The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-10-02
NUMBER 2.

representatives. after his own disloyal dec
larations in favor of dissolutsn of the
Union in the event of Col. Fgmonts cleo.
ton, am free to say do not desire his
success.
l have heard but two tangible reasons
urged against Colonel Fremont. The
hrst is that be is sectional candidate.
This is neither his fault nor the fault of
those who support him.-The repeal sof
the Missouri Compromise was national
question and national wrong.
H. as IN the repeal of that compromise
natlonal compacts were violated, may
not the people seek national redress? In
what way, or by what means, can that
wrong be righted but in constitutional
manner, through the ballss boxess /. The
freedom of Kansas and Nebraska was vio-
lated by the action of the Exec utiye and
Legislative departments of the govern.
ment May We not, without incurrino
the reproach of sectionalism, endeavor to
re-establlsh freedom in those Territories
by reforming the Executive and Leoisla:
i've departments?
who set up the cry of sectiohalism
when Gen. Jackson, from Tennessee. and
Mr.. Calhoun, from South Carolina. were
President and Vice President Wbv
Mr.. Fillmore, himself who now counsels
a dissolution Of the Union if Fremont
and Dayton should be elected, supported
sectional candidates for President and
Vice President in 1928 and 1884. The
idea of dissolving the Union for such
cause is, am happy to see, denounced
by enlightened and patriotic Southern
men.
General Houston, the distinguished
Senator from Texas, in his closing speech
In the Senate, said &c They tell me if
Fremont is elected forty thousand bayo-
nets will bristle about the Capitol-that
the South, in fact, will secede. Mr..
President, I scorn the suggestion. There
will neither be bristing bayonets nor Sc
Ecession if Col. Fremont shall be elected
by majority of the people, and to Col.
Fremont, as the chief magistrate ef their
choice, I shall pay my respectful hon.
age." The Hon. Henry Winter Davis, a
talented and eloquent member of Con-
gress from Maryland, holds the following
sentiments, which are much more becom-
ing an American n than those uttered by
Mr.. Fillmore at Albany:
"There are men who go about the
country declaiming about the inevitable
consequences of the election Of Fremont j;
and the question is asked, whether that
simple fact is not sufficient, not merely
to justify but to require dissolution of
the Union? The question has been ask
ed me to-day. That is question I do
not regard as even subject of discussion.
It never will be done while men have
their reason. 1t never will be done un-
til some party, bent upon acquiring party
power, shall again and again exasperate
beyond the reach of reason the Northern
and Southern minds as my Southern
friends have now exasperated the North
ern mind. It would be an act of suicide,
and sane men do not commit suicide
The act itselfis insanity. It will be done,
if ever, in tempest of fury and madness
which cannot stop to reason. Dissolution
means death, the suicide of Liberty,
without hope of resurrectioa-death
without the glories of immortality with
no sister to mourn her fall, none to wrap
her decently in her winding sheet and
bear her tenderly to sepulchre dead
Liberty, left to all the horror of corrup-
ton, leathsome thing, with a stake
through the body, which men shun, cast
out naked on the highway of nations,
where the tyrants of the earth who feared
her living, will mock her dead, passing
by on the other side, wagging their heads
and thrusting their tongues in their cheeks
at her, saying. Behold her, how she that
was fair among the nations is fallen is
, fallen land only the few wise men who
loved her out of every nation will shed
tears over her desolation as they pass and
cast handfu!ls of earth on her body te
| quiet her names, while we, her children.
stumble about her ruined habitations, L
find dishonorable graves wherein to hide
our shame. Dissolution How shall 4
, be =? who shall make it? Do men dream
of Lot and Abraham parting, one to ths
S east and the other west, peacefully be
? cause their servants strive That State.
D will divide from States, and BOUNDARY
Y lines will be marked by compass ant
5 chain Sir, that will be portentou
e commission that shall settle that partition
n for cannon will be planted at the corner
? and grinning skeletons be finger posts t
# point the way. It will be no line gentl.
n marked on the bosom of the republic
y some meanderingasein whence genera
S tions of her children have drawn thei
: nourishment-but sharp and ja3ge'
: ehasm, rending the hearts of great Gem
a ! ,oonuaa1tbe laoaratad and smeared will