The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1868-08-06


gate suggested chat while the Con-
tention awaited the report Of that
Committee, il be addressed by Gen.
Lee, General Leo was vooifcrously
called for, and after unsuccess-
fully attempting to decline, no took
the stand aud was introduced by the
President as General Lee, not Of the
rebel army, but of the Union army.
Laughter
sPERCH or uRN. LEE.
lie was not prepared, he said, to instruct
or amuse the convention because he had not
as yet had an opportunity TO arrange or di.
gcst the questions arising in the canvas, aud
he thought the time could be spent in some
! other way.
AvOioc--"wc only want you to occupy
the time" (LNughter.)
Yes, 30 understand
A delegate Mr.. Chairman, we would
like to have him explain that vissble Ad.
mixture law, he saw put through las, win.
ter (Laughtcr)
thNs been intimSted that should explain
and appologiIe for the Vissble AdmiKture law
passed last winter, and II is also iutlma.
ted that ! had something 10 do with H. IRE
newed laughter) lie said that while he had
scruples against the enactment Of the law,
he could only do as Andy johnson did +, be
signed his name under protest, simply because
he could't help It, but II was now no long
era law, for 1t had gone the way all such
acts should go. II is law written in hu-
manity that every enactment made by a leg
islative body, in every republican govern.
ment on the earth, whose object is to cir
cumscribe and limit the right OF suffrage
shall, ns soon as possible, receive tho stroke
Of Nnnihilatiou, aud nothing be len Of il
but the confusion which ought to cover the
faces Of the men who begat 1t (Applausc J
But said the General. had q little TO Do
with the killing OF II, aud he explained the
process by which this law was speedily pro.
nounced against by the Supreme Court lie
then enquired il there was anything else h,
could enlghten them upon.
A delegate" The disfranchised soldiers.
o, yes, you all know that a man who 4
not a whole mau has no business to vote
It takes man with head, two arms aud
two legs, There had been $500 soldier
,rbo ,rara c,Olieb aoounh D., Lave a 49,, =,
their persons in rebcldom, and our legisla
ture concluded that such men ought not vote
They bad not the the physical stature to en-
title them TO vote, and 80 they passed thi
law. Isn't that right now (Laughlcr) Can
you say anything against that law (LAugh
teri II is satisfactory to me, don't hnov
whether it is to you or not (Laughter,) II {
man had been run through a threshing ma
chine and lost an arm, he couldn't help tina
lit was necessary to thresh and he coul
vote, but it wasn't necessary to go into th
, wAr--the threshing OF rebels wasn't necessa
ry and they could not vote (volces-yei
yes.) Is there anything else can tall
sbout7
A voice." Can you do anything for tn
Canadian Volunteers2n
Do you mean those fellows who got con
fused in the points Of the compass, and wen
North when they ought to have went South
(Yes.) We had good many OF that kind
whose geographical education was defectiv,
and they got it into their heads that the re
bellion was 10 the Northward instead OF Il
the Southwark. II was a mistake Of locally
that was all, (Laughter) and consequent
they got over into Canada, and didn't dis
cover their error until the war closed, bu
they found another gentleman over ther
who was versed in geography, and his nam
was Clement l.. Valnadgham, daughter,
but | see your committee on resolutions ar
waiting to report, and my contract to anus
you is Mt an end. Applause and cries of "g
on, go On.'D
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