The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-10-01

omens of reign of good order and peace
| that the Ku-Klux can scarcely endure
A band of two or three hundred rufhans
| invaded the town, took prisoners the tax
collector, deputy-postmaster, United
States commissioner, several other otici
ais, and a number of colored citizens, and
lodged them in prison upon some prepos
ferrous accusation. Another band of out
laws, supposed to be Texans" took them
from the Jail and shot them in the " oods
So grave and desperate an outrage as the
| murder of State and United States officials
will probably be followed by something
more than an investigation. Tennessee and
Kentucky are disgraced by a series OF
not dissimilar crimes. In the former,
fourteen innocent negroes are the latest
victims of the merciless rebels. The
white mans party has thrown off all dis
guise. Its favorite victims are Northern
emigrants. native white and colored Re-
publicans, and every man who dares to
proclaim his devotion to the Union.
But will the Free States any longer per
NIT their citizens who may settle IN
Georgia or Alabama to die in the cause
of the Union unavenged? Will New
York, will the Great Northwest, suffer
the rain of lawlessness and crime to
spread over the whole South2 Can not
Southern politicians see that they are
awakening a spirit of retaliation that
may bring upon them a speedy and terri
bic punishment
The Democratic leaders of the North
ern States are responsible for the enor-
mites of their Southern allies. 1t Is in
the cause of ''so-called' Democracy
that all these crimes are committed.
Unhappily the recent elections in sever
oil Of ha hav nj n
Office men who were known as pro-slavery
Democrats during the war; and the
white mans party at the South evidently
believe that Ohio and Connecticut are
prepared to countenance any crimes that
will secure a Democratic majority in Lou
isiana or South Carolina. How greatly
they are deceived they will no doubt
discover at last. There are not many
native born citizens in any Free State
who do not burn to punish the murder
ers of Billings, the Georgia Tigers who
invaded South Carolina, or the miscre-
ants of Louisiana and Tennessee. But
it is to the corrupt leaders of the Demo
cratic party that the country owes this
constant insubordination at the South,
which has suffered it for ten years to find
no repose. At the approach of every
election the white mans party has begun
its outrages, and Tammany Hall and all
the Democratic press have rejoiced over
the murder of carpet-baggers, as they
call all Northern settlers in the South,
and the immense Democratic" majori-
ties rolled up in Georgia or Kentucky by
the terrors of the Ku-Klux. Tammany
Hall, which has long been an Irish Cath
olic club, and the tool of the foreign
priesthood. has small sympathy with the
brave school masters who have been
whipped and tortured in Texas and car
pet-baggers," or the conscientious Repub-
licans who have suffered in all parts of
the South for defending the common
rights of man. Its leaders have always
been the natural allies of the Ku-Klux:
In 1868 Tweed, Sweeny, and Hall were
in friendly league with the worst of the
chiefs of the white mans party, and,
amidst bloodshed and disorder, hoped to
win the control of the South. In 1872
their natural successors, Wood, Morris
sey. Fellows, Kelley, and the whole Ro-
man Catholic faction, led by the Catholic
Telegraph. of Cincinnati, were once more
found allied with the murderers Of Grant
Parish and the Ku-Klux of New Orleans.
Every one remembers the cry of exulta-
ton from the whole Irish and Democrat
ic faction when Georgia. bleeding and
hopeless, was made to give sixty thousand
majority for the unhappy Greeley, and
sank down into slavery again under the
lash Of Toombs In 1874 the allies are
once more exultant. Tammany Hall
and the Irish faction prepare to seize
upon New York; the whole Roman
Catholic population will be driven by the
priests and bishops to vote for the Demo
cratic candidates. The Cincinnati IeLe-
graph and the papal prelates have already
won victory over the common schools
in Ohio by threats and denunciation to
their abject people; and all over the
South their allies of the white man
party have begun anew their career of
terrorism and bloodshed A conspi-
racy has again been inaugurated
by priests and rebels against knowl-
edge, liberty, and union. But we believe
it will fail, as all such conspiracies have
always done. The people are already
preparing to encounter and overthrow
their old enemies With enormous ma
jorities they will rise, from the Atlantic
to the Pacific, to battle the foreign pre-
lates who hope to rule in the North-the
servants of tyrannical Church and their
fearful allies of the white mans party,
the Georgia Tigers" and the Louisiana
chivalry. They will guard as jealousy
the lives of the peaceful citizens among
the savages of Alabama as if it were in
Borneo or Ashantee, and punish with
signal severity the murderous crew who
are the pests of Southern civilization.
The piratical Democracy may gain tenn
porary successes, but they will sink at
last before the rage of the people.