The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1877-06-28

comparatively respectable, answer. Inc
peace which is obtained by stamping a
political party out Of existence is not the
harbinger of prosperity or happiness.
The hope entertained by some dividing
OF the Democratic party in the South by
surrendering the Republican, is ground
less to express it mildly. The only way
to divide the Southern Democracy is to
| advocate their measures. They care but
| little about the name of Democracy but
everything about the purposes and
measures which pass under that name.
The large body of white people who en-
| gagged in the rebellion are firmly united
in favor Of several things, and they will
stand by the party that favors them, and
oppose to the bitter end the party that
oppose them. Among these is payment
for rebel property taken or destroyed by
our armies. When Tilden wrote his let
| ter, just before the election, against these
claims. he lost his hold upon the South,
and was made to feel it in the late strug-
| gle in Congress. No Democratic candi-
date will repeat his blunder.
Although Southern Democrats voted
for him after he wrote the letter, il froze
the current of their sympathies, and had
more to do in restraining them from fiji
clustering to prevent the counting of the
vote than any other cause. 1t greatly
reconciled them to the loss of Tilden.
In the late House the dividing line
between rebel and loyal claims was ig-
nored, and, with a single Democratic
administration, would be obliterated
When this comes to pass about claims,
the distinction in the law between rebel
and Union soldiers, and the rebel and
Union debt will be obliterated, and the
lost slaves will be treated as other prop
..a~.Eo.1 - Il
will not all be done or avOwed at once,
but step by step, already becoming more
rapid. until the public mind has become
demoralized, the rebellion has ceased to
be crime-scarcely a mistake-and the |
complete restoration of fraternity will |
demand the abolition Of all the distinc- |
tions in the law between loyalty and |
treason. The Republican party was
never more necessary to the Nation than /
it is today. All talk about laying down /
the Republican organization to take a /
new one, with a new title, into which the /
old Confederates may enter without |
wounding their susceptibilities would be |
criminal if it were not supremely silly. i
The proposition that the party which
saved the Nation, and which embodies
in its creed the immortal principles upon
which it must live, il live it does, and
hnAGn has u IEGOIh AnG IuO1N kAOEAOuS III
the annals of human organizations shall
commit suicide as an act Of Cancellation
to the late enemies Of the Republic ST.
lences comment by its audacity.
We are but realizing what has been
visibly coming for several years. From
1868 il has been apparent that the Re
publican party of the South would be
overthrown by force, if it could not be
done otherwise. The opening scenes of
carnage in that year, in which more than
1000 Republicans were killed and wound
ed in Louisiana alone, were but the pre-
lude to the campaign of violence which
in the bloody field Of last
year
The destruction Of the Republican
party would make the Democratic party
supreme, and fasten upon the country
It's odious policy and principles. The
men who directed the bloody crusades
IN the South for the last ten years. that
have now eliminated in final victory in ,
South Carolina and Louisiana. are still
living and have lost none of their power. ,
The men who within seven years have !
welded the Democratic party in solid
column North and South, against the
Fifteenth amendment, are still in the =
lscendant Is any man weak enough to ,
believe that they, or a majority Of them. :
nave been souEdly converted and are
honest advocates Of the equal rights of
nen2 1t is my opinion that the body Of 4
he Southern Democracy have not 4
.hanged in regard to the civil and polit- r
cal rights of the negro, and that il Til !
len had been elected President within !,
lis term of four years the Fourteenth :
md Fifteenth amendments would have !,
,een substantially overthrown in most +
# the Southern States. This would :
AVE been accomplished by methods re- .
emily illustrated in Mississippi and other \
states, and is altogether possible to that s
xquisite political genius which can ex- a
ract a Democratic majority of sixty !,
housand from a Republican majority Of !,
hirty. =
ernity between the North and the !
'outh more earnestly thap myself, but :
onciliation and fraternity, to be honora e
lie and durable, must be based upon the !,
oncession of equal civil and political !,
ights, peace and protection to men OF !,
II races and creeds. III the men who :
eld the colored people in bondage, and !,
rho at every step since the war, and un- !,
il yesterday, fought against equal rights +
nd the constitutional amendments, are :,
o-day regenerated and will now admin :
ster the great principles asserted by the =
republican party and placed by it in the :
and laws-it is q consum- !
nation devoutly to be wished. Such :
rame of mind on the part of the South !,
rn people | should regard as the most =
Important and desirable of all political :
the grand result which every \
atriot has at heart. But, if do not be- :;
eye in this sudden conversion, / ought Il
l. r1..fr |
reiudiced. And il about this / am =
Trong, and if the Republican party have a
y their efforts and discipline subdued !,
be very hearts Of the Democracy OF the ii
outh, how can we sufficiently compre !.
end and magnify the achievement. q
In Georgia, Texas, Mississippi, Ala il
anna, Arkansas, part of Missouri and Il
fiddle and Western Tennessee, free [,
uffrage exists chiefly in name. Georgia. 81
D which there is not a difference Of il
light thousand votes between the two %
arties, gave Tiiden a majority Of 81 900. B
n six counties not Republican vote d
vas polled. Mississippi, with a Repub- i,
lean majority of 10000, was made to re- C
urn Democratic majority Of 10000. h
n four counties, containing 5000 Re G
publican votes, seven Republican votes v
we're polled, which were admitted just to 4
how that Republicans could vote. Ala a
,ama with a clear Republican majority Il
# 10000, was made to return a Demo c
ratio majority Of $4,000. In Tennessee, 4
Arkansas and Texas approximate results v
we're produced by like processes. II is 5
oily to allege that in those States there 5
we're liberty, protection and equal rights 1
The voluminous testimony taken by the !
Senate committees established the fact r
hat liberty enjoyed by Republicans both '
white and black, was but nominal They (
we're outcasts from society, oppressed in I
business, hunted like criminals, and de-
MED the protection Of the laws Peace ,