The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1866-09-06
Finnefrock.

Alta Democratic meeting at Tiihn
last week THOMAS =. FINNEFRocK,
who is supposed to be trying to per-
suade the people of the Ninth Dis
trict stood up aud loudly declared that
Gen. Il. p. BUCKLAND was n COW.
.ARDl Voters of Sandusky County,
we ask you calmly to consider who it
was that uttered it and of whom it
was spoken Remember the terrible
days of SHILOH, and the part en-.
acted there by the brave I'D, and tcho
il ras led the brigade through that
tempest of fire and death, and hoU
that leader bore his part. We only
say RencmJcri And remember, too,
ViCKSBURGl Those I'D boys can
never forget it, nor the days that pre-
ceeded the heightened siege. We
have heard from their own lips how
Gen. BucKLAND led them to the
charge against those impregnablc
works. lie did not, like many Gen
erals, stand back under cover and
communicate with his Brigade by
aids and ordcrlios; but dismounting
from his horse, he forced his way
through the almost impcnetrable abat-
It's, at the head of his command, in
sight of all, while the air Ground him
was literally filed with rebel muskct
balls, and each instant they expected
to see him fall. Privatcs tell this.
Every one acquainted with him knows
that Gen, BuCKLAND seldom speaks Of
these things. lie is not the sort OF
man to sound his own trumpet. lie
considers that he did nothing extra
ordinary-ouly simple duty. But
Chcre ,cas Tho It's II. FTHHc)rock, aud
,chat ras HE doing during those days,
to earn the right to publicly proclaim
our brave soldier a COWARD? Did
he, forgetful of party, and self, and
family, and home comforts, security
and luxerics, of life even, throw him.
self into more imminent and deadly
breach than Shiloh, or face hotter
hell of rebel fury than Vicksburg ?
Speak it aloud but the faintcst his
per of the shameful truth will awak.
en- thuudrous echoes of indignation
in every honest heart. THIS man pd'
at tie rear during de iodr. lie ,cd'
} at Home. Not only so but during
those darkest days of Shiloh anC
! Vicksburg, when our brave boys were
in the death grapple with treason, ant
it was feared that they would be over
: whclmcd for want of re inforccments
, this Mr.. Finneirock was COUNSEL
, ING REsISTAN NOE TO TIL
: DRAFT. In August, 1863, in
speech made to copperhcad meeting
in Clapp's Grove, he said "Demo
: crdts arm yomsciresi 90 armed Z
hc poHsi RESIST THE DRAFT
for II Jlood is 10 he shed IL might a
, ,ocH be- shed IN SANpuTKY COUNTY
As IN ABE LINCoLN's SLAUGHTER
PENS But his knees trcmble,
while he uttered these words, and Fin
nclrock never she'd any blood. How
, many lives OF brave Union soldier
from this county and district his trait
| orous influence sacrificed, is only re
. corded on high. And this is he ma
{ who goes to Tifliu, and from the stun
, declares that General Bnckiand is
: coward Such base aud slandcrou
! lalsehood i'll becomes an aspirant I
. the high position of national legis
: lator, and especially concerning a tel
0 low .townsmau, who never uses an
but the most courteous language II
, speaking Of his opponent but ifcon
sidorations of common propricty an
decent regard for the truth could no
restrain him from such humiliatinj
meanness, it might at least have beef
expected that the contrast which hi
falsehood must provoke between hi
! oirn record aud that of the soldier h
r maligned, would have scared him in
, to more honorable silence.
This candidate had far better sta
. at home as he did during the war,
he consults his political safety as h
, then did his bodily.