The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1868-03-19
RANDOM THOUGHTS No. Ie.
BY THE EDITOR,


The action Of the Democratic major
ity in the Ohio Legislature, in giving
the seat of Homer c. Jones, Repub-
lican, to Henry NJ. Onderdonk, Demo
crat, teaches lesson that should be
needed by the people. If this were the
only case of the kind, it might not be
so significant But it is only one of
series Of acts by that party, tending to
the oppression OF the colored race. BY
this decision, any person who has any,
the least African blood in his veins, is
denied the right to vote. have no
sympathy for the Republican party as
party organization. That party had
it in its power last fall TO settle this
question of suffrage for all time. 1t
neglected IT'S great opportunity. Here
after we are to have all men who do not
belong to the European races, disfran-
ehised. The Democratic papers are
demanding the enactment of law to
punish township trustees severely, who
receive the votes of men with visible
admixture of African blood. That will
be the next step.
Soon after the election last tall, sew
eral of the more radical Democratic
papers demanded that Judge Thurman
should contest the election of Gen.
Hayes, on the ground that mulattoes
had voted for him. Had Judge Thur
man done so, he would now be Cover
nor of Ohio, and Vallandigham would
have been elected to the United States
Senate. There is not a particle o
doubt that Gen. Hayes was elected by
the votes Of colored men.
The new road law enacted by the
present Democratic Legislature, leyies
poll tax upon every able-bodied man
in Ohio between the ages of twenty
one and fify-fve. AS no taxation
without representations a hobby of the
Democratic party, Republican pro-
posed to exempt all persons from labor
upon the public roads, who are mott per-
mitted to vote, Butthe Democrats had
no idea of inserting the word white in
law that imposed tax So the col
ored man must work the roads on pay
his three dollars, but he cannot vote.
If ever the Democrats get the power
in this nation, they will re-establish
slavery at once. Those who contend
that slavery is dead forever in this
country, do not know what they are
talking about.
The Democracy is not alone response
bic for the oppression of the colored
race. The Republican party must take
its share of the responsibility. Our
party tried to whip the rebels and
Democrats in the late war, and failed
We called upon the negroes, and with
their aid the rebellion was put down. |
| do not say that the negroes did it.
But without the one hundred and
eighty thousand negro soldiers, it could
not have been done Then they asked
to be allowed to vote, but the party
that so sorely needed their aid, denied
them this privilege. Can such a party
prosper? We think not. My opinion
is that the Republican party must some
way get rid of its ten per cent of "con-
or it must leave them
where they arc, and form a new party,
based upon Ben. Wade's doctrine, Of
equal and exact justice to all men.
| do not despair Of the country. The
Democratic party, and its conservative
allies, are only the instruments in the
hands OF God to work out his purposes,
IS Pharaoh was in the days of old,
His heart was hardened from time to
lime, until the final destruction in the
Red Sea. So it will be with the pro-
slavery party in our country. How
,he people deplored the apostasy of
Andrew Johnson. But if he had not
urned traitor to the principles upon
which he was elected, would the ne
yroes in the rebel States now be voting
md holding ollice7 So it will be by
he Democratic party and its allies.
They will, by their own wiokedness
nd madness, bring about a destruction
# all class legislation, and place all men
Ipon perfect equality in all civil and
POLITICAL matters. DIM.
IMPEACHMENT.