Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-09-14
A Southern Scheme.

THERE is, no doubt, wisdom in the say
ing that forWarned is to be forearmed."
At all events, being forwarned, it is the
fault of nations as well as individuals if
they are not forearmed. There is q large
class of politicians in the Northern States
whose principle creed is sycophantic SUBJ
mission to the dictation of the somewhat
arbitrary and intolerant leaders of the
South. This course or custom has been
SO long practiced that it has become SOFT
of second nature.
This class of politicians, or political
party, is not now and probably never has
been in majority at the North, and the
| only way that it has obtained control of
the national government has been through
| the cooperation of the Southern poll
| ticians. These astute and dictatorial lead
ers, aware of their power, have lever been
backward in using it to advance those
measures, which have been known as
Southern measures for the past quarter
| century. However distasteful these might
be to the Northern people, it has been the
business of the Northern leaders to recon.
Gle as many of their followers as possible,
and trust to the solid Southern phalanX to
carry it through.
1t was thus when those Southern lead.
ers demanded the privilege of secession
and a dissolution of the Union; and made
their preparations openly and boldly in
the Capitol of the nation. There was not
a Northern adherent of the Southern
party, who dared to raise an objection to
the programme. From the President
down 10 the rank and file of the party not
a voice of remonstrance was raised Mon.
strous as the proposition was-destructive
as it was to the noble fabric of free gov
ernment, reared in this western world-it
is morally certain that, had there not been
the great conservative opposition party, it
would have been consummated without a
remonstrance.
The above retrospection is necessary to
illustrate our view of the new Southern
scheme to which we refer in the head of
this article-a scheme, by the way, that is
only second in infamy to the great crime
of secession and dissolution of the Union.
Now, as then, there is Northern party
anxious for the power and emoluments OF
office. Now, as then, it is impossible for
that party to secure power, except by the
aid of the combined South, hence the
alacrity with which the slightest as well
as gravest demands of the South is made
party principle, and hence the almost
certainty that any such claim or demand
will be sustained as paramount duty Of
the Northern wing of the Democracy.
| Inc new Scneme Is nOth1ng less than tC
have the United States Government pay
to the South $4,000, 100000 for her eman
= cipated slaves. The claim seems so mon
, strous, SO absurd, at first glance, that i
hardly can be looked upon rs in earnest
or if made in earnest, that it could evel
: for moment be seriously entertained by
|. a party pretending to nationality. But al
r has been said before, eve know of no way
4 of judging of the future but by the past;
i and, judging by the past, what have we tC
t hope: We have seen powerful party
with the President and all the executive
e officers, with the entire force of the Ad
: ministration under its control acquiescin,
/. in the destruction of the government AMI
J, the dissolution of the Union, with onl,
the feeble declaration that there was NJ
0 power under the Constitution to preveu
b it! With the same party in power, an,
e shaping our national policy, controlled il
great measure by the same men, wins
j. should we have to hope when the South
l. ern portion of that party should demsn
e only money consideration for the loss G
d its slaves, but that the claim would be &C
l knowledged and granted?
d The Richmond Wing, the organ tha
l has broached this gigantic scheme of SAD
q ding the National Treasury with q clair
Of $4,000, ,000, 900 is, and has long beer
r the mouthpieoe of the most daring an