The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1860-07-06

DOuHlrs scctfonhiitn aud
eamnttcr anHernlEntg.


Douglas scetfonhlit1m and
squnttcr Sovereignty.
The Douqlas ratification meeting on
Saturday night was sublime farce. The
managers bad their runners out all week
and confidently expected large turnout.
They went to great expense in procuring
powder ahd all the materials necessary
for q grand display Of fireworks, which
only made the affair roppear more ridiou-
lous. They counted without thor host,
The hour came but the people DIDN'T
The old rusty "ehooling-iron" was charg-
ID b the mouth with Douglas thunder,
but Ia echoes died nway upon needless
ears. Finally the Southern delegation
bearing a piratioal looking flag hove
Ia sight, consisting Of a four-hcrse
wagon and hcelve persons, all told, half
Of whom, We learn, were Republicans
whom the democrats took in to give the
crowd an air Of respectability. An cxtru
train from Republic, Which ioas hired for
ihe occasion, brought in, free Of charge,
% or 80 Lincoln boys and 10 Douglas
ties. This made up the immense as
semblage.
The meeting was VASTLY inferior both
in numbers and enthusiasm to the one
had by the Lincoln Boys, few weeks
since There was NO applause, no spir-
H. no nothing. II was evident that the
nomination Of Douglas, with his Squat
Ter Sovereignty humbur and a Drod Scott
slave.code attached, did not take with tho
people aud that they were not inclined
to ratiCy.
Finally a crowd ofsome three or four
hundred, mostly Republicans, assembled
on tho corner to witness the exhibition
Of fro-works. Tho sky-rockots blazed,
shot up and then vanished into the air.
6sslsd oui--just as Douglas will IN Mo-
vember, This was great sport for the
boys. The speaking was tame and in
sipid. popular Sovereignty" was the
keynote on which they started in and
they came out with "thntsamo old tune"
This was their favorito theme and they
rung their changes long and loud upon
Il. None Of the speakers however, at
tempted TO define Il nor TO reconcile Il
with that other plank in the democratic
creed, which endorses the decisions Of tho
Supreme Court, pat, present and future
upon this subject. "Old Buck" was de-
nounccd az hypocrito and knavC, and all
who prefer Breckenridge to Douglas were
called ".fiihy yercrescsRces" (which the par
ty had just sloughcd Off This is cor
tainly very complimentary 20 the Breck-
enridge men. We think the Douglas
party, before Il gets through "sloughing
off," will find itself in the condition Of
the man that swallowed box of Brand
reth's Pills. One Of the speakers said
he never had any confidence in James
Buchanan, yet he stumped the county for
"Duck and Brock" in '56 aud did all he
could to have them elected. They were
good enough then, but now they arevcry
great rascOls aud Douglas is the rullyipg
cryl Another speaker houndercd around
aud bolabored the air with his arms, in
the most PGiReNl manner, for about ter
minutes, but nobody could tell what he
was driving at. Aocr the boys had al
spoken their pieces, LOndon was called
out. His speech capped tho climax. II
was cxcrutiOtingly funny and very Sc
v,rc--vgryl After wringing in all the
current slang phrNscs aud ialsehoods he
could think Of he finally subsidized and sc
did the meeting.