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

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o citizens, though they be black, have th
J. protection of the ballot which the La,
t benignly grants to all citizens, howeve
e humble, of every other color ?' An
e again the answer was mo"
e And when the Kuklux, armed wit
t brand and bludgeon, hunted the new
7 made citizen by night, hunted hin
through swamps, and pursued hin, t,
! death-when the local authorities stooC
L poWerless in the presence of organized
murder and arson, and this opposition
was appealed to to lend the protection O
} the national tribunals to the victims O.
. such inearnate hate, they still mocked al
such calamities and refused all relief.
1t IS often fippantly said that all these
crimes and horrors are past, and it is alb
surd TO attempt to maintain political
party on the memory of them. Perhaps
So But would it not be insane to trust
a political party that could so readily
forget them? tits not magnanimous, it
IS indeed hardly manly, to persecute
men for sins of which they have really
repented, But that is not repentance, it
is hypocrisy, which processes to- repent
OF SINS and does not forsake them, but
| embraces worse ones. Such is the anon
aious repentance displayed by the Dem
ocratle party. 1t never ceases to de-
nouncei the Republican party for what
It has done or is trying to do, but it
stralghtway thunders with fiercer denun-
clations OF what the party has not done
and is determined shall not be done.
The moment Democrats forget to decry
republican policies they begin to belle
republican motives For twenty years
they deemed it sufficiently opprobrious
to call Republicans Radicals" now they
claim to be radicals themselves and de-
nounce Republicans as rascals. re-.
DEMOCRATIC PROMISES.
Since the early part of 1872 they have
been diligently seeking to suborn rene
gade Republicans to turn states evidence
and to swear that all political virtue is in
those discounted forces which resisted
the progress of the last decade, and all |
vlllalny is in the forces which marshaled |
that progress. To such witnesses they
have lavishly offered honors, offices, dig |
mites, presidencies. everything which |
could be made the subject of promise. |
i 10 answer to any name; to profess
every creed T; to follow any flag; to sleep
IN any bed; to fraternize with all fac
tlons; and to offer salve for every sore
such is the mission of the opposition
to-day. Never before in politics was a
lie enacted so transparent and so auda-
e1ous as that paraded by the Democratic
party in 1872, when they gravely intro
duced Horace Greeley to the people as
'nelr representative man. 1t is not pos
'ible such ,'signs and wonders" can Hde-
'eiye the elect" So far they have failed
20 deceive even the electors. a5 issa 4
" 1t that party feels it to be unkind to
,emlnd 1t of its past career, how must it
eel to be reminded of its present atti-
udef Once its members protested dis
met principles; all that could be object !
"a to them was--what they professed
he worst principles extant. But badsas
hey were, they were more becoming !
nan this utter abjurafion of all princi- !
'les Y ou may not like to employ, but
ou do not wholly despise, o the zealot i 1
Vho consistently asserts that sarsaparilla
will cure every disease and SO urges it !
!pon every patient; but who can respect :
he charlatan who -persistently cries to :
he sick, give me your money and you Z
nay take what remedies you please Pr >
When in 1860 Democrats said, .sfCon-
niue US in power and we will feck the
territories with slavery; when in 1864 {
hey said, "restore us to power and we t
ill barter with rebels, giving freedom p
Dr. peace" when in 1868 they said again, f
restore us to power and we will abro- b
ate three great amendments to the Fl
constitution, secure government to white G
len, and return slavery to cofored men," t
could only be replied that such invita- S
ons We're very unattractive. II But when s.
1872 they cried, restore US to Office "
nee more, and we will do everything o
1at anybody wants done, the invita- tt
on was utterly repulsive And when y I
1ey supplement this brazen indifference n
principle byia stolid Indifference to e
nth, when, weary of opposing the Ii
leasures4ef the majority, they combine
assa1I their characters; when they d
oandon false reasoning only to resort to is
Ilse assertion, they exhibit an opposi- rt
on hard if not impossible to parallel
And yet that opposition, whiIe9it never W
as SO bad, was never SO dangerous as g
oW. People can better judge the merits 81
measure than the merits of man -
hey can more readily detect fallac1ous G
'gument than a false statement. When | C;
le opposition denounced Republicans A
misguided statesmen, the people could CT
,fely compare our measures with theirs .cs
I'D judge which were best But when al
ley denounce Republicans as thieves al
IS not so easy to try the truth of the
sert1on. Besides two circums tances | ii
veaslight color to that allegation First, d.
epublicans have possession of the Gov is
'nment, and have the besth chance, to n
eculate. Second, it has been the es- p;
ec1al labor of the present Administra- W
on to detect and punish peculation Ii
ome cases have been found tt
He was great statesman. as well as a qI
eat poet, who made Cassius say: =
n such a time as this it is not meet r4.4T | tt
lat every nice oHense should bear his com. SC
ment." 5H - IL , gl--- ~ ~
However specious that theory may =
und, many great rulers have been COM
.lled in turbulent times topractice upon ~
William III was an honest magls- ~
ate. He had world to fight and he Nc
as compelled to be very lenient toward e
e treasons of Godolphin and Marlbor- . 6
Ugh. He was slow to punish the en- Il,
zzlements of Torrington, and he never II
d punish the manifold rascalities of -
ford During the struggle and excite III
ent which attended the rebellion some ~
ID men found their way into public ~
nployments. Mr.. Lincoln's administra- -
1n was too much occupied with graver
alters to keep strict watch of every ~
dividual offender The administration of
nich succeeded was quite unprepared lrl
r that duty. Congress was then much NJ
'sorbed in the great of reconstruc- m
IN, and the President was not happily va
ted to criticise official misconduct But ~
e present Administration has no ex- -,
nption from that work. If it is not at 10
nded to now, the Administration, and an
1t the times, must be held responsible Il;
1T it is attended to. 1t is prosecuted p,
tn that infexible energy which has br
aracterized every labor led by Presi- :.
mt Grant. Some offenses have been IT
posed. And every time a rogue has ne
en- punished the opposition has shout In
/: See how corrupt Republicans are' tn
is as it, whenever a surgeon removes q or