The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1886-09-16

&c. They are not trying to put down the
| Rebellion and restore peace to distract
ed counsry-theg are trying to put doa0n
SlGCery."
| About the anly people of the country
who were distracted" at that time, were
the Copperheads. who were going about
in the North, threatening Union soldiers
with attacks in the rear, and terroriZing
the families of the brave nen in the field
Such choice names as "Abe Lincoln's
Dogs" ''Lincln Hirelings," and so on
were sweet morsels to the tongue of the
| Copperhead. The same paper, of Septem-
| ber, 1863, speaking of a proposed Union
meeting at Jackson, suggested this beau
| tiful song, as the Democratic tribute te
| the Union soldier:
| We're going to fight for darkeys now,
Glory hallelujah
At Lincoln's negro affairs bow,
Glory halIelujah.
Come jolly white men, some along,
Glory haelujah:
Fall in, and sing the merry song,
Glory hsllelujah.
oh when we get the negroes free,
Glory halleluiah!
AS good as negroes will be,
Glory hallelujah
In the same issue is a Democratic war
song, in which the Union soldier is thus
warned, by the bold Copperheads who
were marching about the North with
cheese-knives concealed in their boots:
And if we gain the election we'll show them in one
year,
Shouting vallandigham and freedom,
That we'll end this negro war without either sword
spear,
Shouting Va1landigham and freedom.
There are great many even worse
quotations than these, that we might use
as showing the Democratic hatred of the
Union soldier, but these will do for the
present. When the soldier was engaged
in fighting the enemies of the country
the Democratic party, as party, was
bowling at him that he was engaged in
the useless shedding of blood, that the
war was failure, and that the "Old John
Brown Raiders could never coerce Sow
ereign State" Well. the soldier shed his
blood, lost a limb, perhaps, and the lie
was shot down the Democratic throat.
Loyalty triumphed, and the crippled SOL
dier became a popular man. Then the
Democratic party, like the first Democrat,
who tempted good young man upon the
mountain-top, so long ago, claimed to be
the especial friend of the soldier. This
would not work. That party was known
to be on the other side, as party, though
many Democrats bravely fought to put
down the iniquity sprung upon the coun-
try by their party. The old soldier lived
on. Each year the old soldiers were thrown
together, and the chains of sympathy
welded by the fire of battle became
stronger and stronger. The Democratic
party saw this, and saw that the soldier
made the popular candidate. Hence we
see, as in the case in our neighbor county,
the same party which cursed and derided
the soldier quarter of century ago,
heaping the strongest terms of praise up
on the crippled soldier. "Oh, he's our SOL
dier-aCe shot his leg off! How we do
love him-71oaOf'
No, no, Democratic friends! 1t is not
the soldier that you love. In fact you
have the same contempt for him now
that you had in 1S61-5, but you see in his
blue coat and empty sleeve an expedient
for catching-or rather attempting to
catch-a few votes. AS the old frontiers
man closely watches the moving bush, to
get whack at the Indian behind it, so
the Democratic party, when it comes be-
fore the people covered with blue coat,
will have the mask torn from it, and be
held up to the contempt of the people.
The Democratic party has had great
many opportunities, during the last twen-
ty years, to elect soldiers to office We
are not prepared to say that the party has
always voted solidly for the soldier. Such
being the condition of things, we deny
the right of any Democrat to talk about
the duty of Republicans to vote for sol
dier on the Democratic ticket. In fact,
soldier has no business on the Democratic
ticket, and though he may be a good and
brave man, he endorses, by running upon
that ticket, the brutal language of the
Democratic party concerning himself.
Cleveland's vetoes of pension bills, and
brutal language concerning old soldiers
and their widows, is more like an eXhibi-
tion of Democratic honesty, than the par
agraph quoted at the beginning of this
article.