The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-08-01

l have been exhibiting my tongue
for about an hour, so the indications
from that are understood, and per.
haps the Confederates present are
quite willing shall haul Il in about
now. As to my pulse, when traitors
began to throw hard-shell water mel.
ons into Fort Sumter, my pulse ran
up suddenly to 177 per minute
When the flag esme down tho fever
increased, and my mind muttered Of
sulphur aud saltpeter. When our
boys left Bull Run, the blood left my
face, my pulse stopped, till, as Arte-
mus would say, / hadn't pult cold
chills came o,er me, and Il was with
difficulty that could speak. Strange
symptoms, doctor, l shall never for
get them. have heard of others af-
fected in the Same way. The men.
tion Of Vioksburg, or Gettysburg,
brought on an irrepressible spasm Of
shouting. Queer, Wasn'tit7 In 1863
was subject to nightmare. I thought
a terrible hammer hung ready to fall
on me--one Of those fearful Vallau.
dig. Hammers. When old Johnny
BrOugh walked me up, wasn't so
happily relievedf A dose of tinc,ure
Of vote, 100,000th potency, cured
that symptom so il has never re.
turned.
l was next attacked with . ramb.
ling propensity, and wandered of
over the Rapidan, through the Viii
dsrness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor,
past the Weldon Railroad, and down
to Fort Fisher. Perhaps one more
symptom will enable you to decide
whats the matter"
The little presentation by one Mr..
Lee to ono Mr.. Grant, somewhere
between Richmond aud Danville, af-
fected me remarkably. / remember
that when the news of that little
local item reached me / had a long
train Of ammunition and supply wsg-
ons in the muddy cypress swamps in
the Cotton States, aud the next thing
remember was out iuan open field,
q mile from the stuck mule train, in
q crowd Of lunatics, all Of us so hoarse
that We could hardly whisper how
glad we were we didn't die the day
before.
Doctor, oh, Doctor what is the
mat:er1 Are there any symtoms Of
of treason in my casef
1t is said that war, like poverty,
makes strange bodfellows, and 1 am
taunted with being in bed with that
internal Thad, Stevens. Suppose l
get out Of that bed and crawl over
into that other bed l leave the in
fernal Thad. to crawl into bed with a
nest Of Internal copperheads--Vallan-
digham, Thurman, Olds & Co. What
brilliant change.
Excuse me, gentlemen, il I go back
to internal Thad, for l would rather
be irVer"GIy right than Internally
iorOng.
Thad. Stevens il some distance
from the main army, on picket or
videttc line, watching the movements Of
the enemy from q near stand point,
and a restless ugly customer he is to
skirmiSh with, but when the main
battle comes on he falls back and
takes his place in the line, and we
overlook the gyratious and tantrums
he cuts when alone and far from us.
We may yet be made to adopt his
dreadful measures. If we do the
South may thank themselves for it.
They have made us do a great many
things dreadfully against our wishes
They made US take arms. They made
Us quit guarding Their property and
destroy il. They made us send Sher-
man throuah the South without
gloves. They made US call colored
soldiers to the field to help us save
the country, and 200, 900 came at the
call. They made US free the slaves,
and when We gave them easy terms
by which to recover their forfeited
rights, by obstinancy and insolence
they made US take another step and
that step was forward, not backward,
as they hoped. Refusing to give
freedmen their rights aud protect
loyal lives, they made us do it. Their
obstinacy made us give them the
Freedmen's Bureau and Civil Rights
Bills Mayors and Judges in place of
traitors. Pressing right on in this
way, they at length made us give the
vote to their former slaves. wonder
how they like it as far as they have
got.
The next step, If they will make
US take il, will make such tracks as
old Thad's right foot always makes,
"broad as it is long" If necessary
We shall take that step, for We shall
strap down and buckle them snugly
until they work kindly in loyal har.
ness. Cavalry Sheridan is on the
ground and is a good hand at break :
ing colts. / have seen in the South
followed by 10000 horses in faultless
discipline. And if--mark me-if
our modern Moses removes him, the
people in '68 will rush him into the
Presidential Mansion at such \ rapid
rate that his coat till wouldn't over
take him iu three days, You may
turn leaf down there to mark that
particular place in history.
But says one 20 me, "GrAy, why
do you leave the old Democratic
platform2"
Let US look at the planks in those
old platforms on which we so lazily
Aaunted, till We hoated into sea Of
blood. 1850 t..IN
The Wing plank against the agita-
tion Of slavery, and the Democratic
opposed to the agitation Of slavery.
IT, for the sake Of Aud Lang Syne,
We are going to fight on the planks
rated out Of Commodore Noahis Ark,
let's have the FIRST boat on these
twin planks. Where is the slavery
plapk and aQaiDstf Floatad mt ~