Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-05-04


judicious journalist and sound Re
publican, remaining editor in chief
The Commercial is highly deserving
Of success.
Political Situat:on-Last Demo-
cratic Failure-Trit:mph of the
Country.
We reproduce the following truth
full and magnifcently written article
from the Cincinnati Gazette of the
9th ult. 1t expresses our sentiments
exactly and in manner so admirable
that but few can equal. It's author
is E. D. MANSFIELD. commend its
perusal, to fault finders especially:
The adjournment of Congress, the
probable success of the High Com
mission, the utter defeat of the Presi
dents enemies on the San Domingo
question, the still greater failure of
ScHURz & Co. to make division, and
the final farce of the Democratic ad-
dress have brought US to political
epoch TO period when we can take
a ''new departure not after the fash
ion of a school boy debating society
but of a grand step in national pro
gress. Six years have elapsed since
the war of the rebellion ended; and
these have been six years of such a
rapid and powerful development in
national destiny, in financial stability,
in extended settlements, in internal
commerce and in the progress of
population of cities and Of States, as
have not been paralleled in the his
tory of modern nations. What did
we hear in the war and at its end
Why, we were told of the immense
and irremod d able losses of men and
property, Of the loss of the Gotten
crop, not to be recovered; of the de
stroyed commerce of the ocean; of
debt Which was to remain an oppres-
ion on the people through genera.
tions. aud of violated Constitution,
over which the spirits of jefferson
and Jefferson Davis were to go
mourning forever! Let them morn.
On the abolition Of slavery what did
we hear? That the great mass of
worthless, ignorant, vagabond he
groes, created by God to be an infe-
rior race, would never work, and the
whites have to leave the country for
want oflabor, and the aristocratic
masters be compelled to endure the
worst Of fates-work himself. Let
him work. On the adoption of negro
suffrage and the amendments to the
onstitntion, what did we hear That
this was a a''white mans government >
that there would be sswar ofraces :"
that the people would not endure it,
and, in fine, that society was tum bling
into ! uins Was there war of races
None on the part of the poor negroe;
but good deal by body Of white
scoundrels organized as the ''Ku-
Klux," and patronized by the Demo
craticsgarty The KuKlux' appear
on the stage, like some Of the great
actors. by especial request" and
their performance is repeated night
after night, with the unbounded ap-
pluse of the Democratic party in the
South. In The North, they are decid.
edly afraid Oft, not because the thing
is not very meritorious in itself, but
because there are great many hon
est Democrats who, like the Republic
ans, have got an old fashioned idea in
their heads-that right is sight, and
law is law-and and so there is no
hope Of single Northern State, ifthe
Democratic party sympathizes with
the Ku-Klux.
What is TO he done about it Moth
ing can be done. The farce of the
Democratic address is a conclusion
to the whole matter. The Gazette
says truly that the address is 'snoth-
ing" That is true in moral, or po-
litical, or intellectual point of view.
1t is most pitifnl thing. But, not
withstanding, it is a most valuable
document for the Republicans. When
athing has nothing positive in it, it
may have great value as a Negative.
The Democratic address is valuable
for what is not in it. Where now
are all those terrible charges against
the Republican party which for year
on year filed ever Democratic paper
and the mouth of every Democratic
orator in the country? Where is
their denunciation of ruin and disas-
ter? OF failing cotton crops and
worthless negroes? Of amendments
to the Constitution to be repealed
Of negro suffrage to be overturned.
and Of military satraps? Where, in
one word, is the assertion of any one
idea which distinguished the Demo
cratic party for the last twenty years
Where is one measure proposed diff
ferent from what the Republicans
have done Not one. All is silence.
and the Democratic party makes an
open confession before the country
that its theories and its principles, as
put forth in the ress and its public
acts for the last twenty years, are
rotten, absolute failures. Now, let
us see what is the effect Of this on all
candid and intelligent minds If the
Democratic party were to say to us
and to the country, I'VE are a large
body of people: we have been long
cut of power, and we ought to have
our turn on the government" this
would be no more than sensible.
fair statement, which candid man
would listen to but in the case of
'plitical parties there. are but two
alternatives of position. Thus, either
he party applying for office holds the
'ie iiinclp'cs with those now in