The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-05-04
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Fighting for Purity.

That is what Senator Morgan, Of
Alabama, says the Democratic party
is doing. The secret has been well
kept-so well, in fact, that not hu-
man being outside the Democracy
suspected it was doing anything of
the kind. The information was loos-
ed upon the Jefersonian banqueters
at Newark, Thursday evening, and
seems to have cast an added gloom
over an already dismal feast. Mr..
Morgan occupied the larger part of
the evening in imparting his revela-
ton, as he found it necessary to prop
up his version Of political history with
many new and interesting interpreta-
tions. He said the party was born
with the Constitution and Jefferson,
and then added this beautiful fig bit of
the imagination: "The strength of
the great Democratic party Is based
on its faithful adhesion to the Jetfer-
sonian doctrines as to the limitations
of the Constitution; and its indes-
tructibility is the result of the zeal of
men who are welded to the truth, for
better or for worse, for richer or for
poorer, for its own sake and for the
good Of the people"
This is an original view OF recent
history. 1t was because they were
welded to truth for its own sake
that the Democratic party sympa-
thized with rebellion: it was because
they we're welded to truth for its own
sake" that the Democratic party OPP
posed all attempts to resume specie
payments after the war was ended,
and did their best to break down the
public credit by aiding all schemes of
reputation; it was because they were
welded to truth for its own sake"
that they Joined IN the Greenbaek
craze and the silver craze; it was be-
cause they were welded to truth for
its own sake" that they aided and de-
Tended all the schemes in the South
for depriving the negroes OF their
rights and for returning them to a
second slavery; it was because they
were welded to truth for its own
sake that they invented the cipher
conspiracy and endeavored to buy the
Presidency; it was because they were
welded to truth for its own sake
that they forged the Morey letter.
They did all these things for truth
and the good Of the people. Mr.
Morgan is endowed. evidently with a
very original mind.
He showed this even more strik-
ingly when he reached his peroration.
Facts went down before the food of
his eloquenee like bean-poles before a
cyclone. Fighting in defence of
liberty, and not for the emoluments
Of office or the love Of power, the
Democrats win great and substantial
victories for the people when they
hold in check, even for time, the
aggressions Of their enemies" Just
what they have been holding in check
recently he was careless enough to
omit to mention. But he went on
beautifully: Our mission is the high
est that ever engaged the services Of
mankind in temporal affairs. he omit
ted to state what the mission was, but
he probably had in mind the party's
long and valuable service as horri-
BILE example. ''Our first great leader,
he continued, ''was the wisest, boldest
and truest friend Of liberty regulated
by law and secured by irrevocable
guarantees" One would naturally
suppose that he would say something
about the second, third and other
great leaders, down to the last, but he
didn't. Perhaps he could not, in the
impetuous rush of his eloquence,
think Of their names. We, who are
viewing this question with entire
calmness, can think of none of them,
and are not surprised that he passed
directly on to his next picturesque
misstatemet: "Our convictions of duty
unite us in an honorable and endur-
ing brotherhood. Our hopes are not
dimmed by weary vigils. Our hands
are not weakened by frequent con-
ficts. The history Of our party has
been enriched by the honest zeal and
faithful devotion Of many Of the
greatest Of American statesmen. 1t
is the history Of a civic strife for lib
erty and the Constitution, in which
every page is emblazoned with great
and patriotic deeds.'
OF its kind that is one Of the hand
soonest whoppers it has ever been our
good fortune to behold. 1t is large
and round and beautiful, and is not
disfgured anywhere by anything
which bears the slightest resemblance
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