The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-11-12

the Senate of the United States, have
more power over the destipies of the
country than all the white Democrats in
dozen States.
All these facts we recognize as facts ac-
complished for the present but only for
the present. There is future ahead al
ways; Congress has mo power over that
can't indefinitely postpone, nor lay it on
the table. Steady and sure it comes on
at the rate of twenty-four hours & y,
exactly.
But we are little ahead just now
getting on too fast at this particular mo-
ment of time.
| We say we recogize the facts because we
must, and for the present accept the sit
uation, because just now we can't help it.
| But we do it for no other reason. We
had nothing to do with bringing to pass
this condition of things. The white men
of the nation, all of them, are disgraced,
degraded debased, but we were not in
the crime; no share of the guilt is ouls
| The Negro is exalted, to the shame of
the Caucasian, but the act was not ours
the crime was not committed at our in
stance, nor with our approval. Niggers
vote, but Democrats never made them
voters. They hold office, but not by
Democratic votes Our position on that
subject was always very clearly defined.
They are wholly unfit for citizens, there
fore we, the Democracy, would never
have made them citizens nor let any,
body else do it. if we could prevent
Such was our law, and gospel too, on
that subject. And from that we never
receded. We opposed the abominable
policy to the last moment of possible op-
position, and withheld our assent or APP
proval ever since.
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aided the policy, never approved it, new
er consented to it, but retired from the
contest only when it became practically
impossible to continue it, but carried
along with our defeat our undiminished
L0sIi..tj - =, i s harry ncedrC! - say
that we feel ourselves under no possible
or assignable obligations to maintain or
continue it when we become powerful
enough to do as we please about it. Do
you understand?
The day that gives the power into the
hands of the Democracy dooms the poll
cy of niger exaltation to death We
will smite. it down with swift and re-
morseless hand, and hurl it to the devil
without the benefit of clergy.
There is no misunderstanding this
We submit at present, because it is the
law, but the power that made the law
can unmake it, and when that power
comes TO the hand of the Democracy, as
come it will, we will use the power te
| smash the Congo dynasty, clean up the
Statute books by rending away the whole
chapter of Black Republican legislation
to place the sovereignty of the country
| once more in the hands of the only race
, able and fit to use it wisely and well, re
instate the white man in his place o
power and supremacy, and remand the
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, nation.
Does this sound revolutionary Al
! right That is precisely what we thinl
about it. Affairs have been put in thei
present order by revolution, and by
nothing else. The whole policy of thu
; party now in power was revolutionary
1 from the first, and is yet There is no
white man on the continent who is as
enough to imagine that the conduct O
! the Republican party, since their acces
sion to power, was anything else but rev
= olutionary. And if any man thinks tina
, the present state of affairs will reach ia,
into the future, that the white men O
the country will long lie still under thu
I rule of the niggers, he is the most aston
. ishing fool of the Caucasian breed OF
this planet.
e Revolution must come, and it will
| DuG I6tOluGlOl QOI ulSdH Wdf, CIVIL no
uncivil. With the return of power t.
the Democracy, comes political revolu
/ ton; sweeping, radical and irresistible
!. but peaceful, if we have our way about it
] Now the mode of procedure:
We will have National Convention O
all the States to revise and amend tn,
Constitution of the United States, anC
e there will be no niggers in that Conven
- ton
The Constitution as revised will be tht
Constitution as it was in 1860, except il
the matter of slavery.
e State laws and State Constitutions will
i be made to conform to the reformed Con
n stitution; so will the Federal laws
We will have the niggers free as they
are, but no more. This will leave then
< on the footing of unnaturalized foreign
ers, and of our mothers, wives, daugh tiers
e and sisters. This is enough. More thai
that they have no right to, and NOR
than that they will never get from US.
That is what we propose to do will
8 the niggers.