The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-06-23
THE DANGER OF THE TINES.


THE DANGER OF THE TINES.
j Politicians make us believe, or try
to convince us, that the present is a
crisis of solemn Importance. But
they say that the peril threatening
us is of political nature-that our
country is in danger-that unless
this party is retained in power, and
that party kept on the back seat of
position and patronage, we are hope
lessly ruined. The Democrats de-
nounce the Republicans as being
extravagant, corrupt, tyrannical and
revengeful, and promise wonderful
reforms if again put in power; while
the Republicans point to the shame
full record of their opponents and the
ill-concealed determination of the
rebellious Southrons at least, to un-
do all that has been accomplished,
at such cost, IN behalf of freedom,
justice and republicanism, and again
letting " slip the dogs of war;" re-
open the deep and ghastly wounds
that so lately furrowed and ensan-
guined the nations body. Probably
the real truth of the matter is, that
both parties have, to an alarming
degree, good ground for their mutual
recriminations; and that the danger,
in this respect, is, that the ins will
be deprived of farther opportunity
to pull at the public teat. Very
likely the formation of a new party
is necessary to harmonic otherwise
hopelessly discordant elements,
abolish unblushing corruption, de-
velop our inexhaustible public re-
sources, send the warm, energizing
blood of healthy and fraternal activ-
ity through the entire national
system, and rapidly advance our
country on its march of peerless
prosperity.
But to my mind, there is danger
of another character, and danger be-
fore whose frowling front the exag-
gerated political troubles so much |
talked of and written about, to the |
sad exclusion of sensible, instructive |
and beneficial topics, pale into in
significance. And the most alarm
ing feature of this great peril is, that
the people are almost totally indifer-
ent to their condition, and are, with
hardly perceptible exceptions, taking
no steps to remove its present ef-
fects, nor adopting any measures for
its future prevention. With rapid
strides it is advancing through the
land; the good and generous and
brave are daily falling before its ter
rible weapons, and on every side he
who strolls along the shores of time,
beholds the ghastly skeletons and
grinning sculls of those who fool
ishly thought to sport with the
direst agent Of ruin unharmed.
Farther consideration of this
momentous subject is deferred.
TIE sQUABBLE IN TOLEDO.
To an outsider the present bitter
newspaper controversy in Toledo, is
absurd and disgusting. Both papers
are edited by men standing high in
social and religious circles; hitherto
nobody has deemed them unfit as
sociates for decent people; but if
half of what each editor Loldly
charges against the other be true
and surely Sabbath school superin-
tendents, deacons and divines will
not lie!-not only are both too cor
rupt to move in any honorable
sphere, but they should be impris-
oned at hard labor for life. To such
inexcusable extremes does the heat
of public controversy lead men who
are reputed to be honest and candid
like mother Partington, and are
commonly as meek and harmless as
lambs.
Perhaps it is well to ask what very
important cause has thus ruffled
these doves smooth and glossy
feathers? The answer is wonderfully
easv. A gentleman, of talent far
from commanding, as free from true
Republicanism as Buchanan af-
frmed his veins to be of a certain
kind of blood, but of undiluted ego
tism and selfshness, and unbounded
persistence, whom others more pow
erful than himself have for years
forced upon an unwilling communi-
ity,-has, by reason of the removal
Of the props that hitherto supported
him, lapsed into proper insignif-
canoe and finds himself among the
outs. OF course he died game, and
his mortal thToes are like unto trop-
ical earthquakes. Very foolishly
other official incumbents who were
entirely acceptable to the communi-
ty, lent their aid to prevent the long