The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1863-09-25
COL. WIN. III. GIBSON,
The Meeting ON saturday Night

Gus Meeting at hedges Hall IN this place.
on Saturday evening last The large and
eommodious Hall was filed to lie utmost ca.
paci,y by an Intelligent and spprecistive su-
dience, aud Col. Glsson held their individ
ual attention during a speech OF three hours.
The Colonel surpasss d himselfon this occasion,
there being more Of eompactness, system and
solid argument than is usually to be found
in the speeches Of this fascinating orator.
He commenced by stating. that the culture
Of Cotton fastened slavery upon this coun
Try, al time when il was passing away,
and that wuirSKr, of New England, when
he invented the Cotton Gin. done moro to
perpetuated slavery tbsn any other man 10
the nation.
He showed conclusively, that slavery has
in every contest been the agsrsssor upon the
lights Of the Free laboring statesi aud that
he slave States have in many instances re-
sisted the adm ission OF Free State into the
Union, excepting that on condition that a
preserve the balance OF power between the
two sections; and that not in one solitary in
stance, has the Government Of the nation in.
terfered with any Of the perogatives Of sls.
very; but has continually, under the rule o.
Southern men, yielded everything to the ar.
rogant demands Of the Southern oligarchy !
Up TO the meeting Of the Charleston Convcn.
ton, $50 900 aristocrats ruled this nation,
and con,rasted tho policy of the Government.
He showed that this war was the result Of
the manhood fthe followers ofths lamented
DOUGLAS. who at Charleston refused to put
their hands upon their mouths, and their
Southern iyrants Had the Democracy OF
the North yielded their manhood at Charles
ton, and surrendered VI conditionally {, the
demands Of tlavey, there would have been
no war.
Here the speaker paid feeling and elo
quent tribute To the statemanl ko abilities,
and pure patriotism Of tho great Senator
no III Illinois. lie had yielded much to sla
very for the sake of peace and 6uAl y Effected
compromise with the South on the basis
OF popular severe igity in the territories,
having faith 10 the power Of the free popula
ton OF the North TO exclude slavery from
the territories by enigration, and to eircctu
ally fight the battles Of freedom on the vast
aud beautiful plains Of the West. Ills an
tieipations wero3fbfIled. New England
prevailed in l1t contest, and the South de
feated in ih ir attempts to subjugats the
people OF the territories, and fasten slavery
upon Kansas and Nebraska, demanded Of
the Democratic party at Charleston, new
guarantees. They demanded that slave
property in the territories should receive
special protection by Congress, aud stand be-
fore the lev superior to and privileged above
all kinds Of property. But the Democratic
party under the lead Of Douglas, said nol-
Cary out your threats Of secession aud war !;
undertake your mad attempt to dissolve the
Union and break up the Government, We
cannot, we will not yield TO your domand.-
We will abide by the Cincinnati platform;
we will abide by the Compromise Of popular
sovereignty, we will labide by the Dred Scott,
decision, We will execute faithfully the fu.
gitive Slave Law, and truly observe all the
guarantees to slavery in the Const itution.-
Thus far, but no farther can wo 60, and here
commenced secession and the war for the
overthrow Of the Government.
The speaker called the attention OF. Demo
Gratis to their position at the commencement
OF the war, 10 the ir enthusiasm when Captain
FRANKLIN; now Col. Of the 34th Ohio, started
from Tiffin withihis company of Volunteers
how they bid h i'm andhis boys God speed,
and hoped for their success how that when
he 1.-THE speakor) was raising the 49th Regi
mcnt they spoke to him words Of en- courage
ment aud exhorted him and the boys to 90
and fight for their country. But now, a
change has come ore the spirit oftheir dreams
aud God what change The war To
which these men exhvrted his boys to go is
now denounced as base abolition war, an
u just war, wi. ked war, war for the Jes
truct ton OF the Government, and subyersion
and overthrow of the Constitution, and the
noble Sons of Seneca county are truly stig-
matized as invaders, robbers, pluuderers and
murderers.
Here tho speaker paid his respec IS to some
person, supposed by the audience TO mean
WILLIAM LANG, the man who Was at one time
very anxious to become one Of Lincoln's 4
hirelings sal6 per month. in this rude
abolition war;" but he failed because honest
DAVE ToDD was able to find better mar,
for Colonel ofthe 1924 Regiment. He said
the soldiers Of the Union had been stigma.
tiIed by this man as Line ol MS hire lings, and
that when called to an account for the shame.
full SANDERS, he said he did not mean the
priyates, but only referred TO the shoulder
straps; The speaker thanked God that hc
was as & ood as any private in his regimen,
and that.every man in his regiment was as
good a. he vas, and that the man who would
attempt to draw distinction between the
private soldier and his officer was mean
beggar, ccntemptible dog, a slave. aud IN :
worthy the name Of an Amer lean; and that
the man who in his speech had stigmatized
either privates or officers Of the Union army
as "hirelings" was a sLAsDKAER, a LIAR AND
A COWARD, and that he, the Colonel held
himself responsible for these words, at any
and all times, and was ready to MAINTAIN
them. One hundred and ten boys OF the i9th
now sleep in heroes graves, and this cow
ardly wretch, and his associates in infamy
would engraye upon the monument rea red
above their sleeping dust, the sptaph, "here
lies the remains, of Lincoln's hirelings, just
ly killed in an unholy and damnable war"
The speaker here drew terrible picture Of
Democrat farther in years. reading this ep
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