Hale's
School House, when was welli DUNCAN was
at the former, and DuIlodway at the latter, and
they no doubt reported to you who it was that
was skinned, quartcrcd and saltcd down at
these debates.
But deny that was used up at Monroe Fur
mace, even if Twas sick. Let me giyca specimen
of the debate.
read from the Congressional Globe, Part /,
ID session 36th Congress 1SGO-G1, page 794-5,
rs follows.
"AMENDMENr or TuE Constitution.
Mr.. VALLANDIGIIAM. With the consent of
the gentleman from Maryland. (AIr. Dayis.) who
holds the floor, ! desire to ask unanimous con-
sent to submit the following proposed amend
ments to the Constitution, differing materially
from any yet oferod. | ask that they may be
printed, and that gentlemen may be Kind enough
To read and consider them with candor. As soon
next week as / can obtain the floor propose to
speak In their support.
No objection being made, the joint resolution
was received and ordered to be lprinted 1t is
as follows:
(TIere follows a long preamble)
Ariirle 10. Sec. /. The United States are d.
vidcd into tour sections, as follows: (Iere three
of the sections are given, and then comes this:)
The States of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, FlOri-
da. Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas Ar
kansas Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri. and
all new States annexed and admitted into the In
on or formed or erected within the jurisdiction
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more OF the same, or parts thereof or out Of Ter
ritUry acquired cast Of the Rio Grand and south
Of allud SG degrees 80 minutes, shall consti-
tulc another section, to be known MS the SoUTu.
AHiclr il. No State shall sccedc without the
consent of the Legislatures of all the States of the
section to which the State proposing to sccedc
belongs The President shall have power to ad-
just with seeding States all questions arising by
reason Of their secession, &c.
Article 10th provides for shareholders taking
the ir slaves into all the territories.
In commenting upon this showed that Val
landghams plan for dividing the Union placed
al the slave States in one section, and 40 other
States were put in this section. 1t then provd cs
that unI one or all of these states should have the
right to seccdc, il their Legislatures should 50
determine, and the President shOald arrange the
terms oIsnch secession. This plan was introduced
Feb T. 1861, while buchanan was President and
after several State had seeded, and when IL was
evident that the Legislatures of all the slave
States would consent, and thus make secession q
special provision Of the Constitution.
then read from speech made by Vallandig-
ham in Congress Feb. 23 1861, in which he said:
"And in public speech at the Cooper InsIi.
tutc, ON the I'd Of November 1864. that If anv
one or more of the States Of this Union shall nj
any time scccde, for reasons Of the su(lclency ol
justiCe Of which, before God and the rrcot triIn.
nal of history they alone may judge. much as I
deplorc II, never would, as Il Re res cntatiye in
Congress Of the United States, vote one dollar
of money whereby one drop Of American blood
should be shed ina civil war;.
Aud now deliberately repeat aud realllrm IT,
resolved. though Stand alone, though all others
yield and fall away to make It good to the last
moment Of my public life"
then read from tho jackson HeraH of the day
before, the following report Of a speech made by
vollandigham at Maysvic, Ky., only few day 5
before that time;
"0nly few wears ago, on this vcrv spot the
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had lie attempted TO express the sentiments he
does tonight and in noble old Kentucky ladies'
were driven into exile for daring TO adhere to the
doctrines Of our fathers. Behold tleprogrcss of
the nation. Tonight speak to Kentucky free
men-l am free man myself Prolonged
Cheers.
BE true, Kcntuckinns, Chccrcd by the miles of
Kentucky women, to the stand You have taken.
The nation needs your example. Across tho riv-
arin M W. &taf In - pnti Gtnfo
ofmy Nthers--no in her wid0w.hUod-I thank
God that my fathers were from that grand old
Commonwealth of Virginia That birthplace of
Washington, Jefferson and Madison, of Robert T.
Lee and StOnewall jackson. Dcalrnng Cheers
Aye, these are noble names, and no loyal wretch
shall close my mouth from speaking the praises
of lh csc men, who, however mistaken they may
have been, were thousand times more honor
rble apd true to the principles of human liberty
than thousands who call them traitors. Their
names will live in history ms noble representative
men Of tho nation. They are my ielOw.ciizens
and to day they seek to he with us members of
one common republic Their lame will swell
the grand aggregate OF that which conpOscs and
lives IN history and will live to the remOtcst
syllable Of recorded time.
My hearts desire and PRAYER is for the restora-
tion Of this Government rs II was. ] would have
the Constitution of our fathers. 1t was good
enough for them and itiwould be good enough for
us, and for generations unborn.
Give Us our iiherliCe again; aye, We will have
them understand that loyal men, Cheers, and
cries Of That we will. ~
Loyal men, with scoin and contempt repeat
the word Inever heard 1t in my boyhOod asso-
cated with anything honorable, have heard
the word loyal at Fourth of July celebrations,
but never heard uny man boast of his loyalty
till this war came about
then read resolution passcd by the Demo-
cratic State convention at Columbus, January 30
1861, when the Southern States were seeding
Tn Is resolution was offered by Judge Thurman
and Is os followsi
"Rcsoired, That the two hundred thousand