The Wyandot Pioneer

The Vindicator endeavors by ridicule to parry the force of our brief article last week showing up his Know Nothing associations throughout the late canvass. Ridicule is often employed to divert attention from unpleasant truths. The editor does not and dare not deny that he published column after column attempting to prove that Fremont was a Catholic, and therefore unfit for President. He does not and dare not deny that he carefully refrained from attacking the "Dark Lantern" party, though engaged in its first national campaign, but on the contrary bestowed many compliments. He does not and dare not deny that he stood "cheek by jowl" with the Fillmoreites of this county, received their patronage, and printed their tickets with blanks left under some of the offices to be filled with the names of Locofoco candidates.

We did not and do not object to the Vindicator's support of Dark Lanternism in the late campaign. It had an undoubted right to urge the claims of Fillmore as well as those of Buchanan. Indeed, we thought it very kind in our neighbor to make his paper an organ of Fillmoreism. But it is certainly ungenerous, now that he has enjoyed their confidence and pocketed their money, to commence slurring them, and so soon after the election, too! Can it be, that some new scheme is on foot aiming at the destruction of his life?—some new "gunpowder plot" to "blow him up"? We wouldn't advise the Dark Lanternites to take his life, but when he attempts to desert them, they have a right, under the fugitive law, we believe, to reclaim him as a fugitive from "service and labor."
The Vindicator pretends to believe that our article was written by somebody about the Court House—a "third degree" member of the secret Order!—

We assure the Vindicator man that all articles which appear in the editorial columns of the Pioneer, are written by the person whose name stands first as editor at the head of the paper, who has never been connected with Know Nothingism in any way, shape or manner, never gave the least countenance to any movement for proscribing men on account of their birthplace or religion, and never will.—

Can you truthfully say the same, Mr. Vindicator? You know you cannot.