The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-01-09
From the Cincinnati Gazettel
GRANT FOR PRESIDENT.
By HENRY WILSON.

| iriZe. Mighty issues involved IN
the impending contest. The politi-
cal organizations, with shar, ~ denf-
ed ideas, principles, and policies
will contend for the mastcry, for the
executive power of the Government
during the coming four years, in
which are to be garnered up the
fruits of the victories of the terrific
struggles of the past seven years, or
in which old issues will be reopened
and old strifes renewed that must
embitter the future OF the Repub-
lie.
The people are rang, d into two
political organizations, each with
nearly thre millions of voters, a name
and history. The one claims to
be the Democratic party; the other
calls itself the Republican party.
The history Of the country during
the past thirteen eventtul years is a
record oftEe ideas, principles and
acts Of these antagonistic organlza-
tions. Their is ,ues have not heea
like the ordinary issues of political
parties, mere que tons of adminis-
tration; but fundamental and vital,
rs opposite as the zenith and the ma
dir.
The history Of the c)lntry for the
past thirty years too clearly shows
that the Democratic party has been
dominated by the dark, inhuman and
unchristian spirit Of slavery that it
was guided through a series of.years
" the councils Of slave masters,
or by leaders in sympathy with slave
masters. That history teaches us
that under that fatal leading the
Democratic party renouncel the
faith ofthe republican fathers: took
from black men rights accorded BY
the founders of the Republic struck
at the right fpetition: annexed a
slaveh' lding people, avowe'lly to
strengthen slavery opened free soil
won from Mexico, to huhIan Don
dage; enacted the Fugitive Slave
law, and then pronounced its victo-
ries over liberty and justice "fnali
ties" That history teaches us, too
that it rcopened sectional agitation
by repeating the prohibition Of sIav
cry embodied in the Missouri Com
promise oflS20; by sustaining the
lawless violence that seized the gov
ernme.'t of Kansas, inaugurated the
reign of robbery and blood, estab-
lished slavery, and framed the LIE
compton Constitution: that i has
tened to accept the Dred Scost d 'g
ma divided into two hostile fact D, S
the one shamefully vowing that ii
.sdi / not care whether slavery was
voted up or voted down., and the
other proclaiming the right to take
slaves into the territories and hold
them in bondage under the au h n tv
of the Federal government: that it
went into the canvass Of 1869 rent
in factions. and was ingso i ,u>lI de
feated; that its old slave master
raised the banner Of rebellion; that
many Of its Northern chiefs IN |
their followers gave s.yml'a by to
their old comrade but that hundreds
of thousands noblv strove to save
their country, and tens of thousan IS
found in the Republican ranks new
and more congenial associations.
The history ofthe Republic du ing
the ra5t thirteen years, h ,ws that
the Republican party has been in
spired by the just, humane and en-
nobling spirit of liberty. II was
brought into being amidst the strug
giles to repeal tue Missouri Compro-
mise and carry slavery into Kansas.
Defeated in its first national contest
it appealed to the patriotism of the
people to their love of liberty and
sense of justice. 1t called the bat
tle-roll anew went into the canvass
Of 1860 for the freedom Of the Ter
ritories and the restoration Of the
Government to the policy Of the
fathers and made Abraham Lincoln
President. 1t then accepted the
bloody issues of civil war, rather
than betray liberty, or sacrifice the
rights of race, or the enduring in
terests of the nation. In the trials
of civil war, it made the national
capital free; prohibited slavery in
all the territories; repealed the fu
citiye Slave laws: armed black men
to fight for their country gave lib
erty to the slaves, when they enrol
led their names on the muster rolls
Of the country's defenders. and free
dom to the wives and children of
colorcd heroes; emancipated three
and a half millions OF bondnen by
executive proclamation, and all the
slaves in the land by constitutional
amendment. 1t achieved its series
Of splendid victories of freedom JUS
tice and humanity in spite Of the
stern and persistent opposition Of
the Democracy. Since the close of
the war, it has through the Freed
mems Bureau protected and instruc-
ted the weak and lifted up and given
heart and hope to the landless and
houseless poor. Inspire | by patriot
ism and liberty, and actuatad by a
sense of justice it has given the
emancipated bondmen civil rights,
the right to testify in the Courts, to
sue, to hold property, and to be pro-
tected by equal laws. 1t has given
suffrage to colored men in the Dis
trict Of Columbia. in the Territories
and in the rebel States.
Believing in the brotherhood OF
humanity. the Republican party dis
owns the brutal, vulgar and wicked
dogma that this is the white mans
government" Itaccepts rather the
Christian creed of the Declaration of
Independence, believing. in the
words of George Bancroft, that s-the
heart of Jefferson, in writing the