The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-05-14
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| found hey would not be recognized by their
| "ld masters they turned 10 these white Repub
| licans for consultation and advice. Some OF the
latter became leaders and were elected to office
ThereupOn the Democratic party conceived
| that its very existence depended upon their i'm.
mediate Punishment from the soil they had
hought and paid for. and so Southern rebel and
| Northern copperhead began to cry out against
| hem, TO denounce them as thieves and robbers,
tn hold them up to ridicule, to encourage vi
cious men to assault them, to insult their wives
and children, to endanger their property, to
ruin their business, until finally they were no.
titled that they must either abandon their
homes or die, and so they wer- driven out For
| the thousands of good money invested there
| they brought away nothing. When one of
them protested against such wholesale robbery
to a Democratic leader of that section, he re-
pIed at affords me great pleasure, sab, to rob
a Northern man, sah." have no doubt it dir';
and do not doubt it will afford the Southern
men now in control of the United States gov
ernment great pleasure to rob the United States
treasury.
1t has always afforded them great pleasure to
| rob the negro, and they never enjoyed this hap
piness to a much greater extent than they are
doing to-day. They have made no
adequate provision for the education
of the blacks. The laws framed and ad
minist cred as to bear oppressively on the COL
the most trivial pretexts. Convicted of imagin-
ary offenses well as real they often sold
out to contractors, who watch over them with
guns, and pursue those who run away with
bIoodhounds. The contracts for the working
of land on crop shares always construed
against the freedman. He has no rights either
political or civilwhich white men are bound to
respect. He NAV be scourged and his wife de-
bauched without hope of redress. The moment
he pufS the airs of O. free he hecOmeS a
smart "nigeer," and is liable to killed for his
presumption. This Indicates the spirit of that
rule in the South which succeeded the carpet-bag
governments.
The South was never in recent years repre-
sented in Congress by better men than during
the perio Immediately following reconstruc-
tion. From the Democratic districts of the
south there were Democrats; from the Repub-
lican districts Republicans. Some of the latter
were of old families and Southern birth. The
South never before had so fair renresen tation,
and never has had since. One Republican
p-t-bagRer was found guilty of conduct unbe-
coming gentleman in the sale of a cadets ip,
and promptly expelled by House in which
there was an overwhelming Republican major
fty. But his sins were white wool in COM
parison with the stains of the Democratic poll
'icans of New York City, who bought their way
into office without stint, and then stole with
out limit. If Democratic statements be true,
this act of the dishonest carpet-bag Congress
man childs play when compared with
the bribery and corrupt n employed to make
United States Senator in Ohio.
There was, in that time of carpet-baggers,
>ome charges of gross immortality cure t re-
spectng another carpet-bag member of Con-
gress, but his reputation in this regard was no
whit worse than that of Grover Cleveland In
fact do not think any carpet bagger ever
elected 10 either Congress a State Legislature
whose character was not superior to that given
by common report to Higgins. the man recent
ly appointed to important office in the
Treasury department. quite at any
raie that the worst of the carpet-bag lot would
have compared favorably with OConnor, q
Democratic memb-r of late l.. gislaIure of
Ohio, and with some of the distinguished gen.
tlemen of the present Democratic General AS
sembly.
In the mountain regions of Tennessee and
elsewhere referred to by Mr. Clark the white
people largely Republican. They contrib
uted many regiments to the Union army dur
ing the war. Being sufficiently strong to COM
pei the disloyal white element to treat the ne
gro fairly there is no color line In politics. No
color race line ever did exist where Republi-
were in the ascendancy, and never will
with their consent, for it is fundamental prin-
ciple of the party that men shall not be dis
criminated against on account of race, color, or
previous condition.