The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-12-02

Lewis, Silas Skelton. James Reed, Teter
Null, and several others sold goods forty
odd years ago, is great ore bank. This
is near the center of Massies Addition
hill until the stripping is nearly twenty
feet deep to the ore. A team drove down to
the ore, and three men commenced load
ing the wagon. This y short distance
above the old Tom Massie spring. This
spring came out under the great lime
stone vein. There We Sunday School
children came in crowds to drink on the
hot summer Sundays. But the dear old
spring is no more. Where its refreshing
waters poured forth for ten thousand
years, is a great pile of earth, thrown up
by the miner, as he took up the lime
stone, and the rich ore that lay just
above it. 1 supposed that the stream
came out some where above, where it had
been cut off, but upon examination
could not find it. All was dry above.
Now / go a short distance south east
Here are some small houses, and an
orchard. picture in my mind pano-
rama passing before me, embracing
period of fifty-one years Like the faint
glimmering of an indistinct dream, ] am
here in August, 1924, at Baptist Associ-
alton. | am not six years of age. All
around is a dense woods, of TAIL straight
white oak trees Fastened to two of
these trees is rude stand upon which
are seated the pioneer Baptist preachers
of Southern Ohio at that day, and among
them Bazel Lewis, Levi Mcdaniel, John
Lee, John Young, John Kelly, William
Fuson, William George of Virginia, &c.
Another association was held in the same
place in August, 1880 In the same grove,
in the year 1892, Julius A Bingham, who
laid out the town of Oak Hill the same
year, established the first Sabbath School
that was organized in the south part of
Jackson county. As the scroll Is gradually
unrolled, and the years pass before my
mind, see the whiteoak forest destroy
ed and small log school house erected
on the very spot where the associations
were held in 1924 and 1880, and where
| the Sabbath Schools were held from 1892
to 1885. 1t is now lS4S, and Presiden-
tIal election is held in November. This
little school house is the place of voting
in Madison township. Gen. Taylor is the
| Whig candidate-a Louisiana slave holder,
who was not even known to be Whig
but who had gained notoriety as a sue
cessful commander in the infamous Mex
ican war, waged for the purpose of estab-
fishing slavery in Texas. The Democrats
were running some one, believe it was
Lewis Cass. Both parties had joined
had no rights which white men were
bound to respect. 1t was substantially
saying that there was no justice-no hu-
man rights-no God. A few brave men
had met at Buffalo, New York. and re-
solved that while the nation had no
power to abolish, or interfere with slave
ry where it exists, yet it must not be ex-
tended, and they nominated Martin Van
Buren as their candidate for President,
on that platform. l would not vote for
a pro-slavery Democrat; neither would l
vote for a Southern slave holder. who was
not even known to be a Whig. So
voted for Van Buren. When the votes
were counted out there were 40 for Tay-
lor, 40 for Cass, and for Van Buren. l
will not now stop to tell the young Re
publicans what an excitement that one
vote caused; how | was ridiculed, and
ljeered and cursed, and threatened during
that election day; how | came to Jack
son next day, and the leading citizens
told me | had done very mean thing
how was in the Auditors Office where
a number of persons were assembled,
and William McNeel of Jefferson town
ship had brought in the poll book for
Jackson told him that Van Buren, had
received one vote in Madison; how Mr..
McNeel said: ivan did not get into JEFF
ferson
Now lei the parchment OF the pano-
rama be unrolled for the space OF ~
years. Now Van has got into Jeffer-
son." Twenty-seven years ago there was
but one vote for human freedom truth,
justice, right, in all the great townships
of Madison and Jefferson; now these
townships give 73S votes for a platform
infinitely in advance of the Buffalo plat
form of lS4S These two townships now
give 490 majority for justice, truth and
honesty-this majority being three times
as much as the entire vote for Cass and
Taylor in lS4S. The vote for Hayes in
these two townships in 1875 is greater
than the vote for Taylor in the entire
county in 1S4S. The vote in IS4S for
human rights in the entire county was
13; in 1875 it was t,centy-fo4tr hundred ana
ninetyssvcn.
In view of all that has occurred in this
great political revolution in the past quar-
ter of century in our county alone, /
must say, what bath God wrought
Bless the Lord, oh my soul
AMONG THE UNFORTUNATE.