The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-11-13

In other words, will the merchants of
this city, because uthey have gained
some money in honest trade with
Southern customers-a trade which
was advantageous as well to the South
ern customer as to the Northern mer-
chant, or it would not have continued
consent to reimburse Northern
lenders for all that they have been
robbed Of by dishonest Southern bor-
rowers? A delightful proposition,
truly, for man of professed integ-
rity and responsibility to make! 1t
comes to this LET the South swim
die Northern creditors as much as it
can, for it cannot steal as much as
Northern men have gained by honest
industry and enterprise" Senator
Hill will be particularly ashamed of
that suggestion hereafter, and will
wish that he had said nothing at all,
since he could say nothing better, in
excuse for Southern reputation of
debts, public and private
THE South" says Mr.. Hill, ''has
not made one dollar, either by slavery
or slave labor, but has lost untold
millions" by them. So the Northern
people always claimed. But Mr.. Hill
insists that "the North has made and
pocketed every dollar Of profit there
was in slavery" Really, there was
not dollar Of profit in slavery to
anybody. But if Mr.. Hill is not
egregiously mistaken, his argument is
this: that the South, against its own
interests, clung to barbarous, cruel
and Infamous system, from sheer love
Of it, while the North, against its own
interest, opposed and destroyed that
system for the sake of justice, civil
ization, and common honesty. That
argument can stand without North
ern criticism. If Mr.. Hill sees fit to
break his own head in hurting BOOM
erangs, we must be resigned.
Senator Hill fatty declares that 1T
is as unmanly as it is untruthful' to
treat the rebellion ''as traitorous re-
bellion against the Government" "
Yet it is nothing else. The simplest
and the most scientific understanding
Of the term ''traitorous" alike apply
to the conduct Of those who waged
war against the United States Gov
ernment, and no other term fits the
case at all. But, says Mr. Hill, ''this
much [ do know; come what may,
the Southern people will never con-
fess themselves traitors. Their chill
dren will never confess it" Let the
declaration 90 on record It means
that the Southern people still believe,
and will ever believe that it was not a
crime to take up arms against the gov
ernment. Right here, all the dis
trust which exists at the North, with
respect to Southern feeling and con-
duct, is fully justified by the words of
a leading Southern Senator. We Of
the North believe that it is treason to
resist by arms the authority of the
United States; the Southern people
do not believe that it is any crime at
all, and Mr.. Hill says they never will.
Indeed, he gives this as a sufficient
reason for treating every Southern
Republican with all possible bitter
ness, scorn and hatred, for he says:
mo Southern man can affiliate with
the Republican party without con-
Tossing himself a traitor. By such
confession he would show himself
unfit to be trusted by and party" In
this way, and no other, accorling to
Mr.. Hill, 1.-The Republican party COM
pels the South to hate the North"
thus unsciously admitting that the
hatred is on the part of the rebels
who will not admit that they were III
the wrong, and not on the part OF
loyal men who have made justice for
get itself in mercy.
After these declarations Mr.. Hill