The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1861-08-16
The MASKED Battery"
Party.
A Libel Upon the Union DEM
ocrncY Of Ohio.

Ocrncy OF Ohio,
The Convention, which met at Colum-
bus last week, pretending to represent
the Democracy of Ohio, was composed
principally of self.oonstltutod delegates
aud ofIice-sockers, who misrepresented
the sentiment Of the mass Of the party,
The secession sympathisers, most OF
whom voted the Breckenridge, disunion
ticket last fall, aided by few democrats
of the Vallundigham and Modary stripe,
who arc In league with thieves and trail
tors at the South, completely controlled
the sction Of tho Convention and the re-
suit Ia a ticket and platform Of the same
material, The ticket Is composed main
ly Of old party hacks and wire-workers,
on whose garments Is still the smell Of
corruption and peculution in past years.
Tho Convention was presided over 10y
Judge ) Rrkweather, breckenridge
democrat, and John Scott Harrison, who
embodcs all there is left Of the Know
Nothing party in Ohio, was nominated
TOR Lieutenant Governor.
Tho platform adopted, the progeny Of
Payne Of Cleveland,is C ga cunningly devils
ed rable"--R meaningless jumbla Of con-
Trajectory phrases, which may be inter
preted according to tho notions Of the
reader, II Is s"masked battery" plant
ed in our very midst, the design Of which
is, under the garb of loyalty, to give "Oid
and comfort" to the enemy. They could
not have adopted seriea of resolutions
more to the liking Of JEFF Davis and
Boauregard, il they had tried They con-
tain no word Of eensuro for traitors, who
have committed the blacklist crimes known
In the bottomless pit, aud who, with the
eolluslon Of northern traitors, havo been
thievlng and plotting treason during tho
last demOeraiie Administration. They
are treat d with honiod phrases and prop
osiiions Of eomPrOmise(D are rendered TO
those, who arc in arms against the Cow
ernment and whose hands are reeking
with crime, while every act Of the pres
ent Administration to preserve the Gov
ernment aud put down rebellion is criti-
oised and oensured, IL this the way for
loyal American citizens to talk at a time
like this, whom evOry man should take his
muskot in hand and ly to the roscuel---
When infamous traitors are beleaguering
the Capitol Of the nation, uttering theiI
blasphemies against the Union Snd that
Dag, which has so long protected them
hurlng defiance into our very teeth, who
would suppose there would be men at the
North mean enough not TO support the
Government, simYly because Abs LiAeOls
lsBPsRs 10 b PrssidsnR Who woul,
suppose that, right here in the free Stat,
Of Ohio, there should be found The viii
, ing, phi ant tools Of niggerdom,
Admit that Lincoln has been guilty oi
some indiscretions-whst does tha
amount iol Were not Buchanan, Floyd
!, Cobb & Co. guilty Of some slisA' iadis
erstionsl They Cyour own Purty) Goa
eocted and planned the heIIish plot an,
now you refuse to assist in putting Il down
! Tlsy kiadled the fsme and you refuse 3
help eAapguish H. .I.
!, The charges ugainS. Linooln's Admin
I istratiou cannot DO sustained. He hu
aeteA, in the main, wisely and with a
honest desire toPreseryo the G oyemmen
n aud these "trOitors In Disguise at IA
y North, instead Of giving him that genel
Gus support which Is due from loyal cit
sens, are continually firing on him froI
J their "masked bStteries,n as they did 4
q Columbus. We repeat, these Fesolutior
arc libel upon the Democracy cf Obi