The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1866-07-05
The True Policy.

III The True Policy.
The New York Herald, of late
date, in referring to the constitutional
amendment which received such an
overwhelming vote in the House Of
Representatives thus fairly and ably
sets forth the real objects and just
provisions Of that measure:
ssThis Congressional proposition FOR
the amendment Of the Constitution,
meantime, as modified by the Senate,
is an ingeniously contriyed party plat
form for the coming fall elections. It
proposes to make it part of the su-
preme law of the land that whites and
blacks born or naturalized in the United
States are citizens ofthe Union and of
the State in which they may reside, and
shall have equality under the law; that
representation in Congress shall be
regulated by the restrictions of the sew
eral States in the matter of voting
that large schedule of men, who, as
former officials under the Government
Of the United States, have been guilty
of violating their oaths by joining in
rebellion, Shall hereafter be excluded
from all federal Objects, unless absolv-
ed by two thirds vote Of each House
of Congress that the national debt
and the bounties and pensions of Uni
on soldiers shall be held sacred and
that all rebel debts and claims for los
ses of slaves by the late war shall be
utterly reputiatld. It is further pro
posed in a supplemental bill that the
now excluded States respectively, on
accepting and ratifying the conditions
laid down, shall not only be admit
ted into Congress, but shall have
credit of ten years in reference to their
quota of the national debt.
This is, we say, strong platform
upon which to go before the people of
the Northern States. There is nothing
here obnoxious to public opinion in
the way of negro suffrage, while the
alternative suggested will be satisfac-
tory to the North. There are no vim
dictive penalties here against rebels
which cannot be resisted successfully
before the people who put down the
rebellion. The same may be said of
the propositions touching the national
debt, the debts of the rebellion and the
four millions of liberated Southern
slaves. Upon this platform the Re
publican party adhering to this Con
gress can carry our approaching North
ern State elections as they did last year
if there be no other sharply defined is
sue brought in season before the peo--
pie. The republican supporters Of
3 President johnson, as against Con
gress, can make no fight against this
platform, for it is the Presidents own
| policy. 1t is compromise platform
| against which johnson Republicans
cannot even quarrel with the radicals
before the people, although the hatred
of the radicals against Johnson may
: continue as intense as on the eve of the
late Connecticut election
We ask nothing fairer than this ex-
position of the principles contained in
the Constitutional amendment adopted
by Congress. IF the malignant enc
mics Of progress in this country, if
journals such as the New York Herald,
which is the recognized organ of the
classes who organized treason for the
perpetuation Of slavery, can be thus
frank in doing justice to the Republi-
can party, we have nothing to fear from
fair and patriotic people. On the is
sues as they are stated by the New
York Herald, the Republican party of
:. Ohio will go into the election Of Oc-
tober next.
a How contemplate are the efforts OF
e small fry Copperhead papers to get up
e false issues to hood-wink and deceive
the people, when compared with this
. frank and fair statement of the case by
+ the Herald. Let every true Union man
+ preserve this explanation of the plat
8 form of his party, so that when Cop
q perhead leader endeavors to cover uI
J. his treason by prating about negro suf
/ frage and other false issues, you car
: confront him with the true issue as
# construed by pro slavery paper.
s There is nothing Objectionable in tht
y above platform to any man who
a is not traitor or the friend of trait
ors. The world has never witnessed
y such magnanimity on the part of any
9 Government toward treason and it,
'e authors and supporters,