The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-09-04
[From the columbus Journal.l

Now that old-fashioned Democracy is
being revived, few little reminders of
what happened in good old Democratic
times will not be out of place. For in
stance:
The Baltimore San of January II, 1856,
says:
cat the annual letting of slaves at
Charlottesville (Va.), farm laborers
brought from $110'to $135; and women
from $50 to $40" t
The Lake Providence (La) Herald of
1At riIe sig1e Or cIeneraT L. ,Jz7 FOLK
slaves, at auction, on yesterday, by VIM.
L. Knox, Sheriff and auctioneer, men
ranged from $500 to $1635, women and
girls from Sl25O to $3.50, children in pro-
portion-all cash"
The Richmond (va.) Wig, of April
Goth, 1856, says:
cat public sale of personal property
last Saturday in Winchester, likely
young woman, about 20 years of age, was
bought by Jefferson farmer for $l700,
being the highest price ever paid in that
county within recollection" .
A correspondent writing to the Missou-
ri Republican from Pike county Missouri,
in January, 1856, says, speaking of sale
of slaves:
"Men sold on yesterday at the follow
ing PIcOOI P1O1-i pAHOoi F4-AOs
$1275 These men were common crop
hands; ranging from 80 to 45 years of
age Women brought from $500 to 5000,
and one went as high as $l040." s1e-
The Richmond Enquirer, of February
81 1855, contained sixteen advertise
ments of runaway slaves, of one of whom,
mentioned as phil the advertisement
says:
at is believed he will endeavor to
make his way to free State, as he can
anywhere pass for white man.
"Phil, we read, had the misfortune to
belong to the estate of one VIM. Gooch,
to whom he was suspected of bearing
near relationship
We might easily compile columns of
material similar to the above, but we
have enough for our present purpose,
which is to give some idea of the pecu-
lior institution which the old-time Demo
cratic party shielded and venerated.
These things have little mustiness of
flavor, but they only date back to-Ia56,
which is not great while ago. Nor are
they half so old as the traditions and
history of the Democracy which are now
being brought forward as the testimonials
of its purity and patriotism In fact,
they constitute a necessary part of that
history, for any record of the Democratic
party that made no allusion to slavery,
and gave no adequate idea of that pecu-
liarly Democratic institution, would be
like the play of Faust without Mephisto-
phelean accompaniments.
On the other hand it is due to the Re
publican party that such paragraphs as
are above given are not still current in
the Southern papers. The Republican
organization had its very sbirthEin. -a9ti-
slavery agitation, and its primal mission
was resistance to pro-slavery aggression.
But for that resistance, begun, continued,
and fought out by the Republican party,
human chattelhood would have been ex-
tended into every Territory of the Union,
and the auction-block for the sale of men,
women and children would be still set up
in every Southern State. AT the same
time, be it remembered, that not move
meut has been made or measure pro-
posed looking to the restriction or aboli-
ton of slavery, or the protection of
freedmen, which the Democratic party
has not bitterly and stubbornly resisted.
These are trite truths, but they are ger
main to the issue now pending before tho
people of Ohio.