The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-11-16
Mercury and Saturn.

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Of the Hamden Entsrpriss, INDUCED in some remarks
about the prejudice that had beaten 1.-THE Republican
candidate for recorder, that were meant to be more
forcihle than polite. That some Of the shots were
well aimed learned soon after that paper appeared
in town. Had 1t not been that men, ruled entirely by
prejudice, are usually moral and physical cowards
some of them would very likely have carried out the
threats they were reported making to thrash the
correspondent AS 1t is, the first act Of retaa-
ton is the Saturn letter In the last number of the
Herald. In reply want to say a few plain, blunt
words, and am going to do 1t without any assumed
names or formalities about 1t.
AS to the identity of Saturn" 1 neither know nor
care. 1 am not fighting men in this matter; am
fighting prejudice that is disgrace the age in
which we live and have soft words for it. do
not believe that any one of the 81 Republicans y here
who refused to vote for the damned nigger," can
write grammatical English. do not believe that
Saturn" is or ever was Republican. Hhe ever was
he was strangely out of place. do not believe he
ever saw military service, unless IL has been to
carry transparency in some Democratic professions,
inscribed with: do you want your daughter to
marry Niger? If you don't, vote the Democratic
ticket!' Horace Greeley once defined the principles
of the Democratic party to be: ITO love rum and
damn a Niger" Saturn" comes fully up to this
standard.
He charges me with being crazy. To 60 crazy, one
must have some brains. So he is clearly out of dam
ger. No one with any brains ever the victim Of
such fearful case of negrophobia as he exhibits.
That is not disease affecting the mental powers; 1t
only attacks those who have none.
He says he did not owe MIR. Woodson anything. II
he was a Republican he owed him at least decent
treatment, and he failed to pay the debt. What
wrote was not intended for Democrats; nothing was
asked expected of them but for Republicans whos
In defiance of all ideas of justice and party fealty,
helped beat their candidate. know who many of the
men were who worked and voted for Woodson. They
are the men who made this town, and who drive its
business industries-men whose words good as
their bonds in business matters and whose inteli-
gence Saturn" and his Bourbon admirers dare not
impeach. know some of the men who "scratched'
him. Had votes been weighed, instead of counted,
the result would have been different.
Saturn" says he did not wish to offer premium to
to the species of idleness that shuns manual labor
will risk the that he is who never did
an honest days work in his life. do not know that
any oath is necessary, but will say that regard Mr..
Woodson peer and feel 1t honor to class him
among my personal friends. What is more, believe
him to be the peer, In every element of honorable
manhood, of nay man of his age and sttainments In
the State of Ohio. If this is not sufficiently unequiv-
ocal will try TO make 1t more was born in the
lowest depths of poverty, and know fearfully well
what every step toward the little have secured of
education and social standing has cost. When meet
Il young who, in addition has had all this caste
prejudice to fight, and yet has worn honorable
name and position in society, give him not SIM
ply recognition, but sympathy and admiration. No,
don't believe in faith without works. II there is
any one virtue claim IL Is that of having the
courage of my opinions.
lam q bachelor, more from necessity than choice,
but will yield to no one in my admiration of self
reliant, honorable American womanhood. The an
chor that saves Nation from hopeless wreck on
the shoals of drunken but there are sew
eral millions of American women my equals or su
perlors, whom have not the slightest ambition to
marry. know nothing of the Misses Woodson, Un-
less they are in every way the inferior of their
brother they are ladies whose acquaintance should
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and the lady was willing should neither ask leave
of Saturn" Ohio Bourbonism As to my sisters,
they able to take of themselves aim to
be of mine.
This cry "Do you want your daughter to marry
nigger sounds strangely familiar In 1885, when the
Pathfinder the west' grasped the banner of free
dom and lead the friends of Justice the first eec-
tive charge against the cohorts Of slavery was but
eight years of age, but well remember this cry that
unless the Democratic party succeeded. Southern
women must all marry ''niggers." True, 1t puzzled
me where they were going to get niggers enough to
around, supposed, maybe, If Fremont was elected
there would be sufficient increase Of the coored men
to supply the demand. The first political speech
ever heard was in that campaign, and protection OF
women from negro amalgamation was the burden Of
the story. 1 am glad however to be able to say the
speaker has outgrown his prejudfces, and has since
sat Republican in the Senate and cabinet of the
United States, and is the working head of that
party in the State "the boss-the Blaine-Civi Ser
vice Reformers call him. Four years passed and
Lincoln became President, and fourteen States re-
belled, my own among the number, Ito save our
daughters from having to marry niggers." Appo-
matto1 came at last, and slavery dead That set
tied 1t. "Our daughters must all marry niggers." A
Bourbon pistol shot sent Lincoln to heaven and to
stainless fame, and johnson tried to conciate the
South, but Congress passed the fourteenth amend
ment, making ALL black men citizens Again 'Our
daughters must all marry niggers." The fifteenth
amendment was proposed, and again an old Bourbon
howl raised "Our daughters will all have to
marry niggers." Grant gave place to Hayes, ana
Southern Republicanism surrendered to the rifle
Clubs all to "Our daughters from having to mar
ry niggers." For six years the nation has permitted
elections to be a fraud and mockery in half the
tion, because If the black man is allowed to vote,
"Our daughters will have to marry niggers."
young of good character good address, the great
grandson of Tom Jefferson author of States Rights
the 'Spos SYSTEM" and Bourbon cussedness in gen.
eral, is nominated for petty office In . small Ohio
county IAN Office that one.has.ever questioned his
ability to ll and saturn" Co. beat him, because IL
he Is elected Our daughters will have to marry mig
gers" Was there such driveling idiscy? Dur
Ing all this time the coored people have been steadily
getting darker practical and often forced amalga-
nation has ceased. With onethird of all the coored
people in the country mixed blood 1t is idle to talk
about oul daughters marrying niggers. The colors
well xed already. 1t may startle 'Saturn'
to learn that Kentucky Democrat once sat for four
years in the Vice Presidential chair Of the United
States who recognized colored woman as his wife.
He man enough to make the woman he loved, the
mother of his children his legal wife, He was but
one; those who doing all they could to amaga-
mate the races, and stin counted by thou
sands all the land, although since the coored
people have risen to higher plane Of legal rights,
these women have been less the victims OF white
mems lust.
wrote that the prejudice that had Woodson,
was the same threw free soil presses into
the Ohio; the same that tore fleeing fugtives from
northern atars that trained southern blood hounds;
the that trained the rebel guns on Sumter and
planted the sands of Andersonve with the graves of
1900 starved union soldiers. defy any logical
tradcton of these assertions. 1t the same that
made free speech a free press, unknown south of
Mason & Dixon's line for generation the same that
murdered Lovejoy, and blackened American statute
books with the fugitive slave law and black codes;
the that induced the copperheads of the north
to keep mp incsssant fire In the rear for the four
OF the In the name of humanity let 1t die,
and let look not on the color supposed color of
skin but at the life and character of the man
himself. 1 only asked to be judged by what sm.
demand as much for every celored man in America.
And Prohibition. There is a story that Hamilcar
took his afterward famous before the altar OF
Saturn, Il don't mean the Wellston ons,) at seven
years of and compelled him to swear eternal en-
nifty to Rome. The world knows how Hannibal kept
his oath. was scarcely older before had sworn
eternal enmity to negro slavery, and to the drink
crime. l was still too young to take any share In
public affairs when slavery received Its death wound
Now the lines forming for the second great strug-
gle of the century. am enlisted for the war; or for
life Any measures that will restrict, limit, pro-
hibit the liquor traffic, will have all the help be 1t
much or little that give. And free trade-I care
little for this long have heavy debt to pay,
no other of taxation will distribute the public
burden equally among all GLASSES this is doing
On the other hand, when demagogue stumper
appeals to workingmen to vote for high tariff, 1t
sounds much like appeal to the mob, to secu.c
Its adhesion. believe tariff laws need revision
do not believe they important to Our indus
trial interests many thinkers believe do not be-
ieve in carrying presidential canvass on false is
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