The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1862-03-28
WASHINGTON LETTER,
WAsitNaToN CrTT, March I5, '6s

/ will again attempt to note some of my
thoughts, as well as the things 1 have
seen. fortheir consideration.
A Union devoid of mutual affection and
happiness places mankind in the position
from which many have petitioned to be
divorced. Love and affection are all that
enable man and wife to endure the imper-
fections and differing dispositions of each
that bind together the several
members of large families as one-all that
produce harmony and prevent disputa
tions and confiicts in neighborhoods, and
small political ditisiuns-aIl that bind to-
gether states and empires. True affection
makes a man proud of his wife and chill
dren, proud cf his home, proud of his
town and county, proud of his state and
country, and proud of the government
Under which he lives. 1t elevates and
ennobles him. The grant of special privi
leges by the father of family to any par
ticular member of his family, is one of
the most dangerous things that may be
done, and, most certainly, Is destructive
of the harmony of that family sooner or
later. Equality of rights alone is certain
Of peace. Harmony once destroyed,
seemingly, can never be fully restored,
unless the original cause is removed
Compromises may patch itup for season,
but even their limits will soon become
too narrow for the favored party, and soon
the old wound will again begin to bleed,
and there will then be found no balm in
Gilead, and no physician able to heal the
spreading hlcer. That ohce happy family
-once looked upon as perfect in all its
parts and appointments, once held to-
gether by the very soul of love, and
made happy in the enjoyment of all
terrestrial blessings became destroyed
through special favors
So with our country-purchased by
streams Of crimson sore5 our fathers be-
queathed it to their children as boot OF
Iinestimable value Who did not love
our own America Who did net sing
praises to our faithful fathers of Re3olu-
tionary memory They fought fer all
the North, the South, the East, the West
Their chieftain's pathway was strewn with
golden flowers, when Oil his Way frdfn
Philadelphia. by the mothers and daugh.
ters OF Revolutionary meniorys What
for? Because they were pfoid of theil
blood bought homes. "Our sons, hus:
bands, fathers and brothers sleep the
sleep of death, but we are free ours is
the land of Liberty" Aud what a laid
No where can be found its equal. From
the orange groves of the South; we have
every degree Of climate that man can de
sire mountains Of iron; and valleys o
oil extend from Lakes to Gulf, and hill:
Of marble invite the sculptor's skill. The
broad prairies of the West have bechonec
the husbandman onward from the Old a.
well as from the hills of the New World
The glittering shores Of the Pacific loom
ed up in the distant west, and, amazed
onward, and onward still the Yankee!
pressed Like the Queen of Sheba, afte
visiting Solomon. they declared that th'
half had not been told them Our lakes
no less than inland seas, are white viii
the nations cemmerce, Willis might,
rivers, thousands of miles in length, th'
nation's arteries, afford the means O
transportation from mountain to ocean.
Italy may invite the stranger from afa
to breathe her mountain air, SO frees ant
see her glorious sky, But the #ofld cal
not surpass the golden tinges of the snow
capped Catshill ranges, in the iiiornins
sun, atid the lovely scenery of the High
lands; with the noble Hudson sleeping, a
it were, at their base and no air can b,
more free, nor skies tiore bright, thai
that made free, and those made bright
surrounded by that scenery, where Wash
ington gave glory to the American arms
and name; immortal, to the American
heart
But with all this where are we? Lik
the Numbering tones of Niagara, as the,
rise above the mouth of that awful chasm
SO now, here, may be constantly hear'
the distant roar Of the guns Of war Gu
fathers fought for liberty, but failed t.
proclaim Mot liberty universal. and nov
freedom must defend her cattse again
, Tory lords at our nations birth hav
! cursed us with their tories still. Gu
fathers trod in the plain paths of the con
titution, by throwing around all thei
minor children the mantle of freedom
and taught them to walk within the mean
ing of the rules Of that instrument, but
i, finally, freedoms warriors retired to thei
+, narrow homes, and the estate divide
amongst their children becatfie produc
tive of evil, and to appease the wrath Q
the specially favored compromise wa
i resorted to, instead of using that oil
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