The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1884-09-18
IN. Y. Independent
HOW SHALL L VOTE, AND WHY!
BY HON. JOHN V. FARWELL.

A continuance Of unexampled pros
pt I:lty which, for twenty years, has
with slight Interruptions borne our
country onward to be foremost pow
er among the nations Of the world is
the need of the hour.
Soldiers, business and laboring men,
whose history was and is interviewer
with that wonderful material advance
ment, can spend their time in no bet
ter way between now and November
than in carefully ascertaining for
themselves, which party, now claim
ing popular support, Can furnish the
best guarantees for wearing the man
tie for that purpose.
Men will have to enter somewhat
into the calculation; but the party
electlng the men will control the poi
icy of the men they put into office; ;
and hence we must measure the party
before we measure men. .
Great deeds are the stamp of party
grandeur. The Republican party was
thus born Of a worthy parentage.
1t took the Declaration of Ameri=
can Independence out Of hypocritical
sackcloth, and clothed it with the pur-
pile and fine linen of genuine liberty
For all. In that act it has made pos
sible nation, in the shadow Of whose
future the very nature Of human
history may be changed from despot-
ism to ffeeron. depending upon how
We use the patromony placed in our
hands.
The Democratic party made the Re
publican party possible by clothing
our charter of liberty in that hypo-
critical sackcloth and calling upon
American citizens to consent to Our
continents being divided in the inter
est Of human bondage and oppres-
sion, making our vast territory an
everlasting battlefield, if its principles
had prevailed. The necessities Of such
an hour in our eountry's history
brought forth the Republican party,
which has written upon our starry
banner, anew, "One and inseparable
now and forever"
1t is impossible to conceive of the
untold misery that would have been
entailed on this land of the Pilgrims
if the Democratic party had succeeded
in dismembering the republic in the
interest of slavery.
1t is also impossible to conceive of
the vast benefits that must accrue, not
only to this oQntinent, but to the
world at large, from the fact that,
through the Republican party, this
whole country has been consecrated
80 the largest possible liberty in hu-
man governments, in the blood of its
best citizens, in which no slave can
breathe the pure air Of Heaven. We
are speaking Of parties, pow, not
men; for tttlaFa we've many Democrats
who loined their fortunes with the
Republican party in this struggle, and
proved their loyalty to the right; but
tRe party they left-North and South
had no sympathy in such work;
but, in fact, organized fire in the
rear of our grand army, until "copper"
head" became the recognized name of
this disloyal party.
When the war was over (Which had
been waged in Congress AS well as on
the field) its cost, more than doubled
by unfriendly legislation-or from
the want of proper support in Con
gress-was SO dexteropsly managed
that the country not only paid large
amounts annually, in it's liquidation
hut, at the same time, started on Gil.
reer of prosperity Unparalleled in the
history of nations.
The greenback and our gatiqaa