The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-07-18
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Hon. F. Hassurek on the Suffrage
Question.

Hon. FFED. HAssAUREK, the emf
nent aud scholarly German orator Of
Cincinnati, delivered in Columbus,
during the evening after the Union
State Convention, remarkably able
speech in favor Of equal suffrage in
Ohio, from which we make the fol-
lowing eloquent extracts: -il-
If the Bourbon leaders ofthc dem
ocratic party have forgotten anything
it is only the great fundamental prin.
ciplo of Democracy to which their
party owed its origin and former
strength. They have forgotten only
what they should have remembered;
but, with reference to what they
should have tried to unlearn, their
memory is as tenacious as that of the
Bourbons Of Europe. Our American
BoSrbons are still fighting tho issues
of the first battle of Bull Run; but
they have not yet learned the news
of the fall of Richmond and the sur
render Of Lee. They have not yet
realized that the war terminated in
the defeat Of Secession aud the vindi-
cation of our National integrity
They are still coming over an old
pro. slavery dispatch, written by Mr.,
Seward early in the beginning Of the
war, when reconciliation aud peacea
bic reunion were still thought to be
possible. But they will not realize
that, in the meantime, their pet insti-
tuition had been swept away, aud a
new era inaugurated by the success
of the federal arms. They went to
sleep, like Rip Van Winkle, years
ago, with the resolutions Of 1898, un.
der their pillows, aud they are just
awaking from their dreams, They
cannot believe that Mic Vedder and
Jacob Stein are dead, and that the
days Of old Rip are gone. They have
again presented themselves to the
people Of Ohio with a platform Of
political BJurbonism. Its outward
feature is its interminable length.
Its intrinsic feature Is disloyalty. II
is a rehash Of the anti-war speeches
of Pendleton and Vallandigham. i
bristles with notification. Its breadth
is reputation. 1t is fraught with
bad faith. 1t spurns the obligations
our national struggle has devolv
ed upon us. In the speech which
had the honor to deliver before th,
Union State Convention of last year
said that the people of the United
States have assumed two solemn obli
cations. One of protection to thu
nations wards, the freedmen, and the
other of good faith to our nationa
creditors. If the Democratic party
had the power it woul !, to our ever
lasting disgrace, have repudiated both
these obligations. Whatever the I'm
ion undertook toward the perform
anoe of these obligations, met with
the unqualified opposition Of our op
Ipouents. They opposed the war fOi
the suppression of the rebellion
They opposed the abolition of slavery
They opposed all measures for tho
protection Of the lives of Southern
Unionists. And if our national deb
is being paid; il is done ia spite o.
the Democratic party. Ifit were no
for the existence Of the Union party
the true, genuine Democratic ides
would now be without a representa-
tive. ftHla3 @yf
Governments are instituted for the
protection Of individual right. Wheth
er the power necessary for this pur
pose shall be conferred on an aristoc
racy of privileged few, or many, o.
whether il shall be. vested in th'
whole people, is the great question
which now agitates the public min'
in both hemispheres, in England a
we'll as ~ Ameriea. The history o
the last few years has clearly marke,
out the policy which will be sdopte,
by our people. And this with you
permission i shall briefly proceed Il
show. I We wVt q 4@BBI&A y
In order to fulfill our duty to th
freedmen by protecting their lives
liberty and property, several laws ha'
: been passed by COngress which prov
ed insufficient The amendator,
: Freedmen's Bureau Bill was passed
SO was the Civil Rights Bill. Blu
a these laws did not fully accomplish
their purpose. Their execution dc
pended on an unwilling Presidenl
the machinery created by them wa
too complicated aud unwieIdy; an
their object was defeated BY the de-
: termined hostility Of public opinion
in the States for which they wer
chiefly intended. Thus far Congres
in endeavoring to protect the person
: and property of the freedmen, ha
octed on what / mlght call the Euro