The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-07-31

drawn from the Federation with the
consent and by formal act of the
people, can not be invaded with the.
purpose to compel it's return.
''Resolved, That in the application
of these ideas, which in our Judgment
are constitutionally ly reasonable, evident
and just to the conflict between the
Union and Confederate States, we but
| perform natural and social duty in
declaring to all whom it may concern,
that no citizen of Ohio, resident of
Hardin County, shall be compelled to
fjoin the Federal army to consummate
the avowed designs of the enemies of
State Rights, even should it prove
necessary to give effect to the decision
! by force Of arms"
We could fill column after column
page after page, paper after paper,
F volume after volume, with resolutions
OF similar tone and temper that were
sent ringing through township, county
and State Democratic conventions in
61-5, with huzzahs, throwing up of
hats, futtering of handkerchiefs, and
all and every demonstration of approv-
al peculiar to political meeting
The Democracy of Hardin County
were not alone; the Democracy of
Ohio were not alone in upholding the
right of secession, in repudiating the
principle of coercion and in recon-
mending resistance to Lincoln con-
scriptions.
On the contrary, the Democracy of
2 the whole wide North scowled their
disapproval Of the Yankee war, and
their hearts beat in harmony with our
own.
The platform we have quoted was
the platform of the whole Peace peo-
pie in 1S61-5, and, while standing
/ squarely upon it, Vallandigham polled
a vote Of 276,0O0 in Ohio alone-a
heavier vote than any Democratic can
didate had ever drawn from the ballot
boxes Of that commonwealth before.
1t is the platform on which the Oko-
Iona States, in company with the nm
purchased and unpurchasable millions
Of the party, North and South, is sun
ming itself this 10Th day of July, 1879.
1t is Platform instinct with the
vital and immortal spark that lends
life to our party, to our Sovereign
States and to Liberty herself
Yet, 10 and witness! there be few
sneaks, cravens and traitors who have
] crawled off this Platform-the Demo-
cratic Platform-this Okolona States
Platform, and have deserted it and
those who stand upon it.
When we called upon them in a
kindly spirit to come back, they point
ed over their shoulders at us and swore
by the beard of the Prophet that we
were in the pay of the Republican
party!
When we reminded them Of the
time when they stood knee and should
er at our side, they lifted up the whites
of their eyes and swore by Allah HIM
seH that the Democratic party had
fought, bled and kerfummixed in be-
half of the Neightion, the Phlag and
the illustrious children of Africa.
When we produced proof Of their
sympathy with Secession and their
opposition to the war and its results,
they forthwith forged a letter and be-
gan to manufacture big, raw lies in
order to weaken the force and infu-
ence of our utterances!
But this isn't ALL
While they were swearing by all the
profane gods in the calendar that State
sovereignty was dead, damned and de-
ivered, they were simultaneously striv-
ing to fix and swing to plan fol
starving the little old nation tc
death if it didn't surrender to the
States in the matter of the Army Bill
Yes; and while they were swearing
by the shade or cid John Brown that
negro suffrage was the sum total Of
human wisdom and progress they were
!. trying to knock the amendments HI
west and crooked by favoring the re-
peal of the very statutes that lent
force and effect to those illegitimate
laws!
Honor bright! gentlemen of Amer
) lea, what do you think of the bastard
Democracy of Yankeedom in view OF
this slice from their history?
Don't you think the Okolona States
has the dead wood on them, for fact
We admire a bold, bad man more than we do
a coward and a sneak. Herman, of the States
is an honest rebel, if we may be allowed the ex
preston. We will furnish him a little more
proof and next week we will give the proceed
ings of peace meeting in Jackson, and the ac
count of the white flag then used.
Here are some resolutions which at the time
they were passed and published, were endorsed
by every Democrat in Jackson county -.
THE RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE DE
MOCRACY OF JACKSON TOWNSHIP, AT
LEACH's GROVE, ON THE 4TH OF JULY
1884.