The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1867-09-05

Republic down TO the bottom Of aristo
cratic superciliousness Will you stor
now in this great battle when there il
but one step more TO make our triumph
complete The Republican party
stands for the right, aud in the approach
ing election it viii drive the last nail in
the coffin Of the accursed Democracy
the advocate ofspecial privileges and the
domination Of the few over the many
Do right once more, and | shall moi
have occasion to call your attention tc
it again Let your colored men come
up to the ballot-box and vote. DOM
they know enough to yoteF Thurman
says no He says it has pleased thc
Almighty to make them lower than 9TH
er men,. If he has made them lower
than he has made Judge Thurman, OF
any worse, God pity them [Cheers.
For man to stand up in the nineteenth
century and talk about the Almighty
distributing his favors unequally among
men, is au insult to Omnipotence and
to the intelligence of mankind. 1t is
not SO, Judge Thurman. 1t cannot be
allowed. The hundred and one thou
sand voters that buried Yallandigham
will carry greater flood to sink you
and your doctrines out of sight.
Cheers. 1t is curious to see the Brit
ish tories and Thurman, Yallandigham
d Co., making common cause, and
Ranney, my old associate in law, God
help him. He had better teaching than
to be in that crowd. But he follows,
in the idea that the Almighty made
some men to be servants of other.
Could he persuade any of you that he
had made you for that Service7 rVoi-
ces: "No, Not No, thank God, the
American people have got past that.
They don't believe there is a great deal
of difference in blood There is a vast
difference in moral and intellectual exal-
tation, but in government you have to
take mankind as they are, and unless
compelled to submit to despotism, they
who are governed are allowed to parti-
cipate in the government. We govern
ourselves. | have Thurman's speech in
my pocket and am tempted to read
some of his lamentations, for old Jere-
miah, in his most hypocondrical moods
never talked like the Judge.
"Oh," he says, "the most terrible ty-
ranny that the world ever knew has fall
len upon the American people. They
have nowhere to look for hope, and are
in danger of falling under the domina-
ton of despots. The Republican party
has excited the most horrid despotism. "
If so, it is Of the peoples own choos-
ing, and they can make their way out
of it whenever they see fit | don't
commisserate much with people who
have instituted their own government.
This Republican party, which to-day
reigns SO triumphantIy over the old
Democratic party-how did it happen T?
Thurman ought to be a philosopher, and
look into things of this kind. III tell
you why it happened. 1t is because
God is just, and the Republican party
according to the dictates and
principles laid down by him. You and
your party served the Devil, and in the
end didn't come out triumphantly.
This may be a harsh expression, but it
is literally true. From the time the
Republican party first organized, its
have continually increased,
their principles become more and more
settled, and are now more firmly held
by the American people than at any
previous time. Why is it2 Have the
people run mad, and reduced them
selves to a despotism from which they
cannot release themselves7 Who DOM
ineer over them? Am one Of the
your servant, whom next win
ter you can turn out into your streets !
Call this despotism' 1t is such insanity
that those men spout at their meetings.
Such despotism doesn't hurt us in Ohio.
If it huIts anybody it hurts the people
of the seeded States and their old
friends and associates who during the
war looked to them for support, for
whom Vallandigham went down South,
after being condemned by just govern
ment for treason, to devise ways and
means whereby he might conquer the
that was so free and liber-
al as to allow him to escape with his
life, Thurman being left at home to take
care of the rebel wounded and prison.
ers. While your brave boys languish-
ed and suffered and died in Anderson
vile, Belle Isle and other prisons; while
your wives and daughters stimulated
them with pure and patriotic motives,
and were providing comforts and deli
cacies for the poor soldiers who fell
lighting the enemy, where were Val
and Thurman, who want
your votes to-day? They were minis
tering to the rebels at Thurman's house,
The headquarters, where he shed not
crocodile but real tears over their con-
lition. lie is an enemy to this Gov
ernment, there is no use mincing mat
Lers, God knows that the great war
through which we have passed was or
lained to try mems souls. There was
no middle course. AS Douglas well
said, every man was either patriot, or
rebel and traitor. Where was Thur
man? When our nation lost battle
lid he mourn over it7 No he gloated
over it with the same exultation that
Jeff Davis, or any other rebel did
When your armies triumphed his heart
,nnl. ,uithin hum hncaIlsn he uishnd tho