The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-10-24

for that protection. The bill was de-
feated by his own party leaders. The
very men who said What we need is
more force" were the very men who de
feated the force bill. Most Of the New
England leaders were its chief antagon-
lists. Protection of national rights was
refused by a Congress overwhelmingly
Republican, although that very Con
gress, or its predecessors of the same
party had enacted amen dments, which
had been constitutionally approved by
the state legislatures, that Congress had
had power to enforce these amendments
by corresponding legislation.
From that hour death invaded The
people left those who had lett the people.
Discussions, grave and deep, arose among
themselves. Greeley and Sumner, their
two tallest names, went over to the enemy.
Their only political and national deliv
erer was assaulted with every epithet of
vileness by the very papers and persons
to whom he has given the victory. The
men who had gone to the rehellious ter
ritory with their lives in their hands
whether as teachers, traders, preachers,
or politicians-were assailed in these
very journals with every opprobious epi
thet. The word carpet bagger, a nobler
word than knapsack bearer, as our sol
uItIS nave OS6H Cdll6u, iOE IL III
volved more risk and required greater
duty was a term of Northern ridicule.
The freest and best managed state polit-
ically was called The PROSTATE State; ;"
and letters written to the once leader of
the anti slavery sentiment, again becom
ing So but then far from becoming so,
under that title, were greedily believed
Financial corruption there was but not
universal and it was fast curing itself
There was no charge of financial corrup
ton in Mississippi; yet we allowed that
state to be shot down. The whole South
was given up to the shotgun by the cow
ardice of the North. Until at last
President was elected who promised, as
he took his oath, to protect his colored
fellow-citlzens, and began to fulfill his
promise within less than twenty-four
hours by putting an atheist, a secession
ist, and slave hound into his Cabinet,
followed by the surrendering of the two
states that had elected him into the
hands of their enemies and the enemies
of the nation. In few weeks thereafter
he calls the chief of these rebels to go
with him through the South and his
wife Officially, as the wife of the Presi-
dent. and not as a private lady, other
wise she had not here been mentioned)
promenades on that chieftains arm
through the parlors of the Gait House.
And now within this very moon he has
taken the other leader of that overturned
state, covered thick with the blood of
freemen and Unionists, in his tour
among the freedom loving people of Min
nesota. Surely, it must have been
sight to make the blood fly up in their
faces to see Massacre Butler on the arm
of President Hayes. Can anybody won
der that there are cries for another But
Ter, who, whatever his faults, has never
yet shaken hands with such enemies of
his country and his fellow men? Had
johnson violated his solemn oaths and
his party vows and purposes to a tenth
part of the degree which the present
President has done, no power could have
prevented his successful removal from
his high Office by national impeachment
But the acceptance and with many of
his party the approval of this course is
the surest sign that the party is dead
No President makes party. He only
represents it. The Republicans were
not earnest enough in defense of
their own idea to elect one who should
demand protection of the ballot by
national enactment, and therefore
the policy pursued is the necessary result
of their own cowardice. 1t is the party
that is guilty, not a single man, forgot
ten as soon as he leaves his chair. 1t is
the party that must suffer and, if it abide
in this guilt, must die Nay, more, many
editors and publicists of the party assert
the impossibility of such protection
Despite the clause in the original Consti
tuition requiring Congress to secure a
republican government in every state;
despite the fact that allegiance is requir-
a1 Iona hu tho an1 ho
demanded by a state;
and, therefore, their citizenship must be
protected by the nation; despite the
affixed clauses to the new amend
ments, giving Congress the power to
enforce these articles, including that of
suffrage, writers appear who deny the
existence of this power-writers, we re
gret to say, sometimes of antislavery
renown and even of Garrisonian fame
Not, however, Garrison himself; nor his
great corival, Wendell Phillips. They
are true to their earliest instincts and
will be faithful till their latest breath
This universal and terrible apostasy has
wrought our weakness. Massachusetts,,
that long led the column of advance, now
leads the column of retreat. She sends
her soldiers to Charleston, to fraternize
with those who are still disloyal; and
GIty WIZ IlOI SOLuSoCHhtlt "utu JutEei
officer or private, to visit the grave where
the greatest of her sons that entered the
army, Robert G. Shaw, lies buried with
his Niggers." She refuses to raise one
cheer to her great deliverer, as he rides
along the crowded line Of spectators tor
miles from Lexington to Concord She
refuses to say one word in her late plat
forms for the freeman of the South now
cast into political bondage by the same
rifle fred by the same hand that slew her
Shaw.
massachusetts, God forgive her!
She's a-kneeling with the rest;
She that ought to have stood forever
In her grand old eagle-nest."
Nay, she leads the kneeling column
She's the first to cry halt" to the Idea
she marshaled to victory. No other state
has sunk so low, as no other state had
risen so high.
Her last convention was her worst. Its
president did utter few truths about
the Southern policy and Southern dan
ger; but they met with no cheers. The
platform contains no hint in that direc-
ton 1t is as silent as the grave. Maine
and Iowa, Illinois and PENNSYLVANIA dare
to say that the Southern loyalist must be
protected. Not so Massachusetts,. Silent
as the grave and as full of dusty death
Is it any wonder the tornado breaks out
there the most fercely? Is it not provi
dental? Is it not natural? That dense,
sitting, criminal calm breeds the hurri
cane. Do you say there is no call for a
declaration Of protection? Read the let
ter in the New York Times Of Sept. 10Th,
showing how Judge Lee was seized by
band of politicians for attempting to ad
dress Republican meeting near Sumter,
South Carolina He and his friends had
called a meeting. The rebels (for such
they still are) demanded, as they always