The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1860-04-06
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portion Of the sovereign puWef When
ever she declared the Federal rnvorn-
ment no longer her agent, then Il would
be hs duty % return 70 his state, and II
be should be captured fiqhtins uudcr the
lone aiar, under the law Of naiions. he
could not be treated as a traisur.
Me-, Johnson, Of Tenn, remarked that
there were prrccdents Of the policy pro-
poscd 10 the bin.
Air. Wigfau was sorry 10 hear any
Democrat refer 70 prscedents. n they
are accepted, banks, tariffs, internal inn
provcments, &C., could be justified
He then denounced the policy OF New
England, which, by federal Legislation,
had got, rich, and kept the other sections
poor. He thought nothing better could
occur than a dissolution OF the Union.-
New England would then beg the South
70 come back her apindles woum cease
to turn and her ships rot at .as wharvoa.
Her sailors and operatives turned out 10
starvc, would burn and stehl. He alao
drew apicturc Of mob cf desrivod and
infuriated people, hearing on poles the
hoada of Seward and Hale. Tfthese men
only know the South was in enruostthoy
would keep quiet. They were not the
men "to coin their hearts blood into
drachms." Ho dcaied that these wers
threats, The day Of faFccs has zone hv.
He would speak his mind freely. and say
that he belivcd that no Black Republican
ever could be inuuqurated PreEdcnt.-
| Northern men talked Of subduinp the
South, but no bclived that a Southern
army would winter in Boston before a
Northern one could reach T. xas. lie
would like 60 know how they were going
10 take the South. Let them look arouud
the chpmbcr and they would see ON the
Republican side but ono man who ever
saw the flashing of gun, while he par
tculerized numbers on the Democratic
side who had rendered signul military
services. The military chest was the
first matter Of consideration In war, and
where would the North yet the money to
I'LL ~ The South could send c's her cot
ton, tobacco, &C., in the bottoms which
would carry them the cheapest. Where
would the Senator from r. Island (Sim-
mons) get the money fcr his Calicol They
might talk Of blookading the Southern
ports, but their officers and men would
want money, and where could they yet
~ Cotton was King, and without il
Queen Vietoria's government was not
safe.
The Union was nothing more tiian
compact between eonloderates which the
North had broken and then tried 60 per-
suado US that Il was Of divine origin
Our forefathors shed their blood, not for
this Union, but for liberty. He compsr-
ed the Federal Government to--a lens
which concentrated and applied the pow
ers conferred by the sovereign States
as the lens concentrated the rays of the
sun. They adn ired not the Ions, but the
glorious orb from which IL derived its
power. The ancestors Of New England
ers went to Holland, but as the Dutch
would not let them persccute anybody
they came 10 The North. They drove out
Roger SHERMAN and the Baptists, and
spread themselves over the countrv.-
Providence having McAdamized that
country, they thought il useless to dig
for what the soil could produce and have
since lived of their ncighbors. lie went
into an argument that the Slave States,
properly speaking Tc the only free
States. lie concluded by deuouncing
the Homestead bill unconditional.
The subject was then postponed till
Monday.
Adjourned. ..-