Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-09-30
For the Republican.
POOR DEMOCRACY.

events" )" through the necessity caus-
ell by the late Democratic Rebellion,
IL became necessary for our govern
lment to issue it's Bonds and offer
them to the people of the loyal
States for the purpose of raising
money to suppress that Democratic
Rebellion, who became the pur-
chasers )?
From one end of the land to the
other the "bloated'' copperheads,
from the press anu from their lips,
kept up one continual howl against
their value, warning their friends
not to touch them for they were as
worthless as the paper on which
they were printed, and never would
be paid! Being determined to make
the Rebellion a success, they attack
ed the government, and its credit
at every point, and fought for the
cause of tho Rebellion with the de-
termination and ferocity of the ii
ger! The result was a long and
bloody contest. and, thereby, de-
probation of Government values,
and the refusal of every advocate OF
the ''lost cause to invest in Bonds,
or anything else, that would
stren4t en- the arms of the Govern
ment, and, hence, of the Bonds dis
posed of, the copperheads had none
of them! ....
Eut there was another party whose
every member and friend was slimed
over and over with the oft repeated
pro-slavery and Democratic lie that
it favored and sought to effect a dis
solution of the Union. Like the pi-
lot at the helm ofthe tempest-tossed
chip it kept it's eye on the breakers
ahead, and when the storm came
that party was as true as the needle
to the pole!
When the commander it had cho-
sen called for 'help or we sink, y
help came! Again and again that
party responded to the call-never,
no never, did it stand back and say,
1--WE are lost" mot another man
nor another dollarr' With an eye
single to the work it's fathers began,
it marched onward in the face Of
traitors and all their sympathizers,
at home and abroad. When its
great head-the Government-call
ed for men, they went! When for
food and clothing and the many
other wants of its armies, all were
sent! When asked to purchase
Bonds to keep the whole in motion,
it's members reached for the bottom
dollar, and did so, until the banker,
the merchant, the day -laborer, the
sewing and wash woman, all became
"bloated" with "worthless bonds -
How could they help it? Copper
heads would not touch them, and
money must be had" and the re-
suit was that the war was successful
ly prosecuted.-rebels and copper
heads whipped in and out of their
boots,-bonds advanced rapidly in
value, and the poor Democracy, al
though terribly "bloated'' and puff
ed up with treason, had no bonds !!
Who was to blame9 Not those,
who with Abraham and Isaac and
Jacob, stood true to their country !!
No, not at all.
But, what next? Not content
with their unsuccessful efforts to de-
stroy the unity of the States, they
now, as individuals and as a party,
seek to destroy the standing and
values of the"bloated bondholders,"
whoever they may be, or wherever
they may be found.
AS between individuals such con-
duct would be called malicious and
mean! Between parties it can be
looked at in 40 other light. 1t is
the work of towards and rogues,
and not Of honorable men.
In this matter. if some are "bloat-
ed' with bonds it is because the,
necessarily. as friends ola common
country, were compelled, and cheer
fully took upon themselves the risk,
to aid that which they sought to
save from traitor hands and ''bloat
ed copperheads' by every means
in their power. and now, no doubt,
it is plainly visible to the friends of
treason that there is some agreeable
between being a '.bloated
b yndholder" and such as are only
the possessors of "recollections of
my sympathies with rebels ~ One
pays-the other does not; one
makes a man and patriot feel good
the other hurts in soul and
in purse. The one is the
result of honor, integrity and fideli-
ty-the other the result of coward
ice, dishonor. infidelity and tIeason!
The one will rise and shine with
the glory and per- petuity OF the
other will sink and
tester and scab all over until it's
poisonous odor will become a last
ing stencil in the nostrils of the
lovers of American history! ''Tory.
of Revolutionary fame, will soon