The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1867-07-25
hardly whisper how glad we were
VAC afdnrt die the dav before.


makes strange bed-fellows, and am
,aunted with being in bed with that
Internal Thad. Stevens. Suppose
get out of that bed and crawl over
into that other bed; leave the in
fecnal Thad to crawl into a nest of
internal eopperheads, Vallandigham,
Thurman, Olds d Co. What bril-
liant change.
Excuse me, gentlemen, if go
back to internal Thad. for would
rather be Internally right than in
fcrnully aorong.
.scThad. Stevens is some distance
from the main army, on picket or
vidette line, watching the movements
Of the enemy from near stand point
and q restless, ugly customer to
skirmish with he is, but when the
main battle comes on he falls back
and takes his place in the line, and
we overlook the gyrations and. tan
-trums he cuts when alone and far
from us. We may yet be made to
adopt this dreadful measures. II
we do, the South may thank them
selves for it, They have made us
do great many things dreadfully
against our wishes. They made us
take arAas. They made us quit
guarding their property and destroy
1T. They made us send Sherman
through the South without gloves.
They made us call colored soldiers
to the field to help us save the coun-
try, and 100000 came at the call
They made us free the slaves, and
when we gave them easy terms by
d which to recover their forfeited
rights by obstinacy and insolence
:. they made us take another step, and
that step was forward, not backward,
as they hoped. Refusing to give
freedmen their rights and
protect loyal lives, they made us
e do it. Their obstinacy made us give
them the Freedman's Bureau and the
Civil Rights Bills. They made us
give them loyal Governors, Mayors
and Judges in place of traitors
Pressing right on in this way they
at length made us give the vote to
their former slaves. / wonder how
they like it as far as they have got !
The next step, if they will make
US take it, will make such tracks as
old Thad's right foot always makes,
broad as it is long" If necessary
we shall take that step, for we shall
strap them down and buckle them
snugly until they work kindly in
loyal harness. Cavalry Sheridan is
on the ground and is q good hand
at breaking colts. / have seen him
in the South followed by 10000
horse in faultless discipline. And
if-mark me-if our modern Noses
removes him, the people in '6S will
rush him into the Presidential Man,
sion at such rapid rate that his
coat tail wouldn't overtake him in
three days. You may turn a leaf
down there to mark that particular
place in history.
But says one to me, "Gray, why
do you leave the old Democratic
platform p
Let us. look at the planks in those
Old platforms on which we SO lazily
foated, till we foated into a sea OF
blood. - .... .-.-..-.5
The Whtg plank against the aei-
ton of slavery, and the Democratic
plank Opposed to the agitation of sla-
very. If, for the, sake of Auld Lang
Syne, we are going to fight on planks
rated out of Commodore Noah's ark
let's have the first bout on these
twin planks, Where is the slavery
plank for and against? ? Floated out
OF all platforms and off to sea, and
j learn it has washed ashore on the
coast Of Brazil.
MY right foot was always nailed
to the war plank which was. purely
Democratic and in no other plat
form. Now if I had kept my other
foot on the slavery plank till this
time, should have ruined my pants.
The first shell from rebel gun
knocked the low tariff planks, State
or National Bank planks, and the
planks on distribution of the surplus
iunds IN the treasury, into the mid
dle of the next century. When we
come up with those planks, if l am
about, will get on again. The fu-
gitiye slave planks / shall never
again see, for the war has knocked
them into a place not polite to men
tlon' andnow my Dem ocratic friends
seriously, if you are bound to stick
70 that plank / advise you to take
along palm leaf fan, for it is yery
warm down there. The war plank.
solitary and alone, is left of all the
democratic or any other of anti-se-
cesh date. We Democratic used to
express ourselves on that plank
about as follows: ''I was for the last
war, am for this war, and you NAV
put me down for the, next war. -
VINO is on that plank. now? On
tnls purely Democratic and only liv-
gold Democratic plank proudly
stood and nobly died the lamented
douglass, and you will find stiil
Standing proudly on it, Tod and Lo
gan and Sfekles and Dix and Thom-
ss and Sheridan and a host of Others
who have the same disease / have
and | reverently thank God the
hospital is full Of such and Dr. Thur
man cam never discharge the pa
Now word on that piece of po-
lltlcal India rubber of African de-
scent, what the Johnnies used to call
smoked Yankees. 1t is singular
what effect vote in ones hand has
on q neighbor's respect. Foreign.
ers, before they can vote here are
often called ''fannel-mouthed pad
dies" or "lop-eared Dutch" but
when they hold a vote, we discover
Shat "rich Irish progue and sweet
German accent - G. n x,o4o