The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1853-08-18
sThc Issues between the Old Parties are
~ rfk5 Dead,

sThc Issues between the Old Parties are
r&A Dead.'
= We find the following in the Chillicoth'
Advertiser, and believe it correct: Neyel
yet have we known political organiza
ton of any kind to spring up, but what it
leaders were profuse and dogmatical in thu
assertion that the issues which hitherto hao
divided the two leading parties were ex
tinct, and that now an organization il
maintained to secure the spoils of office
alone. These men, and itnot unfrcquent-
ly happens that large proportion ofthem
are men who could not fgurein the organ
ization to which they were previously at
tached, to that extent that they conceived
their high attainments and qualifications
entitled them to, pretend to an unusual
amoun. of disinterestedness and sincerity
while they deny any such actuating mo-
tives to those who regard themselves as
acting in the strict line of duty, by con-
tinuing their past party association.
The issues of the old parties are dead,
and the contest now seems to be, which
party shall become the more servile in its
devotion to Southern slavery is the bur-
then of the Free-Soiler's defamation. He
invokes the Democrat to desert the colors
under which he has SO long fought, and
enlist in the Free Soil party, where he is
told political perfection has its abiding.
Perhaps this man, as is the case in most in
stances, in years past, was bitter Wing,
and violent denounccr of Democratic
principles and of Democratic measures, as
calculated to work the ruin of the country,
and prove an insurmountable barierto the
onward march of enterprise and civiliza-
ton. He did not iasinuate this in a doubt
full manner; but asserted it with broad EN-
phasis, as though the guardian of the flu
turc had drawn aside the veil that he
might read it. With steady pace time
moved onward, and has carried you far
past the abyss over which you were to be
precipitated head-long into incxtricable
ruin. You were strong in the faith that
the result would be just as it is; at least
you could not reconcile it with your judg-
ment, how Legislation, State apd National,
based upon true equality as nearly as man
could devise it, could possibly work dis
aster so grevious. Your common sense
and observation, alike, taught you that
upon the race course, if horses were en-.
tered upon precisely the same terms, i
the skilluand weight ofthe riders were pre-
cisely the same, and no choice as to
ground, the issue would be controlled by
the feetness of the stceds, and pretexts fol
unfairness obviated; but that if twoh horses
were entered, and an attempt to load dowr
ene of the horses with extra weights, would
be injustice the most rank. Perhaps te
some this illustration is not sufficiently
classic; but the matter compressed to it,
pith is, the world is but the race course fol
mankind, and the Wing party, under va
rious names, has all along exhibited adeep
seated determination to take all conceiva-
BILE weights from the steed representing
the manufacturing, banking and corpora
ton interest, and putting them on the
steed representing the merchandising me-
chanical and laboring interests of the coun
try.
70 the extent of your ability, you have
warred against this abomination. If ole
in the service of the party, year after yeal
have you gone up to the ballot box, as an
nually goeth up to Mecca the disciple o
Mahommed, and plighted a renewal o
your faith by voting the Democratic ticket
In the days of 40, you did it amid taun
and contumely; you never as much as
wavcred in your devotion; but now tht
concession is made that you may even bt
a Democrat and be respectable; while mer
who have denounced your party with VIC
lence, now blandly tell you the issues thai
hitherto divided you are dead, and invoke
you to unite with them. under another Or
ganization.
1Dead' What issues are dead? Art
they the. ones to which you have SO tena
ciously adhered, amid all this taunt ane
eontumely? Is there one ofthe issues tha
ycuhave loved and fought for dead? Hav
you seen one stricken down and die? Th
country is prosperous, unprecedently SO
and yet not one measure for which Whig
gerry, in times past, SO Justify contendc'
has an abiding on the statue book of cithe
this State rthe Nation. In triumph Their
areyour measures recorded. and the who'll
country is living witness to the benef
cepce of Democratic policy.
The issues that divided the old partie
are dead, and temperance is the only thinl
worth contending for;come along with us,
cry the Maine Law zealots, many ofwhom
undoubtedly, sucked hard cider in tn
drunken coon-skin orgie of 1910, with a