The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1865-06-14

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this guaranty, must insist on the EguahN
Of all Men before tie kat6, and the consen
of tie yoverned. Such is the trae idea o.
a republican government according tc
American institutions. g..,. ..f sr4u
"The Slave-masters driven from tbeil
first intrenchnlents, already occupy innel
de(enses. Property in man is abandoned
but they now insist that colored persons
shall not enjoy political rights. Liberty
has been won. The battle for equality i:
still pending. And now new compro
mise is proposed by which colored per-
sons are to be sacrificed in the name ol
State Rights. 1t is bad that it should be
so. But do not despair. The cause
may be delayed; but it can not be lost;
and all who set themselves against it will
be overborne, for it is the cause of hu.
manity. Not therich and proud. but the
poor and lowly. will be the favorises of an
enfranchised public The words Of the
prophet will be fulfilled, 'And l will
banish the people for their evil, and the
wicked for their iuiquity, and will cause
the arrogance of the proud to cease, and
will lay low the haughtiness of the terris
bic. will make a man more precious
than fine gold. even man, than the
golden wedge OF Ophir.' l catch these
sublime words Of prophesy, and echo
, them back as the assurance Of triumph"
Senator Sumner is of course not in
sensible of the entire import of. his Ian
guage. and is aware that he is placing
himself in immediate opposition to the
Administration pasp yecl li ei5m.
The National Anti. slavery Standard.
Of June 3, has leading article, under
the headline. "7He Fatal Step" in which
the North Carolina policy Of the Admin.
istration is assailed with all the exagger.
atisns employed by men in apassion, and
who yet desire to preserve decent de-
gree of decorum. We quote: a..
"Aud the substance Of the whole is
that so far as North Carolina is concerned,
the Administration has declared against
negro suffrage. North Carolina is hand
ed over to rule OF merciless aristocracy,
created by the act of President johnson,
and resolved not merely to exclude the
negro from suffrage, but to make his new
possession of freedom. mockery and "a
sham. Let whoever doubts it look at
Tennessee, and the black code which has
already passed one branch OF its Legis-
lature. Such tyranny is the necessary
consequence of the distinction in races. 4
There is no party in the South that is
friendly to the negro, Or disposed to do
him justice. TIE rebels hate him because
he was true to the Union. The so-caled
loyaists are the poor whites. who always
hated the negro, as negro, worse than
the slave-holding class did--a fact with
which every Southerner is familiarj so
that to whichever class the fate of the
black race shall he RENTED. there is not
chance that it will be free from oppres
sion-much less be granted justice. By
the proclamation of the President, and
the policy Of the Government, the negroes
of North Carolina are doomed to cen
tu:y of serfdom. i'
"We can only hope the North Caro-
lima policy is adopted as an experiment,
not as a fuality. The Government, let
us trust, is only feeling its way, and has
no purpose to plunge headlong into such
vortex as reconstruction on the present
theory would set whirling. II the Presi-
dent has really made up his mind to leave
the fate Of the negro in the hands of the
whites OF each State, there is no hope
either for the negro or for the Union.
But we refuse to believe that such a
scheme is yet mature, and in order that
it may, not be, we summon the N1rth tol
its duty. Every where let protest and
denuncation be heard. Let the Admin
istraton bc compelled at least to hesitate
and to gain time may be TO save ma.
ton. Reconstruction on this theory is
only In the gristlei never let il harden
into bone. Keep out the States this sum
mer and fall. Keep them in military
possession till Congress can meet, armed
with the Indignation of the antisslavery
North. to check and control the suicidal
madness of the Administration. Keep
the bars dossn, lest when once up, it need
another revolution 10 overstep them, and
to give again to the Federal Government
the power which it now possesses to dis
regard and overrule State rights for the
sake of the nation lsy1asto aysd d. f
There is much more of the same sort
and we shall hear it on every hand, but
,he radicals, who rush to arms against
,he Administration, are hot likely to carry z
sith them such strength as to embarrass' .
t. Indeed we aare persuaded that the
opposition of this class Of men is'ratheri
desirable, when there is any practicable
rood that the arts of craftsmanship and /,
he power of the authorities aare exerted !