Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-04-25

Abolitionists and anty- slavery,
men, Free soilers and Republicans
accepted as vitality animating, and
living faith, the creed of human
equality. Accepting the doctrine
that emancipation was the duty of
the master and the right ofthe slave,
and that it was the duty of the ma
ton to prohibit and abolish slavery
whenever 1t had the power, they pet
itioned Congress to perform that
work in the District of Columbia
and in the Territories.
They maintained, when assailed,
the sacred right of petition and the
freedom Of speech.
They opposed the annexation of
Texas, by which it was sought to
prevent the abolition of slavery
there, and to strengthen it at hone.
They struggled to prohibit slavery
in:free territory won from Mexico
by war.
They resisted with ell their power
the opening of the free territories of
Uta.@. and New Mexico to slavery.
and the surrender of thousands of
square miles Of free soil to slaveheld-
ing Texas.
They opposed the enactment of
the fugitive slave bill and the unholy
compromises of 1850.
They sternly resisted the repeal of
the Missouri compromise which had
secured hundreds of thousands of
square miles to free laboring men.
TEey denounced the border ruffian
invaders of Kansas, their unhholy
legislation establishing slavery, and
their inhuman slave code.
They pronounced the Lecompton
Constitution "the product of fraud
and violence
They denounced the Dred Scott
dicta, by which it was proclaimed
that .sblack .mcu had no rights white
men were bound to respect"
They exposed The delusions of
squatter sovereignty, and denied the
right of slave masters to take their
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protected by national authority.
They steadily and sterniy rejected
when menaced by rebellion and civil
war, the Crittenden compromise, ~
which the nation, by irrepealable con- /
stitutional amendments, was to re-
cognize slavery south of the Mis-. !
souri, compromise line, allow slave
masters to take their fettered bond
men into and through the free States,
deprive men of African descent of
citizenship and suffrage, and deny
to Congress the right to abolish
slavery in the capital of the nation.
When the Republican party came
into power in 1861 it infiexibly ad-
lered, at the risk OF civil war, to the
principles it had enunciated for i'm
partial liberty. and against the ag
sressiYe and dominating influences Of
he slave masters.
1t made free slaves used by the re-
oels for military purposes.
1t forbade officers TO return to
heir masters fugitives coming with
n the lines of the army to seek the
protection of the national flag.
1t abolished sllyery in the District
Of Columbia, and made the national
capital free.
1t annulled the inhuman, cruel, ard
Black Code of the District,
md provided that colored men
should be tried and punished.
It gave its colored people the
light to testify. in the courts of law,
o ride in the public conveyances, to
EDUCATE their children, to vote, and
% be voted for.
1t prohibited slavery in the vast
Territories of the United States, and
'ayed them from its chains and
Whips, its auction blocks. and its
,loodhounds.
1t made free slaves captured by its
Irmies, or who came into their ad-
Tancing lines.
1t repealed the cruel and humila
ing Fugitive Slave Act. and brought
o close its inhuman and dastardly
lave hunts.
1t recognized the nationality of
Iayti and Siberia, which had been
o long and so wickel lily withheld by
he slave power.
1t enrolled black men, and weap-
med their hands to fight the battles
# their country.
1t gave freedom to the slaves who
oined the armies of the Union.
It made free the wife and children
# the black soldier.
It struck the word white from the
military laws, and made block men a
portion of the national militia.
1t prohibited the barbarous and
,arbarizing practice of Furnishing Of
enses by whipping in The recon
tructed States.
Il abolished and forever prohibi-
ed the system of peonage in New
Ierico.
1t entered into treaty stipulations
With the British Government for the
inal extirpation of the African slave
rade.
1t made the coast-wise slave traffic
Illegal.
1t gave black men the right to tes
ify in the courts of the United
states.
1t gave suffrage to black men in all
he Territories of the republic.
1t sustained Abraham Lincold's
of emancipation that
rave freedom to three and half mil
ions of men, women, and children.
t forever abolished slavery through
'ut the land, by the adoption of the
3th Amendment.
1t Created the Freedmen's Bureau
or the protection and education of
he ecancipated Eondmen.
1t secured to black men the full
nd equal ben. fit of all laws for the
of life acd proberty by the
ivil rights act.
1t maue colored men citizens of the