The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1862-07-04
PLAIN TALK TO THE DEM
OCRACY.
Emancipation and Negro Equality as
Viewed by Col Fo1ney.

ftof. Phiia. Pfefs.1
In the campaign that is about to be
opened against the Administration and
the war, pow erinl emphasis is to be laid
upon the empty accusation that the
friends of Mr.. Lincoln favor uHcondition-
al emancipation and negro equality
Contemplate as this accusation is, Il is
frequently repeated by men who, in their
heated partizanship, forget that they are
intelligent and reasonable beings. As
usual the name of"Democracy" is to be
invoked as a cover to this arrant dema-
gogueism.
In other days, before the people OF the
United States were educated BY a great
war, which overturned old expectations
and destroyed old theories, such solver
tisement" as this might have passed cur.
rent. But, unless our masses are indeed
sunken into the deepest slough Of igno-
rance, this attempt to seduce them into
wrong paths will be fearfully avenged. ]
have very low estimate of the leaders
who bullied and coaxed the majority oftho
Democrats Of Pennsy ylvania into the sup
port of breckenridge in 1860, and who
with all the treacherics and coTruptions
of Buchanan revealed to their eyes and
cars, refused to denounce these crimes
The bloody harvest of the seed thus sown
should admonish them against another
experiment upon the supposed credulity
Of the American people.
The men in the free States who advo-
cate unconditional emancipation, are very
few in numbers. In the Republican
party they do not number five in a hun.
dred. There is not traitor anywhere
who does not know this to be true
even as he himself repeats the re.
verse.
As to negro equality, a still more con-
elusive reply might be made to this silly
falschood. The practical amulgomation-
lists are not in the free states. The most
infatuated abolition fanatic rarely carries
his free thought into free love. 1t Is only
in the atmosphere of rebellion that negro
equality, in It's worst phrase, has been
accepted and illustrated.
The social distinction between the ra-
ccs of white and black, in the free States
is as broad and clear as il is in England
or France, where, in the face of laws that
make no distinct ion as to political right,
the one preserves its relations wholly in
dependent of the other.
But why continue a reply to an argu.
mcnt not even believed by those who
make it.
This war is productive of great and new
issues. While it adds to the response
biitics of the Executive, il reduces the
reliance, ofthe demagogue upon popular
ignorance, and to this extent reduces the
weight Of these responsibilities.
1t would have been worse for slavery
if treason had taken up arms against
a Democratic instead of Republican adj
ministraton. Then the ingratitude of
the Shareholders would have been more
kecnly felt, and more mcrcilcssly pun
ished.
The Democrats, who clamor for COM
promise now, and are blind to the afro
cities of the rebels, in that event would
have discarded everything but the sword,
and believed anything but rebel humani
ty.
MIR. Lncon's Administration is doing
only what that of Mr.. Douglas would
have done, and less, had Douglas been
chosen President.
Results have sadly proved that il
Breckenridge had been elected, four years
would have found the free States without
2 country save thnt which was controlled
ny tne institution OF slavery.
Tho rebellion OF IS6l-'2 is the voice OF
the devil proclaiming that, in the event
OF the election of Breckenridge in 1860,
Tour years would have found us a slave
monarchy.
These are plain lessons. They need
no rhetoric to adorn and no witness to
confirm them. They are facts, and facts
are better thnn history.