The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1864-09-15

didate, | consider the recommendation
ofthe Convention at Chicago as tcndin
to subvcrt the R public. tits so; that
fact.l
i 1t will seem hard thing when impl
that party, like the Democratic part,
can either meditate or blindly ador
measures to overthrow the Republic. Al
/ experiences. however, show that it is b.
/ the moiicc or the madness of grea
| parties that free States have been bruugh
down to destruction. You often hea
alarms, that party in power are subvcr
4 ting the state, and il sometimes happen
so. But nine times cut Of ten it is
party cut of power that in its inpaticnc
or ambition uverthrows Republic.
The Democratic party, of course lcav
I log OF the Loyal Union Democrats
opposed the election Of Abraham Lincoln
in 1860. In doing so they divided en-
Urganizcd in three columns. One
reasonable column, OF State, Rights, dis
union Democrats, under Btcckinridg2
A second, loyal Northern column, uuGe
Douglas. The third, concilia,ory fly
ing column, under Belt, which has sine,
Joined the insurgents. We ihcrcupoi
invited the two loyal columns 10 cumbint
with the Republican to oppose the dis
union Democratic column. They dc
c,iucd.
On the eve Of the election, in 1860,
told the followers o. Douglas and O! Bell
that whcn the election should have closed
they would find they had Inadvertently
favored disunion and rebellion. Thel
persisted, and the attempted revolution
came. d sunion then presented itself
in the practical form Of preventing
Abraham Lincoln from assuming the
Executive authority. Thus the Demo
cratic power produced that calamity, thu
Southern Democrats acting FROM design
the Northern Democrats passive through
inudvrrteucc. The disputed succession
still remains unadjustod. A New election
has come on. For time the Northern
Democrats, with notable exceptions gave
more or less liberal support 20 the
Government, against the same Democrat.
Ic insurgents OF the South. But the
same ID muc-atic Forces which filurcd in
the election ol 1860 now appear in the
political field, with position aud policy
unchaugcd since that time, as think
except tor the worse. The Southern
Democracy is still in arms under the
usurptr al Richmoud. Tho Douglas and
Bell columns consolidated are found at
Chicago, aud all three of the parties are
comprising the rejection Of the Copsti'
tdtiona President of the United States,
They agree not only in this attempt, but
they assign the same rcuson for it
namely, that Abraham Lincoln is Il
lyruul.
They nrrCc, also, Tint the rcul usurper
u, Richmond Is blamciuss, and pure, at
least tin Richmond D mucracy iii IN il,
aud the Chicago d mocracy do no. gain.
-oy il. To me, therefore, he d Dmocracy
at Richmond aud the Democracy at
Chicago, Ike CHsar aud Pumpcy, seem
u rctaiu all their original resemblance.
They are very much aliko--cspecially
pympey. But il is not Ia mere cXicrnals
tuat thtIr similarity lies. They talk very
much alike, Us have altyauy shown you.
Wayu we consider that among the
ID IN ,crlts at Chicago, the Indiana
ID mucra,s were present, who have i'm
aud defeat the national lows, aud
that oil tue Democrats there ussembl d
agreed to justify that proceeding, think
YOU will agree with me that the Rich
mona Drmocral, and the Chicago ID, m.
ocrals have ut ly come to act very much
luk
shall now 90 further and prove TO
you That they rot ouly have common
;, 4ituy, ard "a imrndn WY o. defending
il but thai they have even adopted thar
policy ia concert with each other. You
pow that when the Chicago Conven-
non was opPruaching, ia July lust, G 20.
n. Sanders, Clement G. Clay and ]. =.
Iloicou,b, appeared at the Clifton House,
ln the Cunlda bank ul the Niagara River,
ul.y invested with the confidence, and
,cquuin, with the purposes Of jeff.
DAVIS, aud his coufedorIlcs al X edmond.
You know, also, that the Chicago Demo.
nu.nber- To conf with these enissurips
jl Il. Davis. Here is the fruit of that
conferences, aud no one can deny the
of my cv dencc. II is ex.
ructed from the London Times, the
common organ of all the enemies of the
icd States. The New York cores
londeu' of the l. noon Times, writing
rom the Niagara Falls, under date OF
Au- ust 3, says:
Clifton House has become centcr
,f gutiutons between the Northern
riends or peace aud Southern Agents,
Who proposed Il withdrawal OF differences
of the sword" The cores
Iondent then goes on to explain that an
'flort is to be mado to nominate candi.
late for Presidency ON the Platform of
IN armistce and convention of States
nd to ihwart 10y ali possible means the
iiorts Mr.. Llncoln for re election.
Mark now. that ON the sth OF August,
964, Northern Democrats and Rich
mend agents agreed upon three thiBgs to
e done at Chcngu.
Namely: First, A withdrawal of the
ltf.rences between the Government and
Ae insurg. .uts, rom the arbitrum nt oil
he sword, Second, A nomination for
ay Pr, silenl of the Uniled States, on a
liatiorm of an urmlstiee and ultimately /,
convention Of the States. Third, TO
hwart by all possible means the re-elec-
ION ofoi Abraham Lincoln.
Such a conference, held in n national
uuntry, between prolessedly loyal
i,iz ms OF the United States and the .
gents of the Richmond traitors in arms,
as very suspicious look. But let that
ass. Political el ctions musI be free,
nd therefore they justly excuse many
vtr 4. an ncips Ne have uuXV a. M