The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-07-25

old Nhig party, the larger part Of
that conservative element Of the land
came 10 us. We arc radical, ultra,
and progressive, and II is amusing TO
see thuIvehurable heavy sides Of for
mer days trying to keep step with the
music Of cur union. Alternating be-
tween hope and fear. they hurry on
or fall backbone day full OF high
courage thoy rush to tho front--the
next, 6lled with despair, they fall to
tho rear, They succeed In giving an
appearance OF vaoillation 10 our party
that Is anything but pleasant.
Aud so we stand to-day. Our
party is the Radical party, progress
sive party, bent upon reinstating the
right aud restraining the wrong.
Although the organization seemed
born In a night, II bad been develop
ing for thirty years. II was, in fact,
organized long before Il took the
field. When two men think aud feel
alike on any political question there
is an organization, aud the South was
fighting an unseen foo years and
years before any political party ap.
peRred at the polls. IL fought sta
tislics that showed their region 10 DO
falling into decay, while that Of free
dom was filing with prosperity; IL
fought public sentiment born Of ha-
man sympathy, that quietly condemn
ed its horrible system Of human servi-
tude Il fought Christian civilization
and made bitter war on books and
school. masters and all the while Il
seemed beating the air, until it step
ped over the boundary Of slavedom
into the free territory OF Kansas, and
then the great republican organization
suddenly appeared at tho polls, aud
when the 6rst gun was heard at Sum.
ter, the Republican party met the
American people, aud Edwin M. Stan
ton took upon his shoulders the ad-
ministration Of Mr.. Lincoln, at the
moment when the dishonest impecili-
ty Of Seward and Cameron had nearly
destroyed IL, our party executed
campaigns, fought huge battles, aud
sta .nped out the armed enemy under
the feet Of superior numbers. sustain
cd by superior resources. We threw
all that we had Of men aud money
fearlessly into the scale, aud so far as
the war Of the bayonet went, we camo
out viotors.
The opposition, the so-called Dem
ocrncy, is conservative party. II
conserves the wrong. 1t is busy at
work in the fields of the South, gath
ering up the evil things we have cut
down, and sticking them in the
ground to see If they will not grow
again. 1t is a plucky organization,
aud attempts the impossible with a
complacent pertinacity really wonder
full. ..l.. ...-
WHAT WE HAVE TO DO.
The war Of the bayonet is at an
end, but the strife goes on. An emf
neut European diplomatist once told
us that war was only disorganized di-
plomacy. 1t is certainly only more
brutal and uncivilized process of con-
troversy, and it in fact settles nothing
but the fact Of superior brute force,
To co nquer the South upon the battle
field was difficult, aud taxed to the
last man and the last dellar to con.
ciliate the South and restore the old
peaceful relations Of constitutional
Union is yet more dificclt, and calls
for the wisest statesmanship and
highest courage. 1t would have beer
easy, my felIow-citizeus, for US tC
have followed the examples set IL
times past by other governments, ant
con6scatod and hung. until our enc
mics were brutally stamped out, bui
we are met by the fact that If We
would retain our beautiful and perfect
system of government, We must con-
ciliate and harmonize. The Southern
insurgents, when they laid down their
arms, took up their rights under our
Constitution, by which mean the
individual right TO life, liberty, and
property. The difference between ur
and the Democracy it ia to be found
in the fact that the Democracy insist
they shall take up their wrongs also
Admitting thai slavery went down il
the clash Of arms, they assert tha
the worst result Of slavery. found ia
the law of caste and tho superiority
of race, shall remain. Their. religion
and their politics run together. Al
they would have made our Savior say
"Let little (white) children come un'
to me, for Of such Is the kingdom oi
heaven" and, blessed are the (white)
poor in spirit, for they shall inherit,
&c., so they tell us that constitution
al liberty Is the white mans liberty
and the right to life and property do
pends altogether upon the color Of th'
skin. .
When the Southern insurgents va
Gated their State governments; unde
our Constitution and failed to sustain
their confederation, they put them
selves in the condition OF citiEens--i
may use such term in this connee
tion--and we are called upon to re
construct, precisely as We have here
tofore created States out OF new terri
tory. Aud as We have appointeS
Governors and Judges, and enacted
laws for the Territory, looking solel,
to the formation Of the State. 80 nov
we appoint these officers and enac
these laws, looking only to consti
tutional reconstruction, that nationa
-fogger, Henry Stanberry, to thu
contrary Notwithstanding.
know that this is hard. Whol
peace was proclaimed, when our ban
: ners we're farled aud our drums bea
the sweet marct Of "Home, Broth
ers, Home" our war-wOrn vetern
marched back by the graves Of thei
fallen comrades, over the field wher
! our Gag was trampled 10 the dust
, past the loathsome prisons. when
. thousands and thousands Of our beS