Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-10-07

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all the seeding States on Repub-
lican basis-on the principle of
equality before the law of all classes
Of citizens.
They have secured the freedom
Of the public lands to all actual set
lers, enabling every poor man to Sc
cure a home for himself and family
for the bare cost Of survey and
deed.
They have made large acquisi-
ton of territory, and by wise states
manship, maintained peace with all
the world.
They have constructed the Pacific
Railroad, which is one of the most
gigantic enterprises of ancient or
modern times, and of immense
present and prospective Importance
to the commercial interests of the
world.
They have labored faithfully, in
season and out of season, and it is
hoped with some de rree of success,
to mitigate, with view to the ulti-
mate eradication of the seemingly
natural and apparently irreconcila
BILE hostility existing on the part of
Democrats, especially the Hibernian
portion OF them, to the African race
They have eudeavored to impress
them with tie solemn fact that God
hath created ofone blood all nations
of neE - tn the African is "a man
and BROTHER that he fought no.
bly, during 1.-The great lebelIion;'
aao all this with a iull conscious
ness that the sentiment of concilia-
ton and fraternity toward the eman-
cipated African brother. is of slow
growth in the Democratic bosom.
They have accomplished the her.
culean task of keeping out OF power
the Democratic party-the 'peace
on any terms" party-also the re-
pudiators, such as the covenant
breaking bend takers, and the late
President, who proposed the liquid
alton of the National debt by the
payment of the interest only; and
the villainous out-and-out repudia-
tors of both principal and interest
thus saving the Government from
disruption by traitors, and from dis
honor by repudiators.
And finally, as tge legitimate Sc
quence of the abolishment of slavery
| (the crowning glory of their
achievements, they have put the
quietus, for all time, upon the inhu
man practice Of whipping women,
and of the more infamous one of
selling children of tender age from
their parents, whom, in ninety nine
cases in hundred, there was not
the most remote probability of ever
bringing face to face again, or be-
! tween whom verbal or epistolary
communications would ever pass
This nefarious, barbarian, uncivil
lied, unchfistian practice was, in
Democratic times, indulged in, with
| Democratic sanction, with no more
compunctions Of conscience between
buyer and seller than is experienced
by the stock raiser on our Western
prairies, and the stock buyer, when.
by sale and purchase, the calf is sold
and separated from the COW, the
pigs from their mother, or the colt
from it's dam!
| Is not the party that has now the
honor Of these achievements EMIT.
led to immortal fame? We think
so. And if so, is it not entitled to
perpetuation? That depends upon
what their purposes are-upon what
they intend to accomplish hereafter
Upon that point we submit single
paragraph.
j The Republican party is pledged
to maintain friendly relations with
all nations, upon the condition OF
on-encroachments upon our tights
Ito secure the adoption of the
Fifteenth Amendment" which pla
ces all alike, the German, Irishman
African, Chinaman, Englishman and
American upon the great platform
Of Equality. Fraternity and Human
Liberty-to reconstruct the two un.
reconstructed States on the basis oi
Republicanism and Equal Rights
to pay the public debt-to fully re-
store domestic peace and tranquil
ty by squelching out the spirit oI
treason, North and South, and to
prevent traitors from concoctine
treason-to save from starvation
the freedmen and poor whites-tc
encourage immigration to this as
ylum for the oppressed of all ma
tions-to give office to the repent
ant rebels and to unrepentant trait
ors re enfranchisement-to equal
just and moderate taxation-to ar
economical administration of the
Federal Government-and finally
in order to their ultimate triumph
in the accomplishment of the fore
going purposes, the Republican
, party-lhe powerful and Triumphant
f party of this country, now number
ing nearly four millions of voters
is pledged to use all legitimate pow.
er and influence to keep democrats
repudiators, Knights of the Colder
; Circle and traitors from getting con
troll of the government, and thu:
save it from humiliation, dishonol
and disintegration! These are the
, purposes of the Republican party
and does not their accomplishment
f demand the God-speed of every
patriot? The principles of the Re
: publican party are based on equal
ty, justice, humanity and the COLDER
rule-they harmonize with the pre-
t cepts Of the Bible, and conform tt
i. the teachings and code of the Grea
Lawgiver--they are imbued will
, the benevolence of Christianity
g ,or,naotod with tho phila nthropv n