The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-08-22
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OPENING or TIE CAMPAIGN.
SPEECH OF
GEN. r.. BAHAfES,
At IebanOn, o. Ans. S,iSO7.
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NiS ""t say > 0sV'
What will you have noN2 Four
years more ofwar7 What guarantees
Of success have you2 Do you want
two million more of men to 90 forth
to this war as the Crusaders went to
the sepulcher ut Jerusalem? The
beginning Of this Administration
found us with very little debt, COM
paratively mo taxation, and peace
and happiness among the States, and
now look at the, scene. -Four more
years of war, do you tell nc, when the
first four, with every advantage, has
failedY Now, too, that the hearts of
half of the people are turned away
from war, aud intent upon the arts Of
peace? What will be tho consequence?
-Four thousand millions more debt.
fyo hundred millions mote OF taxa
ton, more conscriptions, more calls
for FIVE hundred thousand men, more
sacrifices for the next four years. All
this is what Abraham Lincoln de-
mands of you in order that the South
may be compelled not to return to
the Un!cn, but 10 abandon slavery.
All this is logic, this cloquence,
this taxing the Imagination to portray
the horrors of war, failod to deceive
the people; Lincoln was reelected;
the war went on; and few short
months witnessed the end Of the arm
ed pebellion, and the FlmnplEo Of lib e.
erty aud of Union.
Now came the work Of rccoustrue-
ton. The leaders the Peace Democ
rocy, who had failed in every meas
ure, in every plan, in every opinion,
and in every prediction relating to
the war, were promptly on hand, and
with unblushing check were prepared
to take exclusive charge ofthe whole
business Of reorganization and recon
struction, They had a plan all pre-
pared--a plan easily understood, ca
silly executed, and which they aver
red would be satisfactory to all par
ties. Their plan was in perfect har.
mony with the conduct and history
of its authors and friends during the
war. They had been in very close
sympathy with the men engaged in
the rebellion, while their sympathy
for loyal white people at the South
was not strong, and they were bitter
ly hostile to loyal colored people
both North and South. There plan
was consistent with all this.
REcoNsThUorIcN pIAE or TpHTrEAcI
Aff ui-l .DBMeeRAcY. VI uAU
According to it, the rebels were tC
.. be treated in the same manner as i
they Ind remained loyal. ,CAll laws
Stale aud patiOral, all orders RnC
regulations Of the military, naval and
other departments Of the Government
creating disabilities ON account oi
participation in the rebellion, were tC
berepealed, feyoked,. or abolished
The rebellious States are to be rep.
: resented in Congress by the rebels
without hipdrauce from any test path
9 All appointments in the army, in tn,
}. navy, aud in the civil service, wer,
to be made from men who were reb
els, on tile sans 4eAns as nffom mel
+ who were loyal The people an,
!. Governments in the rebellious State
: were, to. be subjected 70. no other in
7 ! terfeScnoo, nrcontrOt fraus Bbe pTlIi
Il tary or other departments of the Gen
g eral Government, than exists ia tn
; States which remained loyal. Loya
: white men, and loyal colored Vme
y were to be protected alone in thos
Il States by State laws, executed b
State authorities, as if they -wsr
Z l.ini loyal Stotes.c1 ~ III u
There were to be no amendments t
!. the Constitution, not even an amend
y, ment abolishigg slavery, In, short
e the great rebellion was to 'bcNiguore'
D. or forgotten, or, in the words Of on
Of the ora tors, ''to be generously for
given" The war, whose burden.
cost and carnage they had been 5
y fond of exaggorating, suddenly san
Y into what the Reverend Petroleum '
y Nasby calls "the late unpleasant
ness, " for which nobody but the Al
ohtionists were to- blameS Undertlr
tplan the States could soon re-estat
: lish slavery where it had been dis
+ turbed BY fho war; Jefferson Davi
! Toombs, SHdell and Mason could /
re-eIected to their old places in tn
Senate of the United States, Lc
l. could be roGppointed in the army an
2, Semmes and Maury be restored
Q the Navy. of course this plau
the Peace Democracy was acceptabI
st to the rebels of the South.
= But the loyal people, who undo
the name of the Union party fougi
}. successfully through the war of I'll
II REBELLION, sotSeeteaIto stiiis pliSt. b
N wrong in principle, wrong in its d.
p tails, and fatally wrong as an exam
pie for the future. 1t treats treaso
as no crime, apd Ioy4ltytaslpo virtu
1t contains no guarantees, 'irfevers
IN BILE or otherwise, against another n
sess bellion by the same parties aud o
the same ground. 1t restores to p,
Y titical honor and power in the Go'
y crnment Of the nation men who hay
spent the best. part of their lives
plotting the overthrow Of that go'
ernment, and who, for more than fo'
years levied public war against II
@. United States lt allows Union ms
in the South who have risked altar
70 many ofwhom have lost all but Ii
= in upholdiug the Union cause-to
excluded from every office, State an
= national, and in many instances to
} banished from the States they !
se faithfully labored to save. 1T abal
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