The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-12-31
The following is from Harpar's Weekly,
one of the ablest and most candid publ
cations in this country:


The following is from Harper's Weekly,
one of the ablest and most candid publ
cations in this country:
DEMOCRATIC HOME RULE"
At the time of the negro massacre of
1865 in New Orleans it was announced in
the Northern Democratic papers as a riot
and slaughter By negroes. and the utmost
efforts were made to inhame Northern
sentiment against them. The fact was
that it was wanton and murderous as
sault upon them. There has just been a
similar slaughter in Vicksburg, which
was carefully telegraphed as an attack
upon that city by the negroes, although
the report admitted that the result was
the massacre of sixty or hundred thou
sand negroes and no white man. The
simple fact is that white mob attempt
ed to compel the resignation of certain
colored officers, among whom was the
Sheriff Crosby All the officers fed ex-
cept Crosby, and he signed a resignation
4'No one, says the Cincinnati Commercial,
which is an independent and not Re
publican journal, concealed what his
fate would be if he had not done SO. He
would have been hanged on the spot"
Crosby escaped and saw the Governor,
who ordered him to return and take pos
session of his office, and summon the
| people to sustain him. He did so, and
the Cincinnati Commercial, which sent a
correspondent to the scene to investi-
gate, tells the sequel:
'He sent news to the country for the
negroes to come in Monday and re-
port to the Court House They came,
were met at the city limits, and slaugh-
tered-sfmply slaughtered and butcher
ed. They were chased through the
woods and fields and shot down like
dogs. Many were shot after they got up,
and some were shot on their knees while
begging for mercy. The spirit of demons
was in the people. 1t was not safe for
any one not in full accord with them to
be on the street One poor old negro by
the name of Ambrose Brown was ordered
off the street by Captain Cowan former
rebel battery commander, and being tar
dy in going, Cowan deliberately shot him.
| Many prisoners were taken and kept in
the Court House, and taken out in the
morning. With winks and mods, and
laughter and jest, it was reported that
three of the most obnoxious made their
escape, which means they have simply
been murdered while prisoners. This is
unquestionably the truth of the massacre,
and the people of the nation should
fully recognize all its enormities. The
worst of it is that the persons who have
been guilty of this wholesale murder
fully Justify themselves upon the state
ment of facts that we have given, and,
we are bound to add, they are animated
by the conviction that there has been
political revolution in the north, and
: that their time'has come"
The last words of this extract are very
significant. Nine years ago, when it was
thought that Andrew johnson would fa-
| he Dnrnnapatin he
were slaughtered at New Orleans; and
now when The result of the autumn cleo
tions seems to show general reaction
and Democratic restoration, the negroes
are slaughtered at Vicksburg We pre-
sumo that no well-in formed person sup
poses that this Vicksburg massacre would
have occurred had the Democratic party
been as generally defeated as it was sue
cessful in the elections The moral needs
no enforcement. The facts show US what
is to be expected under Democratic
home rule
All that is wanted in the national pol
| lev toward the Southern States is that
practical common sense which is the
| characteristic of the American and Eng
! lish political genius. 1t is not an inheX-
| ible indifference nor a scorn of facts 1t
! is policy of administra ton shat is want
ed but the administration Of friends,
| not OF Toes. mere is something COmIcal
in the air with which the Democrats
propose what they call home rule"
phrase borrowed from the Irish friends
of separate Parliament, the impractica.
bility of which Mr. Freeman has conclu-
sively exposed. The Democrats mean
by "home rule" State sovereignty, ard
they say with truth there would have
been no Southern question had they
been in power. There would have been
no Southern question, just as order
reigned in Warsaw. Home rule, we
are now informed, requires that the
States should have reconstructed them
selves. And what that was the country
saw. 1t was the practical restoration of
all of slavery but the name. 1t was va
grant laws apprentice laws, black Codes
non-ownership of the land by the me-
groes, their exclusion from all civil rights
and in general the same legislation which
made General Terry say in Virginia that
the condition of the freedmen was worse
than that of this slaves. Should the
Democrats return to power in the nation
al government their policy would be
what it would have been had they con-