The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-02-25

look for the proof of this. The very fact
that he got drunk is prima tacis evidence
that he was a Democrat. Before he be-
came a drunken Democrat he was de-
cent man, and God favored him greatly,
and even blessed him after he came out
OF the ark. 1t is just so now. Let
man commence getting drunk, and the
general rule is that the first thing he
does after he awakes from his wine, is to
do as Noah did under similar circum-
stances-he goes to cursing some harm
less ''nigger," and voting the Democratic
ticket. There is no evidence that Ca
naan was niger" In fact, he could
scarcely have been even a mulatto, as he
was the grandson of Noah himself The
record, in the latter part of the IXth
chapter of Genesis, does not explain why
curse should have been hurled at Ca
naan.. He had done nothing wrong, or
even said a word. This is one of the
strongest proofs that Noah was Demo
crat. Who but Democrat just awaking
from drunken debauch, would think of
cursing his own grandson, when the boy
had not said a word, or even seen the
old mans drunken nakedness? Before
| Noah became a Democrat, he did much
that was worthy of record. 1t is said
that he found grace in the eyes of the
Lord, and one writer says that he was a
preacher of righteousness for the space
of one hundred and twenty years. But
after he became a Democrat, Moses
| thought it more charitable to make no
record of his life, only in two short verses,
that he lived three hundred and fifty
all nine hundred and fifty years. Here
was more than one-third of the life of
this remarkable man, in which he did
nothing worthy Of being handed down to
posterity. A sad warning to good men
not to turn Democrats.
(While we were writing the foregoing,
J. n. Free came into our Office, and we
asked him who was the first Democrat,
and told him that we were attempting to
prove from the Bible that Noah was the
first Democrat. He said he supposed
that Bill Allen was the first Democrat.
We had never thought of that. We
knew that Allen was old-very old but
we had not supposed that he was an
antediluvian. Perhaps J. \. is correct }
The origin of the Republican party is
generally fixed in the year 1856, when
Gen. Fremont was candidate for Presi-
dent. This is about as great a mistake
as the other. Republican principles are
very clearly defined in the XXth chap
ter of Exodus; but the first man to put
these principles in practice-in other
words, the first practical Republican, was
Job. Now historians differ as to the
time when Job lived. Some say he lived
IN the days of King Solomon, while 9th
ers say he was cotemporary with Moses.
(Again we appeal to Gov. Allen to settle
this vexed question. He can tell. }
Some think that there never was such a
man as job; but that the whole nara
tive is Hebrew poem Of very high
order
One of the strongest proofs that job
was Republican, is the fact that he was
beset, and prosecuted, and tormented
and afflicted by hypocritical, selfcon
cited men, and even by the devil him
self. This is the experience of Republic
cans at the present day. And then look
at the sound Republican principles which
he declares be practiced as follows:
"If I did despise the cause of my man
servant, or of my maidservant- when
they contended with me; what then shall
do when God riseth up? and when he
visiteth, what shall 1 answer him? die
not he that made me- make him? If
have withheld the poor from their de
sire, or have caused the eyes of the wild
ow to fail; or have eaten my morsel my
self alone, and the fatherless hath no
eaten thereof; if l have seen any perish
from want of clothing, or any poor with
out covering; if his loins have not blessed
me, and if he were not warmed with th
fleece of my sheep; if have lifted ul
my hand against the fatherless, when
saw my help in the gate, then let m.
arm fall from my shoulder-blade, ant
mine arm be broken from the bone.
If my land cry against me, or that tn
burrows likewise thereof complain; if
have eaten the fruits thereof withou
money, or have caused the owners there
of to lose their life; let thistles grow in
stead of wheat, and cookie instead G
barley"
Yes. job was Republican.