The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-04-17
IT is FINISHED.

Those former Republicans who have
| followed Hayes into the camp of the enc.
my, triumphantly declare that what has
been done cannot be undone-that there
Is now no remedy but quiet submission
These poor, blind worms of the dust,
need not ignore the lessons Of history.
A good many years ago the King of
Egypt ordered all the male children born
ot his slaves, to be put to death He then
thought that freedom among the op
pressed race was finished; but the wall
of one helpless infant, in its little basket
of bulrushes, hid in the flags by the river,
attracted the Kings daughter, and the
child was saved. 1t lived to make war
fare upon the oppressor until he and all
his hosts were buried in the bottom of the
Red Sea.
When Christ was crucifed and buried,
and great stone placed at the door of
the sepulcher, and a band of Roman,
soldiers placed on guard, the Jews conf
IDENTITY believed that the new doctrine
was finished but now those who profess
10 believe in the doctrines of the Naza-
rine, control the destinies of the world
Six hundred years ago, Edward King
of England, was fully satisfied that the
Independence of Scotland was finished
but Wallace yet lived, and the defeat of
the great British army at Bannock burn
in 1914, by the Scottish army under Rob
-rt Bruce, and the acknowledgment OF
the independence OF Scotland in 1928,
opened the eyes of tyrants generally
Four hundred and sixty years ago John
Huss was promised the protection of the
Emperor Sigismund; yet he was basely
betrayed, put to death, his body burned
to ashes, and the ashes thrown into the
river Rhine. Then Popery was sure that
Professionalism was finished in Bohemia
yet from the ashes Of John Huss arose
war which ravaged Bohemia for fifteen
years, and the historian says that church
es and converts were reduced to ashes,
and monks and priests were slain.
Many times during the revolution OF
our fathers the British. the tories and
the cow boys, declared that the success
OF the revolution was finished; but Tren-
ton, and York Town. and other successes
changed their opinion.
In 1852 the Fugitive Slave Law was
enacted and both the Whig and Demo
cratic parties resolved, and re.resolVed N
their national conventions, th3 | the
question was settled--that the agitation
IN favor OF human rights was flushed -
Then came the infamous Dred Scott de
cision, by which the Supreme Court OF
the United States, as solemn a lot of
owls in the sunlight declared that the
descendents Of the African race in the
United States had no rights that white
men WEI q bound to RESI- ect Surely now
freedom III this country was finished !;
vet Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote UncI-
Tom Cabin, and millions of people read
it. The war III Kansas came on apace,
then the martyrdom of John Brown,
! then the slave holders rebellion, and IN
| ten wears from the time that the two
| great parties SO solemuly declared that
| slavery was fastened upon the country
| forever and no one dare raise his voice
against this sum of all villainies, two mil
| lions OF armed men faced each other to
settle the question.
1t is true that Owen Lovejoy. and Thad-
deus Stevens, and Joshua Il Giddiugs are
dead yet Roscoe Conkling, and James
G Blaine, and good many others are
| living and God is able to raise up men
for the occasion, as he preserved the life
! Of the infant Hebrew child for the de-
struction of slavery. and talked to him
! face to face, if we believe the B BILE. And
this conflict between right and wrong
must go on. Christ says, (Matt. 1924
| 5-6), Think not that | am come to send
peace on earth; | came not to send peace
but a sword.
For | am come to set man at variance
against his father, and the daughteT
a. ainst her mother. and the daughterin
law against her motherin law.
And mans foes shall be they of hi
own household"