The Tiffin tribune. [volume] (Tiffin, Ohio) 1848-1859, 1858-09-17
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self condemned criminal. He admits
that he voted for the English Bill which
Cox pronounced "a d--d sight meanef
than Locompton itself" and 20, he insults
deceuoy and good sense. by promising
that he will vote, next winter, TO repeal
this same bill and 70 admit Kansas with
any population. He admits that he is a
great rascal. that he has done very mean
thing. in voting for the English bribe TO
make Kansas slave State; and yet be has
the audaoity TO ask the people to re-elect
him. Is thief to be trusted the second
time? Is a murderer to 60 unhung, be-
cause he turns states evidence, oonlesses
the deed aud promises to do beiter9 Judge
Hall has too many promises outstanding
and unredeemed, to be trusted any farther,
He STANDS ON THE RECORD, com
mitted, not only by his vote but, by his
party creed, 10 the principles Of the Eng
lsh bill. To try to rid himself Of that
responsibility is to "add insult TO injury
and coufers himself scoundrel, entirely
too unworthy to bo trusted. We have no
other means Of judging what a man ioH
do, than by what he has done and 1t is
fair to presume that Hall will commit the
very same act next winter, under like
circumstances. To suppose anything
else is TO suppose him morally and poit-
ioally dishonest. Let him choose i0hicdeU-
sr horn ofhe dilemma he wW. Judge
Hall will fad it up hill business, making
the people believe that he will do thus aud
so when HIS OWN VOTE and his ma
ny unredesmod promises give The lie direct
to eli his assertions. But we are to take
things as they are not as they may be Hall
is to be determined guilty or not guilty,
by the record he left behind him at
Washington. Aud what is that record3
Why il stands out IN characters OF living
FIRE, so plain that "he that ruuneth may
read" lie broke his pledges, disappoint-
ed his best friends and, without any ex-
ouse, slid down the creased English plank
into the arms Of James Buchanan and the
South, leaving Douglas and his followers
to dght the battle alone. He deserted
principle for a prelonoe; the genuine for
the base counterfeit; and, like the miser-
able dupe that ho was. fell down and
worshipped the "ealf' that Buchanan
had set up. lie compromised, when
there could be no compromise consistent
with principle aud manhood He is trait.
or. whose treachery deserves the exocra-
tion Of all honest mon. Besides trying
TO bribe Kansas into the Union, as a slave
state, he voted to punish her if she re
fused, by keeping her out Of the Un!oni
for the bill says expressly, that if the
bribe is spurned Kansas may como into
tuv Uni,s.. O. .-l------- ..,.si. s,s,t hAG.~e IL
is asoertaned by census duly and le-
gally taken, that the population Of said
territory equals or exceeds the ratio, re-
quired for "a member Of the House Of
Representatives Of Congress Of the Uni.
ted States" Now Hall voted for this
bill, with the clear understanding, that
Kansas was to be kept out of the Union,
unless the degrading proposition was ac-
ce2ted; and he dare not deny it.-he dare
not come out and repudiate his own party
platform aud his own vote II he does.
ne is either not honest or he is not Dem
ocrat. Hall knows that he is beat, hence
his lodging. He is too craven hearted
and cowardly to meet the issue, which lie
himself has created-he is afraid 10 stand
up aud defend the English Bill. which
has become law Of the land by his vote.
lie is trying to desert his own offspring,