The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1863-06-19
rue Mass Meeting on Friday.
SPEECH OF G. voLNEY DORSEY.

DoHsEy made q very able and profodnt
speech, the delivery Of which occupied
about two hours. The following abstract
Of his remarks has been furnished us by
, w. l.. MYERS, Photographic reporter
lie commenced by saying, tina, he wa,
exceedingly we'll pleased to have th,
priveligo Of addressing 80 large and re-
spectacle assemblage of his fellow citi
; zens--more particularly upon an occa
, sion like the present. When he knew
that there was not single man or wo
man present TO day that did not recog
nize the importance Of the occas ion, thai
brought them together. We have al
been in the habit in the olden days, o
assembling together under our pcculioi
party banners for the purpose cs Of org IN
; zing parties, announcing party principles
aud putting men in nomination t. carry
out party measures. He had nothing nj
all to say against the organization of par.
ties aud the striking of parry lines al
times when there where important qucs.
tions before the people of the country
but, when a question comes up before the
people ofthe magnitude and Importance
rs the one which We are called upon {
decide to day the question, whether We
are TO have 4 governn eat and c,uhtry
il did seem to him, that II was time tJI
men to BE- willing to lay aside party ieel'
ings aud predjudces, AMI unite as one
man with one mind, and join heart and
hand for the purpose Of saving the gov
lcrnmcnt, and preserving the GLORIOUS in.
stitutions handed down to us by the Faith
crs Of our country.
He knew that IL WIS feeling Of this
kind that peryudcd the breasts of the Ieo-
pie at yarious points in the State--a feel
ing that we huve duty to perform infn-
'tcly greater, aud stronger, and higher,
than any duty we were ever called upon
to perform, when 4e were in days gone
by urrpyed under different party banners.
He presumed that in the little political
experience he had had, he had be.n abyut
AZ strong q party man as any in the State
Of Ohio. lIc knew that for years, for u
quarter of a century he had acted with
th1t old Dcmoctalic party whose mcr
and whose measures he believed in the
main to be right. lie was not sorry that
he 80 acted aud did not repent it, il there
was anything for which he had cause to
rel cnt, il was perhaps that he was one of
the delegates who nominated aud assisted
70 elect james buchanan as President Of
the United States. Laughter). lie did
feel, that perhaps he ought to have had
some colnpunctions of conscience for
that, but ut the same time ii was done
with good honest intentions, aud when
] a. "a. ..Ie a.. Nl..,
Cincinnati platform, the platform upon
which we elected him, then il was that
the honest portion of the Democratic par
ty arraycd themselves under the leader
snip Of Stephen A. Douglas-deserted
| Buchanan and became advocates Of the
doctrines Of Douglas and his friends aud
supporters in 1860 and for the part he
had in the convention IN supporting Dou.
glas, he had no regrets, but he could not
see how those men who voted for Breck-
inrdgo could possibly think that they
were serving their God and County
lie had no hcsitcncy in saying, that, il
reduced to u choice between John c.
Breck n,idge and Abraham Lit C In, o
would have voted for Lincoln any hour
in the day but not being pledged to
make a choice of that kind, he voted for
and upheld Douglas. lie would say to
his Democratic friends, that ii Stephen
A. Douglas had been living to-day, the
Democratic party would be soundtr in its
policies and feelings than at the present
day. He had remarked to friend that
wien Dougks lived, lie did the thinking
for 200 900 men! Mr.. Douglas possess
ed large ard comprehensive mind, filled
with patriotism, jealous for the Interests
of his county.
1t mattered not him (Douglas) whcth-
er u particular party was in power or not,
| he had at heart the whole county, and
the interests and prosperity of the coun-
| try. lie knew only his native land =
My (rieIds, what ought we to know to-
day, at a time when very large portion
of our people are in rebellion against the
Government When the Government
is struggling for existence, confess that
| am ashamed to think that il is necessa-
ry for men To st I'D up in the great State
Of Ohio, and talk to its people about their
duties in support of the Government
There ought not to be Il man throughout
the length and breadth OF the State who
needed ectsying upon that subject. We
should be heart aud hand ia thc detcrmin-
alton 10 stand by this Union until the last
armed traitor has been driven into the
Gulf OF NJ, xico or compelled to lay down
his arms and submit himself to the gcv-
ernment under whish b. was born. My
friends, when we formally came together
under party organizations aud party ban
A.. sh.,a N,,t, Al lar mn u,,l
measures. YOU now, we used to always de-
fcnd those men and measures upon the
declaration that they were those beet cal
culated To secure the Union Of these
States, the entire continuance of that
Union and OF those sacred institutions iD-
herited from our fathers. You know that
10 party, no set of men, no set OF meas
urcs, could receive the support OF the peo
plo of Ohio.unlesS il was established that
they were better calculated than any 9th
or party, men or measures, TO secure. this
object OF the preservation of the Union.
Now, when we see plainly and distinctly
that the issue is made between suppor.
ing the Administration aud the carrying
out OF its policy aud measures, on the
one hand, and tho denouneing Of the Ad.
ministration, the refusing to concur in
and support its measures, thereby bring
ing about distraction and confusion on
the other hand, ask, is there any man
who should hesitate for a single moment
as to his course ] know that great
many Of my democratic friends, aud 9th.
er men, endeayor 10 persuade them that
there is Just as much Union sentiment in
| tho damncratie marty, aud Ia tho man Nuho