The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-03-23

r votes in the Electoral College. The &,
Border States, now Democratic, are ei
, titled to 43 votes. This gives the Sout
l3S votes
p The Northern States (including Col,
RADIO, which will be admitted before tn
, Presidential election) are entitled to %
p votes
ls5 votes are necessary to elect a Pre-.
ident, and, therefore, the South needs 4
Northern votes only. II by nominating
} Mr.. Tilden and Mr.. Kerr they can carr
New York and Indiana-New York will
its 35 and Indiana with its IL votes
they will triumph by a majority Of three
By the same process Of intimidation
and bribery" which has not overawed on
ly, but captured the black vote Of Geor
gia and Mississippi, they hope to extin
guish Republican suffrage in South Caro-
lima aud in all of the Gulf States They
will thus be politically benefited by ne.
gro suffrage for, instead Of representing
three-fifths Of the blacks. as they did by
constitutional proviso before the war.
they will have all the benefits Of n full
/ enumeration of these votes; which, by
being suppressed at the ballot box, but
expressed in apportionment, adds the
other two-thirds Of the colored adult
male population to the strength Of the
Confederate party. More than a year
/ ago one of the most conspicuous men in
| private conversations that "the animals,
as he called the negroes, would never be
disfranchised, because by compelling
them 10 vote as the whites decreed they
| would help to counterbalance the North
ern abolitionists. What was brag then is
fact now.
But the Democrats are not quite sure
since Mr. Hill and Gen. Toombs spoke
as the South shot-that their REASONABLE
plan Of disfranchising the loyal vote can
be completely carried out They fear,
also, that the investigations into the out
RACES in Mississippi, by which Lamar was
elected Senator, may completely unmask
their movements and expose the diabol-
ic nature Of it. Mr.. Mephistopheles, Ell
iting an independent" or Democratic
journal, may regard it as proof Of a
lofty nature to sneer at a bloody shirt"
but when the people Of the North know
that black men and white men in the
South, for no ofiense save loyalty,
have been and are murdered in
cold blood by the same miscreants who
brought on US the plague Of the first
born, we do not think that his claim to
superior wisdom or humanity will be al.
lowed. For, after all, there is nothing
humorous in assassination; and, after ali,
II Is more important to save lives than
dollars.
Failing to carry South Carolina, Flor.
ida, and Louisiana-l9 votes-The Con.
federates and Democracy calculate to of
set them by Connecticut and New Jer.
sey. Should they carry all the Southern
States except South Carolina and sue
ceed in New York, Indiana, and Con-
necticut, even then they will succeed
Mississippi they are bound to secure at
all hazards, in order 10 save Lamar-not
his seat in the Senate only. but as their
eloquent Joseph Surface, to talk "beauti-
ments, that shall mask their unbeauti-
full Vaccinations.
These figures will show the Importance
OF vigilance in every State in the coming
contest. The nation cannot afford TO
surrender its government into the hands
Of the men who warred against IT, In
Congress and out Of it they have shown
that they come back "hugging the Con-
stitution to their bosoms, as Mr.. Hill
expressed il, but with the same bear-like
"hugging' that nearly killed il once;
that they believe they did no wrong in
that rebellion; that the nation had no
right to force their States back into the
Union; that we were the Invaders" and
they the martyrs" and that the princi-
Piles Of Calhoun are the proper theories
of government. Davis, Toombs, Hunter,
Lamar, Hill and Tucker have each and
all of them renewed their advocacy Of
the theory Of State sovereignty during
the present year. None Of the Southern
leaders, nor Of their Northern Democrat
ic allies, repudiate that doctrine which
led them 10 seek the destruction Of the
nation. They each and all repel the
theory of national sovereignty.
Let il not be said that this is an "ab-
straction." Ii was q political abstrac-
ton but IL led to secession and blood.
shed. IL is a political abstraction;" but
it leads to ostracism and assassination.
1t teaches the young Southerner to look
to his State, and not to the nation, as en-
titled to his love and allegiance; il caus-
es hIm to regard the Northern man not
as a !ellow-citizen, but as a simiforeigner
a Yankee; IL keeps alive that spirit Of
sectional hatred which clothed rebellion
in the robes Of patriotism. In fighting
IL we are doing battle not against the
South, but for il. Until il is destroyed
as thoroughly as the Southern armies
were destroyed there is no wisdom in
crying "Peacei Peacel" for there is and
there can be no peace that will endure
until it is settled, once and forever, whs-
ther We are one people, nation-or on
ly big bunch of parishes. a beggarly
handful of States, each "soyereign," ex-
cept for exceptional functions. II we as
sert by an overwhelming victory for the
Republican party at the next election
that we do believe in the national sove-
reignty, the young men of the South
already chafing under the bit and curb
of In in deeparate leaders whom neither
time nor disaster can teach-will come
out and depose them and join US; and
then for the first time in our history we
shall have a party national in fact as well
as in creed, expressing no man, ostracis-
ing no man, but protecting all men. Of
whatever race or color or creed; and then
for the first time, casting off the swad-
ding g-clothes Of State allegiances, we
shall know neither North nor South,
East nor West, black man nor white, but
only America and Americans
But until then we must keep watch
and ward.