The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1865-10-26
The Pennsylvania Election.

The Philadelphia Press, Of the
ilth, inst, has the following article
on the recent election in Ponnsyl-
vania: The election Of yesterday
was made important by the attitude
of the so-collcd Democratic party on
the question of reconstruction, and
by their ostentatious cfTrontery in
proicring their support to President
johnson, after years of unexampicd
insults to his patriotism and unpar-
alleled calumnies upon his character
Their leaders, covered with the odum
of notorious and unrccantcd sympa-
thy with the rebellion, and with cruel
Indifference to the suirerings Of aud
ingratitudc for the gallantry Of the
soldiers of the republic, boldly at
tempted to swindlc popular majority
for the candidates, and TO force for
gctfullncss Of their INCAPABLE record.
Desperate under the consciousness Of
their guilt. they fed for refuge to the
very policy they had 50 opposed un.
der Lincoln, aud also under johnson
until he became President; forgetting
that the people had not lost their
memories, aud that however ready to
forgive the rcpcntant rebel they had
no such feeling for the leaders in the
free States, who, after helping trcas-
on with their safe and cheap profess
sions, refused to accept the fate 50
gladly obcycd by the hope that by
spcculating upon the prcjudiccs of
some of the voters against the colorcd
rlcc, they dcclaimcd loudly against
negro suffrage; and when Connect.
cut dccid ii against the reform, they
confdcntially believed that Pcnnsyl-
vania would swing from her moorngs
and give joy TO the desperate parti-
sans who hnd lnborcd for their coun-
try's ruin But both aspirations have
failed. The great deeds of the last
gear are not forgotten. Our people
remember how much it cot to save
the Government from the hands Of
the rebels, aud are resolved to keep il
in the care aud custody of the men
who have been tried in the fires of
civil war. and have not been wanting.
Apart from the lessons taught by
saving our great State aud city from
the hands Of the spoilers, are one or
two of chief Significance. Let us
hope that our public men, of ell form
or organizations, will accept the adj
From this day let the
great parties ascend to tho highest
planes of principle. Above all, let
not the Union party be afraid to
" take the responsibility" We coun-
sci no imprncticoblc, aud no extreme
soursc. All should be deliberate and
in order. But we must not fear or
'0rgct TO march up to our work. On
he question Reconstruction We have
he wise counsel of the President To
effect upon, and with him we should
ot make issues that may work mis-
hicr to white and black alike, and We
hould, as part of his policy aud
'ur own duty, bear forever in mind
hat We dare hot give up the covenant
vc have made not to allow tho Union
men of the South to relapse into
moral slavery oven worse than the
physical scrfdom from which the war
has delivered them. Nor yot can the
traitors he allowed to return TO rule
and ruin the future as they spoiled
and slaughtered the past, Let us in
vito aud welcome the States to the old
hcarihstonc. If they were only
" abroad we should he glad to see
them cat homo.' But none who can
not take the oath of Congress, aud
none who laugh at it when taking il
should bo allowed hearing, or an
appeal for the revocation of that high
condition precedent, 1t is now, We
take it, an established fact that moth
ing but wiliul actiousncss, or stub
born adherence TO individual crotch
cts, or suspicion of the motives. of
our public achcrs and servants, can
throw the great Union train from the
track, at least for n generation of
time, or until il has SO secured aud
strengthened the Republic that it
would require n double revolution
even to arrest its onward career
And this is n text full of truth and
aud is worthy of the profoundcst