The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1867-09-05

.tAOhs TIC SIllcl COL ilcI-StOuG VI WAlCu
was human slavery. - -
With the appreciation of Presi
ident Buchanan and the Northern
Democracy, they rapidly seized,
without opposition, forts, dock
yards, arsenals, mints, custom hou
ses, ships of war, and public prop
erty of every description, until there
remained but one little spot, in
Charleston harbor, over which the
flag of the Union continued to wave.
BUCHANAN CABINET A CoNCLAvE, OF
CoNsPIRAToRs. =.
Mr.. Buchanan Cabinet had been
a conclave of conspirators. His
Secretary of War had distributed
the arms and munitions through the
South. His Secretary of the Navy
had scattered our little feet to the
four corners Of the world. His Sec
retary of the Treasury had SO man.
aged the Treasury as to leave it
without a dollar, and thus all had
been done that could to make the
rebellion easy. And when. on the
4th of March, 1861, the Government
passed from the Democratic to the
Republican party, seven States, had
already seeded. and the rest were
getting ready; the Confederate con
stitution and government had been
formed at Montgomery, and a Con-
federate army Of more than thirty
thousand had been organized, all
not only without opposition from
the Government or the Democracy,
but with their positive appreciation ;
and it is not too much to say that,
if the power Of Mr.. Buchanan and
the Democratic party had lasted six
ty days longer, the work Of the Sc
cession would have been so fully
completed that the Union would
have been lost forever. ...-
But the echo Of the first gun
against Fort Sumpter awakened the
slumbering patriotism of the people
The nation sprang to its feet as if
suddenly aroused from deep sleep.
The ranks Of the people were closed
up, party lines were obliterated, and
the Democratic leaders disappeared
like drift wood in a turbulent sea,
submerged for a season, but to re-
appear at future time. They eau
tiously remained out of sight until
the fall Of 1861, when the disasters
of Bull Run and Balls Bluff, and the
slow progress of the war gave them
courage to put their heads above the
surface and survey the situation
They Immediately began the work
of reorganizing the Democratic par:
ty upon the basis Of opposition. to
the war and riehtfulness Of the re-
bellion. The. subsequent terrible
defeat and sacrifices suffered by Nc
Clcllan on the Peninsula. inspired
them with hope and courage, and
they so lar succeeded in discourag-
ing the nation as to carry the fall
elections in 1862. Then began
those reasonable cries, which were
kept up with ever-increasing VIC.
lence, until the final surrender Office
before Richmond. ~ =
They declared that we could nev.
er conquer the South that every act
of Congress for the suppression o1
the rebellion was demonstrations
and void That our national bonds
were worthless; that Treasury notes
were a fraud that the act of Con
gress making them a legal tendeI
was a nullity that the Northerl
people were tired Of the war, ano
would speedily abandon it; that the
people of the North would resis
draft laws, taxation and every at
tempt to interfere with slavery tina
the natiou was on the verge of bank
ruptcy, and het if that war was pro,
tracted, a revolution in the Nortl
was inevitable
The rebels believed these enor
nous lies, and protractod the wa
for more than two rears after the,
had become convinced that they
could not succeed by force of arms
For more than two years they con
tinued the struggle, expecting ever,
day that something would turn VI
in the North by which their triumph
would be secured .s -s..
When hope long deferred mad
their hearts sick, and despair wa
coming upon them, the Democrats
| leaders Of the North renewed thei
eXholtations, redoubled their assur
ances of assistance, and proclaime,
that the hour of deiiverance was a
hand. And, on the Goth day 0
July, 1864, in the midst of the las
great campaign, when Grant wa
tFuggling through the bloody field
to Richmond and Sherman fightin
his way step by step to Atlanta, ,mor
than ten thousand Democrat
politicians assembled in the city O
Chicago, and with a fierce enthusi
asm that threatened to overcome a
opposition, declared the war uncor
SUlLutlOIstls utLhCds ttHS u IdlluI C.lth
imperionsly demanded that it shoul
at once be abandoned. Will an
man whose front is not of brass te
me that this did not encourage tn
rebellion / tell you that it did
that it cost us thousands Of lives
and protracted the war for months
The news like lead sunk into tn
hearts Of our soldiers, but sent
thrill Of hope and EXPLANATIONS c
JOY throughout the rebel camps.
WHAT DEMOCRATIC MIsREPREsENTA
TIEoS COST. --u
Every one Of these enormous lie:
that | have enumerated cost the ma
ton not less than twenty thousan
lives and $500, ,00O. 600. They mad
it necessary to raise new armie>, t
create new loans, to impose furthe