The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-10-29

Il did the reverence which always
clusters around judicial decisions,
knowing the power they dared to en-
counter, took issue with that decis--
ion before the American people,
dared to denounce it, dared to stig-
matize it, and what is more, dared
to crush it under their feet, until
to day there is no man in this land
I care, not to what party he belongs
SO poor as to do reverence to that
infamous decision. That was ohf
second usurpation Cheers: And
there were men who clustered
around that deision, and defended
it. There were men who maintain-
that decision against lis, and sought
to make it the controlling power OF
the American people; sought to
make it the sentiment OF this great
nation sought to make it SO nnmu-
table that every jurist and every leg
islator should be compelled to sur
render his allegionde to it. | thank
Providence that there was a party
that dared to meet this decision
dared to arouse the consciousness
of the people against it, dared to de-
fly it, dared to denounceit, dared to
spit upon it, saving our country
from disgrace and dishonor that
would have attended us if we had
yielded to it, and allowed it to be-
come the paramount law of this
land. That was our second usurpa-
ton for which we are denounced.
We are proud of it, we glory in 1t,
and the hearts of the people thank
us for doing it. Tremendous
cheering
Then there was another usurpation.
1t was when war burstupo our land
it was when wicked men who added
perjury to the crime of treason, and
l thank God there was not a Repub
lican among them, not one applause
cheering, trampled the stars and
stripes under their feet, when they
dared to attempt to make that flag
the winding sheet of the World S
best hope, when they dared to guide
their traitorous hands to the nations
heart, that they might plunge the
dagger into it aud destroy it forever
And when all over this land the faith
full people rallied by their President
and by their country, took up the
sword to save the land that the
sword of treason had doomed to
destruction, then every act com
mitted by the Administration every
policy by which they sought to strike
down that main power of treason,
was denounced from one end of this
country to the other as usdrpation.
And when the war was over; when
the work of reconstruction was to
be accomplished; when it was to be
determined whether these States
should pass back again iuto the
hands and under the power of the
very men who had used the power
and the authority of these States
against US all through the rebellion,
to consolidate their confederacy, to
hurl their armies against the armies
of the Union. When we, and we
alone Of all the parties Of the land,
stood in the gap and said, loyalty
shall govern what loyalty preserved,
again we heard the cry, "usurpation,
usurpation!' I glory in this usur-
patton. | Applause.
1 read you again from Seymour's
speech: 81 trust that when the
election shall have terminated, it
shall be the judgment Of the United
States that the intention of the fram-
ers of the Constitution shall be car
ried out, and that power shall in
such degree be divided between the
great political organizations SO that
they can hold each other in check,
and that it shall neither be in the
power of the Republican or Of the
Democratic party to plunge our
country into the evils of civil war,
even if they could find it in their
heart to do thing SO unwise, SO
wicked and so unpatriotic.
He wants a division of power in
this country, so as to restrain the Re
publican and the Democratic party
from plunging our country into the
evils Of civil war 1t is not need
ed. Mr. Seymour. Applause no
man in the Republican party ever
plunged the country into the horrors
of anarchy, and carnage. and desola-
ton, of civil war No Republican
ever fired upon that flag. No Repli-
can ever drew his rifle with deadly
intent at the heart Of that flag. Not
one! not one! Cheers
I told you | came only with a
shield to vindicate my party, but 1
thank God that Of all the men who
have ever voted the Republican tick
ct, that ever stood upon our plat
form, that ever breathed our prin-
ciple, not our solitary one of them
ever lifted his hands against that
flag, and you are going to elect
Democratic President, Governor
Seymour says, to keep those Repub-
licans from involving the country
in more slaughter. / tell you what
the people are going to do. They
are going to elect Grant as Presi-
dent to prevent these Democrats
from ever daring to lift their hands
against the government again
Great applause. know well you
can not have indemnity for the past;
you can not go down to those hun
dred battlefields, and restore our
dead soldiers to life; you can not
go to the widow who has lost her
husband, dearer to her than all else,
shot down by rebel bullet, and
clothe him with life again, to be the
Joy of her declining years: you can
not restore to those among our or
phans, made so by rebel bullets, the
fathers that trained them in the paths
of usefulness and virtue, but I tell