The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-10-02
CORRESPONDENCE.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept, 22d, 1856.

city OF " Brotherly Love, there is much,
just now, especially in the political arena,
to show that it is rather the city of broth
erly hate, and that the most bitter. There
have as yet been no open conflicts be-
tween the Border Ruffian party and the
friends of freedom but that party whose
law is force, and whose argument the as
sassin's knife and bludgeon, have Of late
been not very sparing of threats. The
attempt few nights ago on the part of
some of the "riff-raff" of Moyamensing
to break up Republican meeting in the
Nineteenth Ward, by ''what virtue there
is in stones" was soon put down by the
police, and the leading offenders properly
quartered in the lock- up.
On the 18th inst, the followers of that
self-defuncted politician, the late James
Buchanan, celebrated the sixty ninth an
niversary of the adoption of the Constitu
ton at independence Square in this city
It was intended to be the "great demon
stration " of the season. But the truth
is, after the spending of weeks of time and
thousands of dollars in money, in the way
of importing speakers, advertising, and
free rides, it was a grand coming out
of horn at the little end. Mr.. Howell
Cobb, Gov. Herschell V. Johnson, and
other Plantation Dracos from the South,
whom the Pennsylvanion so cordially well
coined "to our homes and our hearts, :"
with all their eloquence, failed to inspire,
to call out the masses. These slavery
"shriekers are doubtless in bad odor
with their brethren of "free society,""
whom they euphoniously denominate &c a
conglomeration Of greasy mechanics, filthy
operatives, small-fsted farmers, and
moon struck theorists Remembering
that in Independence Hall our fathers
equal" that liberty is an inalicnable
right guaranteed by this same Constitu-
ton, they much dislike to hear or see its
precincts desecrated by the utterance Of
foul slanders upon their long cherished
and time-honored doctrines. They dc
not yet believe, in the language of a Dem
ocratic organ, that slavery is the natu-
raj and normal condition of the laborine
man, whether whae or black, that the
"evils of FREE SOCIETY are insufero6le,
or that " laborers and mechanics are unft
for self government.
The following extrayagantly false and
foolishly insane doctrine, uttered by the
present Governor of Georgia, H. v
johnson, in his speech here on the 18th
inst, under the very shadow of Inde
pendence Hall, was, and is, not very
well relished even by the faithful" L
is as follows:
Zone word about the usefulness of the
institution of slavery. We believe tha
it is the most effective missionary ever
known 1t has brought from paganisn
into the bosom of Christianity more con.
verts than have been brought by any 9TH
er means. 1t does not carry the Bible to
Africa, but it brings Africa to the Bible
In the South there are 100000 slaves,
and consequently that number of souls
are redeemed to Christianity. Yet we
are everlastingly taunted with keeping
the slave in darkness, and this, too, when
the light Of the Gospel is made to shed
its benefcent rays over the African race. -
Such is the bitter irony, spoken as if in
mockery of all truth, to regale the ears ol
the Pennsylvania Democracy. 1t may
be they have not heard of the imprison-
ings of females, the lynchings, the tarring
and gatherings inflicted in this land OF
Bibles" upon those who shall dare to
teach those sons of Africa the truths of
that Bible to which this "most effective
missionary effort" is said to bring them.
| No wonder, when such laborers are
brought into the political vineyard. that
the harvest is light, as in the recent case
in the State of Maine and no wonder as
in the case of the present great Union
demonstration" it was a complete disunion
failure. Where $4,000 people were ex-
pected, It's no wonder there were not
fve thousand. The Platform organ grind
er asserts that there acre $4,000 present
at the meeting in the day time, and that
the torch light procession" " was i've
miles long. numbering $4,000 people
But the assertions of that sheet are IN both
instances wholly devoid of truth. From
estimates made by myself and others
competent to do so. there were not at In
dependence Square during the afternoon
at one time over five thousand people,
inclusive of men, women and children
And when the speaking commenced at
the north stand, at three O'Clock. P. M,
there were less than one thousand, and
for more than one hour there was no
speaking at the south stand for want of
hearers The show of the democracy in