The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1868-10-15

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The Grimes Of the Loyal Norths
When the war ended sthe world was
icamazed at the magnanfhity Of the VIC
ltoT to the yanquishedp none were more
,astonlshed than our epemies, who ex-
pected their punishment to be commen.
strate With their .gailtaThey remem-
,bered the stern order of the Confederate
'GoEGfBment ex peIlfng all northern men
from the southern states; the barbarous
military orders, tettisidg quarter to COL
ored Union soldiers the fepdsh system
starvation established ID Southern pris-
ionsa theyrkngwlthe magnitude of the
4 evils they had brought upon the cohn-
TRY, and their jpgt fears were increased
by the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
BY an Instrument Of the ..rebeIlioIu.--
I They had given us no mefCy;J they ex-
ptCtedslittleiu retuvu; and when Lee,
ksuwepdeged password the. whole solIth
ltrembled at the feet Of the, Government.
Many of its leaders fled to Mexico and
I Ebidpe2 Jefferson Davis, pursued by a
few lfindFed men, hid l4ilHgelf,1 dsguis-
ed, in AlRbamaI7ygA Al pleas for mercy
Game from the entire, sOath it, stood
appalled, at the greatness sof, its own
crimes, aud the terror Of its stupendous
PSnnEe lld4in saW haFi sihi 10 JOIN
'sInt0blmoBtevery northern family The
warJbrought death; Idebel bullets had
laid the fQYsEofths 4oTh low in name
less graves; the treachery Of, the south
! had imposed upon the north a vast debt,
Which geherati6ns win have to bear
The wrath Ofithe1oyal people had been
wrought to excess bya4struggle of5un-
paralleled ferocity, Our foes had
/ invoked foreign interference to aid in
7 the destruction Of the Union. What
could they expect Experimentation
fiscation, banishment7 ORE the gallows?
ISach penalties had been inflicted by, all
other civilized nations in dealing with
a aeonquered rebellion, Austria had shot
! the Hungarian leaders, aud England
i had hung her Irish, patriots and had
blown her Sepoys to fragments at the
cannon's mouth. If America had so
understood human justice, if she had
but family initiated this severity, all civ
6ilized precedents would have justified
q her actiong Bat Christianity had made
unknown progress in the north; its
spirit triumphed over all .counsels of
vengeance; and forrthelfrst time in the
history of the world a great nation was
found great. enough to live up ito the
i1doctrine "forgiye your enemies and do
good tOthOse that despitefully use you"
owe forgave them all. Our pardon was
las free and general as the air. -Four
lmurderers were hung; the miserable
-Wirz atoned upon the scafold for crimes
toriwhich, perhaps, he was not respon-.
,sible but all the great criminals Of the
south were unconditionally pardoned
Not an inch of southern land was con-
'fisGated; etfefsonHDavs was imprison-
ed, it is true.--but not at Andersonville.
All thatn we demauded was this: that
the leaders of the rebellion, should not
retain the control of the south, and that
none but loyal men Should take part in
its Reconstruction. AT first the people
IOflthe southern states were bewildered
by thegeRerpsity theylreceiyed, For
| a time, they were unable TO understand
that it would continue; but, now how
do they repay it7 Let the New Orleans
massacre, 4he reign Of terror in Texas,
4 the speeches. of w ade Hampton aud
Howell Cobb, the threats Of the rebel
press, the crgelties Of q the Ku-Klux
Klan, answer for their gratitude.
Under the guidance Of a party con
trollgd by professional politicians and
oflice-huaters,- the south now assumes
the attitude of alwronged and outraged
people, ag 1t has forgotten all that has
happened SINCE 1860, aud remembers
only the golden age Of Buchanan and
! Pierce, when none butsoutheEners were
permitted 10 rule the eIcountrY when
.t,tbs north was regarded only as a nigh
4 ty slayeIto do the work Of its southern
masters, It has forgotten all that tdid
to, destroy the Constitution, apd claims
1 to be the especial champion Of that doc
umentwhich Davis trampled in the dust
and Lee riddled with bullets. i has
forgotten that toall crimes penalties are
attached, and has transferred to the north
the entire responsibility Of the warand
IAhe 4iseries which the rebellion caused.
Democratic orators and conventions ac-
/ cuse thes Government of the United
States Of, military despotismi Of fiover-
! throwing the freedom of speech and the
! press of converting the National Cap.
itol into q Bqstile, and of aiming to Of
/ feet the spbjugation of the peOple"amid
the ruins of liberty and the shattered
| fragments of the Constitution Rebel
| Generals meet in the North to nominate
la President tor the Republic, and to die
! tate the principles of Reconstruction.
| a pirate and aguerilla declare the Gen
eral of the Union armies an enemy Of
| the country he saved. From all parts
! of the rebel states comes the cry that
American ImRgnanimity is worse than
Russian tyranny, and it is the favOrite
/ theme Of the rebel, Ciceros to represent
the south as a beautiful and, bleeding