The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1867-08-29

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States in the Union, that they, tried
to get ont but made failure of it
that they have always been rec.
J ognized as being in and therefore
are entitled to all the rights anC
privileges Of loyal States in the
Union.The Union party says, don't
he quite 50 fast; don'tcrowd up to
the table before loyal men: show
your modesty by standing back a lit
tie; wait we see blood on your gar
tments, the blood of our sons an6
brothers; we smell treason upo1
you, and see the stain of rebellion
Fall over you; stand back, and wait
awhile, if you please. TCheers] No
say their champions, Thurman and
| Vallandigham and Pendleton; lift
up high the gates, and let these ou1
brethren of the South, whose States
have been invaded and ruined, come
in and sit down at the sacramenta]
board. Our answer is, stand back
until we shall have so secured this
great prize of American liberty that
| your presence canuot again endan-
ger it. ~ ---... IL df.-l 3i.I30
DEMOCRACY DURING THE WAR.
The speaker then drew striking
sketch of the character Of the Dem
ocratic party throughout the war,
showing how all the patriotic and
true men of the party left it in 1861
and struck hands with the Union
party; after which convention OF
the remainder assembled. from all
parts of the States, adopted a reso-
luton like this after secession had
taken place: agaa 10 =.s- ,!fa..s q
"The 100000 Democrats of Ohio
send greeting to the people of the
United States, North and South /:
and when the North shall have dis
charged it's constitutional obliga-
tons to the South, then and not till
then will we take into consideration
the right and propriety of coercion. p"
Floyd had sent the arms in the
Northern arsenals south for their
use, but even. this was not so much
aid to secession as this position an
nounced by the Democratic party of
Ohio. That resolution was intro
duced and run through the ConVen-
ton by whom2@ BY Judge Thur
man, the Democratic candidate for
Governor to day. They refused to
unite with the Union party, made
separate nominations and were de-
feated. IN 1862 the platform was
milder, and while the Union men of
Ohio were making enlistments for
the erarmy, and the canvass among
the people, was permitted to take its
own course, the Democratic. party
succeeded in the State by about
5000, SO that thirteen members
Went to Congress lsympathizing with
the South, and did what theyyeould
to cripple every effort to crush the
rebellion. In 1868 Gen, Burnside
had picked up Vallandigham,z tried
him before a military commission,
sent him, south, where he ran the
blockade, travelled into canada, and
set himself down on q box and whit
tied away his time in Windsor, wait
ing for something to turn up
While. there, his party made him
their candidate for Governor, on the
basis of his public 'record,'' which
declared 81 am proud to state, in
the presence OF my countrymen, that
as a representative in Congress,
have not voted man or dollar for
the prosecution of this war; And
further, he would have our armies
everywhere about face, and with
trailed, arms, yes, with reversed
arms, come. stumbling back over the
little graves Of those who had fallen
in their onward march, leaving them
to be plowed up with. rebel. shares.
or .desecrated as they were in the
battlefield Of old Bull Run. The
people Of the North rose in the ma
jestyzof their-pewer and condemned
that policy. by lO5, 900 majority q
gainst it.
Learning nothing from this, il
1864 this. party assem- bled in Chica
go, declared the war of four years {
failure, and demanded that coercive
measures be abandoned, and resorts
be made to arguments Of persuasion
and peace. Lincoln was elected, the
policy Of his administration en-
dorsed, and the south made to un
derstand that they had unreliable
sympathizers in the Democratic par
ty, and that they had better ge
themselves from under the increas
ing and overwhelming power tha
the. Federal Goyernment.w was throw
ing 9 gainsts g sthem.g in 1868 the wa
was practicallyended
Then what said this Democratic
party? Why they broke out in hal
lelujahs and hosannas, in the pres
ence of expected peace. But th'
triumph of our arm over the rebels
was the iron in the heart of these
Democrats of the North: : Well
said they, now that the war is over
and the south whipped, let US 60 in
to the work Of reconstruction. Th'
Democratic party is the one to talk
charge of it; we are on good terms
with the south we have had no bit
terness with them, while they lool
upon you as special enemies. Al
low us, therefore, to take charge o
the matter of reconstruction. Wa.
not this modesty incarnate?
THE WORK OF RECoNSTRUCTIoN.
But ,the, ,39tA Congress Weat1righ
OH, step by step, in the work Of re
construction. And the spea1eI
sketched the varions measures pro
posed, ending with the very effective
shape in which it now exists undel
the five district military command