The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1867-11-07
From iidrper's Weekly.l
The Two Parties.

In commenting upon the late cleo
tions the New York World says,
after enumerating certain acts of the
Democratic party in former days ::
I'm complaisance to it's Southern
wing it made mistakes on tie slavery
question, and lost the advantage CT
leadership. In its attempts to pre-
vent opinion advancing too fast it
fell behind, and there could not be a
more fatal blunder at present than
an attempt to carry the public opin-
ion Of the country back to the
point where it stood when, to
save the train from destruction in
moving down declivity, the Demo
cratic party went from the engine to
the brakes
It is SIMPLY too late. The de-
bauchee ofsixty, ,sha aking with ruined
nerves, and tortured with the hor-
rors, locks back to his youth, and
sighs that if he could only be rid Of
his nerves. and purged Of his deliri-
um, and if his veins were once more
filled with healthy young blood, he
might be q well man. The Wo,ZI
forgets that the best men of its
party left it when it fell behind and
became the tool Of the slave inter
est; that from that moment the
Democratic party has existed firstas
pander to slavery, and second as
paralysis of the loyal war. The
earnest, vigorous youth Of the coun-
try, inspired by the great idea of
liberty, have justly learned to asso-
ciate the name Of the Democratic
party with all that is reactionary and
anti-American. They saw that no
man could openly and heartily de-
nounce human slavery and remain 4
Democrat. When the war came they
saw that no man could wholly sup
port it as a hopeful movement for
human liberty as well as the Union
with out being discarded by the Dem
ocratic party. They read in the
World apologies for treason and
traitors rebelling to save slavery,
and incessant sneers at the President
and the Government, which, to save
the Union, sacrificed slavery. They
saw the Democratic opposition to
the draft, to taxation, to all vigorous
efforts for National safety. They
saw the Democratic party .in the
East nominating Thomas and Hora-
ito Seymour, and in the West VAL
landigham; and finally heard it
shout with eXultation at Chicago
that the war had failed. This was
the Democratic party before and dur
ing the war, deserted by the older
men, who had given it conscience
and a true popular sympathy, and
despised by the younger, whose po-
litical life began with the campaign
OF 1860.
And what do we now see? The
Chairman Of the Democratic Nation
al Committee is August Belmont
one of the most notorious of Cop
perheads during the war; the man
who rebuked a young Union officer
for his natural wrath with an English
nobleman who wore a rebel badge
in NJ Belmont's house--the facts of
which were made public at the time.
In the State of Ohio the political
campaign just ended was conducted
for the Democrats by Vallandigham
and Pendleton, and Judge Thurman
the Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor was Copperhead Of the same
school. The Chicago Times, a rebel
sheet through the war, and of un-
changeable malignity, is the chief
Democratic organ in the Northwest.
In New York Horatio Seymour, who
preferred. to sacrifice the Union
rather than slavery, is the great