The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1863-07-17

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parties were determined 10 thrust upon
you. Your statesmen years ago passed
what Was considered stthEt time al evil,
the famous Missouri Compromise, and
you submitted to il. Theu, after a lev
ycHrs, the South came forward aud de-
mHndcd that you should repeal that cCm-
promise, aud destroy the boundary line
between slavery and freedom. and open
up 90 thcm the territories, that they
might extend the institution uf slavery
into free soil, provided the people chose
to tSkc ii there You repealed the Mis-
suuri Compromise, aud enacted the Kan
sss and Nebraska Bill. You gave them
what they wSutcd,cyctythug they asked,
ia the halls Of Congress. But YOU did
not give them what they asked in 1860,
the right ~ continue to govern this eVuu-
try.
TnE WAR SHOULD NEyvtR BAvB pExN
/ begun.
First, do YOU answer me the war ncv.
or should have been begun; that VIC
shonld have compromised, aud thus main.
tanned peace that we should have pre-.
vented this rebellion from taking place
In spite of the fact that the Southern
people had determined you should have
this war even If you went upon your
knees in the dust Tell nc, why YOU
didn't have peace before this rebellion
was ihaugurOtcd have told you thu,
these men controlled the Government,
that they had majority in Congress and
in the Supreme Court ; that there was
but single President who might lC
Ovcrsc to them, but which was doubtful ;
he wOs powcrlcss, for the Supreme Court
could have arrested his arm At nnv mo.
mcnt. You had aipcacc Congress which
proposed nothing very different from that
which was offered al the Charleston Con.
vcntion. Could you accepted that u
YOU could, why didn't the Charleston
Convention accept il
GEORGE J.. rUGH eORNiRlp.
n My young, friend who is ON the Demo.
cratic ticket for Lieutenant Governor
tells. You. in that remarkable speech OF
his, delivered at Columbus, that he knows
peace could not have been secured, und
that this war need not have been innug.
uratod. | looked through his speech in
vain for one single fact in proof of ills
assertion. Docs my young friend expect
the people Of tho North are going To take
his word for it, although they would take
his word IA soon as that OF any Other
gentleman ! want TO know upon what
terms this war could have been prevent.
ed Were they anything different from
that which they presented as their ulti.
mntum at Charleston ! Ii not, why did
not Mr.. Pugh aud his co-del, gates nc.
ccpt the terms there, and bring them
home to the people Of the Norlhl viii
tell you why. They knew that mn net o
that kind, on their part would sink then
so low that they would fail politically
dcOd--so dead that the trumphot OF the
angel could never call them TO rcsur.
rcction.
You could not have prevented this wal
by any act except that Of utter submis.
sion 10 these Southern hctspurs. But pass
that by. When the wnr is upon us, is
that any reason why We should draw back
and say we will not contend for the rights
of the people of the North in this con-
test To wipe all that out, they have
told you, over aud over ugain, that they
will to agree no terms OF peace that will
at once recognize the Southern COnfcd.
erucy, aud tie Withdrawal Of our urms
from their soil.
Your celebrated Peace Convention in
New York passed It's peace resolutions
and they wandered down in Dixie, from
whence they were spurncd aud spit upon;
aud then your Peace Convention of Ohio
passed its resolutions, aud sent them
down to DiXic,und they came back spurn-
cd more ferccly thun the others ,nnd well
they might be, for they were not up to
the New York standard.
Now,my Democratic friends, ,how many
of you have read those twcnty-thrcc res.
olutions II any OF you, what have You
found You have found them all mega
tive in their character They are against
the war they nre against tho prusccu-
tion Of the war; against arbitrary arrests
against military prosecutions against
everything they could find to Hllege
against the Government of the North
I But not one line or word or syllable from
the first line of the first resolution to the
last line of the twcnty.ihrd, condcmna-
tory ofthis rebellion or Of the men who
iuauguratcd il. Your own Government
is denounced, quarreled with, proclaimed
to be most tyrannicul. Your own people
are muligncd and abused, but not one
word against those men who struck
down the best Government the world Cv-
cr knew, and are seeking to establish
and pcrpctuatc an oligarcby. Did these
leaders, for understand me, when ! am
speaking Of this matter speak of the
leaders Of this rurty and not Of the mass
..T A.
party in Ohio is that its masses bre as
honest as any men that ever walked on
the face Of the earth--dd those leaders
who drew up those resolutions wish TO
conceal the fact that they were sympa-
thZcrs with this rebellion, aud opposed
to putting it down? Undoubtedly they
wtre sympHthizers, but they lacked that
great element Of character that belongs
TO every man who is man, they lacked
the courage TO say so, but they left it on
the luce so plain that he who ruus may
read.
Now, you could not have prevented the
war by any act except the acknowledge
ment Of all they asked aud are contend
ing for now. There has been no mo.
ment since that tire in which you could
have intcricrcd aud brought about peace
on terms that the people of the North
could admit of,or consider without shame
Then why is il that we can not agree
umong ourselves, in laying aside putty
distinctions between US, ind come up to
the support of cur Government as one
man for the suppression Of the rebellionl
YOUR ADMINISTRATION NOT IN TOWER.
Do you answer that it is because your
political party Is not in power--th0t the
Administration that is in power is not Of
your making. and, therefore, you cannot
support il Recollect that that question |