The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-12-04
The Tribune for 1857.

proves that the work devolved on the Re-
publican party is not yet completed. In
all the Eastern and Northern portions of
the country---in New England, New
York, o hio and the North-West-the Re
publican banner floats in triumph; while
in Southern Jersey, Pennsylvania. Indl-
ana and Illinois lin short, wherever few
newspapers are taken, and where COM
mon schools are too new and too feeble
to have educated the present generation
of voters-the black flag Of Slavery OBJ
structs the sunshine A stranger to
America might distinguish those portions
Of our country most blessed with .Educa-
ton, Intelligence, Thrift and Virtue. by
scanning the returns of the Presidential
contest Of 1856. We have failed Of pres
ent success not because the people are
again st us, but because that large portion
who did not hear or read the argument
and do not know what were the real
questions at issue, went almost solid
against us, reversing the verdict which
the great majority of the educated and
intelligent endeavored to pronounce.
These facts indicate the path depressing
duty. With no -unmanly repining over
what is .irrevocable-with no abatement
of heart or hope because the triumph Of
Liberty in her new ordeal is not won at
the Long Island and White Plains Of her
struggle-with no shadow Of regret that
the responsibility of governing is not con-
6ded to her champion before the, People
were fully ready to sustain them--we be-
gin afresh the work OF diffusing that vi
tai truth which, in regard to the concerns
of this world as we'll as the next. makes
Free indeed. Now, in the Slave Powers
heyday Of victory, whenits ministers and
servitors are gathering and plotting to
make the most Of their triumph and
"crush OUT the spirit which they vainly
believed to be crucified and entombed-
now, when the faint-hearted or cold heart
ed who lately basked in the sunshine of
our premature hopes are hauling off to re-
pair damages and talking of abandoning
the rugged arena of Politics for more qui-
ct and flowery felds-now, in this hour
of WEAKNESS and shadow, the Tribune re-
news its vows Of eternal hostility to every
form Of tyranny over the bodies or souls
of men-to the shameful assumption that
the benighted and feeble, whether in soul
or body, are to be regarded and treated
as the convenience or the prey of their wi
ser or stronger brethren-to the domina
ton of despots and oligarchs. whether of
empires or plantations-to the ens'avers
Of cities and kingdoms in Europe or the
breeders of children for the auction block
and the cotton-feld Of Virginia or Alaba-
ma. E fa HeH r.-
The doctrine that no human being was
ever created for the benefit or advantage
of another that all service between man
and man should be free and reciprocal
that the laborer should not toll and sweat
to pamper Others pride or minister to
others luxury, but for the sustenlnce
and comforto Of those near and dear to him
is destined to certain triumph. 1t must
prevail, for God reigns, and earth was
not created to be a theater of injustice,
oppression and misery for ever. 1t mast
triumph; for all true prophecy afirms and
the vindication of the Divine benignity
imperatively requires it. Itmust triumph;
for Democratic America cannot always
remain the scoff of aristocrats and the
shame of reformers and liberals through
out the Old World. 1t must triumph; for
Mans history is not a chaos or riddle,
but every where instinct with meaning;
and no heroic effort ever failed of its ef-
fect-no drop of martyr blood was ever
shed in vain.
But even if we Republicans were dis
posed to fold our arms in slumber, our
adversaries would not permit it. They
are busy to-day in lengthening their
chords and strengthening their stakes
with vigilance and activity which re-
veals a consciousness on their part that
their dominion must be made sure forth
. with or their sceptor will have forever de-
parted. To-day, myrmidoms of the
Slave Power threaten and harass Nor
thern Mexico, are encamped in the heart
of Central America and waging a war of
determination on the distracted inhab-
tants of its petty Republics. while it by
turns leers and scowls at Cuba, while its
most ruthless bands are precipitated on
devoted Kansas, under the protection and
smiles of the Federal Administration. -
Even as we write, the telegraph informs
us that twenty Free-State men, guilty of
attempting to defend their homes against
the rapine and violence of Buford's AMI
Titus blood thirsty bandits, have been
convicted by Lecompte's Court of man
slaughter! and sentenced to five years.
imprisonment at hard labor as felons.--I
This is but fair specimen of what has
long passed for "justice" in Kan
sas-a justice which takes the criminals
into pay and aids them in hunting down,
plundering and "wiping out" the inno-
cent, whom it consigns to the State prison
if they are ever goaded l. to the madness
ofresisting their oppressors. Such crimes
and wrongs as unhappy Kansas has for
twelve months endured, even Hungary or
Poland has never known; and the power
at whose instigation these vilainies were
and are perpetrated sits enthroned in the
Width House, and has inst achieved an
other four years ascendency in the Fed
eral Government. Who, in view of these
facts. can say that Republicans may now
pile their arms, even for an hour?
The Tribune will be, as it has been, a
Political journal--avowedly, though not
exclusively SO. 1t recognizes the truth
that Freedom and Slavery are here Crap
Piled in deadly conflict, and that in the
result one of them must lose all control
over the Federal Government But,
while it gives prominence and emphasis
to the discussion and elucidation of the
great issue of the day, it sinks none
of the characteristics of a Business and