The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1863-06-12
. Arms Correspondence,
CAMP DUDLEY NEAR loUIsvILLB
kHNrCcKY, May sith 1858. (
DrToR p1okkRR.-D Dear sir

EDITOR p1okkKR.-Dear sir
As frequent accounts come to hand, o
the doings and sayings Of the part o
community given over to the line Of poll
tics, styled butturnuts. take the lber
ly of speaking a few words of warning
Every thing that has to do with the poll
cy of the war is looked on with an anx
ious perhaps jealous eye BY those who d
rect personal interest is more closely in
volved in the success or failure of ou
srmies, then any other, the soldiers them
selves, and they will hold to rigid &C
counlsbility all who are found holding
back and striving to stop the supplies, o
men and money they need in order to hold
the ground they have conquered and &c
20 on to new victories. .'
Not in spirit Of psrtisanism would |
speak to the people Of Wyandot. But
with feeling Of reverenae aud love for
the old union, and trust, and confidence
in its final restoration, l would implore
them to lay aside all political distinctions
for the present, and unite as one man for
the prosecution of the war, for by war
alone can we secure peace. 1t sanot
Abraham Lincoln, that calls. II is not
an administration elected by a party that
calls you, but tbs the spirit of the Great
Fathers of the republic, as they live
in the works they have left for us to pre-
serve. a' Z"
This is not q war for the destruction Of
slavery, though by j., slavery must die.
There never was rebellion in any coun.,
try that change was not made in tie
social condition of the serfs or bondmen if.
any. The interest Of one or the other Of
the contending parties, leading them toI
purchase their aid, by some deserved
change in their social condition. Why
then should we not accept the logic Of
events. Are not the same causes at work
That have influenced every revolution Of
modern times at least. Is it not a war oil
IDEAS, a contest between liberty and op-
preston, between enlightenment ard ig-
norance, and between PROCESS and that
'etrocession that marks country on the
leclne. And must not one or the other
,reyail, must not liberty triumph, or be
,anished forever from the land of her
doption. A drawn contest is a defeat
or us and victory for our opponents, hon
+ their advantage of us, and the more
eed of unanimity on our part, We must
OF only keep the enemy from our doors.
ut must crush him on his own SOIL or
e gains all he is fighting for and is prac-
cIlv the victor. l.
In order TO secure ourselves not onlyI
ne prestige Of victory buta lasting peace
e must completely cripple and humble
,e power Of our adversary; and if the
ave population can be made of use to !
$. or will aid the enemy by being left,
e ought to take them. y's YVES 5
Slavery is no longer a question of po
Iical economy with US. At the time
5 champions flew to arms to enforce their |
'culiar views of. the question, il became s
military power arrayed against us and e
our dealing must be as military neces- n
ly demands. We may differ in opinion b
nong ourselves as to the best use to
made of the negro, but none Of us have :
right to set up our ideas as test OF 10y 4
Iy. But suppose the war wa carried d
for the freedom Of the negro. No b
e will deny that slavery is worthy Of n
ath, after this attempt on the nations il
e. And Il would then be choice be