The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1877-11-29

About month ago Mary Clemmer
wrote to the N. Y Independent one of
her very interesting letters, which closed
as follows
Ones eye has only to run over the new
list of committees, out this evening, to
realize the change in political life upon
which we have come. Nothing makes
one more conscious of this than the small
and inconspicuous part assigned to New
England by the new Speaker, and to see
the names of Georgia, the Carolinas, and
all the Southern States hourishing at the
top of the committees. 1t is too sudden
a wrench One who has lived through
the war-one who saw it, felt it, suffered
through it-cannot get used to this state
of affairs at once. There is so much to
be said on both sides, and it is uLfortu.
nate for partisan writing when one sees
just as clearly on one side as the other.
These reconstructed men of the South
certainly have my good will; but they
don't have it to that unthinking. senti-
mental extent that | see no grievance
heavy and sore to be borne by the other
side. Nothing could be more foolish
than for a woman to be partisan She
owes nothing to either party As a citi-
zen both are condescending, shabby and
mean to her. She should so far avenge
her humanity as to care for neither, and
to sit with wide, dispassionate judgment
on both. There was a time when the
Republican party was worth caring for.
1t was before the day of Grant and his
thieves. To-day, deeply as it suffers, it
deserves largely its fate. That truth
makes it no easier to be borne. ! recall
the atmosphere of last spring-the tense.
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long endured, that broke so many men
and killed at least one, the greatest lead
er of them all--Morton. Think of the
money, the life, the power poured out
without stint to make Hayes the Presi-
dent of the United States. How they
shivered in the balance of human pur-
pose and passion, those two names The
doubling. halting vote of one man made
Hayes President What acclaim went
up to Heaven as the Republicans took
heart of victory Well, do you wonder
to-day they feel that they have neither
leader nor friend2 Surely, they have
neither in the President 1t is the fash
ion to sneer at "disgruntled Republicans
Can they be anything else / don't care
fig about them but | care for the prn-
ciples which their name still represents
principles which will live forever un-
dimmed, whatever the name OF the party
that carries its standard. Everything the
President owes this party. Does he act
as if he owed it anything If ever
man turned his back on the mother who
bore him, it is the President who ignores
the party who made him. In saying this,
do not refer to the mere withdrawal of
troops from the South. The time had
come to withdraw them. No President
could have avoided that act, if he obeyed
tbs imperative demand of the hour. |
refer to the utter lack of sympathy, al
most of goodwill so conspicuous between
the President and the best, moderate
men Of the Republican party 1t must
impress every dispassionate person that,
even If the President does not ask a sec
ond term, to these very men he owes his
first; that, owing them the very power
he this moment possesses, he owes them
a consideration which he has not yet con
descended to give. His cool suggestion
that each house OF Congress attend strict
ly to its own business, and leave the EX-
ecutive TO attend to his, has nonplussed
the fighting gentlemen of both wings
Neither are quite prepared for Presi-
dent who asks for no partisans, who re-