The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-10-01

Democrat hear that And when
this alternative is put before him
plainly, bluntly, stubbornly, and he
has to choose between the two,
where will his choice fall Where
will his reason and conscience as a
mar, where his duty as q patriotic
citizen, where his devotion to human
liberty, and where his love of peace,
lead him s.
But here the voice Of his party
him, declaring that the
reconstruction measures of Con-
gress are unconstitutional, usurpa-
tions, null and void, frightening him
with negro supremacy, with the
most atrocious despotisms the
world ever saw, that had been es-
tablishcd over the South-telling
him, in the language of the Demo-
cratic candidate for the Vice Presi-
dency, that these laws must be
trampled into the dust; that all that
has been done for the restoration of
the Union since the close of the war
must be destroyed again, and that
the Democratic President, to be
elected, must send the army into the
South to drive out the reconstructed
State governments at the point of
the bayonet. Indeed, if a PROPOSE
ton SO atrocious, jeopardizing the
peace Of the country and the very
existence of the republic, does not
find an excuse in the most conclu-
sive, the most irresistible reasons,
we shall be justified in regarding it
as the hallucination ola madman, or
as a criminal plot of malicious enc
mics to their country. (Applause. }
THE RIGHT OF THE CoNQUERER TO
DICTAT.: TERMS.
The Democrats are in the habit of
prating to US about the wisdom Of
the great men who formed the Con-
stitution of the United States. Yes,
the fathers of the Constitution were
great men. They were among the
wisest of their generation. And
now the Democrats will make us be-
lieye that these same Fathers of the
Constitution were such consummate
blockheads as to deprive the Gov
ernment of this Republic of right
which every Government has pos
sessed and exercised since mankind
has history, and which every Gov
ernment, from the necessity of
things, will possess and exercise un
til the end of things. Nay, a right
which every loafer on the street
will claim and exercise as natural
right when assailed by another
loafer. (Applause.) In support OF
such a right we do not need the au-
thority of Vattel, Pu1fendorf and
Grotius. We do not need broad
display Of legal ingenuity or Of met
aphysical reasoning. We hear it
asserted by the common sense OF
mankind. We find it confirmed in
the nature of things. We see. ii
written in the book of manifest ne
cessity. 1t is q right which a Gov
ernment must have if il have right
to exist at all
And this the Democrats under
take to deny. Where would the ac-
ceptance Of their doctrine lead us
to? just to the same consequences
into which the country would have
drifted had, in 1861, the American
people accepted the doctrine that
the Government of the Republic
does not possess the right to coerce
rebellious States. repeat the two
doctrines, although different ir
terms, are essentially the same il
spirit. They mean simply that the
Government of this Republic has nc
right to defend its own existence
against aggression organized upon :
large scale. If you run this doc
trine to its logical consequences
then State can. as such, not be hel6
to account for an act of rebellion
for rebellion is the act Of individ
uals, while individuals ought not te
be held to account for an act Of re
bellion, if, in committing it, they
merely followed their allegiance te
the State. Who, then, is to be helt
to account for the rebellion? No
body; for the State is covered by
the responsibility of the individual
while the responsibility Of the indi
vidual is covered by the State. Ac
cept this proposition and rebellion
will be a mere pastime, which CAL
only result i'll the acquisition ofneW
rights by success and the preserva
ton of old rights by failure. The
national power will be mere foot
ball. to be tossed about at pleasure
by daring sectional minorities. Dis
puted questions of general concerr
will not be decided by the larges
number of votes, but by the creates
fighting capacity of this or that pc
litical faction. And the Republic
must insensibly drift into disgrace
ruin and the chaos of universal an
archy. Yes, the principles the Dem
ocrats now maintain are identica
with the doctrine Of the unconstitu
,ionality of coercion, which, logical
ly, means nothing but the right o
secession. And well may the South
ern leaders say, as they boastfully
tell us every day, if the Democratic
construction of the Constitution pre-
walls, they have, even after their de
feat, at last won what they tough
for. What, then, is the great Dem
ocratic constitutional doctrine /
is an attempt to twist the Constitu
ton into a rope with which to stran
gle the Republic. There I will leav'
it to the contemplation of a patriotic
people. (Great applause.)
MILITARY DLSPOTISM.
Though satisfactory refutatiol
of the Demo cratic cry of militar,
despotism," over the measures takel
to preserve quiet in the late rebe
States, was embodied in the passag'
already quoted, General Schurz wen