The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1863-04-24
Thc pow.,.ow at The Cour, ilousc on

The pow-Eow at the Court House on
Saturday evening was a slim and tilly per-
formauee. Those in attendance were fully
one half members Of the Union Organization.
Wien we got ;here Jim Pillars was pitch ing
into all Union men and members Of the Un.
ion League in particular, in manner Just
suited 70 a Breckinridgc candidate. fJcH
Davis himselfhad been there he would Ger
taiuly had no fault to fud IN that respct. Aller
harling his GLath, mas at the war and every
Que engaged IN iis prosscution--al,er deelar-
ing himself ia favor Of compromise with
armed traitors, itnot in favor of an immedi.
ate nrmlstice Cor he mightas well have said,
in favor OF stopping our efforts al potting
down the rebellion til Ien Davis can have
more time to prepare Ser u.s. after oil this he
declared himself war democrat. Yea"
he says, and he didn', forget to shake his
head IS, me call me thin skinned demo
crat - and he might have added, very thek
headed and changcable one, He warned all
d tmocrats against joining the Union League
1t is pcijury, il his opinion, to make a pledge
to sustain the Government. He neglected to-
state whether it was PERJURY or ludaUlc
oct to make pledge to destroy the gov.
ernmeut Hec,uld not have done SO. indeed
without boldly pr,elaimng himself trtitcr
or trcading sadly on the toes of his friends,
the X. &. C's.
lie then abused the Administration and ev.
cry one in powcr-but, strange it is, or is it
lac had hot even an unkind word for the lead.
ers Of the rebellion or the rebellion ITSELF
In fact one would take him TO be as much Il
follower OF Breekinrdga as ever The A6.
minisraton has, in the opiuion Of this wise
Pillars violated the constitution, destroyed
the liberties OF the citizen, squaud,red the
treasure Of the nation and, worst of all, liber.
ated tie slaves Of rebels. But We suppose
what hurts him the most is the destruciO On .
50 many Of his stcesh southern brrthren.'
Some one asked him how the Administration
had violated th1 cOuStitutl on Tie imperi
/ uence Of the que sii,a ii,od him. The qucs-
/ tion was SO unexpected that he had to study
some minutes before he could answer. Bot
finally drawing himself up to his full heightIl
and buitOnilg his coat two or three times,
and giving several Of his graceful mods OF
TIE head, he iopi,d-"By suspending the
/ habeus corpus, 10y coni'seaton, 10y emalcpa.
/ tion aud LvERl TulNG," Even the copper.
Z heads laughed in derisiou at the 'eyery thing =
I That is surely goi s as far in violating the
JronsliIulion as Pillars vent in violating good
sense, not saying anything Of good oniory,
When he had said everything he could think
against the government, had so eascd his
mind and spit out his bad breath he said h,
felt wcak-uofmuch wonder at that consid.
erihg the load OF charges against loyal men
he had wor kcd off ana the consequent gnaw.
ings OF cOnsclcncc-tuo weak to proceed fur.
ther, but managed, after making some wry
faces, TO rehedrse baldcrdnsh, aud then sub.
sided, to the intense delight of the audience.
Mr. Prosecuting Attorney Mayor Lnndoh
Esq, next took the floor, but as we had had
enough corperhead harangues for one sitting
and had business elsewhere, we came away.
As we were leaving be was saying TINT MS h,
feared some might go away and say that they
did not hear one word said again ST the rebel
lion, he shn,l.I .sOp cnat game. we suppos,
h gave Jeif n few love taps.
/ A Card.-lt is due to the members of
the Pres bytcran Church of Thin to stat,