The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1860-08-09
Al their Old Game Begging for German
.siF taF VotesI

losing the support OF the Germans. 70
years they have succeeded in deceiyin.
, these people by making them believe tina
fhcy were their especial friends: but now
That their deception and hypocrisy is be.
ing exposed and the honest Germans o
the country are becoming disgusted with
the corrupt organization in which they
Ind themselves, these fellows are resort.
ing to all conceivable tricks and falschoods
TO excite the passions and prejudices Of
the Germans whom they have thus de-
ce'ved and 10 induce them to assist in
bo'sterlng up their rotten party.
Hence, while their party is uniting with
The Hnov .Nothings in all Southern States,
where the order is strong; here, where
the Know Nothipgs are weak and the Ger,
mans numerous, they are endeavoriug to
make the latter believe that they utterly
abhor anything that even squints at
!
Dark Lanternism-'bis, too, in the face
OF the fact that the Douglasites and Know
Nothings are now in full communion in
New York and several Of the Southern
States. ...
In order 10 accomplish their purpose
they hold as up as a scare crom 10 frigl.
ten the Germans, and are foolish enough
to think that they can make them believe
that we are their inveterate enemy
They tell them that we are midnight as.
sassin, cowardly, numbering Knou
Nothing, deputed by the Grand Lodge to
eat up all the Germans in this country,
and that in order to protect themselves
from this monster, this bloody and des.
perate W. T. Wilson, they should take
refuge in the folds Of the pure. the rNNo. ,,
CENT, the IMMACULATE Locofoco =,
party. Oh, how they do love "our Ger.
man friends just before the eecton!-
But after the election they are ike the
Fellow who told his afectonate spouse =,
hat he "loved her so much before they .
we're married he could have eaten her :,
Up. and he wished to the Lord many ;,
lines since he had done So" When they i;
ave no more ute for the Germans, then
hey treat them with contempt, never CIV -,
'g them passing thought until the time =,
,r another election rolls around.
When the "right bower" Of the Dem.
cratic Union was defeated for county !,
flee last fall, his indignation a ainst the -,
dsmn'd Dutch as he then called them, - -
new no bounds, and be gave vent to it ..
pom the street corners, swearing eternal :,
ostility 10 the whole German population; ~
1t now they again want votes, and tho ~ ~
sweet German accent" has peculiar &c
larm for them.
As to the charge Of Know Notlingism ,c
hich be has preferred against us. we -,
n only say that we are prepared to treat -,
glass Of huttermik whenever he ::
IDS man in Wyandot county who ever W. w.
W us in, or beard Of us being in, a 4, A.
dge o! that order. That we supported -
Hard Fillmore for the Presidency is -,
ct we are not ashamed Of, and that we :,
we what we conceived to be good and II
ficient reasons at the time for so doing, A,
Q Union men are well aware. They =.
ow that we stated through the columns ~
the Pioneer that, while there were Z,
me things in the platform upon which
r. Fillmore stood that we could not en- !.
rise, still he had been tried, had made J..
good President, and we preferred him ;.
either the young and inexperienced -,
emont or the old political demagogue Il
q corrupt trlckster, James Buchanan.
lis they kno,c was the position that we -.
en- publicly assuned--at least they IL,
gM 70 know it before they make such ~.
,olesale charges. 40,
We mingle great deal with our Ger. tri,
IN population, have great many warm
ends amongst them, and no enemies, ~
believe; we enjoy their personal friend. D..
p and confidence to very considerable ~.
.ent, all Of which we have endaavored ~ ~
deserve by treating them with that
dness and courtesy which one neigh. 49,.
; should always extend to another. no ;,o
tier where his birth place may have ~, 10
IN or chat the language he speaks, and n ,
$ strange. passing strange. that those A .
'ple have never discovered that we are ~,