The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1865-07-27
The Democracy
TEACHING ASSASSINATION.

III Tue Htc tfoSiuVhua t"u'aoSt "
their arguments and denuncia tions
plainly and unequivocally taught as
sassination and revolution. They tolt
the people that Lincoln had tramplct
on the Constitution that he had vic
lated the right Of trial by jury tha
he had unlawfully suspended the wri
Of hnbeas corpus that he had dcnict
the liberty of speech and the press
that he had superseded the Courts anC
established Military Star Chambers
and that he was a tyrant and despot
worthy of the fate Of Charles l.
They quoted and pOraphrased tho
Declaration of Independence, compar
ing Mr.. Lincoln to George III, and
in many instances, threatening hin
with death. The sentiment was al.
most universal, among the rank aud
ile of the Democracy, that Mr.. Lin.
coin was guilty of bringing on the
war, and that he was as great a traitor
and as worthy Of punishment as JEFF
Davis.
How often in their rcfrains did the
people hear tho groundlings of that
party sing Hang Abe Lincoln on a
sour apple tree. What was taught
in the lodges of the Sons of Liberty
but revolution, resistance to lawful
authority and assassination e? Why
did Pugh declare, that Mr.. Lincoln
was as great tyrant as King Bomba ?
Why did he threaten, that if Vallan-
digham was arrested, the one hundred
and eighty thousand Democrats Of
Ohio would march to his rescue
Why did the Democracy Throughout,
the west, arm themselves P CrcicoiIh
Union.
To show the position Of the lead
ers of the Democracy, it is only neces-
sary to quote few examples:
The following from the La Crosse
wisconsin, Democrat, appeared in
the issue of that paper Of August Goth,
1864;
"The man who votes for Lincoln
now Is traitor. Lincoln is a traitor
and murderer. lie who pretending
to war for, wars against the Constitu-
ton of our country, is traitor, and
Lincoln is one of those men. He who
calls and allurcs men to certain butch
cry is a murderer, and Lincoln has
done all this. Had any former Demo
cratic President warrcd upon the Con.
stitution or irihcd with the destinie.
of the nation as Lincoln has, he would
have been hurled to perdition long
since. And if he is elected to misgov'
crn for another four years, we rUs
some bold hand ,eiH pierce his heor'
cih Il dagger poim for The p"JHc
good. " Booth did the work to the
perfect satisfaction Of this Jackson
Democrat. .
The Chicago Times, the leading
Copperhead organ of the West, in its
issue of July LIST, 1861, in an editorial
upon the re election Of President Lin
coln, said:
I" lie could not be more worthless
dead than he is living, but be Infinite.
Iy less mischievous, and his corpse,
repulsive as it would be in its freshest
state and richest and most graceful
habiliments, would yet be the most
appropriate sacrifice which the insult
ed Nation could offer in atonement for
its submission to his imbccility aud
We wonder whether the wretch who
penned the above rcjoiced at the zap.
propriate sacrifice" when the people
of Chicago poured out by scores Of
thousands to do honor to the remains
of the great man2
In the Chicago Convention, s. S.
Cox, Of Ohio, said r|...t
For less offence than Mr.. Lincoln
had been guilty of the English people
had chopped off the head of the first
Charles. In MS OPINION, LINCOLN
AND DAVIS OUGHT TO DE BROUGHT TO
TnE SAME BLOCK TOGETHER.
Captain Koontx, of Pennsylvania
a Mcclellan leader, in the same Con.
ventiou said
"lf Democrats catch Lincoln's
bloody spies among them, they must cut
their id throats; that's all
[ Applause. 1t is the duty of every
American to vote for a peace candi.
date
The people will soon rise. AND II
THEY CAN NOT PUT LINCOLN OUT oh
POWER ny THE BAL--LoT THEY WILL
ny rnEBuL-LET. Loud cheers
"Shall more wives be made widows
and more children iatherless, anC
greater hate be stirred up between
children ofthe sssae glorious constitu
tion2 lr NOT, WE MUST put ouI
root UPON THE TYRANTs NECK, an,
destroy it. The democratic govern
ment must be raised to power, an,
Lincoln with his cabinet of rogues
thieves and spies be driven to destruc
tion. What shall we do then2 IA
voicc-send him to me, and III max
a coffin, d---n him. Yes, d
: him aud his miserable followers.
should like to see the noble Geore
B. Mcclellan as President [Chcers.
and that great democrat, Hora,io Ssy
@our, should occupy the position o
Secretary Of State. y