The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1888-06-07
WHOLE NO. 2I34.
to "go and sin no more" !"

suffered from three to four years, the
hardships Of war, "a matter which in
this latter day, is regarded as mere
slight Inconvenience felt that there
was more of mercy than justice in
this, we felt that the leaders should
be punished, for their treason, as
lesson to all people who should come
after them, but my comrades, what to
do with them was grave question,
and while we can now see, that the
old leaders have abused the confidence
reposed in them, and that they are
about as lawless and cruel to the black
man as in old slavery days; still we
must remember, that the confederacy
in all its elements Of strength was a
part of the nation, and by its surren-
der we took only our own.
The territory and people were again
within the jurisdiction Of the laws of
the land, subject to the obligations of
the National Constitution. It was
not the acquisition of foreign territory
and an alien people, but it was or
union restored, omr country and oar
people reunited, and so we asked of
| them, obedience to the lawfully con-.
stituted authority Of oar government;
that government which they had
failed to destroy. We asked. no tri-
butte to make good the losses Of the
war, but we asked them to go to their
homes; to go to work; to aid US in re-
building the waste places; to aid US in
restoring the losses Of the war, by aid
ing us in building up the whole coun-
try, in advancing the prosperity of the
whole people, north and south alike;
to join with us in making this what
from the beginning it was destined to
be, the grandest, most foremost pros
porous nation on the globe.
But we asked more than this. We
asked them to obey the laws of the
land; to respect the rights, civil and
political, Of all citizens of this repub-
lie, including the freedmen, whose
shackles had been melted in the white
heat of battle-to allow the lost cause
to be regarded as forever lost; we
asked them to go forward and look
not back, to live in the future and not
in the past; to keep their eyes upon
the coming glory and growing great
ness of our new republic, rather than
to seek revenge for the overthrow of
their miserable confederacy. And up
on their assent to these terms and
conditions, we forgave them their
crimes, and sent them to their homes,
as our brethren.
As the beginning of this, the most
wicked rebellion the world had ever
seen, was without a precedent in his
tory, SO our magnaminity, our mercy
and charity toward its leaders, at its
close, will stand forever in history
without parallel. &
A score and more of years have
passed: ask the watchman upon the
tower Of state, of liberty, of loyalty,
Of justice and right: "Watchman,
what Of the night?"
Can he, as he looks out over this
broad land, from Maine to Florida;
from the Lakes to the Gulf, can he
as he reads the history we are making,
can he as he sees the eddying current
Of passing events, truthfully answer:
"All is well?"
Is the education of our people. the
education of the coming man and
woman Of America, on the great ques-
tions which underlie the permanency
and prosperity of the republic, just what
it should be? Are we, as a people,
North and South, being educated to
loyalty; to love of country; love
Of the old Union and the old flag?
Only two years ago-twenty years
after the war is over-Jef Davis made
kind Of triumphal march from his
home in Mississippi to Montgomery,
Alabama, the cradle Of the confeder-
acy, to give character to the ceremony
OF the unveiling of a monument erec-
ted to dead rebel General. The pro-
cession that escorted him; the recep-
tion given him, were like those of
some mighty conqueror. Children
formed in long procession, strewed his
pathway with flowers and men and
women fell down and worshiped him
as kind Of demi-God.
The lesson of the hour was lesson
in disloyalty, lesson in treason. In
May 1887 the Southern Press Asso-
citation banqueted this same Ex-Presi-
dent of the Confederacy, at Meridian,
Mississippi. The toast Of the occa-
sion was: ITO Jefferson Davis, the
Soldier, Statesman, and Champion of
Southern rights" The "Champion"
NOT Of the rights of man; not of
the rights Of the American citizen,
rich or poor, black or white, in Mis-
sissippi as in Michigan, in Alabama
as In Ohio; anywhere and everywhere
in this broad land-but the Champion
of Southern rights; and the news
paper men Of the Southern Press As
sociation, We'd with each other in
lauding his virtues, and singing his
praise-and here was another lesson
in disloyalty, in treason.
Last October, Che State Board of
Agriculture, of Georgia, acting and
speaking for the people of that state
invited this same, unrepentent rebel,
to visit their State Fair at Macon, Ga.
He accepted and attended. Seldom
has such demonstration been wit
messed in this country. The city was
decorated with Confederate flags, ban
ners foated to the breeze bearing
reasonable legends, the bands played
Confederate airs, and the glee clubs
sang rebel songs. The old tattered
and blood stained Conferate battle
flags were brought out, and cheered
to the echo. q thank God there were
none from Ohio.) Orations, in burn
ng words, full Of disloyalty, aye, rank
with treason, fired the masses, men
we're wild, and the women were al
most crazy with the excitement of
5he hour.
One misguided youth attempted to
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