The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-03-18

When the war comes, as coming 1T Is,
it shall be civil war The North must be
the scene of conflict, not the South We
have touched bottom We cannot be
worsted. Adversely has united US. and
we can wait the issue which the Radicals
are pressing upon the country with a
degree of complacency, not to say indif-
ference. We have been there. We know
all about it. Within eighteen months
we shall see either Presidential D.cta-
tor. Supreme Military Chief of govern
ment conducted by the House the army
and the navy, or else we shall see the
Northern States given over to interne-
cine battle; for Grant means business,
and has no idea of giving up without a
fight, being no man for a foot-race"
This is one of the latest utterances of
the Louisville Courier-.Journal, a paper
which at times has manifested disposi-
ton to be fair and truthful-which, if we
recollect Alright, did at one time severely
denounce the KukluX outrages in the
South--but which has been overborne by
the swelling tide of southern hatred. un-
til it not only predicts that war is coming,
but that it shall be brought to the doors
of the Northern people themselves. 1t
would be curious fact in this discussion
could the world know whether Watterson
has come to talk so freely of blood of his
own accord, or whether he is not himself
victim OF. the spirit of ostracism and
oppression which prevails in the South
Hasn't he been coaxed to go with his
Statef' Several facts must be apparent
to every man who can see and think cor
rectly The South has only made use oil
the removal of all of its political disabili-
ties to acquire power which now seri-
ously menaces the peace of the country.
She accepts not one OF the proper and
| legitimate results of the war so far as il
was supposed to settle political questions
personal or State rights. 1t is determin
! ed to reduce the colored race to state
of peonage if not absolute slavery. lr
fact, in some of the States negroes have
been sold into limited periods OF servi
tude for alleged crimes-and the mex
| thing in that direction will be to make
that condition Il permanent one. The
same old issues confront US too day upor
which the South went to war in 1861, ant
not one of them is settled-ror the SoutL
disregartls all law which stands in it.
way, precisely as it did then. . Moreover
the South is to day better armed and pre-
pared for war than the North, and ne
doubt her white people are better united
upon their fell purposes than they wer'
fourteen years ago. The CONCLUSION
seems forced upon US, that the advocate
of these two separate and distinct civil
izations, the one contending for equalit.
OF legal and political rights, and the 9th
er still, as ever, demanding class distinc
tions. and determined to enforce then
by all means and at every hazzard-b.
fraud, intimidation, violence, murder
will continue in butter contention unit
the one shall be compelled to succuml
to the superior power OF the other Wha
different result can follow at this Grim
nation and recrimination which are to
day more pronounced and bitter thar
they were year before the rebellion? |
is assuming fearful responsibility
of plunging a great nation into blood
war to perpetuate oppression and wrong
But the South has done it once. and
ready to do the same thing to day
The above is from the Chicago Inter
Ocean, and is only the expression of
truth known to every candid observer G
the signs of the times. We never ha
the least doubt that the Democrat
party, if it ever got into power, woul
declare the amendments to the constitr
ton fraudulent and void, and thus leav
the constitution as it stood at the breal
ing out of the rebellion, when the part
Construed tito mean that slavery was n;
tional. and freedom sectional. Let ever
lover of his country, and especially ever
Republican voter. be on the alert, an
give the rebel Democracy such chec
at the next election as will put it ono
more upon its good behavior.