The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1866-10-04
Which falls as light
AS snowflake on the sod,
Yet executes freeman's will,
AS lightning does the will of God ,

AS SnOW-Ilakc on the sou,
Yet executes q freeman's will,
AS lightning does the will of God
"From Chickamauga to Atlanta, down
to the sea; or with Grant at Pittsburg
Landing, at Vicksburg, from the Rapidan,
via tie Wilderness, and ON that line to
Richmond, to final victory. SIS.
The great question of the hour is, whe-
ther we shall reap the legitimate fruits of
our blood and treasure, so lavishly eX-
pended ia the late terrible contest, or frit-
ter them away. The rebel States, by an
unprovoked rebellion, vacated their seats
in Congress, set up q hostile Government
on the national domain, organized power
ful armies and for four long years, with
all the barbarism of slavery, waged open,
fragrant, deadly war to compel our Gov
ernment to submit to her own dismember-
ment.
They appealed their case to the costly,
terrible and final court of Mars. and we
Joined issue with them there, and gained
the day. We cast them in that suit, in that
great chancery from which there is no ap-
pellate jurisdiction; and now they must
pay the costs of court, and we must, and
we will, claim the award Of that grim
court. It is a settled principle of that court
that to the victor belongs the right to pre-
scribe the terms of peace and of restora-
tion of forfeited privileges to public enc
mics, to whom we and the civilized world
awarded the position and rights Of bellige-
rents.
"The claim of the South to immediate
and unconditional restoration to political
power, and the right to make laws for the
conqueEors without condition or prece-
dent, such as shall be satisfactory to the
Congress of the Government of the United
States. is almost sublime in its impudence.
"With unparalleled leniency, the 39th
Congress has prescribed five conditions
precedent, which our public enemies are
called upon to agree to, and to place in the
amended Constitution of the United States
previous to their return to the halls of le-
gislation. They demand
Il. The immunities Of citizenship, not
including suffrage, which is State right,
for one born under our flag.
''2. That no perjured officer Of the United
States who has been in the rebellion. shall
ever again hold Office in the Government
unless specially relieved of the disability
by an act of Congress.
'3. That representation in Congress be
SO altered that one white man in Penn
sylvania shall be equal to one white man
in South Carolina; that if rny State has
a class Of citizens that they declare unfit
to vote, and thus participate in the Gov
erment, they shall not be voted for by their
white neighbOrs. .#I ..
ts L IdU UlIC CI1O1 IuOliS utOU q" llCH ICUc1S
compelled us to contract in defending the
Nations right to live-a debt which cop
perheads increased fifty per cent. by Civ
ing aid and comfort to the rebels; the re-
bellion lasting two full years longer than
it would or could without their aid; that
this debt, the result of this bad alliance
shall ever be held sacred, and that not one
dollar of the rebel debt made in trying to
ruin us, shall ever be paid by lis, or exact
ed of any of the citizens Of the United
States and that no compensation shall be
ever made for the emancipation of any
slave.
"That Congress shall have power to
carry out the foregoing by appropriate
legislation.
1.-The foregoing is the essence of the con-
dtions of restoration to practical relations
with the Government of our nation; con-
ditions wise, lenient, just and absolutely
necessary for the public safety conditions
| incomparably more lehient than any gov
ernment on earth ever rendered to public
enemies; conditions which constitute the
minimum of what we might in justice ask
conditions, too, which are the ultimatum
of the nation, and conditions, too, which
in one form or other President johnson
had indorsed before he began to swing
| around the circle.
+. 'And now, soldiers, we are compelled
to swing around the circle of our duties
after President Johnson, who has deserted
the friends who elevated him to power
VIII you emulate the fidelity of the unre-
| turning braves, who, from their bloody
graves, beseech you not to let them die in
vain? [Yes. Cheersl VIII you vote as
you fought? I'VE WILL viii you roll
up such election returns as will make ty-
rants tremhe, and prevent the bloody wal
which the Philadelphia Convention and
Andrew Johnson threaten you with, ifyOr
! do not reconstruct Congress to suit him
and the rebels?
You say you will. Amen! And in SC
doing you shall meet your exceeding great
reward
Gen. Moody then paid a deserved
compliment to Gen. j. S. Negley, anC
closed his spirited address.