The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-09-21
CIronton Bee.1
A C0wardly Insinuati0n.

1t is now we'll known that an eX-
animation for cadetships at Annapo-
lis and West Point was held in this
city, Tuesday. James Dean and Cal
vim Reynolds came out ahead Of all
competitors, Dean having Is and Rey-
nolds 76a per cent. The applicant
having the highest grade is entitled
to his choice of the positions. 1t had
been understood that Dean wanted
the Annapolis appointment, but after
the examination, through the influ-
ence Of his father, a prominent Dem
ocratic attorney, he decided to take
the West Point cadetship. Reynolds,
being too old for admission at Annap-
oils, is thus entirely cut out of his
well-earned honor He is an excel
lent and worthy young man, and his
friends, Of course, feel keenly the mis-
fortune which has befallen him.
Reynolds is a colored boy. Had it
been otherwise, the Leader might
have disposed of the affair in half a
dozen lines. But it could not forego an
opportunity to heap unjust obloquy
upon the Republican party, through
one Of it's most honored members. The
blame, if it can be so styled, rested
with Mr.. Dean. But the Leader makes
a cowardly and contemplate effort to
place this Democratic fault upon Re-
publican shoulders. Then, with inef-
fable cheek it asks with a supercillous
sneer, "What has the Republican
party done for the colored man?"
We are glad, Mr. Leader, you have
asked that question, and will tell you
some Of the things the Republican
party has done:
1t was a Republican pen, in the
hands of the Godllke Lincoln, which
emancipated four million colored men
from a bondage more cruel than
death.
The Republican party gave the col
ored father and mother the sacred
control of their own children, free
from the auction block, and the crack
of the slave drivers lash.
Republican law opened to them our
halls of learning, and removed the
Democratic necessity of stealing away
into lonely solitude and studying the
forbidden primmer at the peril OF
their lives.
Republican law gave them the bal
lot, and wrote the stamp of manhood
on their brows.
Republican law said they should be
respected as white men are, in hotels
and on steamboats, and railroads.
Republicanism has wiped out utterly
and forever the internal curse of hu-
nlan slavery and it's resultant evils,
letting in a f1ood-light Of freedom and
education upon the darkened lives and
minds Of an oppressed people.
Tell us, Mr.. Leader, did the Demo-
cratic party assist in any of this work?
And will the Leader tell US now,
what the Democratic party has done
for the colored man? By way of
prompting, allow US to suggest:
Democratic preachers glorltied the
institution of slavery as divine, de-
MED the colored man a soul, deharred
him from heaven, and leveled him
with the brute.
Democratic lashes tore his. livid
flesh till drops Of crimson agony
trickled down his quiverlng back:
Democratic voices hied on the
blood hounds that tracked the terror
stricken fugitives through the swamps
and everglades Of the south.
Democratic laws compelled every
white man in the north to join the
cruel chase, and help to drag the
trembling captive back to living
death.
Democratic masters forbade them
to see the inside of a book, denying
them even the precious Bible.
Democratic owners tore the strug-
Cling child from the frantic mothers
bosom, and she never saw it again.
Democratic ropes, and knives, and
torches, and tissue ballots, partly rob-
bed the colored man in the south of
the rights purchased In blood by the
Republican party.
A nice party to profess solicitude
for the welfare of the celored people
The wolf has the same solicitude for
the tender lamb. Perhaps, however,
the Democracy, on this question, as
with every other, after having fought |
the Republican party with malignant |
is about to turn around and |
say to the class the Republicans have
"Gentleman, zoe did it"
e8The Democracy has done nothing |
for the colored man since its states
men all swore individually and col
they would never walk up to
the polls and cast their vote by the
side of ''big buck niger" and then
gave themselves the lie by submitting
to the ordeal as meekly as the rebels
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