The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-08-15
NUMBER 4a.

'.'N teeof ihvih lhat OF Jefferson aud
i,he fathers. "Its foundations said
ne esre laid; its corner stone rests up-
ON tho gresetguih that the negro IL
not equal 10 thc-~Aito man; that sia-
very, subordination to->la snnerio,
race, Is his natural and normaS-oon.
dition." Mr. Lincoln and the Union
party, struggling faithfully onward.
finally reached the solid ground that
the American Government was found
ed on the broad principles Of right.
justice, aud humanity, aud that for
this nation Union aud liberty" were
Indeed zone aud inseparable."
! The leaders Of the peace Democra.
cy were for a time overwhelmed by
tho popular uprising which followed
the stack on Fort Sumter, and wors
not ablc during the year 1861 or tho
early part Of 1882 to mark out def
nitoly the course to ba pursued. Bat
like the Uuiou party, thoy gradually
approached the position they wero
ultimately to occupy.
rus PEACE DENooRAcY OPPOSED 20
ALL WAR MBAsunEs.
Their success 10 the autumn cleo.
tious Of 1852 encouraged thom to en.
tor upon the pathway in which they
have plodded along consistently, Il
not prosperoualy, ever siuee. Oppo.
sitiou to the war measures OF Sir.
Llucolns Administration, and in par.
lieular to every measure to1dinR 70
the enirauchisemont aud elevation of
. the African race, haeame their settled
policy. By this policy thor were
placed in harmony with, their former
associates, tho rebels Of the South. -
The rebels wero lighting 10 destroy
: the uuion. The peace party were
opposing the only measures which
could save ii. The rebels we're hght.
ing for slavery. The peace party
were laboring in their way to keep
alive and iu9ams the prejudice a.
gainst race and color, on which slav-
cry was based.
The abolition Of slavery 10 the
District of Columbia, the repeal Of
the fugitive slave law, MIR. Lincolns
. proclamation Of emancipation, In
word, every step Of the Onion party
= toward enlranchisement Of the oolo..
. cd people, the Peace Democracy op.
posed. Every war measure, every
means adopted to strengthen the
cause Of the Uuion aud weaken tho
rebellion, met with the sane opposi.
ton. What Mr.. Lincoln or Congress
did to get money, to got men, or to
obtain the moral support of the coun.
try and the world-tax laws, tariff
: laws, groenbacks, Government bonds,
army bills, drafts, blockades, proc.
, lamations--met the indiscriminate
aud bittor assaults Of these men. The
! enlistment OF eolored soldiers,
I. measure by which between Que and
two hundred thousand able bodied
men were transferred from the ser
vice of the rebels in corn fields TO the
Union service In battlefolds--how
Mr. Lincoln aud the Union party
9 wcro yillitied for that wise and ne.
I cessary measured But worse, inf
E. nitely worse than mere opposition to
, war measures were their efforts to
5 impair the confidence Of the people,
t to diminish the moral power Of the
r Government. to give hope and earn
n estness to the enemies of the Union,
f by showing that the Administration
Q was to blame for the war, that it was
h unnecessary, unjust, and that ii had
been perverted from its original OBJ
% ject and that il could not bat fail.
IS REPRESENTATIVE MEN OF TUE PEAoE
n DEMOCRACY IN OHIO THEIR spKEcH.
a Is AND CONDUCT.
| need not 90 beyond the record OF
] leaders of the Ohio Democracy of to-
7 day for proof of what | am saying.
{ Mr. Pendleton, usually so gentleman
0 y and prudent in speech, lost his
5 balance after tho victories Of .ha
: Peace Democracy in 1862. At the
( Democratic jubilee in Butler county
e over the election, Mr.. Pendleton is
reported AZ saying;
+ l came up to see il there were any
r Buiternnts in Butler County. came
7 10 see If there were aHy Copperheads
. in Butler county, as my friends Of
the Cincinnati GISetts and Gmmey-
oidt are tond of terming the Demoe-
racy Of the country. came up to
tell you that there are a good many
7 of that stripe Of animals in old Ham,
ilton. have travelled about the
L coutry lately, aud / assure you there
IS large crop Of Butternuts every
whore not only that, but tho quality
and character Of the nut is quito "a
. good as the quantity.
OF course Mr.. Psndleton was an
plauded by his audiAnce aud he re
{ turned to his place in the House OF
? Representatives at Washington pro-
} pared to & W expression 20 bis views
with the same plainness and boldnass
which marked the utterance Of hi9
colleague, Mr. Vallandigham.
On the 3lst Of January, 1863, he
made an elaborate speech against the
enlistment of negroes into the seq vice
Of the United States, in which he
g said
{ / should be false 10 you, M, fellow.
= representatives, if l did mob tell you
I, that there is an impression, aroEiae
1 with great rapidity, upon the mad OF
}, the people of the Northwest That thew
Q have been deliberately deceived into
; this war that their at1iotism and
: love of country have BEEN engaged to
y call them into the army, under tho
+ pretense that the war was to be for
the Union aud the Constitution,
n when in fact, IL was to bs an arned
o crusade for the abolition of slaverV
2 | tell you, sir, that unless thA i'm
i preston is speedily arrested il will
d become universal It will ripen into
2 oonvlctloai and then it will be beyond
your Power to get from their broad
y Tf,ains another man, OF from their all