American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1859-10-06
JUDGE THURMAN ON the EtumpI-.-
The Great Democratic Partys
From whom all blessings fow,

From whom all blessinge now,
That bless US mortals here belowl
Tho slavery Question Forever Settled
by IsOtherInal Lines.
HEAR! HEART
=" Haze mercy upon us, poor ignorant
e6enders," might have been the heart-ren.
ding cry. of every old broken down Wig
and young Republican, that heard the ex.
traordinary and wonderful conclusions ar
rived at by the Hon. Judge Thurman in
his Speech at the Democratic rally last
Monday. ~
What miserable. ignorant. deceived
sinners we have been trulyl--resisting and
even now opposing, that great. glorious
and transcendental party, the unterri6ed
Democracy,-that has been and is now do
ing so many, such wonderful and unheard
Of things for our prosperity and happiness'
mot only for us as individuals, but as States
and q nation. Truly have we hitherto
lived in darkest ignorance. and been un,
mindful Of these great and before unheard
Of blessings!
Oh. how great our ignorancel But now
verify hasa Teacher appeared in Israel,
and 10. the Hon. Judge makes plain our
error and strikes the scales from our be,
clouded eyes. How great our debt o
eratitudel--for never unassi ,ted would oul
benigbted minds have arrived at these sag
and wonderful conclusions. 80 ingeniousl!
and "clear as mud" elaborated BY th'
Hon. Allen B. Thurman. Of Chillicothel
Whyjust think Of i,l--every blessing W
enjoy ,--eyery acre Of ground we possess
every scboolbouse, college or church tha
dots our soil.-every library, or book an
newspaper that beguiles our time; and q
our great manufactures. and all the pre-
fuse products Of our soil, the wheat. th
corn, the cotton, she rice, the barley. an
the cattle, and the hogs. and the sheer
and the horses, and the asses.and evenou
dear little bobies, the increase ol our popul'
tion, ,--all, oil we owe 10 the great Democra
| 10 Partyl--bHt only, for We would NJ
misstate, ,--sinoe the coming in Of the Al
{ ministration 10 1901; from which time
7. this. has flowed uninterrupted this strea
: Of blessings from the Great Democt
tic fountain headl
3. For did not this Hon. Judge, ssiisfaot
rily.--from the books and the documents
> with facts and figures. .---show US what
: we're 10 1901. aud what We are and ha
= now as Nation and people in the ye
il OF our Lord 1859?
And did be not then, clear as a sunbea
. put tha two periods in contrast; and as
] ] placed this figure beside that, and labo
Z ously added and subtracted. multipli
n and divided, even to the fractional pa
9 thereof--did he not CRY with lOnd voice
= See oh, my fellow citizens, what the gr
y !, Democratic party has done for this gr
4. county in but little over 80 yearsl A
ly thus logically and COnolusively did
~ show us how great our debt the Den
&c cratic party, and how iunumsrable
- - extraordinary it's benefits to US poor ig
rant opposers and rsvilers 10 the op
na iition ranks.
Of oae is AlmOat 10 dOubt--whethsr to
70, pity for such dsbasement Of Il
elr pind.- or whether to ,Oexprsss contempt
~, ~ tho slur. such a ally argument throws
o. on an intelligent auditory,
10 Ahl Judge, hereafter keep to your