Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-02-18

timid, conservative, attached to the
abuses of honored custom, selfish in
the use of class privileges. and that
great ideas of right, of liberty and
progress, move slowly; encounter
popular opposition, ridicule and
nate $50 that almost every triumph
of freedom is secured not by coun-
ellis or votes, but by the sacrifice of
precious lives, on fields of battle.
The ordinary state of the public
mind, in respect to the morality of
political questions, is one of apathy
the apathy of Incidence and self
ishness.
How striking is the sturdy, heroic
faith of the old Abolitionist: ''That
one with God is majority" Yes,
one in the jury-room, or the legis
lature, or in a generation, may ulti
mately be seen to have been more
Just, more true to God and man,
than the boasted majority" that
C ,rsigned him for time to oblivion
as madman, and fool. The hon
st man, the just man, counts but
one; yet he is greater than Q major
ity of wooden headed bigots, who
curse him for the awful crime of be-
ing Il radical! Ha
What, then, of the oft quoted pro-
verb, "Vox Populi, Vox Del 2"
Simply this: sometimes in an awful
crisis, that startles people, so that
| they choose course only because 1t
is right, then there is a solemnity
and sublimity in the popular voice
that makes it sound like the ''Voice
of God" But when great conVen-
tions shape their aims on calcula-
tons of expediency, and with the
practised cunning that counts on
success-then how often, either in
defeat Or in accursed success, do we
see reason TO revise the pagan say
ing, and make'it read, "Vox populi,
vox Diaboli, SOMETIMES. the voice
of the people is the voice of the
devil.
I have been led to these remarks
by seeing the announcement that
Maine had elected Hon. Hannibal
Hamlin to represent her for the en-
suing six years in the United States
Senate. The tidings sent thrill Of
Ijoy throughout the land. 1t was al
act of tardy, but incomplete justice
AS far as we can see, an act Of in
gratitude and injustice to this man
was the occasion of agony, and o.
corrupt and dangerous misgovern
ment in this country, for four years
past.
The republicans rejected Hamlir
at Baltimore, and chose A. Johnsnl
for Vice-President, during Lincoln's
second term! They did themselve:
credit by the denomination of Lii.
coin they dishonored themselve:
by discarding Hamlin. They flung
Hamlin aside almost contemptuous
lv. Had he not been faithful, pa
tient, sincerely laborious in the peo
ple's cause, during all those trying
years? Why. then, was he t'nrus
aside? To comply with policy
To conciliate the South, (Heavel
save the mark!) to conciliate
South in rms! Their policy wa
successful, but republicans now hav
enough of Policy" and of " N,
Policy" for twenty years or more
The men who nominated johnson
instead Of Hamlin are nowhere to b
found; they all deny ''having hat
hand in the unfortunate business.
But on the day it was done, it wa
deemed smart, polite and exped en-
/ popular, and therefore hailed a
the voice of God; but what now sa,
F you about the voice? "It hath tn
trick of the devil in it, A nation
will rejoice to see A. johnson leav
Washington on the 9Th of March
: and will also hail as happy omel
the return of Hamlin, to the angus
chamber over which he preside'
with so much quiet dignity ant
ability, during those eventful year
tn 1T preceded the fall of the goo'
Lincoln. VoX.
From the CHM. Gazette, Feb. 13, 1853.
Grant Officially Informed of hi