The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-09-17
PRNDLETON AS HE Is.
Speech Of Lieut.. Gov. J. G. Lee.
Delivered before the Mass Meet
ing at Defiance, o., August 81.

After an introduction setting fort
i, the different positions Of the Demo
cratic and Republican parties JUS
3 previous and during the var Gen
, Lee proceeded to dissect Mr.. Pendle
ton as follows
E Under very peculiar and trying cir
cumstances Congress met on the frs
Monday in September, 1859 james
Buchanan, a Democratic President
was in the chair. There was 4 ma
jority of the Republican party in the
House, and majority of Democrats
IN the Senate. The annual message
Of the President was looked to with
very great interest, as to its reading
upon the subject Of the impending
rebellion. In that message Mr.. Bu-
chahan announced that, while oppos-
| ed to, and believing wrong the seces-
sion then afoOt, he could find in the
| Constitution no power authorizing
him, as President Of the General
Government, to use any force to pre-
vent secession. He said it would not
be possible to eoerce a State-in short,
that the rebellion could not be met
and put down by force of arms, and
as u corollary necessarily to that, that
dissolution of the Union was easy :;
that States could come and go at
pleasure that the Union was but a
rope of sand. Had Buchanan stood
alone in this of all the Democrats in
the North, 1 can not believe that Sc
cession could have been successful /;
but he was not alone. Even in the
Congress of the United States he met
concurrence and aid, and among those
who concurred with him was tie gen
tleman who is now the candidate for
the Governorship of Ohio, on the
Democratic ticket. Mr.. Pendleton
was then representing the First Dis
trict of Ohio in that Congress, and
hearty concurred in the doctrine an
nounced by Mr.. Buchanan. With
him we're very many others, leaders
in the Democratic party. From Mr..
Pendleton an6 others we received the
assurance that if this work of rebel
lion was opened, the people of the
North would not be able to join forces
to prevent it; that secession would
be established, and a c Confederacy erect
ed within the limits of the Southern
States, and that it could be accom-
plished without the shedding of blood
Not only did they announce this doc
trine, but they inveighed constantly
against the theories ard PHILOSOPHERS
Of the Republican party, that slavery
should be met and restricted in its eff
fort to overspread the entire territory
of the country, so that more than
merely the cold dogma Of the want Of
power, to prevent secessiors, and the t
right of the States to sec5de, was as
serted. There were expressions of
hearty sympathy in the purposes and
ground work Of secession a hearty
concurrence in the stated grievances
of the people of the South, aid in thc
opinion that we were inferior in force
and could not cope with the people of
South. The Southern people as a
body relied upon these assurances
from the leaders Of the Democratic
party in the North, and | say here,
without fear of successful contradict
ton. that had. Buchanan declared the
nations right to prevent secession and
enforce obedience to the Federal law,
and had George II. Pendleton, with
others equally distinguished, Joined
in it, the attempt to seeede would
have been but an attempt, rebellion
would pot have been inaGgurated, and
we should have been saved the flood
of slaughter and expenditure OF treas
ure which we have experienced.
do not propose TO pass it merely upon
my own statement Of it, but shall
give you specimens of the solemn Of
fetal declarations of Mr.. Pendleton
himself while thus in Congress-
The Democratic party met on the 9TH
Of July last and nominated General
Rosecrans as its candidate for Cover
nor. He vas in Mexico, and his ac-
ceptance or declination could not at
once be had. On repairing to San
Francisco he net the official commun-
ication that he had been nominated,
and he at once telegraphed that heI ,
could not accept the nomination !
Thcn the party, by its State Central
Committee, one from each district,
met in Columbus, and nominated ,
Geo. II. Pendleton his place. He is ,
now before the State, the accepted |
candidate of the party, and, L have
no doubt, will thoroughly unite the
party upon him. 1t was a manifest j
fact that Gen. Rosecrans did not unite
the party heartily in the canvass, and !
such expressions we've common. The
Enquirer, of Cincinnati, of yesterday,
General Rosecrans' letter !
IF declaration, in referring to it, says:
"There is something in it that both
parties approve. much to which the .
Democracy are pledged, and q great
deal that neither Democrats nor Re- :
nnhlieans- -ondnrze-It will be
more heartily admired for Its frank
ness, and its effect upon the whole /;
will be to increase if possible the JOY
hat Pendleton is our candidate.
So you see there is joy in the Dem
ocratic household that Pendleton is .
the candidate Of the party, There ,
vas decided attempt to make Pen .
lleton a candidate at the Columbus
Convention in spite of his prOtesta- !
ton against it, evincing very square !
" that he was the chosen standard
bearer of the party. He has been, !
md now is, the idol of the party in !
Ohio; and if there be man whose !
public life has been more thoroughly j
,vincive of the spirit of the party than ,
my other, that man is George ii. Pen !
lleton. And do | assume too much j
when [ claim that he is the fayoTite /
1f that party, not so much by reason
1f his ability, or on account of his !
great and long service to the State,
but because of the policy which he
has advocated, the position he has
held, the claim he has made in his
public lie, in behalf of the people of ,
The South, and of the rebellion they
[ think re are not
shut mp TO an examination of the in
entions and spirit Of the Democratic
party by its platform, as announced,
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