The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1888-06-07

: and rush into mad havoc OF war to VIII
, the triumphs to be won only in the
carnage Of battle? This grave ques-
ton stared the National Executive
/ fully and fairly in the face. The
other grave question which stared the
people and authorities in the face was
this: Can we by fighting restore the
Union, and bring back peace to this
far land.
/ Rebel sympathizers cried, "You can
never whip the South; you can never
, restore the Union by war;" and mon
archists of the old world, looking
across the waters with lordly sneer,
said, ''The end Of your boasted repub-
lie has surely come" But the call for
troops is made; party lines are broken;
, sectarianism is forgotten; nationali-
ties are lost in broad Americanism-
the loyal people disregarding all for
mer differences and distinctions, be-
come the party Of the Union, and re-
spond as one man to that grave and
solemn call. The response makes
America tremble and shakes kings and
emperors upon their thrones. The
fires Of patriotism are rekindled all
over the Northland. The spirit Of '76
springs from the ashes Of our sires,
and breathes upon the people. The
loyal men of the North rally around
the flag of their fathers, the emblem
Of nationality and union, and become
as by magic a mighty army, not of
drilled and disciplined soldiers, but Of
patriots and heroes, brave and true,
ready to march to the shrill music Of
war-ready to stake their lives upon
the dread issue, laying them where
need be, but on the altar of their
country. And as call succeeded call
still came the patriots response:
Three aesf hundred Dafi thousand asn doTe'"' @ore
The history of the world has been
largelysthe history of war; As men
In all ages have admired courage, so
the names that have come down to US,
through the ages, have been those
made illustrious in battle. Millions
Of brave men have perished in the
campaigns of the years gone by, and
thousands of volumes have been writ
ten to explain the causes of wars, to
tell how battles were lost and won,
and to give their results upon the
growth and decay of nations, prov
inces and peoples.
Yet amid it all no precedent is fur
nished for the great rebellion of 1861.
1t stands alone in history, without a
precedent and without a parallel.
| Without reason, without justification,
the leaders Of the South imagined that
they saw the finger Of destiny point
ing to the freedom Of the slave-they
became excited and alarmed, then an
cry and turbulent, and wildly and
wickedly they rushed to arms.
The South had for half century
controlled the country in the interests
of the Shareholders. 1t had dictated
what the laws should be, had con-
strued them by courts that did its bid
ding, and had executed them at it's
own pleasure. Witness, the passage
of the Fugitive Slave Law, which was
an insult to the North and an outrage
upon humanity; the repeal Of the
Missouri Compromise, violation Of
every principle Of good faith, honor,
justice and right; the Dred Scott de-
cision, which debauched justice, dis
graced the highest court Of the ma
tion, and degraded manhood and wo-
manhood throughout the land
And now in 1861, because the in
telligent Christian people Of the Ma
ton, weary with their methods, and
sick at heart with their abuses of
power, and crimes committed in the
name of law, seek by the peaceful bal
lot to take control Of the Government,
the Southern leaders declare the I'm
ion dissolved, and bring war with all
its dire consequences upon the coun-
try. Those Southern leaders declare
the right not to rule, but to ruin
not to govern the Nation, but to de-
stroy it; that out Of the broken frag-
ments and upon the majestic ruins Of
dismembered republic they might |
erect a confederacy Of States, the
chief cornerstone Of which should be
human slavery. Hurting their States
into rebellion and their people into
battle against the General Govern
ment, they denied its authority over
them, and defed its power to coerce.
They declared the principles Of the
republic unsound, and the. experiment I
of self-government failure. They
organized a formal confederacy of
States, placed their legions in the field
and proclaimed to the world that the
United States Of America" as a ma
tion among the nations of the earth,
was no more.
Now my friends, we must not for
get that over one-third Of the people
of the United States were living in
the States in rebellion. That these
States embraced the garden spot of
America these people possessed
vast wealth, largely the fruit of un-
paid toll, but the people were a part
of the people Of the nation; that ter
ritory was part of our common
country, that wealth part Of our
common national wealth. Think of
it, you young men and women, who
cannot realize it as can we who saw
a quarter Of a century ago,
by the violence, the wickedness of
treason, all these, the three principal
elements of State greatness, territory,
men and money, were involved in this
terrible war of the rebellion, seeking
the overthrow Of the republic.
The primary cause of all this, was
simply the difference in the education
of the people North and South-the
education Of the masses. Not mere
school-book learning, but political ed
ucation-the education of the masses :
upon the great, governmental ques-
tions of the day. The education of :
the press, the pulpit and the platform,
the legends on the banners borne in
professions, the music of bands and I
glee clubs-these are the great educa-
tors of every age and people, and from I
these the South and North, starting
ON diffarent lines hacame more and