The Jackson Standard

GLAD TO HEAR IT.--We understand that one of the prominent reasons for starting the new Locofoco paper in this city, of which Flood & Co., are to be the editors, is to defend and sustain the present school law of the State. The attacks which the Statesman has made, directly and indirectly, upon it, and the aid and comfort it gave that portion of the Catholics who made war upon the school system last spring, have excited a decided feeling against it in the minds of the honest portion of the Democracy, who regard the system of common schools as of essential value to them and their children. The new paper will defend the law and its friends against these attacks, and in this it will meet with a hearty response and co-operation from the most valuable and substantial portions of its party, and will secure the sympathy and good wishes of all others. We confess we witnessed the course of the Statesman with surprise.-- We perfectly comprehended its design. There are certain Irish Catholics who war against the school system, and that paper pandered to this class for the base purpose of getting their influence and their votes. We presume it has accomplished its object. But we think it will find in the end, that it paid quite too dear for the whistle. It has repelled more than it has gained, and those who are driven off were far more valuable than the new allies can possibly be. We heard much complaint about the course of the Statesman, at that time, and are not surprised that the real friends of our common school system of that party desire some other organ in the Capitol,-- O. S. Jour.