The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1877-08-30

any peacpable joint exercise OF power
among such discordant bodies of men, as
are found in the South to the fact that
il is doing its utmost to fulfill the predic-
ton made in 1872 by Democratic COM
mittee Of the House of Representatives
that
mo Government can long exist half
black and half white. Those whom God
has separated let no man join together.
In time public opinion will vibrate back
to the old condition as it existed prior TO
the disturbing influences Of the war, and
when this occurs il will be the political
death of the negro on this continent"
The Endorsement of such a policy by
the Republican party of Ohio is total
abandonment of the vital principle, aud
is suicide. 1t is manifestly the impera-
tive duty of every true man TO oppose.
and if possible avert such a result. How,
then, may we check, how manifest our
disapproval Of this dangerous and deadly
policy1 There is apparently but one
course left, that of Withholding our votes
from all who stand upon the platform
which indorses it We do not desire to
divide or in any degree impair the old
organization by putting a new ticket in
the field, it is the party in which we
have been enrolled for twenty years-its
heart and brain are honest. Temporarily
it has been led astray; time and chasten-
ing will bring il back to its principles
No Republican should compromise him
self by voting the Democratic cket,
for the platform of that party, so
far as the Southern policy Of the Presi
dent is concerned, is no better and in
deed, no worse than that adopted by the
Cleveland Convention. The candidates
nominated by that convention are gen.
tlemen whom we have long known and
for whom we entertain great respect.
Some of them are personal friends whom
we would be glad 20 serve, but, unfor
tunately for them, for ourselves and the
country. il they are elected IL will be
claimed that the abandonment of prin-
ciple and duty by the President was in
dorsed by the Convention and sustained
by the Republican voters at the polls
and would be justly regarded as the end
OF the controversy and an abandonment
by the Republican party OF the principle
of equality of rights under the law for
which we contend.
There are defeats that are victories
and there are victories that are defeats.
"A victory won at the expense Of princi
pie is an irretrievable defeat. The
Necessity WHICH lupels US 10 Lhke hnt
step we propose to take is not OF ouI
seeking. 1t has been thrust upon US
and decision can not be avoided. We
are conscious that our motives will be
misrepresented, our acts misconstrued
The bitter malignancy of party hacks and
trucking placemen will be poured upon
US. Every conceivable falsehood will be
employed to annoy and injure by the
supple tools who fawn and seek for power
by doctrines fashioned to the varying
hour;;;" but we are certain that we would
be untrue to our own manhood. false tc
our convictions Of duty. recreant to 9
great principle. and to what we conceive
TO be the highest interest of the Nation
if we neglected to denounce the treachery
of the administration of Rutherford B
Hayes, or omitted TO uss all honorable
means to procure its condemnation, and
at the same slime resent the insult
which the Cleveland Convention deliber
ately flung in our faces. We therefore
unfurl the standard of the Independent
non office holding. non-ofice- seeking Re
publicans of Ohio, and urge all honest
men to rally around it and fight for the
old faith Of the party until a vile treach
cry is condemned and the right vindi
Gated