The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1860-10-12
JEFFERSON.
Cnrl snu1-a oa Do"sIas

Snrl slIUrn VA DouEIns
This wondermllY-eloquent German is
pursuing Douglas from place to place
aud impaling him, continually, with shafts
Of kccnest satire. Somebody will have
to hold him or the little Giant will not
live thrangh the campaign. Inasmuch
as Douglas loads party which has been
peTetuallY bamboozling the Germans il
is peculiarly appropriate that one orthrm
should torture him with the truth, enyel.
opcd in trenchant, livid SARCASM. Good
enough for him, Many of our rcaders
may have read the following extraR
from Mr.. Schurz's speech in Now York
but IL viii not hurt them tu read il apnin,
There Is justice in history. lie has al
least the idol Of his dreams-the object al
his iOndcst wishes-lOr which ne has laid
50 many treaChcrous schcme-iorwh
ne has struck 80 many blow at the
peace Of the RepublicY for which he 80
often prustituted himself and his follow /
ers, for which he has hugged so many a |
loaler, and insulted so many an honest
man, for which he made every rum shop
his headquarters aud every rutlian his
J lriend-he has at last the nomination for
the Presidency, but what he has cruvod
as blessing has como down upon him
as a curse; to be nominated, and know
B that an election is impossible; 10 be voted
| for, aud TO know that every vote for him
IS for Breckinridge and Lane, whom he
hates, and every vote against him vote
/ for Lincoln, whom he docs not love! TO
be voted for, and be aware that those who
vote for him work not for him but for
Ithomsclycs To be dead and yet living
! enough TO bo conscious of death! Oh
there IS justice IN history! Am | exag-
Grating! Where is that mighty leader,
whose voice once called millions into the
held! At the street corners and cross
roads you see him standing like blind,
f TST9!silSa g9ts Beljis9Fqs=PS9t IL Eirias,ggs
surrounding him, and begging for the
miserable obulus Of a vote; begging the
know-Nothings, whom he once affected
to dcspse; begging the Wings, whom he
once insultcd with his brawling denun-
Citations; invoking the spirit Of Henry
= Clay, wkom he once cnlledubl~at- -heart-
ed traitor. Oh, but, poor Dcllisariusl
The party harlots that surround him with
their clamorous begging cry, steal every
vote they receive for him, and put it into
their own pockets.
Where is the bold, powerful agitutor
y whose voice sounded 80 defantly on ev-
= cry contested field! Behold him on bis
sentimental journey, yDinly trying TO fine
his mothers home and his fathers grave
= apologizing with squeamish ailectatior
G for his uncolled for and indecent appear
e ance in publicj like an one Of the con
i domned spirits you read Of in the myth
y of by-gone ages restlessly perambulat
. ing the world, condemned 10 a more ter
rible punishment than Tantuus, who wai
tortured by an unearthly thirst, W Il
: grapes and water within his reach-mor,
y terrible than that of Dannites, who haC
to pour water into the leaky cask-for hI
c is condemned to deliver that old speecl
n Of his over and over Ogain. (Applause
+ cheers and laughter.) As often as he ar
N ryes ut Il hotel that has a balcony, as OF
10 ten as his h?sty journey is arrested by
+ a spontaneous gathering, then you hou
y subIerrnnean spectral voice cry out "m
le great principle of fnon-intervention"
aI is the dead squatter sovereign atoning fC
ID for the evil deeds he committed in hi
az bodily existence. prolonged lUughtI
le and cheers,) Not long ago he hauntC
G the railroad crossings and clam-bakes
New England; then the crossroads
G. the South, and the ghastly Rpparition WI
r last seen in this neighborhood. (Pr
If longed laughter and cheers) Where
= that formidable purity tyrant whose wisl
70 es once were commands, who broke dow
}" sacred compromises with mere strok
IN Of his finger, whose very nod made III
d heads Of those who displeOsed him fly II
"A TO the basket, whose very whims wei
tests Of Democracy Where is he VII
once, like Macbeth, thought himself II
IL Vulnerable by any man "who was Of W.
Id man borni" invincible, great.
40 -"Till Biranm wood
nm DO hie TO Dunsinane hill,
Should come against him"
Like Macbeth, he has believed Il
20 fends
a. That paltered with him in a double sense
On and there he stands, tied 10 the stake
he his nomination.
he "Ho cannot hy,
ri, And, bear like, he must fight his course
er Du' 10 DllHuAl W W" hlul ShDu W Du
n shane, SO the very fence rail0 of Illinu
ny are rushing down upon him (tremendoi
lis laughter and Cheers,) and like Macdu
ey there rises again the spirit of free labC
Nh one whose children be has murdered, al
=, that is a champion "not ofwoman born
=" (Laughter) And now
"On, Macduff;
as And damned be he who fret cries holG'
re enough"
- (Renewed laughter and cheers.) o
sH there is justice in history. (Cheers.)
cd, The LOst sheep.