The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-09-10
A. Note of Warning.

A Note of Warning.
I, Ifsany member of the Reppblicau
party insthis State or elsewhere, re-
flying on the strength and jd9tice q
his cause fancies that the election
of Grant is something sure to hap
pen, and entertaining such an
idea, quietly goes on his way with
| out an effort, and careless of the re
suit, the sooner he discards that iias
the better for the safety and welfare
of the country. It is natural FOL
men who feel that their cause II j0sl
to- rely too much ON that fact, and
rest their case without sufficient ef
fort. The fact is that no cause IN
the history of the world, no matter
how good, ever made the least pro.
gress without the aid of human
agency, and the combined persist.
entand energetic labors ofits friends
The great cause Of civil liberty the
world over owes whatever Of sue
cess it has achieved to the labors OF
men, and without that aid it has in
yariably failed. '-5. t'hhF. ''7@d ''s'
- The great danger which threatens
us now is that we are too confident
of success. A majority Of the le.
gal votes, in Ohio favor the prin.
ciples of the Republican party, as
they do also in Indiana, Pennsylva-
mia and New York, yet from the var
ious causes, prominent among which
is the one mentioned, we are in the
greatest danger of losing all these
States, and Of course the election OF
our Presidential candidate ifs.'} .
There are also, positive reasons
why we should be vigilant and ac-
tive until election. We are opposed
by an enemy that will scruple at
nothing to- compass our defeat. -
Our neighboring State of Kentucky
can throw a majority Of ninety
thousand for the Democratic ticket.
Does any man question that enough
of that immense surplus of disloyal-
tY will attempt to vote In Ohio and
Indiana to defeat us! They were
and are rebels, and will hesitate at
no crime to defeat us. . Thousands
of them are even now making their
arrangements to vote Illegally a
gainst us, and unless closely watch.
ed will SO far succeed as to jeopar-
die Ohio and Indiana. .Gs' iAi,.
Again, we have the most positive
evidence of frauds in Pennsylvania
last fall in the manufacture Of natu=
ralization papers by the thousand,
every one of which documents rep
resented an illegal Democratic vote.
That party possesses all the material
ont Of which such votes are made.
They find in their ranks the men
who conceive and the men who. ex-
.ecute every fraud. And they also
find there the men who wink at it
and defend it, and the Courts which
refuse to punish it. .
Are we too plain spoken in charg-
ing these thin gs upon the so-called
Democracy? Is it likely that par
ty numbering among it's members
every prominent leader in the late
rebellion, with but two or three ex-
ceptions, covered all over with
crime, and cruelty and blood as with
garment, will hesitate now at
fraud upon the ballot box? Will
the men who starved thousands and
tens of thousands Of our friends in
prison, scruple to connive at illegal
voting? Will the bloody Forrest
and the unscrupulous Beauregard re-
gard it as crime to colonize vo-
ters, when they are known to have
been guilty Of the most outrageous
crimes in history? 2
Does any one believe for single
moment that a man who could de
liberately stand before a blood
stained mob, with the lurid glare o1
a burning orphan ASYLUM upon his
brow, and the horror stricken
shrieks of dying children in his ears,
and address the perpetrators OF
of these crimes in the very moment
of their commission as "friends,'' -
would hesitate to aid in forging nat
uralization papers, or to receive il
legal votes by the thousand, know
ing them to be such /? 1a
Place no dependence whatever on
the honor or honesty of your oppo-
nents! Bear in mind always that
they sought for four years to- destroy
the government, and can therefore
have no compunctions about the
commission of any lesser crimes.
We do not write thus in any spir-
it or fault finding with our party
managers, nor as an alarmist, but
we speak what we believe as sol
emnly as that we have an existence.
The Democratic party is resolved
to elect Seymour. They will stop
at nothing to accomplish their ends.
Money in unlimited amount is at
their control-the stuff of which il
legal votes are made is ready to
their hand and to be had for their
money, and it will be bought and
used. Many of the leaders of that
party are absolutely desperate, and
will fight as iunscrupulously now as
they did during the war. HadH Z
Now, in view of all this, which
every reading, observing man knows
to be true, how can any Republican
sit down quietly and take no inter-
est in the labors of the campaign.-
It is not enough for you to say that
you attend all the meetings of your
club, and hear all the speeches made
in your village. You may do that
and vet do nothing in behalf of the