The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1868-10-08

thus to cover itself With shame and /
IL has too much patriotism and /
strength to permit Democtacy to get I
into power in this land again, aud 4
thus blacken our honor with all their
crimes, with all their record Of inh |
my, with all their falscness to their /
country. They come to day aud ask .
MS to ibtrust them with power ask I
us to turn the Government over into
their hands, aud cody say that the |
Union party is not capable of govern.
ing the country. What have they
done to entitle them t6support2 For !
eight long years they have opposed /
tho purposes Of the Government, !
made war, encouraged treason, aud |
have always been prophecyiug evil. |
They have been constantly saying 10 (
us the country would be ruined u"-
less power was taken out of our
hands, and yet we have grown greater
and more prosperous aud powerful all
the time. Has any Of their predic
tions come true? 1rthere is q Dom
crat who can point out one, thenI
will stop and argue this question with
him. We must judge the future by
the past Look at the past record OF
this party aud its prosecutions. II
know they say, let US forget the mast,
aud here in Kentucky, the rebels,
who hold control, through a few of
their public speakers, men who have
led the rebel urmies, have EXPRESSED
Willingness to grant amnesty to
Union soldiers and take them into
thciE1party. ''an '.'
DEMOCRATIC PROPHECIES. !
We remember your prophecies in
the past. In 1860, you said the
North would not fight. You we're
mistaken, When Abraham Lincoln
called for troops TO crash out insur. \
rection, you said ho could not-gct
them but he did. When Conefess
voted, in July, 1851, 800, 900 men and
s400, 100000, you said it was a mon
s!rous pusurpation aud VIC could
never got so many menrin tho world
But the ink was scarcely dry upon
the paper the call was written on until !
the ranks were full, and Abraham !
said stop, [ want no more Again,
when, under Conservative leadership
that of Mcclellan in the East aud !
Buell. in the West---our cause did not I
prosper, our armies wasted away aud
draft, in 1862, was needed to fill 1.-THE
ranks, the Democrats said - 4" You
ean't eufor,e a draft We will resist
It. and your cause will fail But we
did y, and even Democrats yielded |
submissiycly all over, the North When
our soldiers appeared among them,
except few, who made hold fight !
by rushing off updor the cover of
darkness into Canada. Then, when
Abraham Linoolu issued his great
proclamation of freedom to the
slaves, they said : g That will ruin
all our boys did not go to war to
free the negro, and they will desert
and come home, ard the South will !
succeed. They were again mistaken.
Up TO this we had gained no perma-
nent success, Until we dared do
right, God did not prosper our arms.
In 1853 they again snid, when we |
gave the negro arms, . This will seal /
our oountry's fate, All Europe will
stand nghast with horror at the late
slave armed against his late master.
France and England will recognize
the Southern Coufederacy, and our
liberty will 80 out in blood" But il
was not 50. Once more, in 1864,
when we were ready toigive the iual
blow to rebellion, with Grant at
E'ahmoDd, sherman nt Atlanta,
Tho,nas at Nashville, Candy at Mo
bile, rea,l y 20 charge along the whole
linc and crush out together the cause
of treason. The met together away
out in Illinois, at Chicago, aud" in
solemn covention pronounced ne war
a failure. Bat the great failure was
themselves aud their candidate. They
said, re-elect Mr.. Lincoln and we
are sure of four more years Of war.
and you will be no nearer eonquering
the South then than you nre to day.
Abraham Lincoln was reelected, aud
not thirty five days bad passed over
his second Inauguration until the re.
bellion was smashed in pieces aud its
armies crushed out Of existence.
Then they said, you CAM { reconstruct
the South on YOUR basis of "cqual
rights to all J" but VIC have done il.
1t is an accomplished fact-it will
stand in all future time. Eight out
of eleven States which have rebelled |
are brought back to the fold again.
with free and liberal Constitutions
But for the opposition of the Demo.
cratic parry, the remaining three
would also have been back ere this
and we will have them back before six |
months more time has passed. because
we intend to beat and bury the Dem.
ocratic party out cf sight forever in
November. lApplnuse.] ''a l
CAN WE FORGET THE PAsf? /
Thank God, / ask no amnesty from
any rebel aud that Union soldier who
would thus humble himself at the feet
of the rebel Democracyfis. a disgrace
to the cause for which he fought and
to the uniform Of his country which
he wore. 1t would indeed be a con.
yeuient thing for the Democratic
paTtylto have its past record buried.
But until they give up the Infamous
cause for which they, fought, and ac.
cePt justice for their guide, II never
Will be forgotten by free Americans.
Forget the past You might as well |
ask mother to forget her child as to
ask our people to forget the past
eight years Of our cOuuIry's history
to forget the grand victories aud gio.
rious marches Of our armies, our wid.
oWs and orphans and our sleeping
braves the suferipgs Of our men on