The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1867-11-14

aseohdllon HOW as 1C.3Was "a year
ago, when the constitutional Amend
ment-Article 14-was passed.
Nearly all that Congress has since
done has been needless. violent, un-
statesmanlike-we might almost say
fanatical.
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But wisdom Of this obvious kind
did not suitithe extreme leaders of
Congress, who, having an almost
unchecked majority to work with
could do as they pleased. They.
would only be satisfied with shearing
the Executive of the power which
renders him responsible. and with
debating to the States their domestic
constitutions. Some Of them went
so far as to propose. that uniform
law of suffrage should be forced
upon all the States, loyal as well as
rebel, in equal or disregard of the
policy of the Constitution and ofthe
opinion Of the people. Along with
this high-handed and outrageous
scheme came reports of others of a
determination to suspend the Presi-
dent during the process Of his i'm
peachment-fagrantly in conflict
with both letter and spirit ofthe law
Of plans to distribute confsticated
estates among the freedmen; and of
gigantic system of education, I'M
der the con troll of the General Gov
ernment, which would have added
still more enormous powers to its
already congested structure, and
furnished new means of inter
ference with the rights Of the citi-
zen. -.-----.--.-
Itwas to correct these mistakes,
to arrest these designs, to put the
party of the war on a better path,
that the people have spoken. Re
publicanism, they say, must not be
tied to the tail Of the New York
Tribune, to follow the fortunes ofits
idiosyncracies foibles. It must
plant itself upon sound, broad, pro-
gressive, popular principles, and
discarding alike it's fanatict Of one
idea and it's politicians gilmore than
one corruption accept the guidance OF
its statesmen. The first will dazzle
it with will of-the- wisps that will ul-
timately lure it into ruin; the second
will coversit with eternal disgrace
and infamy but the third will tell it
to sway, for many years to come, the
hearts of the discerning and honest
masses. u
From the New York Commercial Adver-
tiser ] -a-EH r.
The national issues were sufficien-
tly embarrassing to tax the best en-
ergies Of the Republican party under
the most favorable circumstances.
Igloring this great fact, the Radical
managers in this State superadded
weights enough to sink even stron-
ger party. These managers, when
they obtained control Of the Eepub-
lica1 party found it with an earnest,
compact, voting majoaity Of more
than fifty thousand. They have gone,
on, from year to year, cheating and
dwarfng, and corrupting, until that
splendid political Inheritance has
been, wholly squandered, and the
Republican party now goes into
bankruptcy. Thus the improyident
and thriftless scatter what costs SO /
much care and toll to SAVE a99-l I
| FoF theoverwhelming, majoritias
IN the neities ofNew Z ORR and Brook I
lyn, thereSis simplej,solution.f Jt5
IS the3 second signal expression of
popular indignatio nYa9ai inst fYribe'nel
liquor legislation. Radicalism in
this respect as in regard to. theme |
gro, hasreacted. The Tribune, in
its "On to Richmond temper and
tone, forced these two questions
into the an ass, and has its answer
in majority Of seventy thousand
against its party! sa ~. 1...e
In the State the party had other
embarrassment5 The Constitution
al Convention, after four months of
abortive labor, had disappointed the
public expectation. Shameful frauds
upon the canal fund had been ex-
posed. Dishonest members of a
degenerate legislature had obtained (
denominations. These drawbacks,
added to the Tribune's crusade
against the social freedom Of Ger
mans, and in favor of negro su--
premacy, accounts for the falling off
Of the Republican majority in the
State " '11 l. .r.-..r
But with this defeat passes our
':winter of odiscontent," and, under
better auspices, the. approaching
canvass viii he ''made glorious sum-
mer." Shaking itself free from in
the Republican party
reorganized, reformed and purified,
will assert it's devotion to the 7 mon
unfurl the Grant banner, ana fight
out the Presidential campaign 'son
this line" mi 80
New York s'goes wrong for two
principal and several incidental rea-
sons. The two principal reasons
are: First-Insisting on negro SUI
in Southern States; and,
Second--The social crusade against
Germans. AS these are sufficient
to accop unit for our "going wrong I
it is unnecessary to state the minor
reasons. II
Had the question of negro suf-
frage been submitted to the electors
of New York, New Jersey. Ohio,
and Kansas in 1865 or 1866, those
States would have responded affirm
0Ohfo, New Jersey, and
Kansas have now answered. in theJ
negative, not on acoouats Of. their
'objections4 to granting suffrage to
their own colored people, butto en-
phasize their adherence Of the at