Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-03-14
OUR WASHINGTON CORRES-
PONDENCE.
WASHINGTON, March 9th, 1872.

WASHINGTON, March 9th, 1872.
DEAR REPUBLICAN: 1 like your
style. 1 like paper that is positive,
that will have positive friends and
positive enemies. In other words. a
paper that is so lively that the reader
will swear by it or at it. Go for your
friends so they will feel you, and go
for your enemies so that they will
feel you too. For instance, if brok-
en- loyal soldiers should form an as
sociation to oppose the appointment
of Rebels to rule over them, or to oc-
cupy places Of honor above the loyal,
and should ask me to draw up reso-
lutions expressive of their indigna-
ton at the prospect, I should get
them up about as follows:
Mr.. President and members of this
Republican Association -
Your Committees appointed to draft
resolutions expressive of the ''indig
nation" felt by this Association, when
its members and loyal friends are
put upon q "competative" examina
ton for places of honor, trust and
irfluence, with no shadow of prefer
ence for the Loyal over the Rebel,
and when the broken soldier of the
"Grand Army OF the Republic may
lie pitted evenly against the bloodred
Ku Klux for places of influence
Beg leave to offer, for you considera-
ton, the following:
Resolued, That the appointment of,
or retention, in places of honor, pro-
fit, trust or influence of any of the
| 100000 democrats, who bore arms
against their country, or their auxil
iaries, sympathizers or apologists, is
| directly giving countenance and cur
rency to traitors and treason, and is
Justly considered an insult to those
who gave their blood, limbs and
meaus TO save this country from the
status of a Mexico, and to hand down
to posterity a Union in perpetuity.
RESOLVED, That the first and leading
question, as basis for all others, in
"competative'' examination for
Federal favor should be,
Did you, and do you, train in that
political company under whose flag
the army of democrats took the field
to destroy the government and held
it till 100000 men had been slain and
$4,000, 100000 of debt incurred ?
under whose flag 100000 Ku Klux
thirst for loyal blood? Under whose
flag Tammany makes her dividends
If so, such candidate should be
promptly informed that his "compet-
ative" closed at Appomattox.
Resolved, That when the people
choose their chief Ruler, they elect
him for his principles and do elect
his principles to take precedence and
permeate the entire government all
the way down unmixed, and when the
people make chief Ruler of some
''Broadhead Blair" they should and
do expect the Jeff Davises, Wade
Hamptons, Ned Forests, John III
Surratts, Quintrells and kindred spir-
it's. to make Broadhead Blair march
into every office, and make Broad
head Blair sweep from place of every
manned and loyal soldier, who, in hel
dark hour, stood by his Government
Resolced, That the issue, III th'
last Presidential election, was, "shal
the party who saved the country, o.
its armed enemies and their sympa
thizers and apologists, administer its
Governmental affairs? and the de
, cision of the people, at that time
commands our warm and hearty ap
probation.
Resolved, That we have been, ant
, still ale, PANIED to See competen
, loyal men placed in subordinat
places to those rebels they reduce
and dismissed on parole, and VIII
, now Extensively assert, when we as
! them to accept of life forfeited an
e pardon, that like their late leader
: JEFF Davis, they "accept nothing G
r the hands of Yankees :"
e 1t is not true that they accept moth
: ing from the Yankees, for they d
t accept what no other nation eve
: gave its rebels, their lives, liberty an
e amnesty, but they accept them an
i return curses, rather than thanks
f When q Northern Yankee city, in I
= linois, burned down and reused th