The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1867-07-04

political inequality, and encouraged
treason in order to defeat the very
principles to which it owed its orr.
gin and former power, it's days were
numbered and it's might was gone.
With incomprehensible blindness
the Democratic party, untaught by
sad experience, persists in its suici-
dial course. At time when demo-
cracy and general enffunchisement
seem to be the unmistakable drift OF
the age in America as well in Europe,
the Democratic party wages an un,
relenting war on the very principles
to which it owes it's birth. Instead
of appealing to all that is noble and
generous in human nature-appeals
which almost always prove irresisti-
ble-it appeals to the prejudices of
the rabble and to the hatred and
passions of the vulgar and the vile.
1t has deserted it's fundamental
principles. It has placed itself in
direct antagonism to the. political
history and cherished traditions of
our people. 1t has placed itself in
antagonism to the spirit Of the age.
1t has placed itself in antagonism to
the spirit of Christianity, which
teaches that all men are the children
of one Heavenly Father, before
whose throne of love and justice no
distinctions are recognized. It has
placed itself in antagonism to the
religious as well as to the political
views and convictions of great
majority of the American people
How then, in the name of common
sense, can it ever expect to succeed :?
I repeat, Mr. President, the blind
ness of the Democratic party is
incomprehensible. The warning
voice of the Chicago Times was
raised in vain. The Democratic
party persists in course which it
must know to be fatal. 1t persists
in opposing what it knows must
come, and partly has come already.
1t must know that impartial suffrage
as matters now stand, is only a
question of time. Sooner or later
it will come. The Democratic par
ty knows that it cannot be prevented.
Why, then, does it vainly try to
stem the current which will sweep it
away? Why does it throw itself
under the wheels of the car the
course of which cannot he arrested :?
Why does it persist in saddling it.
self with the weakness and bearing
the odium of the most palpable in
consistency Why, knowing the
instincts of our people to be Demo
cratic, does it stake its all on the
fruitless attempt to uphold an aris-
tocracy Of race? Why will it sac
rifice its very existence by persist
ing in its appeal to prejudice
which it knows to be rapidly wear
ing away? | can account for it
only in one way. 1t is the illusory
hope of temporary success that
leads it on to a willful destruction
of all its hopes and expectations for
the future. To the vain hope Of
carrying a few local elections in
doubtful districts, it sacrifices its
fundamental principles, it's consis
tency, and its only chance Of partial
ly atoning for its disloyal record
during the war. But, sir, after all
''it is not my funeral on which l
am commenting; and so I shall
leave the Democratic party to its
fate, 1t need not make us sorry to
see that our-opponents are incura-
bly, blind. If the wicked were not
occasionally struck with want of
foresight this earth would be very
uncomfortable place for the right
eOus.
There is nothing in the present
position of the Democratic party
calculated to appeal to our sympa
thy or commiseration, or to make us
forget it's wickedness during the war
1t persists in urging on theesouth to
obstinacy, passion and resistance.
It still refuses to recognize the re-
results of the war; 1t has not
yet repudiated notification and Sc
cession. Tt has not recognized
our existence as nation. 1t
still clings to the principles that
plunged us into civil war. The men
that favored a dissolution of our
country, and during the war sympa-
thized with the enemy, are still the
leading men Of the Democratic par
ty. The Vallandighams, the Pen
dletons, the Vorhees's, are still its
representative men, the authors OF
it's platforms, and the expounders
of its doctrines. They have not
changed their views. They have
retractad nothing Of their former
declarations. Their party is SOW
ing the seeds of reputation and ma
tional dishonesty. 1t carefully nur-
ses a disposition to faithlessness
which would disgrace us in the eyes
of the civilized world. 1t still
clings to the barbarous doctrine
that local majorities ma y trample
on the rights of individuals, and
that there is no authority in the Fed
eral Government to which individu-
ais can appeal for protection. The
States, according to the Demo cratic
party, must determine the legal sta.
tbs and the rights of individuals
and may curtail them at pleasure
A man is not a freeman, because he
is an American, but because the
State of South Carolina, Georgia
or, Heaven defend us the State O.
Kentucky, graciousiy doles out tc
him scanty allowance of rights
upon which the mob will be encour
aged to trample. The Democratic
party, as now constituted, does no
believe in rights born with the in
dividnal; it only believes in right.
conferred by a State. We say, thu
American first, and tho Kentuckial