The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-03-04
RANDOM THOUGHTS.
BIZ THE EDITOR.

Ever since the rebellion, l have held
the opinion that our system of govern
ment is rapidly coming to an end. Every
week strengthens that opinion. If, at
the end of the rebellion, the ringleaders
had been put to death. for treason, and
all those who committed, voluntarily.
overt acts of treason, had been forever
disfranchised, our Government might
possibly have been saved. But those in
authority chose different course, and
the beginning of the end may now be
seen with the naked eye. Congress will
soon be controlled by the men who were
recently in the rebel army, backed up by
the meaner rebels, the cowardly copper
head Democrats of the North.
Last week the House of Representa-
tives attempted to pass bill to prevent
the overthrow of the State Governments
in the South, when the Democrats, to
prevent this attempt to preserve the
Government, really seeded, as they did
in 1861, only they took advantage of the
experience and lesson learned by that
failure. They remained in the House,
but they refused to vote, thus destroying
quorum The Cincinnati Gazette, in
speaking of this new secession, says:
SECESSION ANOTHER SHAPE.
The Democratic party is giving us taste of
its quality, in anticipation of its coming into
the control of the House, by blocking legisla-
ton by course of disorder which is in reality
a riot. To refuse to answer TO their names, in
order to prevent legislation, is in eff ct the same
as the secession of the Democratic members in
1861, but it lacks the manliness of that act. The
open and avowed purpose of this rioIous course
is to prevent the majority from governing. 1t
is revolutionary in its object and manner. 1t
shows that the always disposition of the Demo-
cratic party to break up the Government when
ever it could not control it, exists the same as
ever.
In this we have example of the course the
Democratic party will pursue when it shall
come in % the majority in the House. led by
four-score Confederate officers; when it will
devote itself solely to the purpose of blocking
the wheels of Government, and, so far as it can,
breaking it up. For one term of Congress the
country is to have an exhibition of what can be
done to carry out, through the control of the
House, the secession which was put down by
force of arms,
In this emergency. neither the Speak
er, nor any member of the House, not
excepting the shrewd Gen. Butler. seem
ed to know what to do.
Here is another case which shows that
there are in our system of Government
the seeds of death, sprouting and rapidly
sending strong shoots through the sur
face. The Congressional committee sent
to Louisiana have made report and in
it find the following:
The White League is an organization which
exists in New Orleans, and contains at least
from $500 to 5000 members, armed, drilled, and
ofiicered as military organization. Organiza-
tons bearing the same name extend through |
out many parts of the State. II was pretended
that this organization in the city was simply a |
voluntary police force the regular police being
inefficient; that 1t has connection with aSso-
Citations of the same name in other parts of the |
State, and that these latter merely political
clubs. without military organization or arms
fectually expelled this pretension. So |
far as was shown, this organization in no single |
instance performed police functions, I" "
Aubury, the leader of the band at Coushattp, |
when he sent Off the Republican prisoners un- |
der guard, gave Il military order for supplies |
and reinforcement TO the guard to the highest |
officer of clpb in another town, in obedience |
to which, If his story be true, the safety of the
lives of the prisoners depended. The White |
League of New Orleans itself was and is a con-
slant menace to the Republicans OF the entire