The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-09-14

some TWO weeks ago the JacksOn heT-
aid had an editorial, from which take
the following extracts:
"HIGH MINDED JOURNALISM!
al am a radical of radicals. l believe
in Senator Morton. believed in Owen
Lovejoy and Thaddeus Stevens. There
is no remark that Jesus Christ ever made
that suits me better than when he said
to the Democrats of his day, 'Ye SER
pents, ye generation of vipers, how can
ye escape the damnation of hell 2
Now, gentle reader, where would you
imagine we got that precious specimen of
dignifed, high minded Christian journal
ism2 We clipped it from the Jackson
| Standard of August 18th, and we here
undertake to say that, in no other COM
munity in Ohio, would such outlandish
expressions in a newspaper be tolerated,
except in Jackson, and it l0ould not be en-
dured here, but the people have become
so accustomed to Mackley's extrava-
gances, that like a Clown in Circus,
they expect something outrageous from
him, and when he disgraces Christianity,
shocks modesty and puts decency to the
blush, the common saying is, I'VE don't
expect anything better from Mackley,
and his vile slang is passed over in that
way. And when parents
permit the tender minds of their chill
dren to be impressed from week to week
by such literature, how can it be expect
ed that "the fruits thereof will not be
gathered after many yearsH
The only thing in the extract taken
from the Standard to which objection
can by any kind of pretext be made,
are the words of Jesus Christ, correctly
quoted. And the words of the gentle
Savior are characterized by the Demo
cratic paper of Jackson county as "out.
landish," and threats are insinuated that
would be mobbed and driven out OF
Jackson by this carpet bagger if he had
the power, and all because quoted the
exact words of Christ, addressed to men
whose lives and practices, when compar.
ed with those of the Democrats of to day
are white as wool-pure as snow.
1t disgraces Christianity, and shocks
modesty and puts decency to the blush,
does it, to print the words of Christ 2
People differ as to decency. In the Her.
aid every week are dirty, smutty insinu-
ations about little girls and young wo.
men, and that by an old gentleman who
cannot walk to the Postofice without a
cane, and who is said to have a wife and
family In the same paper from which
take the above slang, find this:
"Yes, we think your new hustle sits
neat and tasty, -"
And last week this:
Coming from the P. o. the other day,
young lady dropped letter, and in
STOPPING down to pick it up, her tieback
was so tight she almost turned heels
over head-had she done so, what an as
pect there would have been on the
| street"
There is decency for you
know that the Democrats despise the
Bible, and are determined to keep it out
of the public schools, because it all
through, and everywhere, condemns
Democracy And / undertake to say
right here, that no history of the world
anywhere, records anything so utterly
damnable, as Democratic slavery, for the
preservation of which the party fought
four years to destroy this nation, in an
effort. as Alex. Ii. Stephens said, to es-
tablish a confederacy, the cornerstone
of which was human bondage Take the
slavery described in the first fifteen chap
tiers of Exodus. 1t was mild and hu-
name, compared with Democratic sla-
very. True, an attempt was made to
check the increase of slaves in Egypt by
an order to put the male slaves to death.
But this failed. Had it succeeded, would
it have been worse than the Democratic
slavery, which increased the slaves by
the masters using the slave women for
the purpose of breeding their own chill