The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-10-24
Thoughts for "The Great Republican
Party"

The course Of the Administration with
regard to the imprisoned revenue officers
of South Carolina has been one that can
hardly be spoken of with composure.-
The indignant clamor of the North, when
South Carolina attempted TO nullify the
Federal laws and proposed Immediately
to try and to hang the prisoners, absolute
ly forced the Administration to DO some
thing. What it did, however, was this !:
it entered into little compromise with
its dear friend, Wade Hampton whereby,
the technical contro! of the prisoners was
to be landed over to the United States.
but they were to remain imprisoned in
I the same Jail a warning to all officers
of the United States in the South not to
enforce the revenue laws, and not to pro
tect their persons against attacks from
whisky thieves, unless they desire to
spend year or two in Jail. During the
three months that these men have been
imprisoned it has been fully within the
power (vide section ,0l6 of the Revised
Statutes (of the Supreme Court or a
Circuit Court, or Justice of the Supreme
Court, or a Circuit Judge, or Judge of
the District Court" to release them on
bail. Yet for all this time the outrage of
their Imprisonment has continued, doubt
less in accordance with the "compromise"
made with the dear friend of the Admin
istration, Wade Hampton.
Meanwhile. the dear friend aforesaid
continues to authorize and encourage the
mobbing of Republicans in the State of
South Carolina, while all over the South
the whisky thieves pursue their criminal
trade in defiance of the law In Alabama
they simply fortify their distilleries and
threaten with death any officer of the
| United States who dares molest them
and the officers, in danger of being shoG
by the thieves Oh one hand and certain
of being hung or imprisoned if they hap
pen to shoot one of the thieves in self
defense, are Of course constrained to do
nothing.
Such is the exhibition presented to the
world by a z eat Government 1t not
only can not enfo .ce its own laws but it
does not even attempt to do so. 1t per
mits its faithful servants to be thrown in
to jail for doing their duty, and insults
all law and justice by whining around a
treasoLous Governor that he does not
keep his "pledges." Meantime, while
terrorism pervades South Carolina while
the blacks of Louisiana a4e forced into a
war for their own otection, while gangs
of illegal distillers fortify their caLps
and declare war against the Federal Gov
ernm t, and while its reve .ue officers
are eld in priso for attempting to check
crime-while all this pleasantly is being
enacJet the Executive head of the Gov
ernment is visiting q menagerle IN WIS
consin, shedding his tears at the tomb OF
Madison, and murmuring sweetly on the
theme of "conciliation" at a Virginia
County Fair 1t is perhaps better to
drop the subject-it can not properly be
discu~ sed in polite language.
Every Republican paper in Ohio totally
ignored Hayes and his policy" six weeks
prior to the election, and every Republi
can speaker so far as we know, even in
Guiding Grosvenor, did the same, and the
result was more than thirty thousand
Republican gain in one year We had
hoped that it would never again be nee
! essary for Republicans to refer to this
disagreeable subject; but here again the
fools raise their heads, like this:
THE NEXT GOVERNOR OF OHIO.
Charley Foster is beaten, but he made
splendid run. He reduced the Demo
cratic .ajority in every county, and, i
he could have had another week would
have wiped them all out Charles will
be the next Governor of Ohio, sure
| Toledo Blade.
Charley Foster will be nominated and
elected Governor by the Ohio Republi
cans next year Akron Beacon
Charles Foster was the head devil il
selling out the Republican party Of tbs
South to the rebels, being bigger man
in this crime than old Stanley Matthew
himself If Foster should be nominated
for Governor, one hundred thousant
Republicans would not vote for him, anc
even old Jim Emmitt could beat hin
fifty thousand