The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1859-10-28

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place IN four northern states. Each was
formerly strongly Democratic, and each
has been thoroughly rotoluiioniAed. Not
unseen by friendsnd foe Of change, some
potentpgoney has been a; work upon The
Northern mind; or rather the effects there-
Of we're perceived, iftho agency itselfWas
not. Alarmed 81 tho evidenttsndency of
Northern politics, Democratic politicians
have been ever since the transition COM
moncsd, working in opposition to is pro-
gress, and ondeavohng 10 prevent or az
least neutralizo lts results. Finding that
they could not choke and Kill the grow.
ing snti-slavery sentiment they ,iiscted
70 be favorable thereto, snA~to share IN
the common feeling. Making, this year,
a lsst desperate stand on territory yet
doubif.si, snd advooatng theories which
sney conceived The people 70 regard with
favor, they have been rewarded thus far
with only dcfest and disgrace. The sPe-
cious doctrine Of f"PoPular Sovereignty
with which they hoped to ontice the Peo-
pie into their ranks, seems to be disposed
Of evermore. II and IFS notorious origi-
nator and exponent, are laid together in
the same deep, political grave. The pres
tige Of the Democratic party, Is almost
gone. What docs all this meant Il is
not fortuitous Itis no strange, acciden-
tai thing, which may perhaps sever occur
again, fori is only the sans thing on a
larger scale, ,ha, happened last year and
the year before, and il has evidently deep
Significance. There is no effect without
an adequate cause.
Heretofore vcnal men have almost ex-
clusively managed The politics oftho coun-
Itry. They amused the multitude with fair
promises and imposing demonstrations,
and thus excited sufficient temporary en-
thusiasm to carry them into power; after
which they bought and sold their constit-
uonts.as they pleased, and dealt as brok-
ers in public interests. But il appears
that their trade is nearly gone down
The old "saw" that the people are ever
ready to be humbuggcd is fnlschood.--
The fact 10 that every humbug palmod up
on them makes the same operation next
time more difficult. They dscredit men
who have proven themselves promise
breakers, and they are moreover compe-
tcnt Judges Of policy when they possess
the facts. And il is the disposition al
ready very strong and growing continu-
ally stronger, to obtain facts, that has
oVerthrown the Democratic party and
will make null its ruinous measures.
No log-eabin and hard cider excitement
could now be manufactured; and hickory.
bush demonstrations are obsolete. The
universal demand is for something sub
stantial. A spirit Of earnestness per
vadcs the public mind, which, if rightly
considered furnishes complete solution
Of the whole problem ofthe late elections
Partzun editors and defeated candidates
philosophize over tho untoward events
and attempt 10 account for them by as.
signing a. their causes pleasant or un-
pleasant weather on election day by
which their voters were detained at home
or local circumstances, or anything Of the
kind. This is all puerile. If they are
satisfied with such silly reasons as these
"instehd Of ever being able to retrieve
their political fortunes, they will contin.
ually suffer worse and worse defeat, ill
there is nothing lot Of them to defeat
The cause is immensely deeper than they
desire to think,
Tho sympathies Of the masses are al.
ways right. AS these arc the impellinp
forces Of action, with intelligence TO di.
rect II, it will also be right The people
have investigated and thought, and in this
fact those who wish 60 Gun nud the Sc
cret Of those results which trouble then
so much. The circumstances the cas-,
have been examined in detail and the vcr
dict pronounced.
lis of no use for tho defeated Demo
cratic politicians to feel doleml and sore
headed, aud seek consolation from thoi
disordered imagnutions. The better way
Ia TO change their course and avoid other
wise certain calamity. And preparatory
TO doing this, if they will study II we'll
they may receive valuable instructions
from the lesson Of October nth"
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