The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1864-06-02
Thoughts for " Democratic or
Weak-Kneed Union men,

were UNCONDITIONAL war men '--Or pre-
tended to be--thc fact is very question.
able. But the first year Of the war our
reyerses were great, and they heard Of
Federal soldiers nrresting women In
some places shooting guerrillas and
busbwhsckers at oihersj burning houses
hero and there aud playing smash geuer.
ally all around. Their furlivc iinapina.
tons impressed them with the belief that
IoHAoE GREELEY, WENDELL PHmLrrs,
and LLoYp GARRISON were not 10 favor
Of the Union as was" and the Con-
stitutiou as II is," and to cap the cliRox
they read the Prcsidcrt's proclamation
procloiming freedom TO the slaves in the
rebOl States. Wheroupon they COM
inenced denouncing the Government as
the cause Of al these tbingsj they COM
menced talking about opprcstionj about
tho folly and wickedncss of carrying on
the war any longer. They cried out for
peace, for compromise; but in order to
get peace aud get compromise the Gov.
ernmen, must yield everything, the rcb-
els nothing. And they are now so bold
as to intimate willingness, yea, even
more than Willingness s--anxicty--that
the South should be recognized and the
Government thereby fall to pieces. This
is the way they now talk. Ifyou do not
believe II converse with some Of their
leaders in Tii,in. They declare ihnt W.
of the loyal Slatcs, and pe tho Simon
pure Union men are rebels against the
South, and that the South is fighting for
the Union as Il was" and tho " Consli-
tuition as II is," and the Government A.
gainst IT, They iorgct-or II they do not
forget they pass over the lact--,bat jeff
Davis has said that the South Is fighting
to get oUt of the Union and not To sshy IN
g. They forget that before secession
thero was no such thing as nrrcsting
women; shooting, aud hanging aud swear.
ing in men, taking bonds, banishmcnt,
&C., &c. They forget that poRrrE and
PUisDExTER, MosEBy and QUANTRELL,
aud lots Of other despcrodocs first broke
the law, aud bid defiance TO this Govern
mcnt that they, too, committed theh,
robbery, murder, aud arrested pcrccnblc,
quiet. law abiding mcD, aud all that sort
Of thing. They forget that the rccogni
ton oi the South breaks up our uovcrn.
mcnt in toto, aud leads to endless war,
for there is nothing on earth more true,
than that there can be no peace between
two governments thus situated. There
fore Il is nonsense TO talk about peace
except upon submission Of tho South
the rebel States and the rebel people,
to the Constitution and laws of the
United States. We ore for peace and
have always been so--upon the princi-
pie that will make peace, real, pcrma
nsnt pcoco. A patched up peace is
worse than war A peace ut the sacri-
ficc of tho nations life Is its dca;L aud
destruction.
The rebel States can compromise
come back home and thereby save life
and honor. The South would never
have entered upon this scheme of mad.
ness, wickcdncss aud destruction, if thcy
had not believed that cotton was King"
enough to have gained them instant rec
ognition by England aud France. They
have found out the fullacy Of this idea,
aud yet still persist in their work of de.
structon, for the sole reason that there
are men, all over the loyal States, more
or less in sympathy with their cause, and
give them aid and comfort by iheir rcOdi.
ncss to make peace on the basis of sep.
uration, aud because Of their opposition
TO Mr.. Lincoln ana the war.
There is way to make peace without
much more fighting. II is this: let eve
ry man, woman, boy and girl in the
twenty thrcc loyal States speak
TO the South as one man, in thuGdcr
tones, aud say, as much us wo dislike
war, and carnage and death; us much as
we are opposed to some acts committed
by Federal soldiers; as widely Us many
ofps may differ with Mr.. Lincoln and his
patty; as hostile as wo are to Mr.. Lin
coins Emancipation Proclamation, yet
we w'i' "eesr' sEvEH' NEVER agree to
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