The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-04-09
NUMBER 20.

accustomed and needed hours for sleep
have been employed in the public service.
Night and day have official duties de-
manded unremilting attention. I have
had no proper moments for rest or rccre-
alton. My health has failed under the
pressure. Nor is this all to NV own
private purse, without assurance of reim-
bursement. have resorted, in every
emergency, for the required funds
Whether these arduous services and will
ling sacrifices have been beneficial to
Kansas and my country. you are album
dainty qualified to determine.
That have met with opposition, and
even bitter yituperation. and YindictiYe
malice, is no matter for astonishment.--
No man has ever yet held an Important
or responsible post in our own or any 9TH
er country, and escaped censure. I
should have been weak and foolish in
deed, had expected to pass through the
fiery ordeal unseathed, especially es I
was required, if not to come in conflict
with, at least to thwart evil machinations
and hold in restraint wicked passions. u
rid the territory Of many lawless, reckless
and desperate men. Besides, it were i'm
possible to come in contact with the con-
fiicting interests which governed the con-
duct of many well disposed persons, with
out becoming an object of mistrust and
abuse. While from others, whose sole
object was notoriously personal advance
ment at any sacrifice of the general good
and at every hazard, it weuld have been
ridiculous to anticipate the need of praise
for disinterested action and hence, how
ever palpable might have been my pa
triotism, however beneficial in its results,
[ do not marvel that my motives have
been impugned and my integrity malign-
ed. It is, however, so well known, that
I need scarcely need record the fact, that
those who have attributed my labors to
a desire for gubernatorial or senatorial
honors, were and are still the aspirants
for those high trusts and powers, and
foolishly imagined that |. stood between
them and the consum nation of their am
bilious designs and high aspiring hopes"
Condemnation in the Right Quarter.
The Louisville JozraM contains a long
and able communication, signed "A
Kentucky Lawyer reviewing and de-
nouncing the decision of the Supreme
Court in the Dred Scott case. The
Journal says it was written by one of the
ablest men and soundest jurists in that
State. The author says:
"The majority of the court decided in
this case, that plaintiff Scott, being me-
gro, could not be a citizen of Missouri !;
that therefore the court had no jurisdic-
ton or power to decide. the case on its
merits, and it was accordingly dismissed
for acant OF jarisdiction.
| Having SO decided, the court should
have stopped there, and no. attempted to
go any furtherinto the case. All beyond
that was extra, judicial. and entitled to
no further respect than if the judges had
Expressed the same opinions in debating
club, or had published them in news
paper. for the undisguised purpose of
aiding political party
| This is precisely the ground occupied
by the Republicans of the North. We;
append the concluding paragraph:
"The inference from the whole is that
these Judges, in thus attempting to over
rule former decisions and thwart a course
of legislation of more than sixty years
standing, are endeavoring to deprive
Congress and thereby the inhabitants of
Territory of a proper, beneficial power.
indispensabiy necessary to the permanent
!, twell-being of the Territory. Such re-
suit should never be attempted but upon
e compulsion and for reasons of the clear
:. est and most indisputable suaiciency.-
Such is not at all the character of the
reasons upon which these Judges have
: ventured to base their intimated opinions.
: On the contrary, no lawyer will feel that
b he hazards anything in cbaracterlzing
: them as about tie film siest and least sat
is factory that ever Influenced the opn-
: ion of any respectable tribunal upon an
J important question. As to the nation ac-
'f quiescing in such an opinion, the idea Is
d preposterous. Instead of quieting the
e subject, it will only serve still further to
inlame the controversy, by stimulating
the already too highly excited jealousy
n of Northern people against the imputed
4 undue influence of the slayeholding pow
d err
'e The Albany Statesman says: "Col Fee
S. mont has acted like sensible man since
r his recent political defeat. He has TO all
te appearance dismissed the affair from bis
4 mind, and has sat quietly down to earn
to literary reputation, by writing record
Z of his Exploring Expeditions. Ine
5 work is nearly complete, and will be Puo-
at lisbed by Childs g. Peterson, OF Philadei-
y mia. The book will be cotton up IN nne
y style, illustrated by the same artists VINO
4 were engaged on DIR. Kane's "Artic Elk
al nlorations.' - and will form TT eomPah-
"a L. work