The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1864-10-13
Tifu Letter to q New Hampshire
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Tifin Letter to q New Hampshire
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The following spicy letter giving an
uccoun, Of the grand peace ratification
6zzlc held in this city on Sept. nth, wc
clip from the Gi ante State Neps, OF
Oct, 9th, published at Wolfborough
New Hompshirc:
Turis, o.. Sept. .ls, 1864.
! Ed. NEws:-CommuRiti are like in
dividunls,-some quick and sharp. com
pretending the value Of an emergency on
; the instant and ready to take advantage
Of Il or avoid It's results; aud others ns
r slow to perceive the tendency Of any
, new condition Of things, as the Chgwel
, landlord in the story Of Darnnby Rudgc.
This being assumed, we may suy that
the portion of the community known Ia
this region rs the pcace.ai-any-pricC
, party, is fairly represented by John VIII
, lett. the landlord afOrcsaid. When the
y late Chicago Convention had finished III
labors, aud the names of Mcclellan unt
+ Pcndlcton had been declared its unnni
nous choice; our peace-nt any price folks
like John Willctt, turned their face.
y towards Chicago, and winked once ol
twice very slow--requirinP o diy or two
D for the operation-nud perhaps drank O
few glasses Of beer.
, N II they turned towards tho South
AMI put their mouths in position as tho
they.intendcd 10 utter a long and loud Oh!
| Then. with their hunds shading their
eyes they look towards Washington, as
though hey expected TO see some strange
or monstrous thing approach from that
quarter, aud then they turned towards
the east and trowncd prodigiously.
Having performed this operation, il
was determined to get up n ratification
meeting In this town, and last Saturday
was the day set for the ouipouring, or,
rather, an inpouring Of the people. The
programme contemplated long process
sions of horses, carriages. and men, wo-
men and children, with flags and banners,
with strange and startling devices; and
music OF the most soul stirring kind.
Saturday morning came. About sun.
rise the echoes were awakened by the
discharge of artillery, which consisted of
10 two pounder, and tho towns people
stood still, "waiting md watching" for
the inpouring people. They did not
come. Towards noon, IL was said, one
procession came in consisting of one
wagon with man, two boys; a drum,
aud two women.
In town, there were two or three flags
displayed; one ofthem was very cautious.
ly hung upon the door post of store,
partially concealed by the awning, us ir
the proprietor wns ashamed of participn.
ting in the demonstration, aud yet not
quite willing to be wholly unseen.
? speaker for the occasion had been
imported from Dayton. But, ow ing per-
hups the TACT that his was unknown To
fame, but little attention was given to
his speech, so far MS have been able TO
learn. II was evident that the aniicipat.
ed enthusiasm was far from realized. In.
deed, believe | am safe in saying that
no more than the usual Saturday gather
ings of country people seen in town
during the entire day And 81 the day
wore away; tho luborcr labored, the
merchant bought and sold; the mechau-
| ic hammered, and whistlcd, aud sweat.
much as usual. A few Of our copper
heads were seen going up and down the
street IN their holiday attire, and look.
as if they wished an earthquake, or
tornado. or JEFF Davis would come. Just
TO wake up the people their artillery had
failed 10 arouse.
But what they failed to do in the day
time, they seemed to hope the night
would afford them an opportunity to ac-
complish. Word went out that the boys
might make bonigo at night; and
straightway a few boxes and empty bar.
rels were collected together and fred. A
few rockets were sent up, and in due time
several hundred boys aud girls, and some
OF the Union men, aud It IL but fair to
state some also OF the peacc-at. any y-price
men, were gathered together TO hear a
speech from Judge Lang.
Now Judge Lang il an honest Dutch.
man, who camo 90 this country some
years ago, without any invitation from
our government, 80 far Us l have heen
able TO learn. and settled in this vicinity.
He is noted for having been success slul
in making wine. and Tor his violent op-
position 10 the government ever since he
failed to get n commission as Col, OF a
regiment that wen, from here.
In due time Judge Lang took his stand
at the corner of the Court House yard
and commenced to hnranguc the boys
who tended aud danced 'ound the bonfire.
II would be very difficult TO mako an cx.
act report of the Judges speech. From
it's incoherenco Judge Il was made up Of
several newspaper articles that he may
have read against the administration in
general, and Abraham Lincoln and Gov.
Brough in particular. Having exhausted
his Vocabulary On these topics, and sp
pSrently wishing to gain time to think of
the "rest OF his piece" he took offhis hat
the FIRE gave three cheers, aud some iel.
low in the crowd beat on bass drum. BY
this time the moon had risen 50 as TO be
seen over the hcuse'tops. which the
Judge seeing, thought Of the East.
And in process Of time the Eastern
States were presented to his thoughts, :,
whereupon the judge, hat still in hand,
frowned awmlly. Having perform.
ed this operation, he opened the last
aud most malignant vial Of his
wrath. upoH poor unfortunate N W Eng
land, II was New EnglsHd that had
made us Western people the hewers OF
wood and drawers Of water for them.
For their benefit exclusively the odious
tariff bad been fired on every imaginable
thing. Why, he had to pay tar on every
match he used TO light his pipe with. TO
enrich New England; and every pound Of
sogar that he used be, and oil the great
and glorious West must pay an enor.
nous tsx to benefit the merchant princes
OF cursed New England. For his part he
did not want the Union TO be restored.
The great West must 60 with the sou,h.
Southern indrpe ndeace must be aeknowI-
edged, aud New Eoglsnd mus, get ont