The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1867-05-23
WHAT Es DENTOCRACYg

WHAT rs DEMOCRACY
We must confess that if the defni-
ton given to the word democracy in
Webster, or in any other standard die
tionary is correct, we are a Democrat.
Further, if the professions of the pres
ent Democratic party be true, SO far as
they claim to abhOr despOtism, then
are We a Democrat. But how do these
professions conform to the facts i'll the
case? Do Democrats love liberty, and
hate despotism2 What has been the
practice of the party! No doubt the
party loves liberty, freedom of speech
and of the press, and every other priv
llege of real Democracy, CAea applied to
the party itself. But just SO soon as
these blessings of true Democracy are
to be applied to all alike, impartially,
the cry of radicalism is raised, and no
liberty is permitted to any but Dem
ocrats. The liberty for Democrats to
make slaves of all but themselves, is a
highly priced liberty. The liberty to
destroy the National Government under
claim of the sovereignty Of the States,
is said to be genuine Democracy. The
liberty to mob all speakers and presses
that have spoken in favor of liberty for
all, is the highest idea that Democrat
can have of the liberty Of speech and
of the press.
The Union party is accused of the
highest crimes, aud most ty rannical
usurpations, because it has compelled
the rebels of the South to respect the
lives and liberties Of the poor and help
less, as we'll as of the rich and power
ful. The refusal of the Union party to
permit those who rebelled and fought
to destroy the nation, to come into
power and make the laws to govern
those who conquered the traitors, is de-
nounced as the acme of despotism.
Here is a party prating about liberty,
which has just come whipped, out of a
four years rebellion and war, waged to
establish nation, the corner stone of
which was to rest upon the necks of
four millions Of human slaves. And
the idea of re-establishing slavery is in
no measure abandoned by the Demo.
cratic party. The New York Day Book
boasts that it has the largest circulation
of any Democratic paper in the United
States, and it urges the re- establishment
of slavery, and has no doubt that it
will soon be accomplished. 1t claims
that if the United States army could be
withdrawn, the white people of the
South would soon reduce the negroes
to bondage again. 1t no doubt ex-
presses the views of the party. Could
the Democratic party get control Of the
National Government, the States would
at once be permitted TO reduce the ne
groes to bondage, and all the white peo-
pie in the South who refused to give
aid and comfort to the rebellion, would
be murdered or driven from their homes
These professions of love of liberty
by the rebel Democracy, are only shams
to gull the simple. Seeing the hypoc-
risy of this party, we warn all men
who really love liberty-liberty for al
alike, to abandon such party, and act
with the party that has given freedom
to all, and which has protected the
helpless in the enjoyment of that free
dom. Do not be deceived by a part!
that rebelled against our Government
and fought to destroy it, in the interest
of the worst despotism that ever Curset
the world. DO not act with the part!
that is guilty of numbering half mil
lion of the young men of this nation
the party that has cost this nation thre
thousand millions of dollars; the party
which, when defeated in a presidentio
election, committed these giganti
crimes, and then wound up its treaso
by assassinating the President whom
: could neither defeat by the ballot no
; by rebellion and war.
THE FLAG.
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