The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-02-25
From Ha-peES Weekly
Lazzaroni,


-old that "the South" is suffering, tha
the South" is oppressed, that 18th
South" is a martyr. and patiently bear
is wrongs, only a certain part OF tn
people OF the Southern States is meant
Jhe white population. Before the Dem
.cratic slave Senators spoke of "the pee
lie of the South, and attempted to jus
ify secession as a unanimous act of "th
nrOple." What people? The slave heldin
class and their white dependents. II
Louisiana. Mississippi, and South Care
ina, the people" were not half of tn
population, and in all the other South
'rn States those who were not included
in that term were very large proper
ton of all 1t is the spirit shown il
these phrases, with the meaning attached
to them, which is one of the reasons why
the Democratic party can not safely bt
trusted with the government.
Mr.. Cox Is an amiable man, but a We
hement partisan, and in the late debate
upon the rules, smarting under the sar
5asm of the Speaker that he had offered
mis- resignation from the Committee on
the Rules for dramatic effect, he ex
Gained that the term was not applied tc
| General Butler when he went into the
l''tlerk's desk and spoke to the lazzaron
IN the galleries That is his honest feel
| IL ID lHS iStilHS OI MS L he
colored people are lazzaroni; they are
beggars, idle shiftless, indolent, ignorant
GOOD for nothing. They need a good
master and a strong hand. However
this may be in fact, the contemptuous
| generalization is the natural view oil
those who have been bred to regard a
| large class of human beings as cattle, ,and
yet suppose themselves to be democrats,
or believers in the rights of man. There
! Is nothing at once more ludicrous and re-
Voting in history than the spectacle OF
! the old slave aristocracy, with its North
| ern lackeys, sitting in the Capitol, calling
:ts-lf Il Democratic party, and stretching
| and straining the. power of the Govern
ment to extend and perpetuate human
| slavery. This is what Mr. Cox and Mr..
Randall and their party associates were
trying to do but yesterday, shouting
themselves hoarse about freedom" and
the land OF liberty" and the home of
the oppressed" And to-day they wish
10 administer a government in Wa ich
the men whom they dealt with as prop
erty, as swine, as things without rights,
tre their equal citizens. They struggle
t. show that they may be trusted.
they "GcIu esee, and by-gonei are
to he by-gones. But the cat trans formed
into a seeming lady leaped for the mouse
IN the floor. and TO the Democrat, as
this country knows him, the South"
means class. and the colored people
ire ''lazzaroni and nig"ers.
But the question OF these people is the
IN )st important OF all before Us, AMI lis
treatment will be confided to one OF the
TWO parties at the next election. 1t is
lleged that the Republicans have failed
in dealing with it. and that the Demo-
Gratis should he allowed to try. But the
southern situation, whatever 1t Is, Is
largely due to the Democrats, as every
man knows who seeks iacts and NOT
forms. And what is it that the Demo
erals propose to do? If the Republicans
have tailed. what is the Democratic poll
| cv? Ot course echo answers, w hatf The
| New Hampshire Democratic Convent. on,
the first OF the year, says, The people
OF each State to regulate their own do
mestic atftirS in their own way, subject
only to the Constitution of the United
States Certainly: so say We all; and
tn pink, therefore, in itself toreshows
no pplIcy, inasmach as the essential
qurs ton is What does the Constitution
authorize? The Democratic poiIcy is to
b. inferred from the character aud ante
dents OF the party and from its Leaders.
These all foreShow passivity. The party
would grant JEFF Davis's prayea AT the
beginning of the rebellion and leave "the
South" alone These would mean the
reduction OF the colored population to ii
pariah class, and then the question would
be whether the general intelligence and
good sense OF the whites could be trust
ed to avoid what i'll the changed condi-
ton OF the Southern States would threat
en- them. an int rnecine war.
There is another consideration. The
III .
whites of the Southern States is not in
the American sense. republican. The
Southern orators always appealed to
Greece and Rome because the democra-
CIV of Athens rested upon slavery, and
the freemen were very inconsderable
number of the population. But Ameri
can republicanism asserts individual
equal rights, and demands the suffrage
as their guarantee. In this sense the
sentiment of the white class in those
States is anti Republican. 1t is q senti-
ment of caste. Ii calls itself democratic,
us when it openly maintained slavery;
but should it gain power in the Southern
States, they would be unit of hostility
to the American principle OF equal rights
And this hostility would only be con-
tirmed were the national government in
Democratic hands. In the worst sense,
thereforP,a Democratic restoration would
be reaction. 1t could not hasten the
settlement of questions that cannot be
evadtd. and which are imminent. If the
negro, as an equal citizen, in States where
he is half the population, suggests the
important question of the situation,
ought the answer to be intrusted to his
friends or to his enemies? 1t is not
conclusive reason for taking It from his
friends that they have made mistakes,
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be-that those mistakes must necessari-
ly he continued and maintained.
Will Hamilton. the halEwit of AYR