The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1888-01-05
FORGIVING AND FORGETTING
Do The Two Necessarily Go To
gether?

the OuJcry OF GnOSe WHOSE syiHpaeAi0s
were with the South during the war
Of the Rebellion, against any attempt
to revive old war memories, that
few, perhaps, of the good and loyal
men of the North have been led to
seriously question the fairness Of re-
minding the periured traitors and their
followers of the crimes they commit
ted. In the light of more recent
events, this pitiful remonstrance has
to great extent died out. The idea
was given a fair and thoroughly prac-
tical test, and the result has been too
plain to be doubted or misunderstood.
While the Democracy Of the North
filled platforms with smooth general
tiles concerning the South and its
crime, and while the Republican party
went so far in its magnanimity as to
place in positions Of honor and trust
men who had served in the Rebel ar
mv,what were the people of the South
doing on the same line? Here are
two sections Of a great country, hav-
iug lust passed through an awful and
bloody conflict, in which one section
sought to destroy the Government
and was whipped by the other section,
now meeting in the attitude of neigh
bors and brethren who have just made
up" after a temporary quarrel. Is that
the way you would have US put 1t,
Democratic friends? Well, the COM
parison will suit us. When two neigh
bors get into deadly conflict, result
ing from the attempt of one TO MUIR
der the other, after having stolen his
pocket-book and burned his barn, and
the guilty villain gets beaten and cap
tured, and is turned loose upon his
promise to be better man for the fu-
ture, the whole transaction lmplles
that he has acknowledged his fault
does it not? When criminals are pa
rolled from the Penitentiary of Ohio
are they set at liberty with defiant
threatenings and boastings upon their
lips? Where, we would ask, has a
disciple of the Southern Confederacy
admitted that the Rebels were in the
wrong? Many have been the decla-
rations of willingness, or rather readl-
ness, to accept the results of the war.
They were willing to accept results
on the same ground that the burglar
accepts when you seize him by the
throat, in your residence, eat night.
The Southern leaders accepted the
results" Of the war. They had to dc
so. They have asked the. North to
'sforget their past history" Yet they
have never forgotten, nor tried to for
get, the infamous part they took IN
the conflict. Further than this, that
conflict is going on yet. Just as GER
tainly as the Democratic party gets a
majority of the Supreme Court, SO
certainly will the Constitutional
Amendments be declared void, and as
far as possible all the results of the
war wiped out. All intelligent OBJ
ssrvation points to this fact. Already
Lamar is before the Senate as candi-
date for Associate Justice. This man
Is principally distinguished IN has
official capacity for having the Amer
lean fyg lowered upon the public
buildings in his department at the
National Capital over the death ol
one Of the most yillainous of traitors
Has Lamar ever forgotten?
So we might go on. giving instances
but it is not necessary. Every act Of
the people Of the South indicates thai
they are striving, not only to not for
get the part they took in the war, but
to perpetuate the memory Of theil
treason, and instill the treasonabl'
spirit into the new generation. Wnef
Grant captured Lee, and sent the sad
dened old man back home, he forgav'
Lee, but he never forgot Lees treason
and perjury Neither will the peopl
of the North forget; neither shoult
they do so. The South is as treason
able as ever, and the Southern leader
need as much watching.