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The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1868-09-10
--Iphr-.LWhi,e Mans Party.


---4pi,eslWhite Mans Party.
V7RIE EdogGE bie,htn az ar,
,sAs sAhhl1Ab6At tAir btlhni-
sstion being the 4" white mans party,
are referred to the following pedi-
Rme.ocfhptsimmaeplate party
MO sAid hat III beh are created
saual? Thomas Jefferson. the fatA
ss Of the Democracy.
who gave the negroes thC right Of
suffraee In New York 7 The Demo
NiJ / os.E he cssssn.ion
which gave this privilege 70 negrosSi
Martin Van Bureu, a Democrat
Who marrieda a negro womapJand
by bsr mad mulat,o children : Rich
ard Nj. johnson, a good Democrat.
Who elected Richard nj. johnson
gIce sPrSsidcns of the Unitsd States 2
The Democratic party.
IfPresideut Van Buren, had died,
and r chard NJ. johnson had become
President, who would have become
the Democratic mistress Of the White
House2 The negro woman.
10 whd lpade The ncgio a eiliEen OF
the state Of Niainep The Democrat
10 party.
who enacted a similar law 10 Mas
sachaseas'l The Democratic party.
Who permitted every colored per
son owing $3.50 in New York to be
sOome Sgv0tsr2 A general assembly.
purely Democratic.
Who repealed tho laws Of Ohio,
whipbRequired pegrOes,te give bonds
and securitics before settling In that
state The Democratic party.
Who made mulattoes legal voters
in Ohio q "A fDenocrauo sppreme
court, Of which Reuben Wood was
cbiefjustce,
What became Of Reuben Wood p
The Democratic party elected him
Governor three times.
gHW Whe hslped % givo the free ne
etoss lhs.fight 70 vote In rrSnhsssee,
under her constitution Of 1882 Gen.
Jackson. - |
Was Gen. Jackson a good Demo.
|" cratS He gederaliy passed as such. |
Who, With the above facts and
many others staring them in the face,
saiare continually whining about ne.
gto suffrage, and negro equality ?
The Democratic party.
The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1868-09-10

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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-10-21
A Sharp Letter.

Mr.. ]. G. Wheatly, whose affidavit in
reference to John A. Lagoon recruiting sol
diers for the Southern Contederacy, we
published some time ago, is out in letter
addressed to that worthy. We quote por'
ton:
'.Allow me, General, to call to your at E
tention few facts. Have you forgotten
that, in April, 1861, company for the
Southern army was being recruited in Mari
on, Williamson county, of which Thorn
dyke Brooks was Captain, and q. Canning
ham, (your brother-in-law) was orderly SER
geant? No; you recollect this. You recol'
lect, too, that between the 1st and goth of
that month, you spoke to me, not once on
ly, but often, on the street and in the court
house, and told me, as you told others, that
you wished me to go into Brooks company
and go South; and that you wanted ''the
boys" to all hang together as brothers. 81
will soon be with yOu," you said, Sand
command your regiment" am sure you
remember these facts, the recollection OF
which will never in my life pass from my
memory. It is not unreasonable in me to
suppose that you also remember that, on the
night Captain Brooks company left Marion.
you accompanied it ten miles, and, when il
went into camp, patriotically stood sentinel
whila your weary victims slept. Your ap-
pearance on that night would have sent q
glow of pleasure through the heart of Jeffer-
son Davis.
When next saw you, after yielded tc
your advice,T was doing battle for the cause
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-10-21

YOU had deserted. On the battle field of
Belmont, when the Federal troops were re-
treating, Captain Cunningham Che was
then commanding your victims, Brooks
having been made Lieutenant Colonel OF the
regiment) exclaimed, ''there is Logan" l
saw you, and felt like taking your base life,
but Cunningham wished to capture you
alive You escaped, and horse, captured
by Cunningham and myself, was under
stood to be the one you rode in battle. The
horse became the property of General Pill
low.
General, have only few words to add.
I am now nearly sixty years old; and very
infirm; expect in a short time, to go down
into my grave; and in the fear of God, 1
declare that what have written is, as be-
lieve, the truth, and nothing but the truth.
You were member of Congress III 1861;
were influential; were firm enemy of coer-
cion; and believed that the Southern people
had good cause to rebel against a union
which had come under the control of the
abolitionists. listened to your words; was
convinced; took your advice; became rebel
soldier; lost all my property; was wounded
at Shiloh; am broken down in health; my
family is INDECENT; all the misfortunes of life
press upon me. Upon you look as the
author of my misfortunes; at your door
lay the responsibility of my present deplora-
bic condition.
Commencing you to tho mercy of God,
whose precepts you have outraged, sub.
scribe myself,
One of your victims,
J. G. WHELTLEY."
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-10-21
From the New York Tribune,l
A Letter from Thaddeus Stevens.

The following was made public the first
time on Wednesday night:
WARRINGTON, Saturday, June 27, '6s.
DEAR sm-I regret can not speak favo-
bly, of the Chicago platform. 1t is like
most of the Republican platforms for the
past six years. lame and cowardly. For
twenty years before the war, the North act
ed like poltroons in all their legislative con-
troversies with slavery. They have much
more physical than moral courage. Had it
not been for a few determined men in 1861,
the Union would have been dissolved. The
Republicans have, as said, great physical
dourage, and, when driven to the test, will
always conquer. They are as timid now as
they we're before the WARRIOR trade might
suffer. What did the bold men of Chicago
gain by selling the right of suffragel They
tell me that the loyal blacks at the South,
earned it by the aid they gave us, but that
when they have not made that purchase, the
right of suffrage remains at the pleasure Of
the States. Now, the Republican party
knows that the Declaration of Independence
contains no such folly, no such wickedness.
I treat every man as a man, and the right
of universal suffrage as an inalienable right,
long suspended from neglect, and row for the
first time since the forming of The Constitu-
ton of the United States, capable of enforce
ment. You insult the shades of Adams,
Otis, Jefferson and their compeers by talk
ing to them about bartering the imperisha-
BILE right of the elective franchise. Why
not traffic or sell their life, liberty ana soulsS
This doctrine reduces all men to soulless
slaves or corpses. This question must be
met; the sooner it is done the more success
ful it will be. There is one conHolatiOn.-
The Democrats can't find as good candidates
but, from constant and long practice, viii
make much more villainous platform. 1t
is vain for the Republican party TO hope to
maintain their liberty by skulking. Let
them be bold and honest, and they will
learn that 'tHeaven still rules" Let them
be cowardiy and mean, and they will receive
their reward with the ''hewers of wood and
drawers of wator.''
am, sir, very respectfully, your obedi-
ent servant,
THADDEUs STEvENs.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-10-21
Keep It Before the People.

1, That the public debt was increas-
ed fifty-three millions in June, and
over thirteen millions in july.
.. That the Radical party rob the
widows and orphans of dead men by
placing tax on the estates of deceas-
ed persons, and exempt rich bond
holders.
3. That theIonger Radicalism rules,
the more enormous will be the public
debt, and the more insolent will the
Radical officials become.
1, That the object and aim of the
Radical leaders is to destroy the Con-
stitution and the Union, and form a
great centralized government, under
which the rich will be made richer
and the poor poorer.
5. That political power is always
stealing from the many to the few -
and, that for years past, the Radical
leaders have been stealing everything
before them?
6. That Federalism is the principal
element in RadicalisnI, and that Fed
eralism is always arrayed against the
rights and the liberties of the people.
Z. That, as Federalism rises, the
country sinks; and, as Federalism
SINKS, the country rises! Remember
this. and vote the Democratic ticket.
s. That votes cast for Radicalism
are votes cast in favor of anarchy and
despotism, while those cast for De.
Mocracy, are in favor of the constitu-
ton and the Union, which Radical
ism hates, as the devil hates Holy
water.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-10-21
From the Winona (Ndinn.) Democrat
United States Senator Norton, of Min.
nesota, for Seymour and Blair.

Whatever doubts may have hereto
tore existed in the minds of men of
both parties as to the precise political
status Of TenatOr Norton, they were
entirely removed by his unequiVocal
declaration for Seymour and Blair, at
the great Democratic meeting in this
city, on the 21st ult. Since then he
has also made one of his ablest speech
es in Preston, Fillmore county, at the
Democratic County Convention,
which had the clear Democratic ring,
and which was received with great
favor by the audience.
Senator Norton is capable of exer-
ting great influence with thinking
men in the Republican party-those
who associated with him in times
past; and we learn that it is his inten-
tion to address his felIoW-citizens in
numerous places during the canvass.
While some of his former partizans
may impugn his judgment, none OF
those who know Senator Norton per
sonally will question the honesty OF
his motives or the candor of his state
ments, in his present unreserved sup
port of the Democratic candidates for
President and Vite President. He
has ample and opportunity to observe
the inner workings of radicalism at
Washington, and knows what he
affirms.
In this connection, it also affords us
pleasure to announce that William
Mitchell,of this city Senator Norton's
former law partner, has squareIy
avowed his intention to vote for Sey-
mour and Blair. Being one of the
ablest lawyers and soundest thinkers
in the State, and an universally re-
spected citizen. Mr.. Mitchell's IeaY-
ing the radical party at this time is
significant of the rottenness and i'm
becility of radicalism in the estima-
ton of all the better class of minds.
In March, 1874, the State of Texas
was admitted into the Union by act
/ of Congress, and made a sovereign
State in the Union, and entitled to all
the rights and privileges of any other
State. No competent authority has
ever attempted to repeal that act OF
Congress. Texas, then, is legally and
rightfully State within the Union,
and entitled to all the rights of any
other State. Then by what authority
does General Reynolds issue an order
| of which this is q portion /?
"No election for electors for Presi.
dent and Vice President of the UAi
ted States will be held in the State Of
Texas on the Sd day of Novembel
next. Any assemblage,. proceedings
or acts, for such purposes, are prohib
tied and all citizens are admonished
to remain at home or attend to theiI
ordinary business on that day.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-10-21
Horatio Seymour.

The appearance of Our noble candi-
date for the Presidency is thus de-
scribed as he took the chair in Tam
many Hall: Seymour is dressed in
the I'D style shad-belly coat, which is
buttoned across his chest, leaving open
a diamoned-shaped portion of ire
proachable white linen, and q very
neatly arranged black neck-tie Of mod
crate dimensions. The head is we'll
shaped and set gracefully back on a
firm pair of shoulders, and the lower
part of the face, below the eyes, is al
most a perfect oval. The eyes are of
brilliant brown color and shine like
diamonds beneath a firmly balanced
forehead, which is bald, the badness
extending back as far as the back part
OF the skull. The mouth is pleasant
and mobile, and when Seymour smiles
at you the feeling produced is genial
one. This is cultured man of free
tastes and high purposes, man of
elegant .diction and also of powerful
analysis. The dress of Seymour is in
perfect accordance with good taste,
for Horatio Seymour is 4 gentleman
first, last and all the time. When he
makes a gesture it is dignifed, and
yet graceful. His voice is correct in
its intonations, full, and, when ap-
preaching q climax, resonant. The
hands, when lifted in air, are white
like woman's, and the fingers sleR-
derly shaped. When speaking,
all eyes and ears are turned his
way, and his influence on a large
body of men is magnetic and thor
ough. His long ahd steadfast adhe-
renee to Democratic principles, his
persistence in the right, through good
and ill-report, has made the name ct
Horatio Seymour a dear one to all
Democrats. 10 the humbIest man in
the party he is courteous, polite and
kind in his MANNER. His knowledge
Of parliamentary law is full, His
manner of recognizing a delegate on
the floor is all that could be desired I;
and no man in the house ever looks
at him for five minutes without feel
ing that he is worthy OF being the
chairman of the Convention.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-10-21
Prehistoric Man.
J. G. WHEATLEY.

The September number of LIPPINCoTT' S
MAGAZINE, which we have just received,
contains interesting information upon the
ambiguity of our species. The writer says:
The subject of the immense antiquity of
man, which, of late years, has attracted
great attention in Europe, has, with great
propriety been taken up by the American
Antiquarian Society of Worcester, Mass,
and it forms the main topic treated of in the
report of the Council of that Society, which
has just been published. The conclusion
reached is that the primitive man of Europe
appears to have been similar being, phys
ically, mentally and socially, to the primi-
tive man of America, whom we are now
supplanting; and that in this country we are
thus carried back by analogy to remote
prehistoric period, whose phenomena we
should be better able to investigate and de-
termine than any people less favorably sit
uated.
In the appendix to the same report occurs
the following interesting passage:
'It is a scientific theory that, by the conf
cal movement of the polar axis of the earth.
which causes the procession of the equinox
es, the northern and southern hemispheres
are subjected to influences increasing or di-
minishing their average temperature. When
the northern half of the globe is growing
warmer, the southern half will, in an equa
proportion, be growing colder, and vice
versa. The entire revolution has been cal
culated to require twenty-five thousand sew
en- hundred and ninety-one years. 1t ha:
been noticed that, since the middle of thu
thirteenth century, the climate of all north
ern countries has gradually become colder
and the line of tropical vegetations has re
treated toward the south; while the culture
of the soil has actually been abandoned il
latitudes where it was once practicable anc
productive. Thus, in the twelfth century
] agriculture, commerce and letters tlour1she'
| in Iceland, which was the seat of prospe
Gus civilization. Communities of colonist
existed in Greenland, having villages ant
churches, and cultivated fields, like those o
Norway and Sweden; but they were cut OF
from all communication with the rest of tn
world, and probably destroyed by the accu
mutation of ice, which has for centurie
prevented approach to that side of the coun
try. The glaciers of the Alps, it is wei
known, are extending. Roads, pastures
and even sites of habitation, formerly use
and occupied, are now covered with perpet
ual snow. The advance of the glazier
however, is not continuous, but dependen
upon the character of the seasons. In yer.
dry years less snow is crested, and the lin
of frost even retreats; but in each successive
generation the limit of vegetation is percep
tibly lover g.
''The inference is that, in the northern
hemisphere, another period of arctic tenn
perature over nearly Its whole extent, is ap
preaching by slow but sure &dyauces, an
will culminate in about twelve thopsan
years; provided there is no interference Oh
the part of physical laws, whose nature an
influence have not yet been ascertained."
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-10-21
An Awful Indiotment-A "True Bill"


We condense from long and able
article in the National Hateltgencer,
these charges against the Black Re
publicans:
1. They sent to the Peace Congress
of 1861, sufficient number of desper-
ate and reckless partisans (resolved to
make civil war for the sake of enrich
ing themselves by furnishing supplies)
to defeat the purpose of the Conven-
ton, and disappoint the sacred hopes
of the people!
2. They incuIcated, with terrible
effect upon the excited passions then
prevalent, the murderous sentiment
that ''bIood-letting would do the coun-
try good!"
8. They called a meeting of State
Governors to overrule Lincoln and
his Cabinet and force soar, whether
the South should fire upon Fort Sum-
ter or not!
I. They proclaimed every where,
with a faIsehood never equalled, that
they called for troops for the sole pur-
pose of maintaining sacred law!
). They voted with villainous una
nimity, in both Houses of Congress,
the celebrated declaratOry resolutions
of the 22d Of July, 1861, in which the
United States disclaimed before man
kind every object now sought by the
Radical party. To the people this
imposing resolution was offered, and
it was accepted by every one of them
as true. On the faith of it, they vol
unteered by hundreds of thousands
to repair the disasters of Bull Run,
and to save the Union!
6. They called John G. Fremont
from Europe Cor the purpose of max
ing him dictator in the event that
Lincoln should fail to do the most at
rocious acts required of him.
7. They organized a commission
with view to select some scoundrel
of sufficient audacity to seize and
WELD the whole power of Govern
ment for the enslavement of the peo-
pie. Fremont, Lane, Hunter, Banks
aud Burnside, were among the men
spoken for this purpose!
s. They secretly rejoiced at every
great defeat Of the Union arms, be.
cause as one of the principal expo.
nents of this misrule said, after the
seven days battle, elf Mcclellan had
taken Richmond it would have put
the Republican party back twenty
years"
9. They continue to this day the
nauseous affectation of a veneratior
for Abraham Lincoln, in whose place
the prospect of getting the remorseles:
and unprincIpled man they thought
to make of Andrew Johnson, inspired
them with secret and general joy a
his assassination
All of which is true as God lives
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-10-21
The Fable Of the Wandering Jew.

The legend of the Jew ever wan
dering and never dying has spread
oyer many European countries. The
accounts, however, as all fables, do
not agree. One version is this: When
Jesus was led to death, oppressed by
the weight of the cross, he wished to
rest himself a little near the gate be-
fore the house of a shoemaker named
Ahasuerus. This man, however,
sprang forth and thrust him away.
Jesus turned toward him, saying, 81
shall rest, but thou shalt move on un-
til ] return" And from that time he
has had no rest, and obliged inces-
sanity to wander about. Another
version is that Matthias Parisiensis, a
monk of the thirteenth century I:
When Jesus was led from The tribunal
of Pilatus to death, the door-keeper
named Cartanlius, pushed him from
behind with his feet, saying, "Walk
on Jesus, quickly; why dost thou tar
ry?'' Jesus looked at him gravely,
and said: ''I walk on, but thou shalt
tarry till I Gomez And this man,
still alive, wanders from place TO
place, in constant dread Of the wrath
to come. \ third legend adds, that
this wandering Jew falls sick every
hundred years, but RECEIVERS and re-
news his strength hence it is that,
even after so many centuries, he does
not look much older than a septuage-
marian. Thus far the legends.
Not one of the ancient authors
makes even mention OF such an ac-
count. The first who reports some
such thing is a monk of the thirteenth
century, when, as is known, the world
was filled to disgust with pious fiction,
However, the story has spread so far.
that it has become a proverb-"He
runs about like Il wandering Jew"
There are not persons wanting who
assert to have even seen the wander
ing Jew. But when their evidence is
examined by the test of historical
credIbility, it is found that some i'm
postOr had made use of this fable to
impose upon simple-minded people
for some purpose of his own. How
ever, the legend is not altogether un-
true, there is a wandering Jew who
roves about Europe,in every country.
This imperishabIe being is-prejudice
against the Jews.--Jea0iSh Chronicle.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-10-21
Another Boy Murder-Negroes Stone
a Democratic Boy Procession and
Kill one of the White Children.

The Coroner held an inquest on the
body of boy named Fred IIatton,
who was killed by a stone thrown at
him while walking in a procession.
He belonged to a club gotten up by
boys, who were Democratic in their
sympathies, and evenings they
amused themselves by marching
through the streets beaaiDg trans
parency and a few torches. While
parading on Chouteau a lew evenings
since, they were stoned by a crowd of
negroes, led on by three lads named
William Harvey, Thornton Scott and
Billy Woods, one of the rocks hitting
Hatton and telling him to the ground.
The negroes, seeing what injury they
had inflicted, scampered away, but
not before being seen and identified.
HattOn was taken home, where he
fingered until Sunday, when infiam-
nation set in and caused his death.
At the inquest the evidence went to
show that there was no proVocatiOn
for throwing the rocks; but that prob
ably the negro lads were carrying
out the advice if not instructions, of
older persons, white as well as black
who could not bear to see even chill
dren imbibing the doctrines of De
mocracy.. Scott and Woods were dis
charged but Harvey was held by the
jury, and. a charge of manslaughter
will be preferred.-iS. Louis Times.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-10-21
A Tiger Among Baboons.

The peculiar barking cry of the
Cape baboon frequently hailed us as
we passed along, but these animals do
not care to show themselves if they
can avoid it. They are, if left alone,
timid and harmless creatures, but
when wounded and at bay, know how
to use their hands and teeth. They
will even combine on emergencies
against common enemy, as in the
case of the Cape tiger. This tiger is
particularly fond of young balloons,
but it must be very young to suit his
teeth. To get it he will wait for days
together on the mountains, and often
succeeds in snatching youngster al
most out of its mothers arms. The
distracted mother, with piercing
shrieks, then lays the case before the
council of her people, who, if the
tiger has not made his escape, fall on
him in a body and invariably succeed
in killing him. The battlefield is
recognized by bones and pieces of skin
of both tiger and baboon; not more
for the survivors Of this forlorn hope
make a clean oweep of digestible, de-
vouring not only their enemy but
those of their own kindred whom the
tiger has killed in the conflict. 1 re-
member being reused one night at a
place some inland, by the most un-
earthly shrieks, mingled with the
roar of large animal in rage and
pain. 1t was explained to me next
morning that what had heard was
the tumult usually produced on occa-
sion of monkey stealing, and that
propably the tiger had been caught
red handed and received lynch law
Al The Year Round