The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1859-12-23


all the rage, tho venom and the threats
Of disunionl From he Democracy only
Lot every candid man examine the record.
Let him not say il IL all aihe South" docs
this, while there arc such men az Gilmer
Ethoridgo and Nelson there. This whole
commotion, passion, and faction. is an IN
ferHdi conUuisfOn Of the Democratic party
springing from the equally ultra doctrines
Of State Rights and Popular Sovereignty,
which have been long inculcatcd in that
party. The former has led the South 10
think Il can act independently ofthe gen
eral government, and the latter, that any
petty Territorial community can regulate
for Itself great questions Of National and
Constitutional policy. The result IL, the
South is ready to nullify, the territories
are scenes Of blood and violence, and the
Democratic party is conyulsed through il,
whole extent.
Sicondly-Tho Democratic members;
by incorporating the position Of the
Republicans, iBjure the South, excite pas.
sions, and thus keep up a perpetual agita.
tion which might be all6yed. Foremost
in this, on a recent occasion, was Mr..
Sam. Cox, Of Columbus. This smart
young man knows as we'll as any other to
DO found, that the Republican party,
though unquestionably anti-slayery, nei-
thcr proposes, nor would do anything in
furious 70 the rights Of the South. He
knows and the world knows, that the
Republican party plants itself on the non
extension Of slavery into the Territories,
and tho restoration Of the balance Of DO
litio0l power, which has been so long dis
turbcd and distorted by tho prcpondoranoe
ofslaycryi when Il was In a decided mi-
norlty Ji the people. This is Consttu-
tional ground, which interfcres with no
rights, whatever, not even the Fugitive
Slave Law. For going no farther than
this constitutional ground, Wendell Phil
lips, Lloyd Garrison &Co. dcnounce the
Republican party, as Abolitionists, Of
whom such extremists nre the leaders
Is the Democracy helped by that sort Of
talki The South Is most decidedly iniur-
cd. Il is nude to believe large masses of
men 10 be their enemies; and thus be-
come onraged, by WHAT the mere mocn-
shine Of political demagogucs!@ Is the
Democracy helpedl This sort Of game
has been tfiod ia Ohio, for more than
twenty yoars, by people oftho Sam. Me-
diary aud Sam. Cox kind, without any 9TH
er avail. than 70 create clear majority Of
Republicans, and disgust the people with
Democratic loBdcrs.
We suy, let the people; all, who real
ly mot ostontatiously) love the Union,
love their country's prosperity, love the
Constitution and the laws, note irdo IL is,
and TO tchai partVthey belong, who threat
en- the dissolution Of the Union, on tho
one hand, or ON tho ether, play lick spit
tic to the violence Of the disunionists, hv
representing half the nation a. abolition
lists. Let those who do this and keep up
disorder by faction, aud prevent the pro.
gross Of business in Congress be marked,
aud Kept IN mind hereafter. II is time
that the cloak of member Of Congress
should no longer be sufficient b cover up
language and acts, which would disgrace
a private citizen. lfRny Republican aids
in keeping up the factions ot Washington
let him be marked with the rest. But no
such ono is yet found. They have been
roudy TO vote, ready TO transact business;
ready to sustain the Government and the
Union and now let the responsibility fall.
where it belongs, on the Democrats, who
have threatened d'sunion, and kopt nm
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