The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1868-02-13
miscellaneous.
THE OHIO DEMOCRACY.
A Split Among the Faithful,
Manifesto from Vallandigham,

The Dayton Ledger (Vallandig.
hams orgau), has the following ar.
ticle in its issue of January. 29th:
Col Barnsbas Burus has been
beaten for Representative in Congress,
from the Eighth District, by ma d.
jority of 500 Republican gain since
October, Of 5S2.
This is the frat gun Of the Prcsi
dental campaign of 1868, and iudi-
Gates a Republican majority next fall,
ia Ohio, Of from twelve to twenty
thousand. Deploring the causes
which arrested the tide Of Democrat.
ic victory in this State, and trusting
that the day may come some time,
when politicians will learn that the
people ioW have their own way some
how or other, in this country; and
that they demand strong aud honest,
aud earnest men aud measures and
that the true secret Of political sue
cess is direct antagOnism, and not
fighting shy" commonly called
policy" we shall labor zealously to
avert the calamity. The result ia
the Eighth District has, too, a mos.
important bearing on the Presden-
tial nomination in the Democratic
party. 2 l-. .t+.
In the above SO, cral aspects it is
suggestive, and We propose to com
meut upon it accordingly, in a plain,
but well considered terms. After
the disastrous "policy" defeat Of
1868. a(eampdisn inwhich theexclu-
sion of Vallandighani was to be the
sure pledge of victory-we 60 no fur
ther back at present-the true men
Of the Ohio Democracy, determined
to start afresh on the old Democratic
line. and begin by holding the State
Convent N on the time .honored eighth
Of January. The propositions met
with bitter hostility from the policy"
men of that dry, aud they came to
Columbus on the 9Th Of November,
1866, and into the conference, fully
organized aud determined TO defeat
H. Yet after long aud excited de-
bate, one by one they retired, leaving
the field to the sound and bold men
of the party; only one vote being cast
against the Eighth, aud, that by a
gentleman who is now a delegate at
large 10 the Presidential Convcu'
ton.
The State Convention met on the
Sth Of Jauuafy, 1867 perhaps the
soundest Convention ever assembled
ip Ohio out of the three huDdred
aud odd '"State Sovereignty" or
"Corry men" so.called, sixty seven
were members of it,. Mr.. Cory was
himself delegate from Hamilton
county. aud Vallandigham, the "odi
Gus, was Chairman Of the Committee
on Resplutions, OF Gary men"
there were none, that animal being as
yet only "in posse" as the lawyers
say, and very fewlof those who com
posed the recent State Convention
were present. Many believed the
Dsb acfntie paryto be t'dead,p and
were not even willing to contribute
to the expenses Of its funeral, nor to
attend it, nor even to partake of the
funeral baked meats. One of them,
now also a delegate at large, acted,
no do6b, upod his 'deelAfaIion made
on the 18th of August, 1861, during
tho war, that 4it was no tins to be
holding Democratic Conventions"
Bunthere we're many who thought
that the party was not dead, but only
slePtI Sihat sswaFdiee and want q
energy IN the "1eaders," so called,
had affected it with polite syneope'
df ihe heart and that all il needed
hr vitality ,apd victory was the en-
ergizing idfiaence Of the honesty and
courage of lhe Democratic masses,
aiai aseordiaaly y npoif principIe. to
larger extent than ever before. if in
deed, Sot fully, tho bemooratic party