The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-12-11
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, Ohio and the North West-thc Re-
publican banner floats in triumph; while
In Southern Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indl
newspapers are taken, and where COM
mon schools are too new and too feeble
to have educated the present generation
OF votsrs-the black flag CT 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
against 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 Of pressing
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 10 her champion before the People
were fully ready TO sustain them-we be-
gin afrrsh the work Of dtfusing that vi
tai truth which. in regard to the concerns
Of this world as well as the next. makes
Free indeed. Now. in the Slave Powers
heyday Of victory, when its ministers and
,ervitors are gathering and plotting to
make the most Of their triumph and
''crush out" the spirit which they vainly
believed to be cruciied and entomhed-
now, when the faint hearted or cold d-heart-
ed who lately basked in the sunshine Of
our premature hopes are hauling off tn re-
pair damages and talking Of abandoning
the rugged arena Of Politics for more qui-
ct and fowery 6-lds-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 10 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 ems AYERS
Of cities and kingdoms in Europe or the
breeders Of children for the auction block
and the cotton field Of Virginia or Alaba
ma.
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 laburer should not toll and swea,
to pamper others pride or minister to
others luxury, but for the susten nee
and comfort Of those near and dear TO him
lis destined to certain triumph. 1t mast
prevail, for God reigns. and ear h was
not created TO he theater Of injustice
oppression and misery for ever. 1t mus,
triumph; for all true prophecy aft ms and
the vindicaion OF the Divine brnigni'y
impera,ively requires it. Itmust triumph
tor Democratic America cannot always
remain the scoff Of aristocrats and the
shame Of reformcrs and liberals through
out the Old World. 1t must triumph; for
Man history is not chaos or a riddle.
but every where instinct with meaning
and no heroic effort ever failed Of its ef.
feet no drop Of martyr blood was ever
shed in vain.
But even il we Republicans were dis
posed TO fold our arms in slumber, ou,
advcrsaries would not permit it. They
are busy to-day in lengthcning thei'
chords and strengthening their stakes
with vigilance and activity which re.
veals a consciousness on their part thai
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 hear,
Of Central America and waging a war o
determination on the distracted inhabi.
tants Of its petty Republics. while it b,
turns leers and scowls at Cuba. while il.
most ruthless bands are precipitat+d or
devoted Kansas. under the protection ant
. smiles of the Federal Administrations -
Even as we write. the telegraph informs
us that twenty Free State men, guilty o
attempting to defend their homes agains
the rapinc and violence Of Buford's an.
Titus blood thirsty bandits. have beel
convicted by Lecompte's Court of man
slaughter! and sentenced to five years
imprisonment at hard labor as felon..-.
This is but fair specimen Of what ha
long passed for Justice" in Kan
sas-a justice which takes the criminal
into pay and aids them in hunting down
plundefing and "wiping out" the limo
cent, whom it consigns to the State priso
IL they are ever goadcd to the madnes
ofresisting their oppressors. Such crime
and wrongs as unhappy Kansas has fc
twelve months endured, even Hungary q
Poland has never known: and the powt
at whose instigation these villainies wer
and are perpetrated sits enthroned in tn
,.Whith House. and has inst achieved ar
other four years ascendency in the Fet
1eral Government. Who, in view of the.
facts. can say that Republicans may no
pile their arms, even for an hour?
s.r The Tribune will be. as it has been,
Political journal--avowedly. though n
exclusively SO. 1t recognizes the tru
that Freedom and Slavery are here gra
pied in deadly conflict. and that in Il
result one Of them must lose all con tr
over the Federal Government Blu
while it gives prominence and emphas