Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-08-22

| ers, free to make their own contracts as IN
| dependent laborers, protected as husbands
| and wives, bound together as parents and
\ children, voting and being voted for, pursu-
| ing successfully all professional employ
| ments, steadily augmenting their nome COM
| forts and laying up wealth. occupying sta-
| tions of trust and emolument, and having
| their representatives in every Southern Leg
| islature and on the floor of Congress. True,
in certain localities they are still subjected to
| many indgnities, and sometimes to horrible
outrages, but these are inflicted by that class
| of incorrgible miscreants of the South who
are just now in happy utilization with yourself
| to place Horace Greeley in the Presidential
| chair True, there is still throughout the
| country, a strong prejudice against social
| equality irrespective of color; but this is
| steadily yielding, and in many cases has
ceased to operate. The special time to ex-
press sympathy for the "infinite wrongs" of
the colored race was when they had few to
interfere for their deliveyance from the auc-
| ton block and slave cofile, from the slave
| drivers CORY lash, from CALLING yokes and
| torturing thumb-screws, from the fangs of
the bloodhounds, from the cluches of prowl-
| ing Hdnappers, from inconceivable agonies
at the burning stake and when to "re-
| member those in bonds as bound with them,n
| led anywhere else than to the high places of
the country. And I always deeply regret,
| too, (as l am quite sure you now do, } that
| for so many years after the commencement
| of the struggle to effect that delverance,
when the elements were melting with fer
| vent heat, and mobocratic violence
for the suppression of anti-slavery dis
cussion was everywhere prevalent, not ex-
| cepting in your own native city, YOU took no
| active part in that conflict, attended no anti
slavery gatherings, gave no visible sign of
| lively interest in its success; for the first
time bearing your public testimony against
slavery in opposing. the annexation of
| Texas. When elected to the United States
Senate, in 1851, you sat nearly eight months
in that body, speechless in regard to the
Fugitive Slave bill, elicting strong remon-
| strances against your protracted silence,
seeing that, as the successor of Mr.. Web
ster, your election was regarded as an i'm
portant gain to the cause of impartial free
| dom. Your silence was the more inexplica-
BILE, and furnished just cause for uneasiness,
because, in speech made by you before GO
ing to Washington, you said: "The subject
| will not admit of postponement or hesita-
tion. 1t is the subject of subjects. From
this time forward it will be entertained by
Congress; it will be, as it were, one of the
or forgotten. We demand, first
and foremost, the instant repeal of the Fugi-
tive Slave bill.' You took your seat in the
Senate December l, 1851; it was not until the
9th of July, 1882 that you rose to advocate
that repeal, apologetically prefacing your re-
marks by saying: clad 1 attempted this
duty at an earlier day, it might have been
said that as a new conner and inexperienced
in this scene, without deliberation, hastily,
fore the country" Surely no true friend of
humanity would have made such fling, and
the possible sneers of its enemies were not
deserving moments consideration. Be-
sides, the discussion had been going on
throughout the land ever since the passage
of the Fugitive Slave bill, SO that to talk of
pushing the question" upon the public at
ention was misapplication of language.
Nevertheless, once putting your hand to
the plow, you did not look back; once
breaking the painful silence, you have not
ceased to speak with great boldness and rare
eloquence, for the complete enfranchisement
of the colored race; nor have failed to stand
by you through evil report and through good
report, cheering you on, and both in public
and in private vindicating you from the un-
just attacks of your prO-slavery traducers.
My reference to the early days of anti-slav-
cry trial is not to tear from your brow one of
the laurels with which it is SO honorably
| bound; but when-to make your influence
potential with the colored electors to secure
their votes for Mr.. Greeley-Mr. Greeley's
organ-the Tribune, untruthfully proclaims
you to have been the foremost enemy of
human slavery, when 'Abolitionist, was a
term OF reproach from one end of the coun-
try to the other''-''the best and wisest
friend Of the freedmen in the trying years
since ancipation"-''Ioved and trusted by
the colored race above all other men in
America"-justice required that the decep-
tion should be exposed, and the whole truth
of zeal and fidelity in securing equal rights
for the colored race, has your respected CO.
Senator, Henry Wilson, been outstripped by
you; and no member of Congress has done
more for them. Nay, long before you were
seen or known in opposition to slavery, he
was actively engaged in the noble strife
under the banner of immediate and uncondi-
tional emancipation. During the thirty-six
years of public life he has made the freedom
of the race, SO long peeled and trodden down,
paramount to all other political considera-
tions. Instead of persistently stunning
anti tislavery meetings, he was a frequent
attendent upon them, and freely participated
in their proceedings: Now that he has been
deservedly nominated by the Republican
party for the Vice-Presidency of the United
States, and if elected may possibly, in the
turn of events, be the acting President, it
should be matter of pride and gratitude on
the part of colored voters to give him their
united suffrages. AS he is Massachusetts,
Senator like yourself, has been a warm per
sonal friend and faithful coadjutor, and
stood up undauntedly in your defense when
bloody violence sought your life, l think ii
is discreditable to you that you have not
only evinced no satisfaction with the choice
of the Republican party in this particular
but have treated it as unworthy of recogni
ton. To make this slight the more notice
able, you have taken the pains to eulogize
his political rival for the Vice Presidency,
Gratz Brown, as one whom you "have
known for years as a most determined Aboli
tionistW 1t is an immensely exaggerated
claim. Put hundred men like Gratz Brown
into one scale and Henry Wilson into the
other, for anti-slavery services rendered, and
for reliable friendship for our colored popu
lation, and they would violently kick the
beam. There is no comparison TO be made
, between these candidates as to trustworthi
, ness or meritorious character. The nomina
ton of one so openly pronounced on al
, the leading reformatory movements of the
, age as Henry Wilson is a crushing reply tC
? the hollow charge that the Republican party
, is without a mission and given over to cor
ruption.
Having at last decided to support Mr.
, Greeley (Why did you linger so long, in view
, of his extraordinary virtues and admirable
Presidential qualificationsO you naturally
: proceed to make the most of him. 1. "He
, was born to poverty" So were millions be
l sides. What then? Does Charles Sumner
deem himself unfortunate for having been
born to competence? 2: "He educated him
, self in printing office" Thousands of 9TH
ers have done the same thing. Is it any rea.
son why they should be put into the Presi
Dental chair? 3. ''He started with nothing
but industry and character An every.
5 day occurrence in all parts of the country
2 4. "Always benefcent with the poor" Is
that a rare trait, and worthy of grave con
sideration in determining who shall be the
e suspicion has touched" There is nothing
peculiar in this In the ordinary dealings OF
business life, no doubt, Mr.. Greeley is hon
: est; he will neither cheat nor pick your
r pocket. But in his political management he
, has been, and continues to be, far from up.
right, substituting low expediency for un-
l swerving rectitude. The great American
compromiser, Henry Clay, living and dying,
, was alike his idol and model. He does not
: find it difficult to believe that the end sancti
) fes the means. To adhere to fixed princi
) pie of right, come what may, he re-
} CARDS as fanaticism; to sacrifice it fol
present attainable advantage is, in his
r opinion, craftsmanship. In the treatment oi
| public affairs he is unreliable, and without
vision or Judgment. The latest exhibition
of his slipperiness is seen in his high -protec
tion dodge at Cincinnati to reconcile free
5 traders to his nomination. He seems to be
l quite destitute of moral sensibility, and
, when occasion favors can easily be duped
, He sees no good reason why fire and gun
powder should always remain at variance, OIL
D why light and darkness should never
e coalesce. 1t is only for Southern disloyalty
: to mt on the guise of patriotism to be ac.