The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1864-04-21

lOsse our country by a BcrupulOu adher-
encc 70 written law, would be 30 losse
the law itself with life, liberty, property
aud all those who arc enjoying them with
US, tlus absurdly sacrificing the end to
/ the means
Whercur0n our modest young man Of
/ Abyssnian memory says that IL Jefferson
ever wrote anything Of that sort, thcn--
! Jefferson was wrunpl
The Democracy have nothing len but
The choice. On the one baud stands
Thomas Jcilcrson--on the other, Little
Mr. Samuel Cox, Representative from
The Columbus, Ohio, District! They can
take which they please, for oracle!
Then follows running firs Of qucs.
tons and answers, Mr.. Cox X smart
enough 10 hold the floor, aud call upon
members TO answer to certain charges.
! they do SO, they Of course have the
floor at his hands, and the moment they
have said all he wants them to say, he
cuts them oi. lie does not get on how.
ever, without telling hits from Garfield,
Juliun and others.
Finally he makes mistake, attacks
Speaker CollGx, aud calls on him for an
answer. COllaN sits imntvoblc. lie
calls again. Collax never stirs. All,
succrs the indisC'cct champion, the pen.
tlCman can descend from the chair 10
pcrsCCutc n member for words spoken in
debate Tut he is us prudent, "a he is
ready tu pcrsctuic. The gentleman
from Indiana sits silent now
CulluX is on his feet in al instrnt,-
Tho gentleman lrom Indinnu shirks 70
responsibility. lie claims the floor
when ho plcoscs and he refuses to hold
II at the mercy Of It's present occupant 20
be cut of the moment he may think
something dangerous is about to be said.
Tho gentleman from Indiana pluccs
himself in no such trap, and submits 10
M such signnl unluirncss as has been
practiocd again aud again by the gentle
man now holding the noor--with which
Mr.. Cox concludes 10 let the Speaker
alone.
PROGRESS OF THE DEBATE.
Meantime the confusion in the Hall
has been increasing. Members are
wandering from desk TO desk. talking
over the novel md unexpected question,
discussing the phases of the debate us II
progresses. The gulcrics Drc Hing up;
aud the Press Is, for wonder fully rep
r'scnlcd. That never happens, save on
the most important occasions. Nuae
have 50 thorough contempt for the CON
mon huncombc aud routine of the Hall
US those, its most familiar hdJiiacs.
Judge Kelley gets tho floor, as Cox
concludes, dcnUunccs him for cyuding
the issue, challenges the Dcmocrnts to
rcpudldlc or indorsc what Long has said
snrcrs at them for seeking % divert at
tcn'ion from their own dcfcnscicss con.
dltion, by attacking Thad. St,vcns in
his absence. "Ah, sir-whcn the cat
Is away, the mice will play-whcn my
colleague returns, not one of these brave
nssnllauts now, will dare to show his
head outside his ho!r."
Sundry d mocrots reply, personal
charges nrc introduced aud repealed
and tie excitement grows higher t.
Garfield makes a tcllirg response to
Cox, and cen maids the closet utttn-
ton
THE TREASON FROM MARYLAND.
Finally n tall light. bearded, bud.hcad-
cd Murylondcr, sitting on the extreme
wing of the Opposition side, of pleasing
presence but Gnmistukablc chivuric'
air, gets the floor. lie il not un clc-
CANT speaker, lut makes up IN llucncy
and defiant b. ldncss, what he lacks in
grace. His first sentence fixes every
body's attention. ndorsc every
word the gentleman from Ohio, Mr.
Long has uttered, aud will stand hy and
defend IL Tor veal or woe" "Ah, ha,
he's got one manly hacker at last" is
the involuntary exclamation orc hears
on every side.
Stepping out into the aisle, aud NOV.
ing dt family down toward the Admins
trdlion members, as he wnrms with the
subject, he continues in the same strain.
lie is willing to 60 with his friend any.
where On that issue. Cannot man say
hc is Tor peace, the saving of life md
treasure lie is Tor peace. He is
Union mull---a better Union man than
anybody on the other side of the Cham
bcr--tor he is ptacc Union man. If.
we can't have one Government let us
have two, and let them be splendid ones.
lie is a stakeholder, or rather was, til
Ben. Butlcr stole all his slaves. Ills
luthcr was STAKEHOLDER before him. aud
a good Christian aud when a man talks
here Of Slavery being the sum of all viii
lHincs he calls him aud his father vii (
lainS aud he tells that man, whusocver
he may be, that he is II liar and scoun-
drel.
And so he goes on, growing worse
and worse, as he proceeds, ard making
no sort of conccalmcnt of his sympathy
with the rebels.
The scene is q curious one. This
man is standing in the House ot Repre-
scntatircs Of the United States sur.
rounded by the Democrats aud Border {
state men OF what claims to be luyal
lie is talking the bohlcst ,
treason yet they have clustered in de-
lightiul circles around him almost ev.
cry mans face wears gratti ID smile, I
aud at every extremely cNlravagant de-
they burst cut into open
laughter and applause. A few look
gioomy-thcy are thinking of the record
all this is mHking-but the great mass
are in the highest glrc. Some of them
think il a capital j,ko that these dis
ultcranccs should be made on
the h els ofau effort 10 cNpcl another for
something not nearly so bad, and are de-. I
lighted at this defiance thrown in the /
teeth Of the minority; others really IN /
darsc what the mau says, but are too
cuwardly TO say il themselves; all OF
them laugh aud applaud and egg him
on.
Meantime the Administration men
crowd over ill the space in front OF the
Clerks desk is filled and an angry group
is formed among the chuckhng Demo /,
Gratis, right under the speakers hand.
lie CONTINUES, culogising the rebels,
than whom he says drawer set of men,
a more gallant or honorable set of men
never existed on Gods earth; abusing
the Administration, declaring he would
never vote dollar or man TO be uscd