The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1865-09-07

when the result seemed trembling
in q balance, and it was uncertain
whether Sherman's movement
against Atlanta could be n success,
their party met in formal dolibcra-
ton as u national party and dcclar-
cd the war a failure. They had
shown the same disposition in their
personal attacks upon the President
and tho members of the admins
tration. While Mr.. Lincoln was,
with honest and patient purpose,
seeking only how the country might
be freed from its perils and cmbar-
rassmcnts, they were dcnouncing
him as tyrant and usurpcr. No
bitterness ofattack seemed too ma
Ilignant, and no expression ofhatrcd
too intense, to vent their feelings
against him, whose only fault, in
their eyes, was that no was the rep
rescntative of the determination of
the American people, to sacrifice
their lives and fortunes rather than
that the Union itself should be de-
stroycd. And now that the war is
ended, this same organization ex.
lists, and the defeatcd rebels at the
South are looking to it as their
natural ally, in upholding the po.
Ilitical struggle which is now taking
the place of the military conflict.
SHALL VICTORY lie WASTED.
The war being thus far transfer
red to a new arena, the question
now to be determined il, whether
tho fruits Of our long struggle shall
be wrcsted from us by a combina
tion of the defeated rebels at the
Soath with the defeated disloyal.
lists - the North
During the whole war the South
ern press teemcd with evidence of
the reliance which tho rebels were
Iplacing upon thoir allies at the
North, and their confident expcc-
tation that by long continued ct.
fort they would succeed in so en-
barassiug the Government by OPP
position to its necessary measures,
or by stirring up dissatisfaction
and strife in the several States OF
the North, that any vigorous pros
ecution of the war would become
impossible, and their independence
\ would be achieved.
vALLANrIGUAMIsM.
One who was but recently their
: candidate for tho Governorship OF
this State, openly proposed the
formation of u new contederacy, to
be mado up Of the Northern States,
and the possibility that such new
secession might be accomplished
+ gave courage and perseverance, to
the rebels at the South, who knew
that this would be equivalent to
the immediate success of their own
cause. In dilitrJnt forms the same
idea continually came to the sur
: surface. What could not be ac-
complishcd in one way, they sought
to accomplish in another. With
untiring perseverance and peril
+ nacity they worked for the success
l of their southern friends, and even
now, when,tho cause of slavery and
the cause of rebellion seem TO have
fallen together, the most consistent
and outspoken of the disloyal par
| ty boldly affirm both the right Of
secession and the proprietv of re.
+ storing slavery. The instinct OF
i success prevents the party as a
: whole from avowing the doctrines
!, of the more radical wing,s but in
d their actions and conduct there is
d no difference TO be seen, and thu
: same spirit and purpose animate
d the whole. 1t is Of little consc
f quence what verbal differences
there may be in the statements o.
: opinion, or the statements OF prin
t ciple which may be put forth by
] the two conventions of the opposi'
t ton shortly to meet in this State
: Their real purpose will be one, ant
o the only question between then
+ will be as to the propriety and ad
II visibility of greater or less bold
! ness Of utteranee.
= THE NEW SHAPE OF SOUTHERN RE
q DELLIoN.
= Meanwhile in the South, thos
: who but a short time ago seemed
o to have abandoned not only tn
Ir hope of opposing the Government
81 by force OF arms, but also the pur
" pose of resistance to the decreos o
l. fate in reference to their pcculia
'e institutions, are now found assert
L ing themselves, and preparing TO
d organizing with q view to a neS
% struggle to prevent the results o
g the war from being thorough
g, consolidated and made permanent
of They would never have dared al
t. tempt or even think of this had
t, not been for the existence Of thi
At disloyal party at the North, an
II their knowledge that its organiza
AZ tion mere afforded them the basi
at for action, and a ground for hope
re where otherwise the future woul
" have been to them hopeless. A
G. history shows us that mems opir
IN ions are rarely changed by militar
Do conquest-that those who wer
NJ rebels in aims will remain rebeI
IL in thought and at heart until
n change in the condition Of til
IL country, or the establishment