The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1869-06-10
JACKSON c. H. OHIO THURSDAY, JUNE 49, 1862

righteous retribution upon the people,
south and north, for sighting and de.
splslng His authority.
True, also, is it, as the World says,
''the politicians did not aim at the ab.
olltion Of slavery" They solemnly
affirmed ever their fealty to it, in all the
old slave states. And the World is
right ais 0 in showing how the leading
political abolitionists have failed in the
objects they sought by seeming to es.
pouse the cause of the enslaved. II
enumerates them from VIM. H. Seward
down Tor up), "whose destiny was TO be
supplanted by small rivals" who have
ever been "elevated over their heads. /"
Finally, it declares:
"The anti-slavery chiefs have moi
only failed in their aspirations for Office,
but they have nearly all made sbipwreck
Of their popularity with the party which
they created. The republican party ne
longer treats with honor, affection, es-
TEEN, or trust, either Seward or Chase,
or Greeley, or Fremont, or the Blairs,
or Cameron, or Weed, or any of the
men whose energy, astuteness, and in
hnence called the republican party into
existence, moulded its organization and
led it to victory"
But the grand mistake of the World,
after all, is in its estimate of those it
calls fanatics, or, if you please, phi
lanthropist, without political hopes or
aspirations. Their work was only
"empty agit2tion;" in itself, "would
have resulted in nothing!" The work
of Isaiah and Jeremiah, it was expected
by the Jews, "would result in nothing. ="
But they learned better when captives
in Babylon. The warnings of Jesus
and his followers, it was believed,
"would result in nothing" But that
generation did not passed away, till
their Holy City was ploughed as field,
owls and bats fouled the very altar, and
adders Missed beneath where it stood.
Let the World lay no such fattering
JUNCTION to its soul. Many of those
fanatics, without political hopes or as
pirations,' still live, yea, "through God,
are mighty in power" They stand be-
fore the world, to-day, justified in the
sight of all holy beings, their prophesy
fulfilled, their work magnifed and made
honorable While the church and min
istry were not only excusing slave
breeding, slave trading and slave-hold-
ing, but actually practicing it, these
"fanatics" were warning the country
that the evil persisted in would newt
ably provoke the judgments of Heaven.
While in all her guilt, the church was
crying Peace, Peace, Union, Union,
the abolitionists were constant and
faithful in their declaration that no
peace was possible while slavery con-
tinued The event showed who was
right. The voice of half a million dead
can testify from their untimely graves
whose prophecy to the people was
Gods truth, and whose the words of
the father of lies.
Now the demand is for justice, equal
ity, full untrammelled citizenship for
every intelligent, patriotic man aud
woman in the land. And those who
make it are still "without political as
pirations," And the demand of JUS
tice, the voice of forty centuries of ac-
credited history, all the divinely given
attributes of human nature and the hon
or and throne of Jehovah are their all
sufficient assurance of final and per-
feet triumph. PIP.