The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1862-08-15

spend the lew remaining days OF his lie
in defense of the cherished institutions OF
his country. He denounces the rebels
rs traitors, ana has no heart to sympa-
thiZe with those who would overturn the
purest and most liberal government en-
Gods footstool. lie is patriot of the
right stamp-a worthy representative of
the old Maryland line.
Traitors North. Treason Outspoken.
The fact cannot be disguised that we
have in the North men who, by their
words and actions, are aiding and abet
ting treason. Nor do we believe that
such men are confined to any one par
ticular political organization, but that
there is a fragment attached to each, who
would, to carry out their own peculiar
views, see the Union shattered. We pro-
fess to be true and loyal man, attached
to the principles of constitutional liberty,
and believing that in the perpetuity of
the Union of these States, lies the germ
which, in years to come, will continue to
develop itself, until the branches of the
tree shall overshadow the entire globe,
and the millions of earth's inhabitants
shall rest beneath its genial shade. For
that reason we are led TO hate and despise
a traitor, whether found with the death
weapon in his hand. marshaled in battle
array against the sons of Freedom, at the
sunny South, or found upon the rostrum,
holding forth to the populace, in " words
that burn" seditious language, at the
North-lhat North, from geographical
location. supposed to be loyal. TO us4he
crime of the latter is greater--if there
can be degrees in treason-than that OF
the former, from the fact that they have,
by education and the accident of birth,
had their being in an atmosphere which
for years has not been poisoned by the
death dealing miasma of Slavery. The
former have, from early life, been taught
to believe in the divine right of the pecu-
liar institution, and are fighting for what
they deem to be their legitimate right
and which they conceived to have been
put in jeopardy by the election of Lin
coin to the Presidency. Whilst we know
that they are in error, and that theil
crime is justly deserving Of death, fol
raising the standard of revolt, and at
tempting the overthrow of the Union
yet, from the peculiar circumstances II
which they have been placed by set 0
bold and designing leaders, their sin ano
crime is more excusable than those mer
at the North, who are open in their decla
rations of opposition to the government
simply because their own views and no
tions of the manner and the purposes fo
which the war should be carried on, ar
not adopted by the Administration. w
last week alluded to the seditious Ian
guage of Pillsbury, Stephen S. Foster
and Edison B. Olds, representing tw
schools of politicians, into which tn
North is unhappily at this time divided
Since then we notice that Wendell Phil
lips has been haranguing with his seduc
tive eloquence the people of Boston, an
denouncing in bitterest terms the Admin
, istration, for the policy pursued in car
rying forward the war.
Such language ought not to be permit
, ted. 1T is doing violence to the cause {
D Freedom, and is putting in jeopardy tE
0 sacred object that the Government has
view, in waging war against the rebels {
the South. If fanatics 'and disunionis
k of the one class at the North are arreste
: and confined for their disloyalty, we Sc
< no reason why those of the other clas
J. for the same crime, should not meet wit
d the same fate. Let justice be dealt o,
J. by the Administration with an even han,
d Let the walls of the prison incose the ca
Il cases of men of both or all parties wi
e dare, in this hour of national peril, to Ii
j. their voice against the Government, b
!. cause, forsooth, it does not incorporate
t. its policy their own peculiar polite
views. We are friend of free speet
and free press, but there are circur
stances in which a nation may be place
t, when even the indulgence in such sacr'
@ rights as these may be subversive of t
o general good, and when it may be poli'
It to suppress them both.
Al Such crisis has arrived in our hi
d tory. Men, maddened by prejudice al
,e hatred have combined to destroy the f;
IS fabric of American Liberty--men ha
D been gathered, by volunteer service a
es by conscription, into the army OF
IN rebels---they are making bold stand