The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-07-30

5e an increase during the period of tW
E. hundred and seventy-six million dollar
$ There are those bold enough to assel
y that the country is now governed wors
If instead of better than formerly. Som
IT may be found weak enough to believ
!. such assertions. But it requires a grea
e deal of defamation to prove that the da
d IS cold when the mercury stands at 98 il
0 the shade. The mercury won't lie. Mel
e unhappily sometimes do And it will
4 require great deal of rhetoric to per
suade this country that it is being ruined
by Government which in thirteen year.
| has advanced its credit throughout tn,
money markets of the world fully thirty
three per cent and has nearly trebleo
its surplus productions @ so
LAND POLICY.
But this is not all Since 1.-The advent
OF the republican party the fnishin
touches have been given to our land sys-
tenn. 1t was long adjudged that a dol
lar and quarter was full equivalent
for an acre of the public domain. Accord
Ingly that was fixed as the minimum price.
! That gave to the Governments $500 for a
quarter section of land. But Republican
Ism ADJ judged that farmer was more
| worth to the country than $780, and so it
! has rendered a homestead not exceeding
one hundred and sixty acres to eyery
head of family who will make a farm
| upon it. And in view of fact which no
| State can afford to overlook, to-wit: that
| a successful agriculture is the primal
necessity and grand inspiration of every
other industry. and that, to be truly sue
cessful, agriculture, like every other craft,
should be learned, prosperous colleges
have been endowed out of the public do
main, wherein field culture may be reared
from the rank ofa craft to the dignity of
a science; to the grandeur even of an art
But, as establishing the future land
polley OF the Republican party, the fol-
lowing resolution of the House of Repre-
sentatives is submitted: 'aa -
, ResolUed, That in the judgment of this House
tne pol1cy OF granting subsidies in public land
to railroad and other corporations ought to be
dlscontlnued; and that every consideration of |
PIE requires that the public lands of the United
states should be held for the exclusive purpose |
the homestead and preemption laws subject to |
reasonable appropriations of such lands for
educational purposes. ...-s. - d
THESUNIoN PRESERVED.
Fellew-eitizens, when you committed
the Union to the keeping Of the Repub-Il
llcan party, it seemed on the verge of dis
solution. Many hoped and some feared T
IL mad received an incurable wound. We
present the Union to you to-day every
whit whole. The Republic is at peace
throughout all her borders; she is at
peace with all the world Her rightful
authority is disputed nowhere; her opin-
IONS are respected everywhere. She stands
in the very vanguard of sovereign States.
We challenge history to produce another
instance of a country raised from such
humiliation to such grandeur in SO short !
q time. And this transformation has "A
been wrought not merely without the |
ald M OF the Democratic party, but in spite {
Of its utmost hostility e----.-=azee-4s=--e- I
THE OPPOSITION. REVIEWED. !
You have seen the shortcomings of that !
party in administration. Its faults in !
opposition have been still more glaring. !
Perhaps they can be forgiven for allowing I
5he ship of State TO drift SO near the Ii
'oehs. But how can they beforgiven their t
'truggles to prevent her from being t
'natehed from that party2 That charity, I
which delights to think no evil. NAV
excuse their omission to lift the country: +
lpon the plea of incompetency But not q
charity itself can see anything, but ma t
lgnancy IN their persistent efforts,to pre- Y
7ent the country from being lifted The f
world does not resent, but rather pities, !"
he helpless crew under whose seaman o
hip Jesus sailed for the country of the {
1adarenes. 1t is plain they could not n
till the winds which threatened to sink f
he ship. But if they had attempted to t
hroW the Savior overheard when he ap il
'eared to rebuke those impious; winds, q
he world would have known no pity for +
he crew And that is the great Demo 4
ratio otfense which still smells to heaven Il i
lot that they did nothing for the country, 1T
.ut that they fercely opposed everything t
hat was done for the country 1t would l. n
lot be quite true to say that the Demo t,
ratio party opposed the national effort a
0 suppress the rebellion; that would f,
AVE been high treason. It would be &
ute as far'from the truth to say that ia
hey. promoted that effort. The rebel W
ion could not have lasted two years had n
he Democratic party continued in that o
atriotic purpose which Douglas for T
easoh inspired But Douglas died, and a
0 did that purpose - 4s5g / Il
/. With a sagacity, steadfastness, and a,
learness of vision which, if employed in g
good cause, would be of inestimable / q,
alue, the Democratic party found that II
overt, narrow and devious way which If
~ between loyalty and treason, and ).
hey pursued that way from the middle d
t the year 1862 to the end of the war, r
ways avoiding the rebuke of their el
ountry's laws and also the reproach of n
neir country's foes
But even-for this stinted measure of fti
'yalty there may shaveSbeen some ex- s.
use 1t may have sprung from lack OF
nth and not from want of love- They o.,
rofessed to believe the rebellion invinci- q
lie, and, II they really believed so, they IT
ouid hardly be expected to display e
luch zeal in struggle they believed to
e hopeless. The spirits are rare and sc
cry choice who lead forlorn. hope with p'
nything like gayety. But those who it
lad real hope, no matter how forlorn, tr
nd do not merely follow a dread, are W
OF apt to look so dismal as these Demo tt
rats did when the rebellion was finally o,
'ushed. be
Possibly, however, even that singular di
election was but the effect of mortiica- o.
on at their own misjudgment and want m
provision. But when the rebellion bs
as crushed and they were invited to aid Ell
removing Its cause, as well as cause I'll
II future rebellions, by abolishing slav- m
y, they refused to do thatl How can in
lat refusal be excused or forgiven W
he great act of emancipation, while it is fo
le grandest in history, is also the least al
xpansiVe. 1t cost nothing butia vote, til
ct even this they refused to give. By fiji
IMPLY writing Eyes" upon their ballots, til
lstead of mo" they knew they could er
We freedom to four millions of human tie
eings. They were sure of victory if NJ
ley said "yes;" they could only hope b
II victory if they said "no"-and yet w
ley said mo" 1t was mere question ct
volition. The question was squarely de
ut to them after they had been led ez
luddering clear through the Red Sea be
i'd stood dry on the other shore-stood, &c
10, in that marvellous blaze which IRA 1t