The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-08-14

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letter from Ex- lieutenant Gov. Myers


Ruffian Party Read! Read!!
We invite the attention of every hon.
est Democrat in Wyandot county to the
following letter from Hon. James Myers,
the Democratic candidate, last fall, for
Lieutenant Governor :.-.s.s
SARATOGA SPRINGS, July 9, 1856.
EDITOR DELTA Press ON the eve of
my lea ing home, was informed that BY
the.9attlality of some of my Democratic
friends of Fulton county, and other por-
tons of our Congressional District, my
name had been announced in your paper
and others, as candidate for Congress,
subject to the approval of the Democratic
Convention. While I feel grateful to the
Democracy of Fulton county, "a more in
telligent and patriotic Democracy no coun-
ty in the state can boast, and other por-
tions of the District, for their confidence,
the present attitude of political parties in
the United States, forces upon me the
conviction of the impropriety of my being
candidate for Congress, as proposed
Although l am satisfied that majority
of the Democracy of the Fifth Congress
sional District agree with me in sentiment
upon the all-absorbing subject of Slavery
Extension, yet I am equally satisfied that
there is minority who would expect a
candidate SO nominated, to approve and
defend all the measures of the present Ad
ministration, and the Cincinnati Platform,
on the subject of Slavery, and also the in
consistent and unprincipled course of Mr..
Douglas, backed up by the U. S: Senate;
and to vote for the admission of Kansas
as Slave State, should she present a
Constitution recognizing it, even though
such result was brought about by fraud
and violence, as it now appears will be the
case. These things could not conscien-
tiously do
1 have become satisfied beyond all
doubt, that the Democratic organization
is now used by ambitious and unprinci-
pied men, for their own aggrandiz ement,
and to effect their object,sfhey have Gas
far as in their power) thrown the Demo
cratic party into the hands of the Slave
Power, to be used as they may direct
| Believing, as [ do, that their measures are
calculated and intended to make Kansas a
Sla0e State, cannot sustain them without
doing violence to my own principles.
The last acts of Mr.. Douglas, sanction
ed by the U. S. Senate, have removed
every remaining doubt and hope upon
which rested my justification in adhe-
ring to an organization claiming to repre-
ent the Democratic party of the country,
the only party to which I have ever for a
single moment of my life been attached,
and an organization from which I could
never be separated while itrepresented it
Jefersonian Democratic principles
| What has been and what is now the
aspect of the Kansas question ? Mr.
Douglas and his followers, after claiming
popular sovereignty as the great vir-
tue of the Nebraska Kansas act, and the
justification for the repeal Of the Missou-
ri Compromise, pretended to adhere tc
that principle, while all the fraud and Vi
olence was being committed by the Bor-
der Ruffians. BY such means they forced
upon the actual settlers an illegal Legisla.
ture, which passed laws not only uncon
stitutional, but of the unjust, oppressive
and cruel description, ten-fold worse than
all the enactments of the British Parla-
ment, from which the fathers of the Rev
| olution revolted and so odious that even
a Southern Senator declared they would
justify revolution, and Gen. Cass cha
racterized them as disgraceful to the pres
ent age. Yet the Senate, of which those
gentlemen are members, has been in ses-
sion seven or eight months, without do
| ing anything to relieve the actual settlers
from those cruel grievances, but on the
contrary sat silent and saw the President
proclaiming that those laws should be
obeyed, and to that end he would use all
the means at his disposal, while MFR. Doug
las was asserting that the Free State men
must be subduedo All this was done
under the plea OF carrying out popular
sovereignty.
But now different card is to be play
ed for the benefit of Slavery. Popular
Sovereignty is to be abandored 1t ap.
pears to have served the purpose of those
who used it as their justification for the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise.
| Under the pretence of carrying cut its
principle, the United States troops were
allowed to disarm the Free State men
and the Border Ruffians permitted tc
drive them out Of the Territory, destroy
their presses, burn their houses, stea
their property, murder their men, indie
and imprison their leaders; and now
when all the practicable avenues into
Kansas are guarded by Missourians tc
prevent the entrance of Free State mer
into the Territory, and after Atchison
Stringfellow d Co., have got everything