The Tiffin Tribune

How Does it Look?

The only possible charge, which the Locofoco press of Ohio are able to bring against Gov. Chase, is that he was once presented with a very beautiful silver pitcher, by the free colored people of Cincinnati. This, they think, is proof conclusive that he is an "abolitionist" and in favor of the dissolution of the Union. A logical deduction certainly!

Gov. Chase to-day maintains the same position politically, that he did ten years ago. He is not in favor of meddling with slavery where it exists by statute law—he is not and never was in favor of the dissolution of the Union, and we challenge our opponents to prove the contrary.

In 1849, Gov. Chase was elected to the U. S. Senate by the very men who now abuse him. Among those who voted for him then, may be found the names of H. B. Payne, Judge Whitman and Jas. R. Morris, all of whom are now on the Democratic State ticket. This was three or four years after the pitcher presentation.

If Gov. Chase was a good enough Democrat then to receive their votes for so important an office, how does it come that he is now such a "red hot abolitionist" and negro-worshiper? The Democratic party in their present opposition to Gov. Chase, stultify themselves and give the lie direct to their own assertions.

The fact is that the Democratic party of Ohio has become so intensely pro-slavery, that they view Gov. Chase through a different atmosphere and hence the cry of "abolition."

H. B. Payne was once a good enough abolitionist to vote for the repeal of the "infamous" Fugitive Slave Law. Now he can swallow not only the Fugitive Slave Law, but the Nebraska Bill, the Dred Scott decision and anything else, which the South may demand without ever wincing.

Let the history of the past show, who have changed their political principles and who have not.