The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1862-10-10
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Men are known by the company they
kscq. Birds Of a feather flock together.
These aphorisms are as true as they are
| old. They are vaIusble, too, as a basi.
upon which iojudge correctly Of the char
acter or the principles Of the partisan
leaders who, hoving assumed the name Of
the Democratic party, are asking loyal
men to support their candidates for office.
Who composed the Conventions lately
held in the West under the Democratic
nsmel War Demscratsl No. Men Of
the vsllandigham and Noble stripe--men
whom such tory sheets 90 the Cincinnati
Enquirer and Seneca Advertiser delight
to praise and support--they controlled
them. Who are the candidates on the
ticketsl War Democratsi No. We
do not know OF war Democrat nominn-
ted by that faction for any office. We
do not know a single instance of a man
who is now in the field fighting for his
country, having even been named for an
Office by the tory cliques. Neither de we
know an instance CT on active soldier or
officer, giving aid or comfort, by word or
deed to the tory organization. Between
the Vallnndighpm tories and lhe soldiers
there is guilt Us broad and US deep ns
that which separates traitors from patri-
Cts. One 10 as impossible as the other.
ls not this significant Docs not the
tact clearly establish the true status of
the partisan clique, vi ho, under the cloak
OF Democracy, are tying to entray the
people at home into the support of their
IRRESPONSIBLE purposes! The soldiers know
for what they 0rc fighting. They have
laid their lives upon the altar of their
country, that the Government which our
fathers bcqucathod to us may be presery.
cd with it's blessings and its glory. Hence
they do not associate with or countenance
the tories, who are traitors to the country
and who desire the success OF the rebel
Confederacy.
The issue Is, from the character of the
lsndets, from their sympathics with the
rebels; from their dete minatlon to op.
pose the war for the suppression Of the
rebellion, the issue 10, we repeat between
loyalty und disloyalty. No man can vote
for secession sympatlliser, or for party
controlled and used by fymputhizerf,
without giving aid and comfort to the re.
bcllion, without inficting stab upon our
soldiers who are iu the field fighting for
cur liberties. How many voters arc there
in this County or in Ohio, willing to come
forward and say that they approve the
course and indorse the principles of Val
landighnml Comparatively few we i'm.
ngins. Yet u vote cast for the Vallan-
dlgham party is 4 virtual Endorsement OF
that conrsc and those principles. 1t says !
to our soldiers who are pouring out their |
blood in defense of tho Governments
ave are opposed TO the war you arc en-
gagged in; we mean 10 repudldte the taxes
levied 10 pay you for your services, or to |
pay a pension to those of You that may
be wounded, Or to the wives of those Of |
you that may die in the field or in the
hospital. You have not the moral influ-
enee Of our support" This is precisely
what Vsllandigham and his co.loborers
who control tho present Democratic or
ganization mcun; and this will be yirtu-
ally the expression Of every vote cast for
that party. Are you then voters on the
side Of the friends or the enemies of the
soldiers! Choose ye.