The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-02-21
Communicated.
For the Tribune.
"reminiscences.
No. III.


In my last communication recited
the eventful scenes aud incidents
which trauspired inthe digging of the
FIRST canal within our city and /
demonstrated that the famous Dutch
Gap canal, constructed by military
art amidst the thunders of artillery
and dubbed with the eclat of political
partiality as grand. nationals achieve
ment, was a miserable failure in com
parison with the little Moses Of ca
nal, with expansive walls, that open
ed an outlet for our millpond into the
tossing aud cavernous rapids of the
Sandusky river whereby it escaped
from the thralldom to which it had
been long subjected and ultimately
found that diffusivc liberty which is
the luster and perfume of life. | left
our Tifin belligerents without com
mcut upon the completion of the
great work which had for q long time
tasked their endurance, skill aud
most anxious attention. They had
gained unseen a magnificent triumph
over their more pretentious neighbors;
and could not wholly repress the joy
full emotions inspired by the result
These will be readily appreciated as
excusable under the circumstances
without aught of circumlocution to
give them notoriety and the more
especially as it might be deemed in
yidious OF otherwise offensive if not
repuguant to the manifestation of
rigid impartiality. And then again
it ought to suffice to portray truth
fully, without needless exaggeration,
the painful antics of our Fort Ball
belligerents on the occasion without
the cumulative aggravation of con-
trasting Herewith the exhibitions OF
hilarity and joy among their jubilant
antagonists over the river. ea
As already mentioned our Fort
Ball belligerents had succeeded to
their hearts content in obtaining the
means cf durable progress; and they
did not nor could they reasonably
anticipate any direful calamity or
misadventure to intercept or diminish
their prosperity. The consciousness
that this was the fruit of their own
persevering toll enhanced its value
hugely in their own estimation, su-
peradded to which was the latent emo
ton, not uncommon to the pride and
shortsightedness of depraved human
| lity, that their opponents were the
victims Of a chagrin and disappoint-
ment induced and embittered by their
success. Forgetting or, at least, dis
regarding the immortal dictum that
pride goeth before destruction and
an naughty spirit before fall, they
counted themselves above the man.
date and influence of those laws Of
retributiye compensation which can.
not, under any circumstances, be
transgressed with impunity. Butex-
perience ultimately admonished them
that Justice, however tardy it might
appear, is inexorable in its vindica-
tion of innocence and the punishment
of wrong, even probing the heart to
correct the perversitY of its vicious
/ pulsations.
Thence It was that having over
come all difficulties and now refresh
e2 by She suggestions Of an uncurbed
Imagination fertilized by the rewards
OF success, they unwisely cultiyated Q
spirit of presumptuous arrogance tow
ards their despondent rivals over the
river. Indeed the very elements
seemed to cooperate to insure a per-
manent realization of these unworthy
sentiments. April had been delight
lfll, almost without HiHd, clord D
storm, as if to seduee and captivate 4
not depraye our Fort. Ball belliger
ents. May, balmy May, succeeds civ
ling prospectively an increasing zes
to their enjoyment. And now the
: magnificent forest on every side IL
renovating iato yernal life, rich Will
the greenness ofits foliage and open
ing buds. The buckeye and crabap
! pie, plum, thorn aud pawpaw arc lus
Z tross jewels in tho woody bottOms.--
! Flowers arc beginning 70 bloom an,
perfume the air; the birds arc carroll