The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1868-10-01

uTate IOnR perlOd OIL uncertainty
and civil strife and commotion. Let
me entreat you, my friends, to pause
before you give the weight of your
influence into that scale, and thus
bring upon us those untold evils.
In the language Of our great
leader, General Grant, the Union
Republican party demands that the
nation shall have peace. The people
demand peace; they ask for liberty,
security aud protection by law.
ASSERTIONS OF DEMOCRATIC LEADERS.
But Frank +. Blair proelaiins the
purpose to overthrow the recon.
structed governments by the aid of
the army. Wade Hampton demands
that the Northern people shall swear
to recognize the reign of lawlessness.
Governor Vance, of North Carolina,
asserts that the triumph of the De.
mocracy in this election would be the
success of the cause for which the
rebels fought. Pirate Semmes AYERS
that he has always been a Democrat
before the war, during the war,
aud since the war. lie fought in the
rebellion aud has been a perfect Dem
ocrat, and now he fights for Seymour
and Blair on the same principles.
Ex-Governor Wise aaseris that Sc
cession is not dead, but is as strong
as ever. The historian, Pollard. has
recorded tho history of the Lost
Cause" aud hopes it shall be regain.
ed and the rebel chiefs everywhere
are exulting in the expected triumph
Of the Democratic party, by which
policy they hope to secure by the
ballot what they had failed to secure
by the bullet.
DEMOCRATIC CHANCES OF SUCCESS.
But, my friends, Seymour and
Blair were not horn into the world to
rule over this people ia a time like
this. Laughter Therefore they
stand no more chance of being elect
ed to the Offices TO which they aspire
Than Robert Toombs does of calling
the roll Of his slaves at Bunker Hill
monument. Loud laughter and
cheers
The people, Mr.. Chairman, are not
ready to set up another rebellion,
and the ticket of the Democracy
without this material has no strength.
Blair has no strength anywhere ia
any State, district or county ever
heard Of aud SeyGour has no par
ticular strength except in the State Of
New York, where he ran five times
for Governor aud was always behind
his ticket. aud where he was defeated
three times out of the five times he
ran. lie presided over the great
National Convention at Chicago in
1864, aud was the chief architect of
the PLATFORM that pronoun ,ed the war
for the Union failure aud demanded
an armistice. The rebels with that
platform were smashed, and tie can.
didatos nearly skunAed. Laughter. I
But lloratio Seymour, who was run
as the candidate for Governor, fell
far behind Mcclellan. What has he
done since 1864 that would make
him more available than at that time !?
SLAVERY AND THE DEMOCRACY.
Slavery is destroyed. The foul
stain is blottcd out Who mourns (?
Who lomcnts ? If my Democratic
friend is here to-day, is he glad or
surry that We have sccu the last of
that institution ia our land? | hope
he is glad. Yet when the Constitu
tioual Amcndnent abciishing slavery
was submitted to the people, the
Democrats opposed it with all their
power. When the proposition was
up in Congress to submit TO the
States the question whether the
States themselves should abolish sla.
very, every Democratic member of
the House Of Representatives at
Washington voted "ud.' | happen
ed to be in the gallery when the vote
was taken, and everv single Demo
cranc mcmber voted " no, and that
"ao sounded like the groan cfa lost
soul on the Stygian shore. TGreat
laughter
That class Of men still cling to
their prcjudices. All the aid the
cn'orcd men rendered US, aal their
fidelity to our flag at every stage Of
our mighty struggle, excite in these
rank parIisans no om0tions az graft
tudc, nothing but hatred and p,eju.
dice.
How sublime on this poiut arc tie
words Of the lamcntod martyred Lin,
coin, when he said, +" Aud then there
will be some black men who can re.
member that, with silent tongue, and
clenched teeth, aud steady eye. and
wcll-poiSed bayonet, they have help
ed mankind on TO the great cuusum-
nation; while | fear that there will
be some white men unable to forget
that, with malignant heart aud de
eeitiul speech, they have striyen to
hinder it.
SPIRIT OF THE DEMOCRACY.
Our Democratic friends are great
deelaimers for the Constitution But
you remember the words of Andrew
johnson: When you hear a mau
prating about the Constitution, put
him down as traitor" Iwould not
like to apply this Andy Johuson's
test to all our Democratic friends.
But, sir, where have they stood ever
since Sumter was fired on, during the
dark conflict when red handed trea.
sou tried to strike down our Consti-
tuition, our liberty aud the Gag of our
eountryg
Where we're they IN Chicago, in the
Convention of IS642 Just where
they are to-day, in full sympathy and
aeeoEd with the Southern, rebellious,
selfish spirit, which, politically
speaking, brought death into the
world, aud all our woe.
IMPORTANCE or THE OCTOBER ELEc.
TJON.
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