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

country? Do you not hear the
leaders of the late rebellion openly I
proclaim a Democratic victory will
be the victory Of the Lost Cause !"
that their will must again rule the
land, and that as they have fought
once, they are ready to fight again
Did yor not read what the bloody |
Forest said to a Northernjournali
that, if another conflict occurred,
there would be no quarter for any
Radical within his reach, and meas
ures were taken that not a victim
would escape him? Do you not
hear all over the South threats no
less savage than these? G,.1 rc
FoREwARNED. lae~gfq
You may be told that these are
fanciful exaggerations ? Alas !, no.
Look at the more prudent of the
Democratic leaders, how they grow
pale at the indiscreet Sincerity of
their Southern friends. Upon their
troubled faces you read the proof of
what l say. Listen to them, how
they, with nervous anxiety, wlliper,
"hush! hush !'' lest the ardent
Southerners betray too much of
what is to come, and the people,
forewarned, block the game! It is
in vain. The tendency of a counter
revolution is a thing too big for
concealment. Lee and Beauregard1
may roar even more gently than
sucking doves, the rebel element of
the South has shown its hand again,
and we have seen the dagger in the
sleeve. - O. "'-'N W i''7'''.
G -7.s'a MoCRACY. .-f 3dt EI
Democrats of the Nortl,y "a last
appeal to you. Not for ourselves
will I speak, but to you I will sav a
word for the poor South, whose
friends you profess to be- Did you
ever consider whatayeur friendship
has made of that unfortunate coun-
try? For more than, generation
you have excited and stimulated the
worst pro slavery passions in
the Southern people You, children
of the free North, could not love
slavery for its own sake; you could
not believe,that so fagrantf an abom-
ination could successfully resist yet
did you not encourage that insane
observation-disclosures to the last
with your insidious acclamations
and your promises to aid? Is it
not true, that but for artful encour-
agement the Southern people would
have recognized the imposibility of
perpetuating slavery, and that, aban-
doning their false hopes, they might
have long ago commenced, by a
gradual and peaceable reform, to &C
complish that which has now been
accomplishedby the terrors Of reve-
! luton and WARP, That; the peacea-
BILE. and salutary course Of reform
was not, in time-you,
Northern Democrats, you are re-
sponsible for it., But more: Brave
as the Southern people may be, they
would scarcely have dared to raise
their hands in rebellion against this
republic had they not been assured
that the people of the North would
not fight, Or, if tliey did,. that there
would be Northern people enough
to rise in aid of the rebellion. You
Northern Democrats, caused them
to indulge in this fatal 9delusion !;
yoa goaded them onto the path so1
rebellion, blood antl- destruction
But still more In 1864, when the
back of the rebellion was already
broken, and when speedy; submis
sion might have, spared us many
grievous sacrifices, you, Northern
Democrats, tlfen=,ieelared the war 6
failure on our. side; you then en-.
courage the Southern people 1fto
persevere, to hope, to fight ou
And thus the slaughter and destruc-
ton continued. But still more. al
last the rebellion was yanquished
and the southern peoplelay PROSTATE
at the feet. of the conqueror, exaust
ed, impoverished, lacerated, pleed-
ing. So far your friendship had
bought them. # There was but one
way for them to rise to new life
peace, and prosperity. 1t was BY
givihgup all those old Htld dreams
of sectional power; by abandoning
all thought Of the possibility of {
reaction; by accepting readily al
the new order of things would bring
by devoting themselves, without
looking back, to the reparation o.
their losses by avertinga their eyes
from the past aud turning them full
upon the future. And who will deny
that, after the first stunning effect ot
their defeat, such was their DISPOSE
ton, and that this disposition would
have been strengthened by a firm
and uncompromising' attitude on the
part of the North? Thus itheil
wounds might lave been quickl,
healed, and their life restored tc
health and vigor::" But what did yor
do, Northern Democrats :? Nc
sooner was there chance for theil
regeneration than you hastened
again to pour into their minds the
poison of false hope. You stimu
lated their pride with tlattery. You
stirred up their feverish imagina
tions by showing them the deceitfd
picture Of a possible reaction. By
wild harangues you excited them tc
stubborn resistance to the new order
of things. You infamed their worst
passions by appealing to their worst
prejudices, and, alas, they believed
you once more. And now see what
you have done. The South, in new
attack of that delirium which the
defeat of the rebellion had happily
abated, and the repulsive manifesto
tions of which you yourselves now
mainly endeavor torcstrain; the old
terrorism, the old violence, the -old
mania for the exercise of unrie,hte