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

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They would be glad to have us leave
out the war and forget the part they
bore in it. But this is impossible.
Every Issue of the day is the Off
spring of the war, and you can not
understand it without a knowledge
of the war and its legislation. With
the Democratic party as political
organization we have no compro-
mise to make. 1t sought the life OF
the nation, and no good can ever
come out of it. A good measure in
its hands would turn to a curse
Upon its garments is the blood OF
our fathers, husbands and brothers.
who perished in suppressing re
bellien it had fomented and main
tanned. -.e .F-.s n +;
While the people groan under
heavy taxes while the father mourns
his son lying in his sunken grave in
the South !; while the widow in hef
loneliness and desolation weeps foI
her husband who perished miserably
at Andersonville, the crimes of. the
Democratic party can never be for
gotten or forgiven. I do not in
tend to palliate the crimes of the
rebel leaders in the South, but ]
cannot in conscience say that theil
guilt exceeds that of the Democratic
leaders in the North, who instigated
them to rebellion, encouraged them
in persistence, and, by every argu
ment and invective, excited and
kept alive their passions against the
Government.
JUDGE THURMAN's SPEECH. -.,
I read with care the speech ot
Judge Thurman, the Democratic
candidate for. Governor, made at
Waverly on the fifth Of August, on
the opening of the campaign.
took it for granted that the standard
bearer of his party would unfold its
principles and policy, and mark, Out
the field upon which he proposed to
fight the battle. But the chiefly no
ticeable thing about the speech is
that it proposes nothing. presents
no policy, offers no plan Of redenp-
ton by which the nation may Ee
saved. The poverty of the speech
however, is but the poverty of the
party which 1t represents, and it is
somewhat remarkable that a party
which has nothing to propose. and
therefore admits itself to be utterly
helpless and incapable, should have
the courage to ask the people to put
the offices into their hands. The
substance of the speech may be pre-
sented in few brief propositions
l. That the Republican party Of
the North forced the South into re
bellion, and is responsible for the
war
2. That the Constitution declares
that Congress shall 90 lsist Of th'
Senators and Representatives from
all the States, and that as ten rebe
States are unrepresented, Congress
is fragmentary and unconstitution
al body. Hence all the Legislation
during the war and since is uncon
stitutional and void Hence whel
the Senators and Representativ
from the rebel States withdrew from
their seats in 1861, they left Con
gress a fragmentary and unconstitu
tional body, and thereby constitu
tionally broke up the Government
and every effort since made to keel
it alive has been clearly unconstitu
tional. So you see, my friends, t.
what strange uses good constitu
ton may be put. 1t is true that th
Consti ution provides that a major
ity of the members Of each Hous
shall constitute quorum to do busi
ness; but as this is in conflict wit
the Judges theory, he very properl.
ignored it s.... ..-..-.-
! 3. That emancipation has every
where, and especially in the Yves
Indies, been a failure, a folly and
crime that the negroes are an in
ferior, indolent, worthless race, an
that negro suffrage portends tn
direst calamities to the nation. An
this bill of fare presents the starvel
ing feast to which the Democrac
of Ohio are invited to sit down.
DEFENSE CT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
To the charges made against th
Republican marty by Judge THU
man s all no. step to rep u
ihey are mostly from the s,ereo
typed edition of 1864 and 1866, an
are as devoid of merit now as the
were then. 1t does. not lie in tn
mouth of the party of the rebellio
to complain that the country NIGH
have been saved on the cheape
terms, or that proper economy wa
not practiced in putting the rebel
lion down The defense of the / {
publican party is found in the fac
| that to-day we have nation NOR
powerful and respected than eve
before that to-day we have a eour
try full of prosperity, and wit
bright and gratifying prospects 70
the future. We may safely cha
lenge the history of the world t
how political organization tina
accomplished half so much for tn
preservation and glory of a natio
in so short a time; and its career
/ not yet ended. 1ts work will not b
done until equal rights, harmon
and prosperity shall reign through
5ut the land, and the last lingerm
representative of 81 reasonable Den
ocracy has been driven from poweI
THE TRUE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
But Notwithstanding the extrem
poverty of the Judges speech,
must not be supposed that the sc
called Democratic party is not in f;
vor Of any thing. 1t has platforl