Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-05-16
The Dead and Wounded.

When the smoke of battle clears away
it is customary to go over the field and
collect the remains of the dead and bring
in the wounded. The battle of Cincin-
natl was very sanguinary one. 1t was
more than triangular-a war of factions,
each seeking to destroy the others. When
all was over, and night closed in upon
the scene, the field was literally strewn
with wounded, dead and dying. Every
principle of the movt ment was remorse-
lessly slaughtered. Free trade was asas-
sinated in camp before the battle COM
menced, by its chief advocate, Mr. Ho-
race White, in obedience to the demands
of protection, and upon the agreement
that Lyman Trumbull, a free trader,
should be the nominee for President. The
doctrine of States rights was first en-
balmed in the platform, and afterward
killed by the nomination of Horace
Greeley, whose whole life has been de-
voted to opposing it. After disposing of
what few principles had been long harped
upon as the basis of the movement,
the factions proceeded to attack
and demolish its generals, colonels,
captains and lieutenants. Senator
Fenton went to Cincinnati, sold out his
old friend Mr.. Greeley, and then went
home to be informed subsequently by
telegraph that the sale did not stick, and
that consequently he mad compromised
himself with the Republican party only
to disgrace himself with the Liberals
He is hopelessly dead. Schurz went to
Cincinnati privately pledged to Brown,
but intending all the time to support
Trumbull. He remained perfectly silent
I until he was chosen President of the
Convention, refusing even to make a
rxr1,i ,in1, of @f
rifice never before successfully attempted
Horace White, and they believed the
Convention was theirs. Gov. Brown dis
covered the perfidy of the man he had
made Senator appeared on the ground,
and successfully sold and delivered Mr..
Schurz and Mr.. White to the philosopher
of the Tribune. Mr.. White lost every
thing. As Chairman of the Committee
on Resolutions, he first sacrificed his dar.
ling principle of free trade to his personal
preference for Trumbull But when he
did that he thought he was playing sue
cessful trick upon the Convention, be,
cause he knew Trumbull would be free
trade President. platform or no platform.
This was moment of supreme happiness
to the responsible editor, when he thought
he was the hero of the double perfidy OF
remitting the tariff question to the Con.
gressional districts, through the platform
but saving free trade in Mr.. Trumbull, his
Presidential candidate In less than an
hour after the Schurz and White platform
had been read, which was their coup Geta
to nominate Trumbull, Brown had pune
tured the scheme and was master of the
situation. In the responsible editors
double-leaded letter in the Tribune, signed
ID. W., he takes the only revenge possible
under the circumstances, by saying that
the speech of Brown fell like dish-water
upon the whole assemblage," and that the
"Gratz Brown performance has given the
| whole affair the appearance of a put-ur
job" When Greeley was nominated Mr
Schurz and Mr.. White needed NOT to he
told that they were politically dead. Both
those gentlemen were good timber to be
used in the Convention, and the philoso
| pher has used them. Circumstances force
them to support him, and it is entirely
unnecessary to make them any promises
1t can hardly be said that Mr.. Chief
Justice Chase was killed at Cincinnati
but his political remains, which have
been before the country these four years,
were found among the dead and dying or
that bloody field. Governor Palmer, VINO
went down before the charge of gallant
Phil. Sheridan in the Chicago burnt dis
trict, last October, and subsequently dis
appeared from the Illinois Gubernatoria
contest simultaneously with the consent
OF General Oglesby to become caIdi
date, of course appeared in the lists; but
as usual, he ran away slightly wounded