Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-03-25

"Sacre! 1t isn't comfortable.
It's not substantial. Is it peace ?"
els it peace that I, a German
who work harder than either French
man or Englishman-ach ! they are
idlers when compared with me-
late night and early morn, that !
should be toiling at my trade, art,
or profession, with labor equal
ling his who piled Pelion upon
Ossa? Is it peace that four years
of my life-the very flower of my
youth-should he spent in practis-
ing the art of war? And to what
end Solely that may know how
to defend the prince or potentate
that robs me of my toil-nay,
more, treats me as an inferior thing
fit only to do subservience, and
pay tax to him!
"Dunaer uad bitten! Is this as
it should be? Is it peace %
s'Is it peace, that I, a Spaniard
having within my veins the best
blood Of Iberia, and in my brain
the records Of the Conquistadores-.
having also a strong tendency tow
ards republicanism-should be COM
PEELED to submit to a monarchy,
now king, now queen whose
character has disgraced me through
out Christendom ? And to a Church
that not only constrains my con-
science, but taxes me till I have
scarce enough left to keep body and
soul together!
"Caramba! Is this what you call
peace = $3.50
49, -. -. -.
''Is it peace, that /, all italian,
who fought for it under the brave
Garibaldi, and was promised it by
the king of Piedmont, should find
under this same king my toll CON
tinued, and my tax as great, if not
greater, than ever? Should find
too that this tax goes not to re
lieve my suffering fellow, country
men, but to support our Ire Gal
antuomo' in his courses of dissipa-
ton, that we all know to be of the
most disreputable kind?
"Must I eternally toll for this
1, who above all men and all things,
love the dolce far miente?
"Cospetto! Who calls this
peace ?''
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us it peace that L, Turk-a
disciple Of the true Prophet, and
decended from the great conquerors
of Stamboul, have to crawl through
its streets, not daring to look my
Pasha fair and square in the fac :,
but day by day in dread of the
bastinado? +? Is it peace that 1 must
pay away four fifths of my hard
scrapings-not by way of backsheesh,
but in a levy taken without leave,
land out ofmy chattels, if 1 refuse it ?
And for what purpose? To sup
port some scores of lazy Pashas,
and our Sultan with his thousand
beautiful wives, whose faces I am
never permitted to see!
"BisnalIah!t I is this peace? By
the sword of the Prophet, I prefer
war! ~ .ere-t t....---s
ave are no better off," says
Greek, ''with foreign king forced
upon us by the great Powers, not
only to tax but restrain us from
giving help to our more oppressed
brethren in Crete. If we must have
king, give us one Of our own
countrymen. Better Polycrates
than this half German, half Danish
princelet. But we don't want either.
We want no king at all. What we
) wish for is peace under republic.
Give us that, or give us WARP
"And SO say we-Swede, Dane,
Dutchman and Russian-all we
oppressed peoples! %
, And so says the man, who, in the
2 underneath, speaks his apostrophe
|, to -
: Let pale lips abjure thee, and pirate about
y peace:
For this is the fashion of times as they go.
| Let the king ON his throne, as he sits at his
ease, .---t
To his minions and millions preach uI
'sstatu quo.''
''Statu quo,' to a slave
. Peace apostles, ye rave!
'Tis the peace of the gibbet, the Jail, and the
{ grave!
And this is the gospel to peoples ye preach,
While you tell them by treason" their free,
dom to gain,
How long might the slave to his master be.
seech.
. Ere he'd list to such suasion, and strike of
his chain?
Nay, lengthen one link?
But for dread of thee, War,
t How soon may we think
f King, Sultan, or Gar.
For reason or rhyme,
Would restore to their peoples the rights from
), them riven, 14
, The rights that by God and by Nature were
given,
Not till cycle on cycle had ended all time.
Men call thee unholy And true hast thou
been,
Too oft in the family quarrels of kings,
, A forced mediator 'twixt Satan and sin;
Thus, the last to defend thee were he who
, now sings.
But different far
As the noon from the night,
WI