The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1867-08-22
tFrom the Toledo Blade.
A Look Backward.

GFrom the Toledo Blade.
A Look Backward.
It is the boast of those who claim
to be the political children of Jeffer-
son and Jackson that Democracy
is the same yesterday, to-day and
forever" That this is merely an
idle boast the record of the party
will abundantly prove. The father
Of the organization was an abolition
Iist, and at intervals since heresigned
his bantling into the guidance OF
other hands, it has opposed. the in
stitution jackson was bitter OPP
ponent Of secession, and up to not
many years ago. to fix the brand of
secessionism upon Democrat, was
to consign him to his political tomb.
The party has been in some things
steady, and in others unsteady. II
has eliminated everything that was
good from it's creed, but clung to
everything that was bad with de,
votion that is difficult to understand
or account for. That it is the same
now that it was from 1861 to 1864
we believe. That it holds to the
same doctrines, affiliates with the
same men, and has the same ends in
view, we do not doubt Therefore
it is not Improbable to examine into
the record OF the party during those
years, that we may gather therefrom
better idea OF what Democracy is
to day
The files of their papers during
that period of the nations history.
show the animus of the party, as in
q mirror.
On the 14th OF March, 1862, the
Crawford County Foruoa declared
that the Government ''has put arms
| into the hands Of outlaws, thieves,
! murlereFs and traitors, and sent
them into Virginia TO rob, murder
and star mp insuTaction
/ While We are IN Crawford County
/ it lnay be well enough 70 stato hist
/
the candidate Of che Democracy loI
State Treasurer resides at BucyIus,
tine county seat that he was N t,sjl
accord, socially and politically, with
the man who wrote the infamous
language We have quoted, and that
it was in his store that certain sol
diers of the 10th O. V. /. were shot
down like dogs by crowd of Cop
perheads gathered there. The nom
ination Of Cochran Fulton, in the
year 1867, for an important Office,
proves conclusiyely that in no de
gree has the hatred of the party to
the national cause abated or soft
ened.
The Logan Gazette, edited by
VIM. Hubbard, now editing the
Crawford Forum, said in January
1862:
The attempt which is now making
in the Legislature, to tax an already
over taxed people, for the support
of soldiers families, Is simply an eff.
fort to consumate an Outrageous
wrong. IF we must have soldiers
we and they and their familier must
accept the incidents.
The nation pays them-not the mis-
cradle stipend, which is elsewhere
the soldiers reward-it pays then
wages. We venture to say that the
six hundred thousand men now il
arms, are earning more money than
they, could earn at home.
The Cadiz Sentinel of January 9tf
1861, contained the following:
The Republicans are now playing
a good game Of brag But we as
sure our Southern friends that It il
oil pas. When tie sine Ga.
action srrive.--ve a!aak what -
/ knop-tne, VII .i"e3eaemie5 enough
to fight at a20e 9ltii mt goins
! South
The extracts we have given ar
taken from representative papers
edited by representative men, whc
occupied high positions in the party
and whose faces were familiar tt
regular attendants upon the conven
tons Of the party They were. th
men wh.o supported Vallandighan
50 earnestly, who at that time con
trolled the conventions Of th
party, and shapod its policy. AM
they arc still the leaders bf the Obi
Democracy. They are fourishin,
their pens as valiantly III support O
: Thurman as they were then in be
: bali Of Vallanaigham, and not on
Of them viii acilno Wedge that he ha
changed particle since the time
1t is question which the peopl
of Ohio have to decide, whethe
these men are the ones in who's
hands the interests Of the loyal Stat