The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-10-05
Random Thoughts.
BY D. MACKLEY

in the wilds of Jefferson township.
There I spent my childhood, and hap
py boyhood; there 1 lived forty years
ago, after I was first married; there
my first two children were born; there
lie the bodies of my father, mother
and sister. [ can truly say Of grand
and glorious old Jefferson, as said the
poet:
Thy woods and tempted hills"
[ lived in Madison township several
years. There four of my children
we're born; there lies the body Of my
dead boy child; there, when | was
boy, and while | resided in Jefferson,
| attended the first Sabbath School,
and learned from the New Testament,
and the kind instructions Of my good
Superintendent, J. A. Bingham, that
God made of one blood all nations,
and that he is no respector Of persons.
In these two townships there are
more churches, and fewer saloons,
than in any other two townships in
the county; there is more money
raised for the Bible Society in these
two townships than in all the other
nine in the county; there are more
school teachers, and more gen.
eral enlightenment, and larger Re-
publican majorities in these two town.
ships than in any other two in the
county. These two townships put
more soldiers in the field to put down
the rebellion than, any other two in
the county. I have felt exceedingly
gratifed at all these things.
Now comes the dark side. A full
convention Of the Republican party,
fairly, honestly and honorably, nomi-
mated man for Recorder, named
Lawrence Woodson, and it is asserted
that majority of the Republicans
will not vote for him. Why? l will
make this assertion, which know to
be true. There are fifteen election
precincts now in Jackson county.
You may select ten Of your very best
men from each election precinct
that will be $50 men. You may put
Mr.. Woodson with them, and Of this
151 men Woodson will be above the
average in physical manhood, color
mental capacity, education, integrity
honesty, moral character, and qualif-
cations to fill the Office Of Recorder
No one will dispute the above. Their
why will Mr.. Woodson not run fully
up with his ticket? He is ''nigger.
Oh shame on you! Is this the Chris.
tianity developed by your churches
and Sabbath Schools? What kind o1
Christians or Republicans are you
anyhow?
dare not pursue this matter far
ther, for fear might say something
harsh. I have more confidence IL
you than to believe for moment tina
these humiliating stories are true. 1
cannot be, and 1 ask you as Christian
gentlemen and honest Republicans
to open your New Testament at tn
10th chapter of the Acts of the Apos
ties. Ask God to give you an homes
heart, and then read all that chapter
Read twice the fearful race preiudie
that prevailed nearly two thousan,
years ago, and which it took a mira
Gle from God, and an angel from hea
ven to remove from so good man a
St. Peter. You will find it in the 28tl
verse, and it reads as follows:
"And he said unto them, ye know
how that it is an unlawful thing fo
man that is a Jew to keep compan,
or come unto one Of another nation
but God hath showed me that I shoul
not call any man common or unclean.
And in the 34th and 35th verses
after his miraculous conversion, h
says:
"Then Peter opened his mouth an
said, Of truth I perceive that God i
no respector of persons: but in ever
nation, he that feareth him and work
eth righteousness, is accepted wit
him."
How fearful and awful is that jus
; decree, that whatsoever man soweth
that also shall he reap. The Jew
had this race prejudice, and the resul
has been that through all these nine
teen hundred years, the Jews hav
been hated and prosecuted as has n,
other people, not even excepting tn
African.
I believe that. our State Convention
at Columbus this summer passed
resolution Of sympathy with thi
hated, despised, and sorely persecute'
people, even at the present time
Their terrible prosecutions through
all these ages, is a just retribution fo
their own race prejudice. This rae
prejudice has cost our nation, count
ing both sides, one million Of the live
OF our bravest and noblest youn&
men, and five thousand million dol
lars. Is it not about time that people
should begin to learn wisdom, ant
profit by the history of the past, ant
the prospects Of the future?
After you have read this, and pray
erfully read the 10th chapter of the
Acts, and you commence to take the
name Of Woodson off your ticket
only because he has very slight por.
tion of African blood in him, say
mentally. "THOu Con SEEsr Me ),