The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-01-09
Meeting of the Martyrs.

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erings and death Of martyrs. And
no great political orreligious revol-
utions have ever taken place whose
progress was not marked by the
prison, the stake or the scafIold. As !.
in the physical world SO in the civi.
it seems inevitable that all decisive
shall lie attended
with violence and destruction. The
logic Of events is uitiless, and men
go mp or down according as they
withstand or yield to the forces.
But in time past those who sacri-
feed themselves fofa o cause they did
not expect to-reap their reward in
this world Ii they went to the dun
geon, the stake or the block, it was
that they might indicate their con-
stancy and faith and the truth of
their cause. under the sevefest tests
Of torture and execution. The fame
the honor, the canonzation, the
crow: these nigh, or might not
come, but in no event were they to
be anticipated. Martyrs whose
earthly rewards were posthumons,
their numbers exceeds the years,
even tie days OF the years, since the
flood
1t was reserved for the United
States Of America to produce an al
together different type of martyrs
They were the incidental product OF
our vast civil commissions. The wal
| liberated slaves who live to rejoice
in their freedom, and made martyrs
who survive to profit by their sutf
eri1gs. These martyrs are the seed
Of the church Democratic. From
Bright to Dowlcs. from Va!land-g g
ha'n to Obs, there is not one ct
them who has not thrived on mis-
fortune. They each so rehearsei
his tale Of woe. 50 lNagnihed his
hafdsl.ips. so narrowed up the soul;
OF his -ympatiliZing friends that they
moved the corpers from their pock
cts to their own-cs great 4 miracle
as to have stirred TIE stones to n2r.
tiny
No miner ever worked Go,t
placer more inde!'atigably. The
! sat up at night with tlei
grievances, painted them llacl,
wrapped them in rags plastered then
with 9Th, stippled them with sores
and sent them lean and lousy int.
the streets. and tl,rust them into con
vtntiuns. to be9 comfort end curren
cy for their fortunate owners. 70 l.
Democratic martyr to have ruEhc'
>Ho's back againsta lincoln bastil
ar to have been imaginativel.y prod
,itd i,v the bayonet Of q Lincol
hire!ing, was quite as good a thin;
IS to be 4 revenue collector or in
-pector Of distilled spirits, undc
,. Andrew Johnson
Lattcrly, however, the martyr
have not 2ercd. The Demo
cratic heart has hardened. the Dem
cratic Purse has contracted. O.
wearies OF giving coppers to a leg
/ gar, day after Gay. who tells til
same Old storv ID he same olt; voIt
and exposes the same old sores All
defornities He must try a ne'
device, Put larger p; tell over hi
eye, cripple his legs into a nor
fri2IItful angle, hobhIe at q mol
wrctched gait, limp, crawl, cry
aheeze and whine with more cor
sunmate art. OF he will starve
his vocation, This is what the ma
tyrs propose to do.
On the 22d Of February, in Ciac
nns t, or in NV York, or in S
I4ouis-where, they propose to gt
together for q united howl Va
!and;@ ham, product of Canada an
contributions, will be there, swolle
with grief aud greenbacl1s, like
iistended bladder; O!as, the yer
jeremiah OF Democracy. will sen
up .a:;it;tions because CT the Bib
; the spectacles. and the waist papt
which he wet for, an woull Ii,
he conforted because they were no
2 Dean. the dirty, rocking in rags an
r rascality. with sonorous voice vi
roll & deep bass Of denunciatio
Mahoney and Jones George "
Joining in the chorus; anti an inns
merahe company Of like martyrs
censI I;irators Ike 1Suliigan and Ho
: sey, with daili-i3nt.Fa aad conceale
weapons, Sons Of Liberty in mu
] dcrous masks. and hushwlaclzei
:. from the bor5ler-w:I swell and pr,
T. long the wall for cash, consoIatio
!oaves, fishes, oilices, spoil: an.
thing comforting to Il bare back
staying to q hungry belly.
II Il correspondent Of the Dosto
; Post is not rlisinfofmed, there vi
J he such q mixing and mineling
bruised Democracy and beaten Co
federacv, such q tumble OF the Pc
; sonest Copperheads and meanest s
Il cess;onists, as never was seen oU
side Of Nashy's Westinghouse {
Basc"m grocery. All TIE victim
of Seward 5 little hell and Stanton
war gong, the spearcd monumen
= OF unapprec!ated mercy, are expec
ed and invited 10 attend, to the eli
that they may wound thems IL,
afresh and keep an ungrat ful PEI
pie alive to the merits of their claim
as martyrs and sufferers in the cau'
, OF Democracy as eNpounded |
James Buchanan and practieed b
> jeff. Davis. Gin Com.
F., |