The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-10-01
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enable right of the Southern Demo
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Has been ruthlessly invaded. and
more than that. AS from his right
to whip a negro the Southern man
derived his right to hang an Aboli
ZIONIST, so he now derives from his
right to rebel against the Republic a
new right to persecuie and shoot q
Radical; but this right, too, has
been most provokingly interfered
with by the military authorities /
Hence the rage of the Democracy.
Hence the cry about the most afro
cious despotism the world ever saw.
Hence the doleful lamentation that
the Constitution is now surely going
to the dogs. 1t is the raving wrath
of bafiled tyranny it is the furious
howl of the wolf against whose cruel
voracity the lamb is sheltered by the
shepherd. Do you want proof?
You have heard of the nine hundred
and thirty nine murders committed
in Texas in an incredibly short space
of time. You remember, also, that
under Sheridan's administration, by
the vigorous watchfulness of that
faithful patriot, the number Of muir
ders was signally reduced. You re-
member further, that under Han
cocks administration the number of
murders fearfully increased. This
is a matter of history. And for
protecting the victims, glorious
Phil Sheridan was denounced as q
tyrant, while Hancock was praised
as second Washington, for re-
specting the Democratic liberty of
the assassin. (Great applause.)
THE DEMOCRATIC PROGRAMME.
What do the Democrats offer us
for this? Look at their platform.
Indeed, it promises you peace, but
before that peace is to come, they
mean to go through some prelimin-
airy operations. And what are they !?
A trife. The reconstruction meas
ures Of Congress, the laws of the
land, are only to be trampled in the
dust. The Southern State Govern
ments are only to be dispersed by
force of arms. The Senate of the
United States is only to be coerced
into submission. So General Blair
tells us; and all this to put all polit-
ical power in the Southern States
again into the hands of the South,
an overwhelming majority of whom
we're active participants in the re
bellion and life long enemies of free
labor society based upon equal
rights. These are the Democratic
pre'iminaries of peace. Indeed i!
Is this all :? And do not say that. 1
exaggerate, for General Blair's let
ter, by which he secured his nomina-
ton. is but the logical construction
of the Democratic platform. What
can it mean. that denunciation of the
reconstruction measures of Con-
gress as unconstitutional, revolu
tionary and void, if it docs notmean
the results of these measures are to
be set aside at any price, even at the
price of forcible revulsion
Trample into the dust the laws
| Disperse the Southern State Gov
ernments at the point OF the bayo-
net! Restore the late rebels to
power in their States by force
Compel the Senate to submit! Look
Look at it calmly and dispassion-
ately. There is not quiet legisla-
! tive process. For this there is but
one name it is counter revolution
A counter-revolu luton in the fullest
sense Of the term. Do you know
what that means? Look into the
history Of the world. Counter-re
volutions mean recemge. They are
the explosions of resentments long
laid up, of hate and vindictiveness
painting for action. Youmay know
| where they begin, but you cannot
tell where they will end. They are
propelled by passion, and passion
outruns control. Ifyou want to IN
fderstand the full bearing of the
| Dem ocratic programme of counter
revolution, look at the men who are
to execute it. s.'''.-
THERE IS HORATIO SEYMOUR.
He is respectable gentleman pleas
ant, plausible, smooth. Not a man
ofa ferocious temper by any means
but scan his political career from its
first commencement to the present
day, and what do you find? A
sickly shrinking from great RESPONSE
bilities: continual effort to reach
his ends by small means, by petty
contrivances; a lack of true man
hood. He has not even courage
enough to say what he wants, and OBJ
tains his nominations for office by
declining. [Applause] ..'
BLAIR. .. .
There is Gen. Blair. True, his
lucubrations on negro supremacy
are ludicrous enough, but it will not
do to speak lightly of his ability
There is power in his organization
He has that stuff in him which, de
veloped by high moral sense.
might have made him Brutus, but
; which, turned into the channel OF
unprineipled ambition and bitter
vindictiveness, is well apt to make
him Catiline. He is essentially q
revolutionary character; a mind fer
tile of expedients, reckless deter
mination which stops at nothing
and all the dangerous incentives
) spring from situation in which he
, has all to gain and nothing to lose
1 can hardly conceive of a counter
revolutionary leader more reckless.
daring and dangerous than he.
Preston and Forrest knew well what
they were doing when they proposed
! and seconded his nomination. What
will Horatio Seymour be with such
a man at his elbow? Such q man
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