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

But it they were not so, and only
as God made them, who is to blame ?
Is it the government The govern,
ment consists of nought but the 10y
al people. And this war was pre-
cipitated upon them suddenly; when
they were never so unprepared, and
| the national life was in imminent
peril, before this people had time to
look about and deliberately select
and prove the fittest men to pilot us
through the emergency. And even
such men as had to be tried upon
the spur of the moment, were fire.
quently obliged to act without time
for deliberation the necessity os
having means at once, in the emer-
gency, having frequently been of far
more Importance, than having the
same upon the most economical
terms; as it is better to have billions
of debt with the national honor vim
dicated and its lie safe, than only
millions, with our country dlsgraced
and destroyed. .H
Considering the stupendous char
acter of our financial necessities dur
ing the war, together with the diff
culties which constantly surrounded
our agents who had charge Of them,
unless we regard those agents as far
more than human, it would seem
that our only wonder should be, that
they did so well, and that we come
off so cheaply.
Our national debt, then, is not
only the result Of the deliberate acts
of the governments, of the who1e peo-
pie speaking through the constitu-
tional majority, and therefore legal
/ ly binding upon all, but on the other
hand, there is nothing in the circum-
stances ofits creation upon which
an honest patriot can hang areason-
able excuse for objecting to it's pay
ment, principal and interest, in ac-
cordance with the exact terms of the
various laws and contracts under
(which it was created, however bur
i densome it may prove.
| Owing to the selfish constitution
Of man, arguments in favor of oul
pocket books, are ever most specious
and insinuating, and therefore liable
to powerfully incline our minds to
| defer trim, or repudiate our JUS
debts whenever an apparently safe
mode Of doing so, is pointed out
!, Hence the persistent and specious
arguments of Democratic dema
gogues, to induce the people to tak'
the first step in the stupendons trag
edy ofrepudiation; these insidiou
Fserpents well knowing that the sec
ond and third steps will be take1
even more easily than the first, ant
so on to the last: that thereis moth
ing SO monstrous, but that the mind
of men in some condition, and b,
persistent and specious lying, ma,
be brought to approve it,
i The Democratic party opposet
| the creation of the debt, and refuse,
f to vote one dollar Of it, only becaus
) they opposed resistance to traitors
/ and advocated the policy of allow
, ing them to control the government
This is not strange, for they them
! selves were but part and parcel Q
those same traitors Therefore no,
f that they have failed in these effort
2 to get permanent control of the gov
1 ernment it is not strange that the
: should attempt the next worst thin
! for it, its total demoralizatio
I through the spacious road of repu
diation, wherein it must forget th
e respect Of it's own people, as we'll a
f of foreign nations, and thus near
5 |ly achieve the disgrace and destrue
ton Of what they had not the powe
2 to wrongfully ap propriate.
5 Recognizing this to be the polic
l Of this party, more especially OF it
leaders-and thoseto be the motive
moving them thereto, we shall noN
: leave them to the little conscienc
f they have left; and to the judgement
and address only honest men, wht
2 desire to do right. but are liable t,
V be misled by the specious sophis
tries of demagogues.
f JUSTICE.