The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1867-07-18
DEMOCnATIC TROUBLES.


We notice that all the Democratic
exchanges are railing over the celebra-
tion of the Fourth. We had intended
to say something to our friend of the
Herald, but did not know how to COM
fort him under the circumstances.
Coming across the following in the
Cincinnati Gazette, we publish it for his
ediication:
DEMOCRATIC FOURTH or JULY.
For light and lively piece of literature, COM
mend us to the Democratic newspaper Fourth of
July articles. They have such an outpouring OF
those harmless maledctons which always come
home to roOst, and such ludicrUus Dismal Jem-
my-neSs that they are positively entertaining,
| How can Democrat be expected to have any in
terest In his country when his party is out of
power? 1t is contrary to Democratic nature.
How can Democrat celebrate his countrv's in
dependence when for years the leaders of his par
ty were begging European powers to destroy it?
How can Democrat celebrate his country g unity
aud greatness when the party have just been de-
feated in four years war for its division and
dissolution?
In short how eau Democrat be expected to
leel OtnerWlse IMAM Is SHOWN Oy their Jcrenlads
on the day of National Independence? He has no
share in the nation. If his party had prevailed,
the country would now be separated into Sec
tions and the conditions created for endless wars
and arlnaments of mutual conquest aud jealousy.
There is not a thing in our national unity and
greatness to which the Democratic party can lay
claim. All Of their investments and glorious rec
objections are in The Lost Cause" and in the
devastation of country, the slaughter Of country.
men and the monstrous burden Of debt and taxes
which their rebellion brought.
1t is no wonder that the journals of this party
should lift up their dismal voices in unison like
a collection Of rebel iicnds outside the celest al
gates, railing at the place from which they were
cast out for rebellion. One of them opens in this
manner:
We celebrate to-day the Fourth of July, 1776
and not the Fourth Of July 1867. This is on i'm
poFtant distinction, always to be borne in mind.
Happy Democratic party! in having journals to
| inform 1t Of these distinctions which go to the
bottom of things. Let this important distinction
always be borne in mind! 177G is not 1867. The
| propo siLiOn may be reversed and still affirmed
with equal positiyeness. Nor will 1867 ever be-
come 177G, though continued 10 infnity.
| We know OfnOthing in literature that compares
| with this profound mOralizing on the distinction
Of time unless 1t be the motley philosopher
| ToUcHsToNEs soliloquy, as JAQUEs relates it:
/
And looking on it with lack lustre eye
| Says, very wisely Its ten o'clock:
Thus may we sec how the world Wags.
| lis but m hour ago since 1t was nine:
And after an hour twill be eleven.
And SO from hour to hour we ripe and ripe,
Aud then from hour TO hour We rot and rot
And thereby hangs tale"
We hardly need suggest that 'motley's the on
~ wear" for the Enquirer.
| IL aDUenrB bY the article that the DQmoCrntin
| party Is occupied in musing on the past.
There Is nothing In the present aspect Of affairs
that encourages US. All eyes are turned to the
future with dark apprehension. Let us live in
the past
Certainly, say we Go to the past and remain.
What business hath corruption minglng with the
quick. What better discipline for the Democratic
mind than to reflect ON what the country was, and
on the ruin its party has wrought. We should
suppose that the contemplation of the half m II.
| lion young men whom its rebellion has slain, of
| Its widows and orphans and berCaYed parents
of the South devastated by war, Of the nation
loaded with debt and taxes, and Of people filled
with the mutual bitterness and hate which war
creates, aud which generations will hardly wash
out, would be such perpetual accusation aud
torture that they would cry out for rocks and
mOuntai ms to fall On them and crush them into
oblivion.
A little further along In this model Democratic
Fourth of July article a burst Of anguish Of con-
science that dehes grammatical control, cjacll-
lates: . ...
The country now Is like an old person who finds
all their happcst and best thoughts in the events
Of the by-gone years.
Pathetic simile! An old person whose sands Of
life have nearly run out, who finds all their happy
thoughts in the events of hy-gOne years. There
is Inournful cadence in this, like the dronc of
Lincolnshire bagaplpe, or the melancholy note OF
Rgib cat. ..
We confess we SEQ little comfort for the Demo-
cratic party in the present or the future, and VIC
think II had better devote itself to the penance Oi
rejecting on its past sins and their consequences;
to a comparison Of what the country now Is, with
what II would have been If there had been no Dem,
Oclatc party TO rebel; TO the contemplation of III
guilt, and OF the mercy 1t has received hall
million Of ghastly skeletons bear perpetual wit.
ness against It, ruined South continually ac-
cuse 1t. Thousands OF millions Of public debt,
and taxes before unknown are monuments Of It's
guilt, more durable than brass. With these, and
all their belongings, continually accusing the
party, II Ia strange that Its members can endure
existence.