The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-17

Robert Toombs is an orthodox Demo
crat, in good standing in the party. The
only difference between him and your
Northern Democrat is, that the Southern
rebel is not too cowardly TO tell the
truth, while your Northern copperhead
is. Toombs recently made speech, in
which he said
You have departed from every princi-
principle Of a free people on earth AZ
ter having distinguished yourselves up
on ever field Of battle from Gettysburg
to the Gulf, you men Of the South have
become another people. IL Is sad-it
makes my heart sick-but IL Is the truth!
You have become another people. You
suffer indignities to-day that, two years
before il was put upon you, you thought
you would have died first You have
gone on in sullen silence. You have let
the alien and the foreigner come here
and gather with the nigges, the carpet
bagger, and the worst thing Of all things
the world ever saw, the scallawag-the
contamination Of all villainy. ! can re-
spect the poor negro. lie has many good
qualities, and like him. ! can have
some respect for the carpetbagger lie
comes down with his carpetsack, and
says he is here to make all he can in
whatever way he can. He has loose mo
rality, but there is some manhood in IL.
But when | come to the scallawag-
they'll have TO dig deeper in hell TO get
place for him.
We got good many honest fellows in.
to the first Legislature, but ! will tell
you how we got them there. / will tell
you the truth. The newspapers won't
tell il TO you. We got them there by
carrying the black vote by intimidation
and bribery, and / helped TO do il. I
would have scorned the people had they
not done il. And | will buy them as
long as they put beasts to so to the bal
lot box. No man should be given the
elective franchise who has not the intel
ligence to use it properly. Tho rogue
should not have il, for government is
made to punish him; the fool should not
have it. for government is made 10 take
care of him. Now, these miserable
wretches-the Yankees-have injected
five millions Of savages into the stomach
of our body polite, and the man who
says he accepts negro suffrage, say. ac-
cursed be be / will accept everything
/ will accept Grant and empire before !
will accept such Democrat. The poor,
ignorant negro-talk Of. him governing
you and me. II takes the highest order
Of intellect to govern the people, and
these poor wretches talk OF governing
u.s. Why. they can't perpetuate their
own negro power. In the counties where
they were in the majority they did not
preserve their power and perpetuate
their rule Ny remedy helped Us to
break that up. We carried them with
US by bribery and intimidation. ad-
vised it and paid my money for ~ You
all know il, but won't say il. But / will
say il, for fear no man. and am prepar-
ed to render an account to none but the
Great Judge, before whom / must appear
in few years, for my enemies have
thought my services to my country so
great that they have done me the honor
to exclude me from again serving my
people. ] contest the honor with our
chief, Mr. Davis. ! am rs good as he Is.
and he is no better than | am. ] demand |
that they shall place me beside HIM. j |
thank them for il! IL is very few things |
that have TO thapk them for, but do 1
thank them for that. | am entitled to 4
the honor they thus dispensed, and |
shall ask our Representatives to demand |
il for me, for fought for il, and to bring
Ii about