The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1863-07-31
Tiffin at'rrklp Tribune
IN BR0UGlI'S SPEECH
Al Toledo.

~ ~ -" '"N - '''~''i wv NN''N
DRoUCu, the next Governor, spoke as
follows:
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\ FELLOW CIYlsENs;--l am glad to meet
~ large an ussemblugo of the people VI
IL lUth Congressional District, but ny
= oicing is Vt uaYingIcd with regret
r. cannot Ecct Sn otherwise than In
attitude ifwhlch ] am low paced,
hns pleased your delegates in the re
it State Convention to place me before
people os epndf fnte Tor the oihee OF
IGtvernT. IlYb dNlred IN otherwise
N | could tYve been permitted 20 NJ
ndin an humble soldier battling tor opr
cJnmon cauS Rnd that some one Older,
mtre capable and better qualified than
mtscl ,sh9sfd have been selected for that
position. /Prsonafly, | regret to assume
the duties ihoumbent upon Candidate,
out thYcTcums,angczhow are such that
all muf ne,cssprisyfnake ne personal sac
rihecstand no one is at liberty to decline
making them lnmaklng commoIenuse
w'tn Tli UHlon nth' ! have no Interior
designs, as II is my desire TO seek the
TetItcment 0i private NE after the pres
eht rcbcllon Is crushed. But untll hbt
is done, II IS the ddly OF every ctzch To
sustain The govelnmcnt III all ls meas
u'cs,1
WI are now IN the midst, ana, nope
aprrH Hchlng the cNd, OF eva wor'--a
cWi kAar iheNcusdblc IN srcngth ana
lNlgur.Yth whlchI hasNWn cohtuclcL---
ana tss our dyiS1p see That II Is finished
III sueH a hahu\l2 prevent r'eur-
renee OF Hh@lh'ng ofi1he klnd hereafter.
w nat have we t9.soy III JusiihcatIdesV vi
ourselves! Have WeN ruvokch the war,
nave we commenced IL, or nave we done
anything 70 gyhu IL! IL Is TACT thut
the war wholly ifEugurnted by the South
buuthc c.Ises which 81 TO II must be
looSed tor, not IN recent transactions,
but further back. The election OF Abra-
usam Lincoln had no more 20 do with the
commencement of the war than the elc-
yation OF the Emperor OF China, twas
a mere prttcxt with the SOuIh-ior years
the plants had been laid and were being
developed year by year, aud when every
thing seemed to 6o in good order, an at
tempt was made to take the life OF the
Nation. The impartial historian will
hereafter record the causes which prcci-
pitatcd the war upon the country, Tile
last for political power on the part of
Southern mcn was the sole cause. They
saw, with dismay, that the increase of
population IN the North was filling the
halls of Congress with men who did not
sympailizc with the institutions Of the
South ard, year niter year, they sought
pretcxts for getting into their own hands
the rcins otpowcr On the part Of the
North everything possible wps done TO
cOncilttc them. II is true, their nullti.
eaton doctrine was met by that old man
Gen Jackson, who crushed them for Ae
tune. They then presented new sJs.
ton oi r'Vchpe and tarlil' and we yielded
ana adopted thcf theories. Ihcy claimed
th'y hah peculiar institution wIth which
we had hotnlhg 10 do. ana wished us to
recognize 1--we yielded to their de-
mahds' Ih'y asked Tor lnglli'e sllVc
law ana we granted 1t III u moment,
lhcy demanded mat Their Institution
shoulu be recognized everywhere und at
al tllncs, thot thcy might present II IN h
pohucul aitltuut that no nee state
shollu DC aIlhltted INTO the unlon unless
'hurc Wa corresponding Save STATE,
unu tnut 'he government must aekhowl i
euee II anu protect ~ 'hc virgin tcrri-
torics ol Inc vest With all It's blishtln:
l"nuehces-
m but 1t last Ioroearahcc was at an END.
me o.u democratic party OF which
'uuSe myers mas spoRen' hud staggered
unuor INC Ioaus Whlch the South had
paced upon IT'S back IKE drunken men.
lucy rhueoVored 10 make thc cause oi
thcse oao men popular, To shield them
from 'he nssau It's oi the Intelligent ana
i'sht ihlhhlhG portion oithc community
out thcy 'oIlcu ahd iaoortu III VAN, ana
III tho ehd louhd mselves III hope
less minority In the campaign Of 1896
'hcE SuVe us thc Clhcihhall platform,
WIN h'e plallRs III II more lhln we had
pe'orG III any platform, when would
nave Dtch less distosteiul had 'hey gwen
US D0ugias, out he vas refused. In tie
LhaiIcs'oh convention, Ex-senator
|uSh, III one ot the most beautiful
speeches he ever delivered in his llley de-
cIared mat no Democrat could stand on
.ne platform there presented blythe South,
the NorLIeTh DcnocFats tod them IN 50
many words, " Let the sin be upon yonr
own SN heads aDd the blood be of our hands,
me South was at that time prepared for
o,yil war,-they desired TO hasten it,
Ihey had no pretext Tor il in 1856, for
everything had been conceded to them
resolutions, Candidates, ctc.-hut had it
oeeI Otherwise, had Buchanan not given
hohd and security that seven members OF
his cabinet should be favorable to the
South the same state ofaldirs which we
now witness would have been inaugura-
LED tee at that time. What did they do then!
they put men in official stations who