The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1863-04-03
ELECTION NOTICE /!
All unconditional Union men are
requested to meet at the Court
House, on Friday the ard inst, at
2 o'clock, to nominate Township
and Town Officers, to be suppor-
ted at the coming Spring Elec-
ton.
The Change.

IA change has come over the spirit oi
their dream we mean the Butternuts.
A few weeks ago they were in fine spirits;
in fact, exultant Butternuts were budding
out, and bid fair for a bountiful crop, and
had actually made their appearance on
sundry watch-guards around town.
Speeches were made long and loud, de-
nouncing tie war, as an abolition cru
sade. being prosecuted solely to free the
"niggers;' and advocating the policy of
calling home the Democrats, and letting
the 'abolitionists and niggers" fight it
out. Peace meetings were held, and res
olutions in favor Of peace and compro-
mise, were adopted.
In those meetings nothing was said
against JEFF. Davis and his traitorous fol-
lowers, but much was said about the un-
constitutional war that was being waged
by our Government at WasL ington, and
all that was said upon the latter subject
was cheered Justify by the hearers. But
"a change cams over the spirit of their
dream" Then they were on the road
to power and Office, and their path led
through luxuriant groves of butternut
trees, and they cared not that the ground
over which this path led, was strewn with
the fragments Of a discovered Govern
ment, rs long as the crowds followed and
cheered them. AS long as they could see
it as the highway to Office and power,
their watchword was ''Onward PINOT
another man, nor another dollar to pros
ecute this war;"
But why this change? Why are they
not still preaching peace and compromise,
and against furnishing the army, money,
and in favor Of callng all the Demo
Gratis home from the army, and letting
the "niggers and aboltionists fight it
out?" Has the policy of the war been
changed? Has the Government aban.
doned any part Of its policy that has been
so obnoxious to them? Not at all. They
were denied even this poor excuse for
their sudden change Of front. No, the
towards ceased to follow; the people cea-
sed to cheer, and the highway to Office
that had seemed SO clear and bright,
is suddenly filed with obstructions. Now
behold the change The loyal people
backed up by more than half million
of loyal and brave soldiers, rose up and
in thunder tones sounded in the ears oil
traitorous political grumblers, who were
ready to sell their country for personal
preferment. "Beware !! Remember the
fate of the Cowboys of the Revolution
'Desist at once from your course, or their
fate may be yours"
This is all. The change is effected;
speeches that were to have been antiwsr,
are transformed into speeches in favor of
vigorous prosecution of the war. Res
olutions that were framed, debated and
passed, censuring the war policy of the
Government, are mutilated in the hands
of the compositor, and all that was objec-
tionable to Union men stricken out--all
was changed. radically changed.
Now all this is only important on the
same principle that "straws shows which
way the wind blows" 1t shows the sem
timent of the people, and that the people
will sustain the government in putting
down the rebellion. 1t makes but little
difference what becomes Of the "straacs, "
the political grumblers.