The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-02-27

Republic ). and that party was the
lone whose delegates now meet at
our State capital.
| When unprecedented and onerous
taxation became necessary to main
tain our credits, to pay and supply
our heroic soldiers, and to keep our
flag flying in the field, we dared to
defy the prejudice which every Dem
ocratic speaker and editor attempted
to inflame against the burdens of
taxation; and thus daring, tri
umphed. A41l a% -
/ When conscription laws became
a military necessity, to fill up our
regiments, decimsted again and
again by the bullets of the enemy
and the diseases Of the camp, the
1 seige, and the march; and when the
country was filled with Democratic
denunciations Of these laws, we
risked popularity, victory, and all,
by defending them as bravely as our
veterans defended the country in
the field. i'77s 91'f -2F ~ lHa.i
| When Mr.. Lincoln at last struck
at slavery as the cause of all our
woes, as well as the right arm of
the rebellion, and when Democratic
traitors and writer's still more scan
dalously and persistently calumnia-
ted US as having converted the war
for the Union into an abolition war
to free negroes, we fear1essly allied
our cause to that of the humble and
the helpless and Providence re-
warded us for our fidelity, by that
brilliant succession of triumphs
which gave salvation to the Union
as we'll as freedom to the slaves
| When the National Convention of
our opponents at Chicago dared to
hang out the white flag of surrender
by proclaiming the war failure,
and demanding an immediate cessa-
ton Of hostilities-we promptly ac-
cepted the issue; and the soldier,
with his cartridge-box, and the vo-
ters with the ballot-box, united in
stamping their indignities on the
disgraceful avowal.
When Tie Government was com
PEELED to issue bonds by the hund-
reds of millions, for the preserva-
ton Of our national existence,
Democrats ridiculed them as worth
less, and cautioned the people
against risking their means in them,
but the loyal people were deaf to
their warning; and now the same
party denounce them as having
made too good, an investment in
their purchase. l 80 ,af<-'-
When greenbacks were authorized
by a Republican Congress, who can
forget the Democratic predictions
that it would ultimately take a hat
ful of them to buy hat; and now
they have the assurance to seek to
make political capital out of their
| popularity. ~
When the 39th Congress rejected
the Presidents policy of Recon
struction. and insisted on one which
embodied Constitutional guarantees
for the future, with full protection
for all who loved the flag and the
Union, our enemies denounced us
as wishing to postpone Reconstruc-
ton, While now the same Demo
Gratis, with their ally, the President,
are striving to put every possible
stumbling block in the way of their
return. ,..
When the "14th Article" was
proposed as an amendment to the
Constitution, embodying no manda-
tory suffrage amendment, but pro-
tecting equally the civil rights Of all
native born and naturalized, making
a voter in Indiana just as potential
as one in South Carolina, and no
more; barring the door Of the
Treasury against any payments on
account of the rebel debt, or the
emancipation Of slaves, the whole
Democratic party denounced it, and
urged the Southern rebels to spurn
it as they did. Now, the two Dem
ocratic States of Kentucky and Ma
ryland demand payment out of the
peoples taxes in the Treasury for
the slaves the nation emancipated
and the two Democratic legislatures
of Ohio and New Jersey endeavor to
withdraw the assent of those States
to this benificent Constitutional
/ Amendment, leaving the door open
for the presentation of these Demo
cratic claims if Democratic Con
gress could be chosen. + q 's'A
. I will not extend this letter by a
Edefense of the Congressional policy
or reconstruction, for Senator Nor
toms able vindication of it has COW
cred the whole ground unanswera-
bly,. Suffice it to say that Congress
having authorized the suffrage of
every freeman in the late rebel
States, rebels and all, except those
who, by violating official oaths, had
added perjury to treason, and the
. Democratic party having denounced
us for this limited and temporary
disfranchisement, the same party
showed it's rejoicings over the fact
that the remainder of the unrepent-
ant rebels in Alabama have recently
! and voluntarily disfranchised them
hselves, in the vain attempt to prevent
the Reorganization of that State on 9
tloyal basis. 3qtis ..s ,...r. +.
Nor is this all. The President
now in fuH sympathy with the same
! Democratic. party. which opposed
the election-the same person who,
as candidate, declared that treason
should be made odious, but who, as
Chief Magistrate, is the hope and ad-
miration of every one who ''still
! lovesp the lost cause-whose oath
binds him to ''to take care that the
!, laws be faithfully executed" and
who keeps it by striking down off