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

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Pcnnsy wanna, or Tennessee, or Missis. !
sipri, almost every one Of them is Dem |
ocrat--born aud educated Dcmocrst. -
Ny friend Thurman, in his speech the
other day, spoke Of Mcclellan having
been removed because he was Dcmu-
crHt, while Rose Grams, W no was q Rcpub.
licun, was permitted to reap all the gio-
rics ot the war. | ON sorry brother
Thurman is not better posted than this.
/ happen To know som, thing oi Rose
cruu's Democracy ior he was politician
with ne IN old lltmilton, years ago. You
may Iun thuuuh the long lst of
Generals, aud you will find nearly all OF
them Democrats. And, while they are
Fighting the battles OF the coan,ry yuu
stay at home carpiup, aud say YOU can
not d. anything because Republicans are
Ut the head Oi the Guycrimcht. This /.
not worthy oi you aud, when one of
these leaders puts that kind OF all
srgumcnt IN your ears, You should thrust
another argument down his .hrout.--
Great applause.
ALL VINO urrvsE the oovEENMENr sE.
CIsstoSIsrs.
Ifyou say you will not execute law
because il was not passed by Congress
which had majority Of a political party,
how long will yuu remain party ! Are
you prepared to say that any law passed
10y majority OF your Legislature that is
not of yVlr party, shall not receive your
support liyOu are prepared TO say this
thing, by word, or uct, then YOU Sr u Sc
ccsslunist as thoroughly as anymHn armed
with sword or buyouct in the South. You
arc aiming at the destruction Of your
Government, the moment you allow zeal.
~ TO party to rise superior to the duty
you owe To the constituted authorlties.--
Apply this principal to the argument
made by your political leaders ask your
own Democratic hearts whether you are
prepared To pun SUE such u course as that
1t not you will say, my hand aud my
voice are for the Union cause until yic-
tory is achieved.
ARBITRARY ARRESTS AND TRrEDuM OF
THE rREss.
The speaker here look up the oljcc-
tiuns made un The score of military nr-
rcr,s and the suppression OF scditluusly-
Disposed papcrs, aud disposed Of them
very much as he did IN his Marietta
speech. In regard To the old maxim that
III the presence of war the laws are 81
lent" he admitted TINT our Republican
Government was an Improvement ON the
old forms Of government, and this rule
should not, perhaps, be admitted into our
practice. But, granting there have been
errors committed in rcgaid lU the rights
OF indiyiduuls,ns well as in other respects
II might be we'll questioned whether, in
state of war, they could be avoided
There is not soldier who fired a gun,
aud billed man, but did IL in violation of
the Constitution and the laws ol the
land and il you comc down to tCchui-
cal cAactncss, il will be necessary to
gather in all the rebels and Try them, one
Ivy ono, before shooting them. AS to the
freedom of tho press, the speaker had
learned while conducting newspaper,
TO distinguish between freedom and IL
ccntiousncss no paper hud the right TO
abuse aud slundcr un individual, aud no
more should it be allowed to sandcr aud
cripple the Government which secures il
the right to be free.
the SLAVERY GRIEVANCE.
But you have another grievance IN the
constitution of this war, and approach
1t without any dclicucy whatever. You
complain that this war is prosecuted for
the purpose Of ubolishing slavery, or
freeing the negro. have but word or
two 10 say on this question. stard
where have ALWAYS stood. | have for
years said to those ON the other side OF
the line, your institution of slavery, us n
domestic institution, is your own. | nm
prepared 10 admit that you received il
under the constitution; that il wns en-
tailed upon ycu; and you could not well
get clear Of it. Take your inst t,tution
and keep it. 1t has cjucat, d you wrong.
lyand miscrably all your peoplc;it has pre-
vented 1t Dor and enterprise from building
up your cities. 1t is your curse; take il
and keep it to your bosoms as long us
you please. lChecrs,l II, as loyal
States, you want law TO restore your
fugitive slaves, | am prepared to give il.
don't seek 10 give 1t to you; ] care moth
ing about destroying il. But you must
not thrust IL among my people US IN in
stitution of the lard, for that | will not
submit TO. You must not set up the
claim that on the admission Of free State
slave State shall also be admitted, to
procure the balance Of power. Take
your institution aud keep il, but keep il
at home; don't send il hcrci we don't
want il in its political character.
More thun that: There grows out of
this war the fact that tho political power
OF this institution, has got to Lc wiped
out with this rebellion. You mRy call
me an aholilionist, Ii you please, tut
toll YOU the political character Of this liz
stitu,iOn must be destroyed. You can
not permit il to exist in this country, for
II puts ia danger the very cxistlnce of
the Government. As Olhello says of
Dcsdemona:
: She must die, else she'll bctray more men" !
So this political institution must be de-
stroyed. II we had peace Tomorrow,
and the Union restored, and these men
were to attempt 10 thrust this institution
in your faces, you would have another
war in less than Fix months. You could
not avoid il. j hope ! agree with my
Democratic brother ON that point |
Laughter, and "Not exactly."l / am
sorry for il. II you attempt to carry this
in its political character, in
the Democratic party, you will fell, for
il was this that broke the back of the
Democratic party in Ohio.
As to slavery in its domestic or civil
form, have word to say. am fully
prepared to say that do not coincide
with Mr. Lincoln in his Emancipation
| admit that there was
a principle there which this Government
ought to recognize. So long as we ca..
ried on the war on the principle we were
carrying it on, we could not succeed
What did we do in the first twelve or
fiteen months of this war! We made