The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1862-07-25

ment fall upon his shoulders, with its pill
lars rent in twain. Of all the South, the
border States of Delaware, Maryland.
Kentucky and Missouri only, could be
SAID not to have left us, and they were,
really, not with us. In those States Sc
cession and Union sentiments were SO
nearly equal in the balance, and secession
so desperate, that hope, even there,
seemed to bid the world FAREWELL Amid
this crash of States soon came the clash
of arms. The rebel hosts could not rest
until they could say Fort Sumter was
theirs. Little did they dream that the
echoing sounds of rebel guns would mea-
surably unite the hearts of the freemen
of the North. If towards, they said, in
legislative halls, they would be towards
ever. But, like the ocean in storm,
wave after wave of freemen rushed to
save their country's flag. They heard
their chieftains call and sprang TO the post
of duty and Of danger. We then had an
army without the implements of warfare
government without money in its treas
ury, and an army of rebels threatening its
overthrow, while the stars and stripes had
departed from nearly every Southern
State. Such was the condition of things
but little over year ago.
Our copdition will not suffer by COM
parison therefore, let us compare the past
with the present, and see if day is not
about to dawn, without compromising
with the ungodly and wicked rebels who
would have our Constitution as it is
blotted out of existence. We now have
au army of soldiers in the field, and on
the soil of nearly every rebel State we
have the means of warfare in abundance
our blockade is no longer paper one /;
our flag floats over nearly every State in
the Union as it was > Washington is no
longer under the noses of the rebel army,
while over one hundred thousand brave
freemen are knocking at the door of the
rebel capital the Mississippi is almost
entirely freed from rebel rule, thereby
cutting the Confederate States in two,
leaving Texas and Arkansas, with part OF
Louisiana powerless for harm New Or
leans is ours Missouri, Kentucky. West
ern Virginia, Maryland and Delaware are
redeemed Tennessee nearly so; Union
soldiers are no longer shot down in the
streets of Baltimore /; the President no
longer under the necessity of passing
through Maryland in disguise; traitors
out of Office, and defenders of the Union
in their places the rebel fleets destroyed,
and many Of the forts repossessed. All
this accomplished, have We not reason to
believe, that when Richmond falls, as fall
it must, that the nj ght is past, and that
day is again about to dawn over Union,
whose parts again bound together by the
bonds which bind the lovers of freedom,
and cemented by the blood of the braves
who have fallen to defend it, will yet
become more powerful than ever, under
the Constitution as it is,' and the Union
as it should be.
And yet in view of all these facts, men
who cry out the Constitution as it is,
and the Union as it was,' at the same
time open the other side of their mouths,
and whisper compromise'-' com-pro-
mise = Compromise with whom? With
none others than -traitors-thieves
&c. The Union men of the South ask
for no compromise. Rebels spurn your
compromise. Their motto is, away with
your Constitution and Union. He who
now offers to rebels a compromise should
have written in letters of blood upon his
forehead the simple but significant word,
6 coward, and he who has enlisted under
the platform or banner on which is in
scribed the Constitution as it is, and the
Union as it was, and then offers to com
promise, is at once double traitor to his
flag and his declared no compromise par
ty. When rebels cease to fght-when
the power of the government is vindi-
cated-when heartless traitors shall have
paid the penalty due to their crimes, then
shall we be safe from desolating rebellions,
and the old song of I'VE will dissolve the
Union cease to be sung.
Epitome of News.
-WAsH1NGToN, July 2o.-Hon John