The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-01-29

Inc WaVerly w atCnman Is IN sore Q1S-
tress because we do not believe that the
Union soldiers were gang of cut-throats.
and that the murderOus conspirators, jeff
Davis and his associates, were pure and
spotless patriots. The Watchman pathet-
ically appeals to the good people of Jack
son County to compel the Standard to
take off it's hat to St. Davis, lest the Rebel
murderers of the South should refuse to
come to Jackson to buy their ammuni-
tion to shoot colored men with. The
Watchman says:
"The people of Cincinnati have sat
down on the Commercial-GaZette in the
most emphatic manner and the people of
Jackson County should do the very same
thing with the Standard, and they should
lose no time in doing it either. We have
no use for such insane fanatics in this
country as Deacon Smith and Davis
Mackley."
Bro. Jones' commiseration for Deacon
Smith and Davis Mackley are received
here with due consideration, yet we can
not agree with him exactly. He is slight
ly mistaken as to identity. and grievously
mistaken as to logic. We do not believe
that the business prosperity of the North
depends upon the admission, by the free
people of this section. that this is the
Southern Confederacy, and that it is right
to murder man for being Republican,
just because by systematic reign of
murder and outrage in the South, Grover
Cleveland, Democrat, was placed in the
Presidential chair.
When you find man threatening to
withdraw his patronage from a business
man because of a difference in politics,
you will find man who either has no
patronage to bestow, or one with whom
it is not profitable to hold any business
relations. The great body of the people
of Jackson County believe that the Re
bellion was horrible conspiracy, and
that Jeff Davis is traitor who ought
now to be in eternity, sent thither at the
end of rope, or the muzzle of a musket.
When our brave boys marched to the
front to offer their lives for the preserva-
tion of the Union, they thought Jeff Da-
Wis was a traitor, and that the Rebellion
was wrong; when they heard the roar of
battle, and saw comrades falling about
them, they thought the Rebellion was
wrong; when they left hundreds and
thousands of comrades sleeping upon
Southern battlefelds, or saw their graves
beside Southern prison-pens, they thought
the Rebellion was wrong; as they look,
even now, upon the empty sleeves and
shattered forms of comrades who are still
surviving, they think the whole conspra-
cy was wrong; as they contemplate the
struggles, during the past twenty years.
of the widows of slain comrades, they
think the Rebellion was wrong: and as
they see the Federal Congress filled with
ex-Rebel officers who secured their seats
through the murder of Republicans, and
who publicly praise Jeff Davis as pat
riot, they still think the Rebellion was
utterly wrong. And they are not ready
to place wreaths upon the brows of Jeff
Davis, Bob Toombs and such men, SIM
ply because Grover Cleveland is to be
President The Watchman does not
know the people of Jackson County. The
Watchman may worship st. Davis as the
Patron Saint of modern Democracy, and
rejoice in the thousands of deaths caused
by his horrible conspiracy if it desires so
to do. We shall think differently. We
have no feeling of hatred toward the peo-
pie of the South, but we may be permit
ted to say again that no people deserves
success whose political system has MUIR
der for a haSiS