The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1862-07-11
From the Nashvli Union.
WORD TO THE PRESIDENT.

din which fills the Presidential mansion,
that we might make few truthful and
serious words ring in the ears of him in
whose hands is placed the mighty charge
of ruling this republic. The words which
we shall speak will be re-echoed from tie
lips Of every thorough. energetic, unron-
ditional Union man in Tennessee and
Kentucky. We tell the President, then.
that in regard to the measures to be EN-
plQyed to crush out this unholy rebellion
speedily aud utterly, the people are far
ahead of most of their rulers. Plain men
who pay no attention to the ambages,
quibLleS. aud hair-splitting argument on
constitutional powers, Of /; special plead
er, and who don't value all the fine rheto-
ric i'll the world q straw, unless 1t arrives
at a valuable practical result, wonder why
it is that notorious traitors, whose hands
are black with robbery, and red with
murder. are let loose on parole of honor
BY our Government, and that other trait
ors who are now all through the Border
Save States. holding midnight meetings
in the Lodges of the Knights of the Gold
en- Circle, TO aid Guerrilla chiefs in ravag
ing the country, and to point out to them
their Union neiglbors, who are actively
loyal, as objects of vengeance, are allowed
by the Government TO live unmolrsed.
Yes, incredible as it may appear to sem
sible men abroad, it is nevertheless true,
that in Louisville. in Nashville, and in
her Southern cities now held by the Fed
eral Government, traitors boldly proclaim
their insulting and outrageous sentiments,
express their hope for a speedy return Of
the rebel army, pray for a guerrilla in
vasion. and exult like devils at tidings
| of reverse to the loyal arms, and the
| butchery of our wounded soldiers in the
streets of perfliouS town. 1t is so.--
| We have heard it, We know it. You
cannot quench fhe fire of rebellion by
pouring oil upon lis flames. Whenever
it's flames burst out, or even its glowing
embers still sparkle with i'll repre>sed
rage, beneath the gray ashes Of seeming
Iacquiescence but real opposition, the fire
or else, we shall all perish in a general
conAagratIou. Are the lives Of rebels to
be put i'll the balance agains, the lives of
the loyal ? Is the existence of tnRitor
to be tole a ed when it imperils that of
a loyal, upright citizen ? Are we to sub
NIT to the imputlence of rebels lest we
infract some ambiguous article Of our
Constitution Must we be so scrupulous
about the sanctity of one clause that we
must suffer the whole to perish in order
to save the part? What would be thought
OF man who valued tooth so highly
that he would not let it be drawn, though
BY nor doing SO he would certainly for
ieit his lie ?
Why in many counties in Kentucky, as
we We're informed yesterday by gentle
man holding high civil offc. under the
! Federal Government, and As we know to
| be true il somle counties, notorious rebels
are coming out as candida e, for office,
and while breathing treason express their
! intention to take the oath of allegiance to
the Federal Government Loyal men
look at such insolence and contemplated
peri ury with amazement, and ask Mill the
Government tolerate this ? Are we to
have band of traitors return TO Frank
fort to sit in the Legislative Halls 1t is
II iact that the word has been sent out So
cretly by the leaders of the rebel Home
Guard, which now intests tina: State. to
their clansmen, the minions of George
Buckley: The Federal Government feels
that it dare not modest those who have
not taken up arms. 1t will be next to
impossible to convict any of us of trea
son, because the crime must consist of an
overt act. and that act must be proven
by two witnesses. So We can talk trea-
son and run for office and snap our fin
gers in the face Of the Union men,"
Bonds, and oaths, and paroles of honor
are prescribed by our tenders hearted I'll
lprs for such cases. Bonds AMI oe,hS.
| forSooth Place a >kulking cowardly,
| lerociouS hyena un'ler bonds to keep the
peace, and then turn your b,ck on him
for q pleasant sleep; Or administer the
oath TO a rat'lesnake as he prepares to
"Dart his feadlv lie g h
| And hurl at his venom and his st ength."
And then, if these mercifui measures
prove successful, employ like means to
Subdue the incendiary spirits who fire
neighborhoods with false reports, and aid
guerrilla chiefs in ,heir depredations. 1t
will not do to rely on bullets alone Hemp
must follow in the wake of bullets and
| bayonets. II the Government does not
change its policy, we shall witness scenes
ere long, whose atrocity will shock the
stoutest heart. The people, as we have
already said, are ahead of the Government
We have heard their deep and hardly
suppressed murmurs for weeks and weeks.
II the Government dallies much longer,
they will break over the restraints of law
and then woe to the rebels !! Look at
Baltimore the other day. Mr.. President.
1t is a wouder that the Union men we're
as forbearing as they were. Louisville
will witness q scene yet more terrible be
fore long. We apprehend, and her rebels
will be licked up by popular rage like
dry grass before the FIRE We are for peace
and lenity and the only way under heav-
en- to get at it. unless Providence besses
us with special miracle, is to make tur-
bulent and insolent rebels expiate their
! otfense with their blood, and to take u h
measures as will etfectually prevent anv
rebel from poluting single of1ire within
The authority Of the Federal lines. with
his presence. Il must be done. II there
is no provision in the Constitution 10 meet
the case we must make one Immediately.
Then if they can't be kept out no other
way, we know they can by the Lnpoaft.