The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-03-18
From the Republic.l
Is it New Rebellion they are Brew
ing?

From a private letter received in
Washington the following extract will
| be appreciated when we state that the
sentiments are those of distinguished
Union General Of high rank during the
late war. He has travelled extensively
over the country and has become con-
vinced that the war is not over yet, that
| the enemy will not stay whipped, but
will prepare to renew the fight just as
soon as the Democratic party attains
possession of the Government again,
Hear him:
"I think we are going to have war
How does that assertion strike you?
Good, easy men would smile at it. Hon
est, earnest men would exclaim, we hope
not. Democrats and rebels would cry
out with loud voice, what id fool
Nevertheless it is true. Listen. When
a rebel mob with fixed bayonets march
upon State capital and seize by force of
arms the power for which they them
selves are hungering, and when the swift
suppression of the rebellion by the Gov
ernment is denounced by the Democrat
ic press as high-handed outrage, and
when this same mob violence is charac-
terized by these same allies of rebellion
as patriotic heroism is it not time for US
to consider whether or no we are not in
danger of a new rebellion2 Ten years
have passed since we were battling for
the life of the nation, and the very men
we were then fighting not only live but
live to make laws for you and me, the
crippled soldier, the widows and orphans
they themselves made in their mad fren-
zy to destroy the nation. North and
South, East and West everywhere we
are thrust aside to make way for the
uhn hol6 of
rebellion. majority of the governing
party in Congress in q few short months
will be ex-rebel soldiers. AS to what
they will do you and l know What the
Democracy will do we know just as WELL
When the Democratic mayor of New
York city appoints as his chief clerk the
private secretary of JEFF Davis, and the
sheriff names as his clerk of arrests the
keeper of Libby Prison, we don't need to
rest in doubt as to what the future of
this country will be under Democratic
rule
I'll did aught to bring upon my coun-
try this great calamity, may God forgive
me. But, my friend, the time is coming
when l can make reparation-full, COM
plete. l don't believe that the rich, ripe
fruit of the great rebellion is to perish
like dead sea apples, to ashes, on our
lips. The men who saved this nation
will not, in my opinion, be struck down
by the same foe that ten years ago groveled
in abject submission at their feet. There
is higher duty than duty to the Con-
stitution, and that is our duty to the rights
of man-the individual rights of man.
To this creed the President stands to-
day, against all opposition, and with him
and by him we will stand. Andrew
johnson said once that treason should
be made odious. If we submit now-if
we permit this Government to pass into
the hands of those who would have, but
for US, destroyed it-then will patriotism
have been made odious, and our shame
and disgrace be but the precursor to our
own calamity and ruin. What will the
Administration do? Will it stand firm2
hope so. 1t need have no fears. The
people on this question will stand by it;
die by it.