The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-01-09

| lsneu, Lne laSn ana the knOut were never
known in Ohio. the pillory and stocks
are only remembered as symbols of an
early barbarism in judicial punishment,
but subject me to all these and let there
be superadded the horrors of the Spanish
lnquisition, the terrible and secret in
Hlctlons of the mysterious Council OF Ten,
the dreaded and scourging vengeance of
| Vehme Gerichte and all shall be endured
with such fortitude as physical suffering
may permit, but save me and mine from
the more destructive because more in
sldlous attacks of the street slanderer.-
4 And yet, on the streets, our children are
learning to grasp and use this the most
potent OF weapons, and in its use are be-
be able to look the pillory itself out of
countenance"
Nor is it the one sex alone that be-
comes con taminated. Our daughters are
not free from the non discriminating g
taint of this curriculum. The bloom of
their modesty woman's brightest adorn-
ment, is blown away by the fierce sirocco
of moral pestilence engendered in the
abandoned purlieus of the street school,
The ruinous influence of the street exam
Piles blunt and finally destroy that sense
of chastity is by nature instructive in the
female mind; and while it may not be
said that all the direful consequences af-
ficting the stronger sex are meted out to
the weaker, we are yet sufficiently con-
versant with the daily history of our
country to know that many of the daugh-
ters of the land who might, with proper
culture, have been saved to adorn and
illuminate society are driven from its
pales, and now wander the streets forsa-
ken of all save the most wicked and
abandoned to the sad sorrow of a life
whence all brightness has fed, with no
contemplation, no perspective but early
death, and undying remorse. A woman
fallen has no natural place on earth.
And yet we fold our arms complacent-
ly unmindful of the dangers surrounding
our maidens, thoughtless of the revolving
lessons taught in our school of the street,
and without word of condemnation,
without one invocation to the strong
arm of Public Justice, with Pharisaic ego
tism insult God by breaking lip-born
prayer of thanks that we are not as 9th
ers
This paper is not intended for argu-
ment or logical dissertation. The aim is
earnest denunciation of that which is
wrong; & desire to sound note of warn
ing; to arouse the vigilance of instruct
ors and parents to the perils surrounding
the footsteps of the young; to startle you
into consciousness of impending dan
ger; to awaken your solicitude for your
own and your neighbors families to
stimulate you into active exertion in be-
half of the right; to make you aggressive,
so long as vice in any form exists among
us; SO to stir up your courage that you
will attack, not only its outposts and
skirmish lines, but with every weapon
that Right and Truth has consecrated,
you surround its citadel, and force sur
render at discretion. Vice is to be con-
quered and Sin to be driven from the
face of the earth Virtue is to become as
cendant and cover the earth as with
garment; Truth is to prevail and error
and falsehood to be crushed but this is
only to take place when the final battle
shall have been fought and won.
This victory is not to be achieved by
mere intellectual superiority genius un-
OH 6o6 &c in, {bo
erary culture without helper is but
babe in the conflict. Michael and all the
good angels arranged together were una
BILE to keep heaven pure, and Lucifer held
his vantage, until the Son ascending the
mighty chariot of the Omnipotent, grasp
ing in his one hand the broad Egis of
universal Truth and in the other the
three bolted lightnings of scourging ven
geance, pushed the rebellious over heav
ems battlements into the disordered
realms of Chaos and Night, and heaven
was again the abode of peace, purity and
joy. And so upon earth, we must grasp
the terrors of the law, assume the pano-
ply of truth our moral culture must
hSSp pace WIFI Our SCl0uGluC aCqu lr0-
ments, and with bold front and courage
GUS attitude we must attack vice in what
soever specious form it presents itself
our warfare must be aggressive-exter-
mination of evil our slogan-no halt, no
rest until the enemy be completely rout-
ed and driven from the domain of light
and justice back to his birth-right, the
sombre realm of Chaos and Night.
Suns must rise and set. and the silent
years be rolled into scrolls of centuries
before this consummation be attained
but there is an advance movement, right
is gaining ground, step by step the vir-
tues are advancing, and if we weary not,
the close of our activity will witness, with
high qualification to US, that our labors
have not been in vain, and while the
notes of our victory may not swell into
the lofty diapason of final perfection they
will yet resound in tones of triumph at a
glorious redemption in prospect.
Uncle Joe Patterson.