The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1867-02-14
THE WHITE REAN,s PAPER.

We wish tOcalI attention to the pros
pectusof the New York Day Book. L
is'a true Democratic paper, and we ad.
wise every rebel in Jackson county tc
subscribe for it 1t goes in for the res.
toration Of slavery,
A meeting was recently held in New
York to raise means to help the lazy,
lousy rebels, who are too proud to work
and too lazy to steal, and who conse.
quentlS are starving. ri Greeley, Beecher
and others made speeches The Day
Book, in reviewing these speeches, con-
cludes as follows: Est
Has 1t, then, all come to thisi Have all the
predictions of prosperity which Horace Greeley
has for wears been telling the people Of this coun.
try would come to pass If so-caled slavery were
abolished this end and no more "They are ru-
iued and impoverished by the war says Mr..
Greeley We deny 1t, totally. They were ruined
and impoverished by Tie operthrow Of their labor
system, and not by the war. There was no suffer-
ing In the South, OF any consequence before he
close of he odr. People ethere got along very well
so long asthe war lasted, for then the negroes
were still Industrious and engaged in all the ordi-
nary productive pursuits. Il was not until Mr.
LincOln's fatal edct was enforced, Gfer Lees sur
render that utter poverty and ruin seized the
Southern people. Then, at a single blow, the
wealthy were made even poorer than the poorest.
Then it was that those who had been relied upon
70 aid the poor could no longer even find means to
support themselves. This Is the true state of the
case, and one which every man who has not lost
his senses should grdvely consider.
We trust that large sum of money may be
raised TO meet the urgent and pressing necessities
oil the Southern people. But even the largest sum
that eau be raised will be but drop'ln the buck
et The South docs not need aims half so much
as slc does the control of her negroes-the resto-
ration of her labor system. Let that be restored
and she can borrow oil the money she wants In
Wal street in tlCeBty-foRr hours, and pay 10 neat
year. pi Ten per cent. interest. This is no idle as
serton. Every business man knows it, There
is not an Abolition capitalist who would lend o
planter penny to-day on the faith of crop next
year. Restore the negro labor system and he
would do II In an instant Their own business
acts show that the Abolitionists do not believe o
single syllable of all the trash written about the
superiority Of free negro" labor over the old sys-
tenn. Horace Greeley has been preaching this for
years. only now to confess its manifest and trans.
have thus confessedly ruined cur country, and
arc now lnventing lame excuses to cover up their
laslc prophecies gaqt .. ....
Above all, what shall be aald Of that sort of
Christianity that robs people Of millions. and then
offers them pittance to buy 0 crust of bread
During four years these men waged unrelenting
war upon these people. They robbed them OF
their prosperity destroyed their wealth--over-
turned the very social structure upon which all
their wealth was based, and still refuse to allow
them even to earn living, and keep an army
among them TO render their negroes still more
worthless than they would naturally be, and then
turn around, lay their hands upon their breasts
and with solemn unction call God to witness
what holy and blessed people they are Aye,
more. They refuse TO admit them to their pres
ence as equals, they deny them the right OF self
government even within the acknowledged right
Of the States, and yet congratulate themselves
upon their liberdlity, kindness and Christianity !
Was there ever In all the annals of time, such an
exhibition Of human delusion, fanaticism hypoc-
rsy, scoundrelism, or whatever 1t may be'