The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1877-12-27

nave Dten pEeleIdDlt 10 the bOIh VI htaNn
in-life henceforth, or for an uncertain
period, to be led by the Republican power
in the Senate-at the mercy Of traitors
and towards in its own decimated ranks
We cannot Joy in our kellogg, bought "a
he is at the price Of the admission o.
Butler. Wade Hamptons new Senator
is a handsome man-"high-toned and
chivalric' and Of heroic lineage-but to
many eyes the hand he held up when he
took the oath was red with a spot that
would not "out" under the washing oil
profuse oratorical floods All the tears
and oaths Of Patterson cannot sweeten
that patrician hand from the smell oi
the base, black blood Of Hamburg
suppose it is possible that this man is in.
nocent of the brutal crime charged
against him,-that is. il you make no &C.
count of black cloud of witnesses"
and some people don 't-but il is Ger tain
that his innocence has not been proved,
that majority Of, at least the Republi-
can party believe him guilty fully de.
serving his ghastly sobriquet and his
being sent to the United States Senate
while thus unexonerated, so far from
being a conciliatory measure, was a de-
fiance to the moral sense of the North,
an outrage on the fundamental princi-
Piles Of Republicanism. Is this a speci-
men act of the good behavior and right
feeling Of the South, over which our
President rejoices, and which distin-
/ guished Northern clergyman in his
/ Thanksgiving discourse eulogizes TO the
/ utmost stretch his magnificent vocabula-
\ ry. Said the great preacher, speaking
amid loud and prolonged applause"
$50 long as the South polluted the fountain
/ OF JUSTICE ana sought 70 poison the conscience
I OF the North denounced them fearlessly and
/ on every opportunity, but now my heart turns
to them with zeal and admiration. love
a.. SOnuutt elhJc tiie WI inpIei
innnitely more, than wipes out everything
that happened before"
Everything that happened before the
war includes, Of course, all the horrors Of
the slave-trade, African and inter State,
slave hunts, scourgings, branding, burn
ing, and other crimes and cruelties. See
Uncle Toms Cabin. Again he says
EMO men on the face Of the earth ever carried
themselves better or more nobly. When ruin
was their portion, and their fortunes were
poured into the open nav OF war, they rose to
nobility that was sublime"
Are the gallant exploits Of the Kuklux,
the elegant diversions Of the bulldozers,
the massacres Of South Carolina and Of
Mississippi, crow ned by the unspeakable
atrocity of the Chisholm murders, a part
Of this sublime mobility p l do not
mean to be hard, ! pray not to be un-
charitable, but for my soul cannot see
what the South, anywhere, have done for
conciliation and reparation, or their own
rehabilitation more than they were COM
PEELED to do by the bitter results Of fail
ure, the hard fortunes Of war, the wide
spread ruin they brought upon them.
selves in their deliberate attempt to ruin
the Republic; while | do see and know
that ever since the Confederates Of GER
tain sections, reused from the first stupor
of defeat, humiliation and dread,
and began to look about them for
the means of getting even with their
conquerors, Of that be an allowable
term,) they have kept society in a horri
BILE turmoil by a system Of terrorism and
assassination, now being softly shaded of
into social ostracism Acknowledgement,
and political prosecutions. Probably the
eloquent divine would lay all these ugly
things to the awful carpet bagger. That
political bstc a0ir has broad shoulders-he
is going down hill-he can carry not
only all his own sins, however monstrous,
but the sins Of his neighbcrs the sins Of
US all
know that even Republicans Of the
improved evangelical sort are inclined
Ito take the children's bread and cast IL
to he'-DemocTats-to strew roses over
Confederate ashes, and let the graves Of
Union soldiers run to thistles. / know
that Andersonyille and Appomattox are
words not to be mentioned to ears po-
lite. that it has become popular and
polite to eulogize the South-who never, |
never return the compliment-and that
it is done in the same old terms Of hom- |
age and adulation familiar to my ears a |
quarter of a century ago. Then those |
who used those terms were called dough /
faces" now they are dubbed "concilia- |
tors" Old South side Adams" would |
be in the fashion now. / know / ought i
not to marvel at hearing Of a ei diUaHt /
antislavery apostle making his taberna. |
Gle ring and rock to such words as / have /
quoted above The occasion was to him |
a national love feast do marvel how |
ever, that he did not find it in his heart |
te pay little tribute of honest praise, /
(as he was going back to the by-gones,) } /
to the Republican Federal Government |
Of decade or so ago. for its clemency |
towards its conquered enemies--a match |
less magnanimity which amazed the |
world A distinguished French |
journalist once said to me, Your Gov
ernment,' by its easy terms with the
Southern rebels, has put premium upon
treason" Our eminent preacher in that
same popular sermon declared that he
should shed no tears" for the fall Of the
Republican party. Ii may be that those
precious drops will not be called for
Republicanism may take a new lease Of
life, may leap up, like Conn, the Shaugh-
raun, among its mourners and enemies
as full of fight as ever. Let US not be
premature in giving il up. to be laid out
by ex Confederates and walked by re-
formers. Said brave Sam Bowles, the
other day, to the despairing friends at
his bedside, Il am not going just yet
you are in too great a hurry" Let us
not, moreover, be in haste to make
friends with the mammon Of unright-
eousness,' which, Of course to all good
Republicans means Democracy. Surely,
men of character and intelligence become
parlisans from moral convictions as we'll
as from taste and social afiinities A
true man should espouse his party "for
better for worse" this giving up and
giving way in troublous times-this play
ing "iast and loose seems to me a sort Of
political freeloveism. In fact, ! cannot
see why clergyman cannot be as loyal to
his politica as to his religious creed. Sup
pose on Christmas morning some great
preacher should arise and say: The
Christian religion, my friends, undoubt-
edly did a great work in its early ages
It brought civilization through sundry
and serious perils, and was great com
fort to the martyrs but alas il has be.
come sadly degenerate and corrupt. Its
great issues are dead. Its line OF saints
and martyrs has run out. Miracles have
with it become a lost art. 1t has not full
filled the large promises made by its
founders Peace on earth and good to
men do not prevail to a very satisfactory
extent War, murders robber.es. forge.
ries, and perjuries abound In fact.
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