The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-07-18
WHOLE NO. 1921.
From the Cincinnati Times.I
Wendell Phillips on the Situation

heVleW, very nOtaOlo arIlcle WHICH, up
on the old legal principle of accepting
the whole or none of a confession, we
should have to disregard, as the latter
half is devoted to the worship of an ire
deemable paper currency. But in the
opening pages upon the political situa-
ton there are some thoughts so clearly
and forcibly expressed as to command
most careful consideration. We reprint
some extracts, here, as of interest to our
readers. After noting the Republican
overthrow in Congress, by reason of the
party's lack of courage, he proceeds to
outline the Southern purpose
The South rules to-day in Congress
rightfully. In the long run, brains rule.
but in critical moments, courage rules
Though the North is the abler section,
the South has the courage of conviction,
and, lion-like, never waits to count the
sheep. What the South will finally do
with her victory, possibly even Southern
men themselves do not now know. She
waits on events. 1t is fair to confess
that she has more than courage. She
has the wit to see, and quickness to seize,
opportunities. She never mistakes her
men. She knew Andrew johnson, and
reached him by assassination. He was
character easy of explanation. Poverty
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begot by success, fully explain him. But
Hayes, the gift Northern blundering has
made to the South, is a phenomenon
hard to explain. No ordinary amount of
folly or wickedness will account for him,
and he is of too narrow capacity to justi-
fly US in attributing his course to any
large design. But, sphinx or otherwise,
he has served to hold the stirrup for the
South to vault into the saddle.
The first step in her plan and progress
is clear enough. The negro enfranchised
has added largely to her political strength.
With Hayes aid she has practically dis
franchised the negro. and now the white
aristocracy wields this whole increased
power; this she knows and feels. The
insolent speech which Senator Gordon
lately flung at Boston dough-faces, if read
between the lines, frankly confesses this
Place that beside the letter Mr.. jefferson
Davis, read at the Macon celebration,
and the two reveal clearly the unchanged
determination of the South to rule, as
heretofore, by an oligarchy built up with
in the Union, or secured outside of it.
But the keenest suffering at the South,
to-day, does not come from the chagrin
of defeated hopes. 1t is real, naked,
pltiable poverty, which presses on classes
once wealthy. Her first effort, the first
use of her new power, will be to draw
money to her section. There is super
huous article in the Constitution which
forbids the payment of the Confederate
debt. There will be no such attempt
That debt is mostly held abroad. The
South is never anxious to pay any debts,
least Of all debts due to other nations or
communities. But she will bend all her
energies to secure payment of claims
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To create such and fasten them on the
National Treasury will be her first effort.
That Confederate soldiers will soon re-
ceive the same pensions as our own vet
Grams seems foregone conclusion.
The vast amount of Southern claims,
in different forms, now registered at
Washington, is the first line of this as
sault. Whether Republican or Democrat
rules, these claims will, most of them, be
paid, unless they promptly rouse such
indignation and provoke such resistance
at the North as do not seem now likely
to arise The effect of more than doub-
ling the national debt any one can calcu-
late.
And, finally by way of peroration, we
have this:
The guarantee of the Union was the
presence in the South of six millions
blacks with their million votes. They
were the natural, hearty, and inalienable
allies of the North and the Union. In
their presence their God gave US an inde-
structible defense and permanent guar
antee of the Union. They needed no
and no appeal. Centuries of
had taught them where their
safety lay. Fairly treated and recognized,
they would have been bulwark against
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have alike harmlessly broken for a GEN.
tury to come. 1t did not seem possible
that any folly could be so gross as to sac
rifice such an alliance. They have clung
to the Republican party, in the face of
starvation and death, as no other class
could have done Taught by long expe-
rience that their old masters were newt
ably hypocrites whenever and wherever
the black man was concerned, grateful to
the Union for liberty, they have refused
to believe the duplicity of the Republican
party or see its pitiable weakness. But
human nature must, in the long run,
sink to the control of self-interest. 1t
ought to be no surprise if soon the negro,
poor, landless, and deserted by the North,
should see how weak he is by the side of
the white race near by. Then one por-
tion, terrified and in despair, will stay
away from the polls another, needing
bread, or blinded, as half the North is,
and the other half pretends to be, by
Southern profession, will swell the Dem
ocratic vote. If the Union lasts, the ne
gro will be it's savior and cement. If the
Union is broken, posterity will never
cease to wonder at the Incredible folly
which flung away and alienated its only
and natural ally.
Mr.. Phillips idea seems to be that the
black vote OF the South is permanently
from the Republican party. We
10 not believe it. 1t will return when
once convinced that the party is under
from which the colored race
may expect sympathy, encouragement,
and such protection as the laws entitle
them to. The greatest wrong of the past
fifteen months has been one perpetrated
under the surface. II consists in having
filed the offices connected with the Fed
eral Courts in the South with ex. Confed-
crates, thus cutting off the freedmen from
fair treatment before the law That, we
may possibly remedy in the future but
until we do, there is no hope of the col
ored vote in the South. With the Courts
once more ready to mete out justice so
hat Chisolm massacres may not be per-
with impunity, Republican Or
5anization in the South may be restored
md maintained. Then let leading Re-
publican speakers stump the Southern
States as they stump the North-let the
be made openly, in the face of
The world, and let the whites of the South
be judged by their conduct 1t will be
found then. if we mistake not, that the
hearts of the colored race are still true
% the party which gay g them freedom:
No, no, Lucien; don't write poetry.
Start bank, steal horse, educate