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

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| type, it never attributes an honest motiy
to any man for anything he does.
seems to act on the principle that all mer
outside Of its own immediate circle, ar
knayes; that virtue and morality in pub
lie life have no existence; hence, detrac
ton and denunciation are its fayorite yea
lpons.
| That the Commercial is conducted wit
a certain degree of ability. no one Wi
deny; but it is all of the baser sort. w
question whether its advocacy of Repub
lican principles is not more than counter
balanced by its studied detraction of lead
ling Republicans. When the result O
the last Presidential election was ascer
tanned, the Commercial came out in VIC
lent phillippic against Mr.. Greeley, anc
other prominent members of our party, fol
what it was pleased to term the mistake.
OF the canvass. Greeley had said at the
Pittsburgh Convention that all the friends
of Free Kansas, without regard TO minor
differences. should unite in the election
of Republican President; and this the
Commercial construed into an approval o.
a coalition with Know Nothingism, though
it well knew that Greeley never had par.
ticle Of sympathy with the secret order
had. in fact, denounced its principles
from the start. Again, some Eastern
Locofoco paper--or perhaps it was the
N. \, Herald started report that Lieut.
Gov. Ford had received money in New
York to buy up the Fillmore party Of
Ohio to vote for Fremont, which money
the Lieut.. Governor had pocketed; and
this, though sheer falsehood, was ca
gerly caught up by the Commercial, and
spread before its readers and, if we re-
member rightly, was never contradicted
by that sheet.
For the past few weeks, the CONNER
csat has been infamed with desire to
outyie the most rampant Lecofoco Jour
nal in the State in denunciation of the
Republican majority in the Legislature
It finds fault with this, that, and the 9th
er-nothing that has been done satisfies it.
1t even characterizes the Legislature as
an Ignorant and "knavish" BODY,
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because it adopted a resolution authori-
zlng Justices to purchase out of fines col
lected, "Warren's Ohio Criminal Laws
and Forms" book which all Justices
need, and which. from their scanty re-
nuneration, they can lily afford to pur-
chase. But the Canal Contracts have
afforded the Commercial its strongest pre-
ext for attacking the Legislature. AL
brother OF the editor of that sheet applied
o the Board of Public Works for the Of
ice OF engineer On the canals but was
lot appointed: and now the Commercial
"down" on the Board, and upon every
,ody who don't go in for the reputation
'f the contracts. It's columns daily TEEN
With ISLANDERS upon the best men in the
State, and its large circulation gives it no
nconsiderable degree Of influence in pro-
noting dissension in our ranks.
II few thousand Republicans would
their support from this bloated
oncern, and bestow it upon our State
rgan, the @. s. Journal, and the local
republican journals which bear the brunt
+ the battle, we have no doubt our cause
would be materially benefited.
CORPORATION ELECTION the cor
oration election on Monday, the Slave
)emoerscy succeeded in electin9 their