The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1864-04-28

! itNtiNAlhN W. sbHh ViNNh NHoH
have sgain brought the rebel armies
within sight Of Washington city and the
slcccssor ofJames Buchanan shall With
draw our armies from the unconstitulion-
a invasion Of Virginia TO the north Of the
Potomac; when cxultant rebels shall
sweep over the Notifications, aud their
bombshclls shall crash against the dome
Of the Capital when thousands through
Pennsylvania shall seek refuge on the
shores of Lake Eric; from the rebel in.
VasiUn cheered aud welcomed by the o2.
ponehts of determination; when Vallan-
dipham shall be Governor Of Ohio, Bright
Governor Of Indiana, woodward Cover
nor Of Pennsylvania, Seymour Governor
of Connecticut, and Wall Governor of
New Jersey; and when the gentlemen
from New Yurk shall sit in Scymour's
seat; and, thus possess the power.over the
great center Of the country, they shall do
what they attempted in vain before, in
the midst Of rebel trumpl---to array the
authorities Of the States against those of
the United Stntcs--to oppose the militia
10 the Federal afmy--lO Invoke the hI.
6eaS corpus to diicharge confined traitors
to deny the Government the ben, fit Of
the laws Of war, lest it cxtcrminatc It's
enemies; when the Democrats, as in the
fall Of 1862, shallogain aud with more
permanent success persuade the people
of the country that the war should not be
wogcd I'LL the intcgliiy OF the territory of
the Union is restored, cost ~hit il may,
but that such war violates the spirit
Of free institutions which those who adj
vocutc ii wish 10 overthrow and that il
should 81 p for the benefit of the Demo-
cratic party, somewhere this side of abso.
lntc triumph, lest there bU no room Tor
u compromise; when gentlemen OF that
party IN New York shall again, as in
November 1862, hold Illegal and crmin-
al negotiations with Lord Lyons aud
avCw their purposes to him, The rcprcscn-
talive Of the foreign aud unfrieGdly row.
cr, and persuade aud urge him to AR
rongc the time Of proiltring mediation
with view 10 their possession of pow
er aud their preparation of the mind OF
the people to receive suggestions from
abroad, and when mediation shul! appear
by the event to be the first step toward
foreign intervention, swiftly aud surely
followed by for ign armed enemies upon
our shores 10 join our domestic enemies.
When war in the North shall begin,
which was mCnaccd ut the out break Of
the r, bcllion, aud the friends OF Seymour
shall make the streets Of New York run
with blood, on the eve orunother Gcttys.
burg, less dumVging To their hopesj when
the y, oplc exhausted Ivy taxation, drained
of blood, betrayed by their rulers, deIuded
by dcmagOgucs into believing that peace
is the way to Union, aud submission the
path to victory, shall throw down their
arms before the advancing foe; when
vast chasms across every State shall
make npphr mt 10 cJcry eve, when too late
remedy IL, that division from the South
to is the Inauguration of anarchy at the
North, and that peace without the Union
is the end of the Republic; THEN the in
dependence of The South will be an ac-
conplished fact, and gentlemen NAV,
without treason 10 the dead Republic,
rise in this migratory House wherever II
may be in Amcrica, and declare them
selves in favor of recognizing their mac
tcrs at the South, Father lhan CXtcrmin'
ate th,m!
bh' hNAil NllAN lltlt u 10 AaiN
judgement OF the American people there
shall be no onprUmisC-thut ruin to
ourscl les or ruin to the Southern rebels is
the only alternative. it is only by rcsO.
lutiuns Of this kind that nations can rise
abovc erta dangers and overcome them
in cries like this. 1t was only y by turn
ing France Into q camp, resolved that
Europe might txtcrminOtc but should not
subjugutts her, that France is the lead
ing Empire of Europe to-day.
Untii that day, in The name vi the
America" nation, la the na,nu OF every
home in the land where there is one d. al
for the holy cause, in the name of thoscs
who stand before us in the ranks of bat.
tie, in the name of the liberty our anccs.
tors have coufilcd To us, devote To
eternal cXecrution the name of him who
shall propose to destroy this blessed land
rather than its enemies.