The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1862-03-28


ration of those rules they then sought
more. viz that old Revolutionary Bible
must be chungsd-it must protect our
property in the territories, or we will de- !
stroy our once happy family and homes
We will rule or ruin You have granted
us heretofore special Jaoors, and you must
again. Hatred dsthroned affection, and
divided the household, and the world now
beholds the mournful spectacle resulting
from the willingness of Congress to make
a child act the part of full grown man
But it is said that friendship can never
be restored-that the family can never be
Ire-united-the wound never be healed
Such is not the history of ths world=of
life=-of man Confidential friends some
times become the most bitter eHemies-
they fight, law, and perplex each other
all they can, until, finally, shame puts an
end to all this, and mutual friendship is
restored
Where is there closer tie than that
which binds brother to brother? when
severed, how bitter the quarrel and yet
they are made to love again Husband
and wife have been diuorced, and vet l
have seen that husband and wife a second
time married What has been will be
again, and in the reunion of the now
dismembered parts of this country. MAY
the God of mercy and of battles so direct
his children in the remedial applications,
as that the same cause will neter again
drsnch this Country in blood if it must
be by letting tie bond go. free, then seuer his
chains; strip thc shackles from every
muscle as we'll as from the mind, and for
ever let the words freedom and liberty
mean what they spell But, D, horror
will you set the negroes free Yes, ra-
ther thai that my own race shall again
be called to arms, by traitors, from this
cause, and thousands of them be chained
in soldiers Craze, in thunder tones I
would say finish the ,oork traitors have
comhiehced And do it noac and well !
But this hatred to tile Constitution has
its geographical limits. The free States
of the North, where no speElal fators are
demanded; yield willing obedience to its
provisions, sfith but few individual ex-
ceptions. In the border States love con-
troled some fear of dssolating war al
their own door MANY, while many seel
to be divorced. In this city, whose citi-
sens lire at ths nations expense, which
otherwise wotld become city of paupers
mot less than one half of its resident
population, and possibly three fotirths
are this day out-spoken secessiohists
The wife of the son of the lady where
am quartered openly declares, iii lady
like manner, that she rodld like to SCI
every Yankees throat Cit !" E.ery
Yankee thsanlhs the free state met. An
other lady (?) and gentleman (?) board
ing here, are now out of prison on parole
the gentleman is quiet, but the woman
woman-like, ask pardon ladies), has
tongue which never ceases to rail agains
the Government and the Constitutions
For the Southern States thefe Is bu
one course, as they all abhor the Cunsti
tuition, and that is, chastisement Ant
the appearances now would seem to indi
cate that the time is near at hand to be
stow that blessing.
/, The Mertiinsc produced no little sen
sation in this city, and had it not beel
for the Monitor, not only Hampton Road
f bit New York harbor might have hehel'
her work of desolatiot. So much for tn
r individual enterprise of Captain Ericsson
! There is a diversity of opinion in thi
, city regarding the escape of the rebe
army of the Potomac Many bitterl
condemn Gen. Mcclellan, and in m,
opinion not far from justly, because, now
$ our western boys may be compelled t.
e meet this army, also, in deadly conflict
\ 1t is impossible to obtain any knowledg
of the intentions of our army here. N
person is allowed to cross the Potomac
save the military, or by deception.
n Seventy vessels are now being loadee
with troops, provisions and pontool
e bridges, near the Long Bridge and Alex
Y andria. The sight is truly magnificent
vet it is rendered rather tame becattse o
d its associations, or comparison, with St
r many others of almost equal magnitude
o 1t is said that net less than so, coo sol
= diers will leave on those steafiers, Ant
other vessels The river seems almos
o filed with them. a civilian boardin;
=, here, who went to Alexandria to-day
under the alias Of Lieutenant Hudson,
r in uniform, has just informed me that tn
streets of Alexandria are filled with artil
: lerists, cavalry and infantry, that tn
!. stores are all closed and business entirel
il suspended, and that the troops will all b
d on board by tomorrow, for their depal
). ture, but for what point is not for us t