The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1866-11-01

boon Of freedom, the Ballot My dear
Bennigan, your statement is paradox
or in other words, nonsense. Pray,
how can giving liberty to one race of
people enslave another? I am not
aware that our countrymen are depriv-
ed Of the right of franchise in the South
Nay, | do know and 80 do you, that
they exercise that right every day, and
I am proud to be able to say that our
countrymen in the South were never
secessionist5 from principle, but were
reluctantly, and through fear of the
mob law, obliged to participate in the
rebellion, and that none rejoiced more
than they did when peace was restored
and the glorious emblem Of liberty,
(the Stars and Stripes was raised to
its proud position there.
And now let me ask you what was
the condition offree labor in the South
auteeedent to the rebellion, and was it
respected :? Or rather was it not look
ed down upon and despised by the au-
toeratic shareholders, who occupied a
lower position in thesocial scale in the
estimation ofthe slave autocfacy, than
did those they used elegantly to term
the poor white trash Or who should
rejoice more at the removal of that
plague spot-slatery, than should the
laboring and mechanical classes of the
South. Thank God. the bayonets of
the free men Of the North have pene-
trated the crust Of pride and arrogance
that surrounded the social atmosphere
in that quarter, and let in some free,
fresh air, and the working man can
now breathe freer and hold up his head
and feel that there is no man there bet
ter than himself. E"i E.
Ishad counselled my countrylmen to
show independence in politics--and not
to be the property OF any party. That
ADVICE does bear the Interpretation that
you and others seek to put on it. The
clear and palpable meaning of my adj
vice. is, that they should not blindly fol
low any man, or any party; but think
and act independently for themselves.
My views. as an individual I have a
right to express. IF they are worth
anything, they ought to be considered,
if not. they can exercise very little in
fuence.
.@ You speak Of Democracy. Do you
not. know that Democracy belongs to
the things that were-it was buried at
Philadelphia. And there was born
there a Hydra headed monster called the
Conservative Union Andy Johnson
Copperhead-S -Secessionist Party. One
head resembles Forrest the butcher OF
Fort Pillow, another the author of the
Irrepressible Conflict, Bill Sescard -
Another the willy trickster, IT ". com
monty called Thnrlow Weed. Anoth-
er our dear friend Raymond Of the
Times Three others, Fernando and
Ben- Wood, and Val. of Ohio, and
swinging round the circle the grim-fac-
ed Head of Andy. Friend Heunegan
how much the success Of that party of
many heads, can effect the interests Of
our Southern fellow countrymen; and
any Irishman that would oppose its
growth, ought to be-" stranded as their
bitterest enemy, and called upon to re
sign Much as I dislike the new
what do-you-call-it, party, I have no
tears to shed for the demise of the time
honored Democracy. There was
timewhen it was pure, during the days
OF Jefferson and Jackson, but it pan
dered to the slave power, and as it
ought, it was crushed beneath the ru-
ms of that Moloch Of infamy it helped
for a time to prop up-it' became time
serving, hypocritical, and corrupt-onel
lay adopting a compromise, and the
next, to suit the slayeocracy repeating
The compromise. Patting the South
on the back, urging it to the verge Of
rebellion, and when acting by and re-
-ying on its promises, the South did re-
Del, it sunk cowardly back. to its hid
ng place, leaving the south IN the Jurch
peace to its ashes. You say the fail
Ire of our cause cannot be laid at the
loor Of the President, but is attributa- !
Die to the inability of our leaders. In
ability of our leaders to doHwhat! 70 |
light the gunboat- Fessenden at Cleye-
and which was ordered to- blow us up4
to fight thesteamer Michigan at Buff
;alo with her steam tugs patrolling the
'iver-to fightthe United States troops
tlong the border; were not those what
our leaders were unable and unwilling
. do. Oh! but you will say they
)nght to have marched to the border
n all the pomp and panoply Of war
hat Revolution was ever started sup
)lied beforehand with all the applian-
,es of war? What had the brave hus-
Of Massachusetts when they
lunted the British Lion from LeXing- |