The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1860-08-24
Fusion With the Know NOlhlngs
Germans. Read

Germans, Read
The bargain and sale operation that Is
now going on between the Douglas wing
Of the Democracy and the American par
4 " must be- gratifying indeed 10 Demo
Gratis Of foreign birth! Only think Of IL,
German Dcmocrats-the once untcrrif.
cd Democracy, ON their Bonded knees,
proposing terms Of cOpiiulalion and sell
ing out, bug and baggage, to your sworn
and bitt7r enemies, the Know Nothingsl
You cannot deny itl The hi0g has been
doHe--thc bargain has been consummat-
ed, by high contracting parties and you
have been transferred TO the camp ofthc
enemy Look at il a. you will--you can
not deny the fact. II stands out in bold
rclicl-you have boon sold 10 tho Know
Nothings and your party has the impu-
dcnce 70 ask you 10 endorse the treason
able act and take irt1 your nhectionatc
embrace your dcadliost eEcmy. VIII
you do III win you tamoly brook the in
suit and cherish the viper that stings you
TO the hoOrti Or will you repudinto the
whole Transaction aud administer mcr-
tied rebuke to those, who have betrayed
you.
Tho terms Of the contract are these:
In the states whore tho Americans are
in the minority they are 10 coolcscc with
the Duuglusites and, where the latter are
Ia the minority, tbey are to coalcsoc with
the former. But one electoral ticket is
70 be run between them, in order, ifpos-
sible, to defeat the Republicans.
In New York the bargain was closed
at Syracuse on thu 10th. The Douglus-
ties aud Americans met In convention
and agreed upon a joint electoral ticket,
to be voted for by both parties, on which
the former have twenty-five and the la
ter eight representatives.
la Georgia, the Douglositcs are IN such
q miserable minority that they were will
ing TO fuse with tho Americans on any
terms The most nmicable state olfco-
ing exists between the two parties there
and but ono electoral ticket will be run.
The same thing has been attempted in
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Indiana, ILL.,
nois and the New England states, with
what success remains 10 be seen. AT
tho recent election In Kcnmcky, the
Douglusites went Over in body andvot-
ed for Coumbs, the American candidate,
for Clerk of the Court of Appeals, and
Doug as papers rejoice orer kis election
as a Douglas triumph.
The same feeling exists In Ohio
Through the influence Of the Douglas
party and Douglas gold, an American
lcctoral0ndstllctickethus been brought
out with no other design than to injuro
the Republicans The Americans relus-
ed to make a nomination for Supreme
Judge, declaring their intention to sup
port the Douglas nomin,e. G. l.. Val
laudigham, democratic member Of Com
gress from the Butlor District, attended
the American State Convention at Chilli
,oihc aud made a speech. The most fire.
ernOl state of feeling exists between the
.wo pattics In Ohio aud they are ua thick
an Two IN a bed.
Nc ask German Democrata, if thts w
tie feast to which they have been inyit-
ed! win they become willing dupcs 10
such miserable bargain and sale opera.
tlons and brook che insult of being fore
ed into an alliance with the Know Moth
ingsl
Where is tho Know Nothing party to-
dayl Is il with the Republicansl No.
The Republicans have rcpudiatcd it,
they repudote Il in their platforms, in
Their stump speeches and in their papers
while the Democracy hug il to their boz
SONS aud roll il as a sweet morsel under
their tongues Tho rank aud file of the
party, not only in Ohio but elsewhere,
have gone over bodily to Douglas, while
such men. Os Lew. Campbell, J, Scott
Harrison, Oscar +. Moore, and A. 4.
Glenn, have LETT the Republicans, be-
cause we defend the rights of Foreigners,
Douglas himself is party TO these
transactions aud his friends furnish the
"sinews Of war;" to buy up men and to
keep alive the American purity. lie has
been closeted for several days with Hunt
Brooks & Co., ihe high priests Of ne dark
laatern order in New York, and the re-
suit is union Of the two. But this game
will not win aud "will return to plague
lis inventors"
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