The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1873-09-04

nVe years. MI Allen asks, AH2d IL
not been for this protest on the part of
the Democracy, let me ask you when
would the war have ended?i' / will
answer that question. But for the
opposition of the Democratic party, TO
which VIM. Allen, and his nephew.
Allen G. Thurman, belong, but for the
aid, comfort, and encouragement
which they gave the rebellion, the
war would have ended two years
earlier than it did; one half our five
hundred thousand soldiers would have
been alive to-day; one half our enor-
nous debt would not now be weighing
down the shoulders of our people. Mr..
Allen tells US what ought to have
been done after the war. Why,
Rip Van Wrinkle, as he arose from his
twenty years sleep was not more OBJ
livious to what had transpired during
the slumber, than the Democratic
candidate seems to be of what has
taken place since the spring OF 1865.
Thirty thousand men on the plains.
or parading at the military stations in
holiday attire, is all that remains of
our million and a half brave soldiers.
The rest are scattered over the land.
1 lCaCN6C0 IA tlC AuuAOCllCoo aNOCallOIS
OF civil life, some of them tilling the
very soil they once enriched with
their blood So far from an "unnec-
essary accumulation of public debt, u
it has been reduced with unexampIed
rapidity--too rapidly indeed-and the
reduction still goes on. When the
last hostile army laid down its arms,
all the rebel soldiers were permitted
by Gen. Grant to go in peace to their
homes, where they have remained
unmolested to this day. Not one
drop of rebel blood was shed In expi-
alton of the crime of treason, wheth-
er committed in the field or in the
rebel councils. Good order now pre-
walls everywhere in the South. Odr
unhappy struggle is passing from the
minds of men, and bitterness from
/ their hearts. The future is bright and
promising. And all this is the result
of that wise and humane policy pur-
sued by the Republican party.
But for such reminders and such at
| tempts at justification as Mr.. Allen
gives in his Chillicothe speech, the
subject of the war would not be dis
cussed or referred to. But when an
effort is made to revive that spirit
which we supposed the war had
crushed forever, it Is time for q loyal
people to administer rebuke. We are
not without conclusive evidence OF
the opinions entertained by the Hon.
William Allen during the war and
since. 1t is understood that Gov. Tod
induced Mr.. Allen to make a semi
war speech in 1862, from which the
Cincinnati Enquirer is now making
extracts. This was at a time when
the war spirit was overwhelming, as
you all will remember. But later, in
1858, after the emancipation procla-
ton had been issued by President
Lincoln, and after Mr.. Allen Is said
to have been tutored by his nephew
Allen G.. Thurman, he delivered an
other speech at Hamilton, Ohio, on
the 10th of September. This was q
year and a half before the close of the
war, and while we were engaged in
death struggle with the enemy.
That I may not misrepresent him, 1
quote somewhat freely from the
speech. 5....-
Referring to the arrest, trial, con.
viction and sentence of northern
traitor, whose election for Governor
Of Ohio he was advocating, he says :
"Three years ago this country was
free the country was prosperous, and
over every acre of its soil there pre-
vailed law and order, peace and hap
piness. And then after q few more
Introductory remarks in keeping with
the first sentence uttered, he continu-
ed Instead of the security which
this (peace) gave, and which was en-
joyed by every citizen, we are now en-
dangered for no other crime than for
our opinions to have our houses en-
tered at midnight by armed men, and
our people taken off to be tried-not
before jury, but before a military in
QUESTION and for the crime of think.
ing, and condemned to exile"
The following will illustratehow he
encouraged enlistments, and how he
| Justified the Northern resort to arms
when the Union was assailed.
Snow what do they (the North
want to do? They want to bring the
negro back to the North, to make
room for him to send as many white
men of our people as they can to the
war, to be killed. Now my friends,
never justified this rebellion, nor did
1 ever justify the intermeddling spirit
that gave being to this rebellion.
These abolitionists say slavery is the
fcause of the war; say it is not. They
say slavery ought to be exterminated
say it ought not. lCheers.1
"NoiU, nly friends, IteU you that
neUer justified this resort to arms, be.
cause I have believed that If one more
appeal had been made to the Iu6LiC
sense, the Democratic party lOOuld
hare acquired sufficient strength to
hare preUeRted this terrible disaster. u
And here we have his full justifies.
ton of the South, and his argument
in support of the rebellion, with COM
ments upon the bloodthirsty dispOsi-
| ton of Abraham Lincoln and the po-
sition of the Democratic party:
t'The Chicago platform was a de-
claratiOn of war and hostility to the
people of the South as being the own
ers of slaves. That platform 1Dds the
true origin of this IDdr. When they
advanced that platform and placed
their candidate upon it, the South saw
that their safety consisted in resisting
his election at the polls, and the whole
fifteen States voted in . solid body
against him. Now, Mr.. Lincoln, be
it remembered, came in as the first
President upon sectional question.
What conld the South do? The North
had shown that it not only had the
power of seizing on the whole coun-
try, but the government, and the
South barely stood by, knowing what
they had to expect at the hands of
their masters. What could the South
do If Lincoln and his gang chose to
pass laws to abolish slavery? ? What
use would it be for the South to say /:
'Oh, here's the Constitution p Mr..
Lincoln had nothing to do but to say !:
4 don'tso construe the Constitution !;
/, A. Lincoln, being elected by the
Northern States, have a right to do
what / please with the Southern
States What could the South do
There it was. Now, who. ever heard
of man willing to hold his rights
and interests subject to the will, cap
rice, and good pleasure of another
man ? L put that question to you in
regard to your own private affairs.
ave put down South Caro-
lima notification, and.how By cal
ling out 75, 900 men? No. By muir
dering seven or eight hundred thous-
and men ! By making a million and
half of orphans. in this country
That's not the work that Democrats
have done. These bloody scenes were
reserved for the abolitionists to pro-
duee.
"Lincoln has shed enough blood to
float the Great Eastern, and how much
nearer the end does he get? His cry
is still for blood. The administration
stands on tiptOe every day, with its
eyes distehded, and its arms stretched
forth, calling on the American people
for more blood and more money"
BY tina following it will be seen how
Mr. Allen loves the colOred man, and
how perfectly a stateman Of the old
school can prophesy as to the future
OF his country:
lone of two things must happen.
If these .Abolitionists succeed, they
eau only do so by destroying the State
governments of the South, an d there
by destroy, in fact, the whole State
governments OF the North they can
only succeed by establishing a despOt-
ism. garrisOniup the whole of the