The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1877-04-19

The Abandonment OF the Republican
Party Indignantly ExpOsed-ThrOw
ing Overheard Republican Coloret
Men and Republican Princ:pl s-Ful
Text of the Speech Delivered in Phil
adelphia March 26.
[Revised and corrected by Mr.. Phillips.l
Mr. Phillips referred in the beginnin,
to the fact that this was the centennial
period OF the country's existence. and
then went on to say that we may. with
out lack OF modesiy, call on the world tC
notice the grandeur of our work. We
have actually done what no nation ever
dared to attempt We have rested gov
ernment on every grown up man. This
was never risked before. Neither Rome
Greece, Switzerland. nor Holland ever
ventured it. Our duty is to show the
same boldness in searching for tine dan
gers that threaten US, and the same
courage in facing them that our fathers
did. The epoch in which we live is one
given over to struggle between two
civilizations. The Northern rests on the
Declaration OF lndependence-the South
ern on a denial OF it. Ever since Cal
houn was ~ aduated at Yale College the
universal suffrage was the road to ruin.
She believes that as sincerely as Massa-
chusetts believes the opposite. In due
time the antagonism eliminated in the
rebellion. Both sections were equally
sincere and equally in earnest-the
North sincerely right, the South sincere
ly believing a lie"
Does human nature or history allow US
to think that the deep rooted convictions
OF seventy years have been changed by a
dozen defeats i'm battle aud dozen years
OF angry submission? God gave the Jews
forty years TO purge of the poison o.
Egypt. The struggle between Cavalier
and Roundhead lasted CENTURY. The
struggle between similar 10. ces IN France
began in 1850 and has not yet ended
How can sixteen years be expected to
finish the war here between forces as an
cry and as radical as those which shook
England and France Tor a century, A
single man may change his opinions.
Millions of mrn rarely do, and when
such changes take place It requires gen
eratIons to ripen aud complete them
There were million of men riding,
booted, and spurred. at the- head OF
Southern society. They have been dis
mounted and their spurs hacked off
Does such class usually settle promptly
down, after such descent. with the serene
conviction that the new order OF things
is all Tight2 lie must iced on moon
shine who thinks so. Ii Lee had driven
Grant into Ohio. aud our men had been
parolrd at Columbus. would MaSsachu-
setts have taken down Bunker Hill Mon
umrnI or set fire to Fanruil Hall with
her copy OF the Declaration of Iudeprn
d-nce2 No. We should have clos.d up
..,.r ranks aud sworn to 1--we aud die with
Sam Adams.
The oOuth went home. an idle mass, to
plot ior getting by the ballot what the
Lullet had lost Our soldi-rs melted into
lawyers, mechanics. merchants, every
profession and trade OF busy men. The
South had no such resource. She was
never trained TO earn a living She must
steal it from somebody. Her burglars
tools are the revolver. domineering over
the ballot box, and cabal binding poll
tics and Congress. Ii the Democratic
party had succeeded it would have owed
| IT'S success to solid South" the old
slave power with a new name. Her ally
was, as OF old. the rotten mass of the
great CITIES. Under our present work
/ InE OF universal suffrage the magistTacy
at cities represents aud Is chosen by thril
criminal and dangerous classes. The
Journals proclaimed last October tina
Tilden could have New York City i
Morrissey. Kelly, and OBrien chose
How could they give it to him2 B!
their control of its slums IL Tilden haC
entered the White House it would hav,
been the revolveTs OF Carolina and tn
grog shops OF New York that lifted hin
there. The white South believes to-da
that she is contending for good govern
ment and the highest interests OF civil
zation. In political matters the two SO
tions do not speak the same languag,
Right aud justice mean different thing
at the North aud at the South. An
SouIheTner will shout as loudly as W
can that "all men are born Tree an
equal" Observation-Disclosures course
! you know-that does not mean that WI
the whites. are not to governl Th
South clIngs to her ideas with all ID