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

We commend the following, from one
Of Gail Hamilton's letters in the New
York Tribune, TO those Republican(O
papers in Ohio, that are now trying to
uphold the political treason of R. B.
Hayes:
On December II, committee Of which
Secretary Sherman was Chairman, re-
ported that
Organized clubs of masked men, formed and
recommended by the Central Democratic Com
king their course by whipping, shooting, ,woun-
ding, manning, mutilatiDg, aud murder OF wO-
men, children, and defenseless men, whose
houses were foTcibly entered while they slept,
and as their inmates fed through fear, the pis-
tol. the rife, the knife, and the rope were en-
ployed to do their horrid work. Crimes like
these, testified to by scores OF witnesses, were
the means employed ia Louisiana 70 elect a
President of the United States, aud when they
shall succeed the glories OF the Republic will
have departed.
On Feb. l6, Mr.. Evarts said:
II the Federal power leaves these un-
befriended. uneducated, simple black people TO
the fate from which the state strove hard TO
ave them,I say that you will have made them
by that action the victims of your Constitution.
u. / say that you make them the sacrifices
TO the triumph OF the Government over the Re-
bellion. say that such reimbursement OF the
powers of this Government is beyond all cure.
IL teaches the sad lesson that the American
people finds itself thwarted by the ex-
hibition of violence by this turbulent popuia-
tion, and forced, with its own hand, to crush
the method Of law.
On March the Boston Journal says:
In common with a vast majority Of the Re
publicans of the United states, President Hayes
mas doubt whatever as TO the validity OF the
have become de factO Governors. But the
indications are that he will have to waive his
convictions as TO the right and justice Of the
matter, and bow to the Inevitable law OF force.
What we, the people, desire to know
is whether John Sherman and E. w.
Stoughton and Eugene Hale and j. A.
Garfield and the other men who signed
that report were merely making out and
making up a case TO influence the decis-
ion for the Presidency, or whether they
were telling the truth. If they were low
ing and making a lie why was it detected
after the 4th of March and not detected
before2 If they were loving and making
lie, then the worst charges of the Dem
ocrats against the Republican party are
true. The Republican leaders have de-
ceived and betrayed their honest follow
ers into a great iniquity and the Repub-
lican newspapers have been blind leaders
of the blind, or worse. If they were tell
ing the truth, what atonement has the
Central Democratic Committee made for
the whippings and murders which il or
ganized, what submission has it
ffered to the lawful Government,
what change has passed into the Consti-
tuition of the United States since Feb. l6,
or what diminution has come to her
might, that the simple black people
should have been yielded up as victims;
that the Government should have been
incurably abased; that the American peo-
pie should find itself thwarted by the ex-
hibition of violence, and forced with its
own hand to crush the methods of law2
What happened between Feb. 10 and
March 8 to make it necessary that the
National Administration should waive its
convictions of right and for the first time
in its history suffer defeat and abase it.
self beyond cure2 Whence did Boston
derive authority to proclaim that the
American Republic had reached that
point in its history where it could no
longer maintain the right, but must yield
TO brute force?
Last winter, only this very last winter,
pretty young Southern girl, just emerg-
ed from childhood, a bright, innocent,
affectionate girl, was queening it, as
young girls inalienable right it is to do,
among the young people in Washington.
How gay and gentle and sweet she wasl
When the time came to go to their sun