The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-01-17
Communicated,
"reminiscences, Y 1aa

IN
aud ] detailed with some minuteuess
!, the materials wheroWith aud the man
ner in which the Same had been con,
slructed as claimed BY the belliger,
ents Of 'fif6n aud FL. Ball respective
D ly, leaving the. ipquisitiye reader 10
form his Owu opinion on the Sosnbieet.
D Ii promised ia this communication
u wa CO. | irustmay, avoid the scy yllaand
) ebarybdis Of,ypograPhieal psrvcrsity, :,
D 10 givo history of the first canal 10
0 our city, and how il Out-aankod the
east wing of the dam above referred
) TO ;ipnd split It's contents into Sau.
dusky bay. 1t must not be forgotten
that the construction pf these work
> had cost the good citiEeus Of Fort
0 Ball uneounled expenditures and
most patient exertion aud toll. s. Hav.
0 ing been completed they naturally
0 became the exultanti subject of their
5 sympathy and unalloyed eongratula-
tions by day-Sasd most gratifying
~ iIS sIoot Iastg -
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=, ;.. ,...,,s..,a-,. ;',,.~s... .,,',-'.'''
} growth oftheir litGetow1. by perform.
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.nTroir ~. ~. ,,,;cl. !, A.. - r,.,,
oh,.s;n .na onnovsnoa os ~. ia.s
, favored, Do,yhbors loOorl the gr,vc,o
Tbai tbe trm,nnb.nt succoss 40 90.
n porty should have exeited tbo rcsont.
,nent of tho other l. oasilv nndor..
a stood and to suppose that efForts
would be wanting 10 courtsr0c, ths.a
|, excessive congratulations and to,tors
ut least apbroximate eonaiity bo,woeu
D them would be not merely Kind ore
fdulity but 10 exnect n revsr.aI o, the
} ordinary motives of humanity or the
f intervention Of a miracle which 10 b..
sure. in nm affair 40 very mom.ntous
to those so immediately Interested in
lii. might not perhaps have been
deemed altogether extraordinary or
improbable. however ouixotic il migLt
{ now appear 10 their moro pblecmatic
posteritv Tberefore tho bilaritv If
our Fort Ball belliserents on this -oc.
casion, both fulsome and ipccssont
!. sould not fail. by attracting the spc.
cial notice and provoking, as il did,
the burning indignation of their
neiehbors over the river. to hrouse
fixed determination to rcorss, and
silence these biting taupts Of ipso.
lencc daily and in divers vav, mani.
tested by thoir opponents, ns IL bv
design, to augment their humiliation.
Our Tihn belligerents had reached
the goal of endurance and stood on
the verge ofa maguanimous manhood
u demanding that the. ean.e Of This
b Wanting suneriotitv must be otterlv
~ tirnotod II Il eotirelv nnaavoil;n9
. 10 continue the applioation of tempo.
r.rv exned;onts. said thew far tbase
: have been patieutlv and efec,ivelv
,c.t.d .y,nd xst our 70 :, I, In IN, 10 80.
: cr,yvo,,sd ~, v;tbont ,;m;, W. me,
,horssoro ,rv a. wb., vir,uo ,ba;, !. -
the soversign remedy of d.n,,,;o,
They ma. .coord;nolv no, n NJ.
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I go ,bo river w;,b;n tbo ,inlino
.onra. 90 N. .g;,a,,d .orr.e, ~ ,bo
u .hsds cb,nnarsI mid loitvtres, north
oT perry street: ,t and there. like the
T. onor., smnhiotyouio council Of anti.
-. ,ha.o .,s,w.r, hron,sd Mon.
-. t v;,h rn;lol...' h.. -. ..o,.n,,ed
-, "a ,,..a,,' 80 S.,;H.r.,sa ,nd w;,h dig.
nii.s aS moderation, resolved that ca