The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1866-08-23

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These arc not all gentlemen, who
constitute the great army oi right.
Tho womcn arc with u5. do not
mean. sirs, the women who, in '63,
with thoir Sanitary and christian
Commissions were labor,ng ear
ncstly to gather supplies for woun-
dcd Confederate soldiers in hospi-
tails ! | do not moan that class oi
women who, were rallying to their
little social circles and contributing
their dimes aud half dimes for the
relief of Nallandigham. TGrcat
laughter. That's not the kind
(Rcncwcd laughter | refer to
'comen. [grcat applause, II alluic
to that Kin of women, and | will
say for the sake of poetry that they
wore an angel host, who in the
dark hour when goom AMI de-
spondcncy, settled in the ranks of
the Union, and your sons were lal
ling like tho autumn leaves, at the
front, before the blast of war: those
ladies were the ones who gathered
together, almost daily, all their
little jollics aud delicacics and ev-
cry womanly art desirable for the
hospital, and ladoned every train
and car aud express cilicc from
here down to Richmond, and in the
S;atc of Georgia. That is The
class Of women to whom | rcfIr-
| mran those mothers who, instead
of writing to their sons in the ar
my Of the Republic t. come back
home, that it was n niggor war !:
that they were Lincoln's hirclincs.
wrote to them to stand 10y their
colors and their country-prove
yourselves men ---comp home in
your coffin or come q hero. (Grcat
applausel, That is the kind OF
material we havo on ono side. -
(Laughter) They have got kind
of representative establishment. a
kind of exhibition down at Phila
dclphia, and it opened out there to.
day. Let us sec who is there. g
l.. Vallandigham, OF Ohio, is there
(great laughter.) tho man who
boastcd that he never voted n man
to crush the rebellion, or q dollar
to pay the poor soldier who slept
upon the damp earth anl thrsted
and battled day and night at Shi-
loh, Stone River and on the battle
fields of Virginia, not a dollar =
lle is there. There is Dick Tay-
lor, Inc is there. And what is he
lIe is red all over with tho blood
Of your sons. For four long years
he poured an incessant fire at the
heart strings and vitals OF your
while your children stood
between his deadly assaults AMI
your homes. He is there. Then
there are four unhung scoundrels
from every Congressional District
in the Southern States, (applause,) J
-four men who forfeited, long since,
life, liberty aud property, set down
there in Philadelphia with Val
landigham. And Major Arm
strong from Seneca; Clymer, from
Bucyius, are there f.; and other men
are there; old Bill. Allen, who has
been fosilized fifteen ycars-who
has not felt single inspiration Of
manly sympathy for fifteen years,
but at the call for convention the
poor old man crawls from his hab.
itation on tho hills of Chiicothe,
and goes down to Philadelphia to
grasp the bloody hands Of Dick
Taylor and Longstrcet. say
d--n such men. cloud cheers. J
They are not the only men there,
for here comes another class ofmen
but there are not many Of them.
You have seen that among the IL
Apostles Of our Great Master when
on earth, but one betrayed Him.
There is probably a decent copo.
rails guard Of them, which in mill.
tary phrases, | believe, consists OF
four, down there; some of them
around with their pieces of silver,
which they received for betraying
their country, while others are say.
ing, Well, | was rather for the
war, bu. I'LL am not a Radical
Il am no Radical am not a
Radical--oh, no. | am never Rad
ical, but give me an Office, il you
please" That is the other ele-
ment. Now, do you know that
we can whale that kind of men 7
Why, | will tell you that sec some
friends around me, who have had
a little experience in this fighting
business. How are we going to-
10 itl Just organize and go out
before the people, and don't be too
conservatives. 1t won't do. That
is not humanity. We must lift up
everything and carry it forward on
our strong arms, and invite the
smiles Of angels; for know that
as we stand up manly, heroically
and gloriously, the very angels will
be over and above us cheering our
rising race. do not propose to
be conservative during this cam.
paign, ard Twill make one pledge,
and that is, that wherever go,
there won't be particle of dilicul.
ty in proving that | have been
there-not particle. Laugh,ei
aud eheers) Th,re are arguments to
introduce and discuss, but | am moi
going to argue. | do not ask for
crowds of two or three thousands.
We are going to carry this Dis
trict, That is the thing to be done,
and you see that they are organi