The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1869-07-29
JACKSON G. H., OHIO, THURSDAY, JULY %, 1869.
The YersatfIs Democracy.

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Once it was tue boast of the Demo
cratic party that its principles could be
/ proclame from Maine to Mexico, and
would be found everywhere the same.
Indeed the sainted Douglas, in his last
stumping tour, laid it down as an axiom
that any principle which could not safe,
| ly be advocated in every part of the
country, must be wrong By this he
subordinated truth by lynch law. 1t
was fair example Of the moral percep-
tions Of that Democratic leader. Dur-
ing that very tour he met crowd in
the South that showered unsayory mis-
slles on him and his doctrine and thus
out OF his own mouth he was condemn
ed. But Democracy can no longer
boast that it is the same everywhere.
Indeed, the New York World com
menting approvingly on the Ohio Cop
perhead platform, and likewise APPROX
ingly on the Virginia Radical platform,
on which it claimed a Democratic vic
tory-says that Democratic principles
need not be the same in every State.
but may in each take Oil the hue that
suits the emergency
Thus in Ohio the Democracy declare
against paying the national debt, unless
they may first scale it by taxation, and
against black suffrage, aud against the
18th Amendment, and against the Adj
ministration; and they nominate man
for Governor because they say he was
i'll used by General and President Grant.
But in Virginia the Democracy 90 for
paying the national debt faithfully, for
baIck suffrage, for the 18th Amend
ment, for the Administration, and they
announce their intention to show their
affection for General Grant by electiDg
his brOther-in-law Senator. And what
makes this the more paradoxical is that
the Ohio Democracy boast of this in
Virginia as Democratic triumph. And
Democracy in Mississippi and in Texas,
and throughout the late rebel States, is
taking the same turn.
Democracy now has as varying hues
as the patriotism fthe travelling show
man. And what is more it boasts of its
facility in adaptation. But there comes
up the question, which is the ruling
element! We know in what section it
always was. We know that the North
always followed seryilely the Southern
dictation We know that the North
ern Democracy has not leaders OF either
ability Or courage sufficient to contest
the leadership with the autocrats Of the
Southern Democracy. Judging by the
state Of subsection which they have al
ways accepted as their position by na-
ture, we have to conclude that the Dem
ocracy in the Northern States are in the
condition of those scattering uebulous
masses which are thrown off while the
planetary bodies are forming, and
which are outside of any regular sys-
tenn or healthy organization. Otcourse
they can not long remain so. Where
they will be in the future we can but
judge by the attitude of their natural
leaders in the South at this time. We
may expect to see the Ohio Democracy
repudiating their Copperhead platform,
declaring for negro suffrage, exalting
the sanctity of the national debt, sup
porting the 18th Amendment, nomina-
ting black men for Representatives, aud
their stump orators tendcrly praising
the sOftness of the African tongue, as
they do the sweetness of the Irish
brogue Cincinnati Gazette.