The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1867-07-25
Speech of N. A. Gray, of Ohm
sted, former Editor of the
Cleveland Plain Dealer, at
Youngstown, July 10th.

OIcScittnu fIlIn D6aIcr, at
Youngstown, July 10th.
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle
men, Sovereigns Of the Republic !:
1t has been well said that ''Eter-
nalVigilance is the price Of Liberty"
Vigilance at the primary meetings
as well as at the polls. To despise
politics, is to despise government
To despise lazy, professional office
seekers, is quite another thing
1t is as if farmer would
give seed time to the enemy to sow
tares, chess, cookies and thistles and
look for fine wheat in harvest. The
primary movements are now over
with US so far, as the chief standard
bearers of this State are concerned,
and we have only left US to choose
between Hayes and Thurman. They
are both representative men, each
Of his own party, and are no doubt
each acceptable to his own party
There are two, and only two, great
! political parties i'll this nation, each
having civil and military wing,
and may with marked propriety be
| denominated the Union and Confed-
crate parties. They are sometimes
called Union Republican and Demo
cratic, sometimes Radical and Cop
perhead, but the first is better accord
with the rulesof chemical nomencla
ture. The military wings were lately
leo respectively by Grant and Lee.
The civil wings in this State are led
by Hayes and Thurman. Of the
civil wings one, in the late struggle,
stood steadily and resolutely by
Grant, encouraging enlistments,
and enforcing the draft. The
bther discouraged enlistments re
sisted the draft, and threw every i'm
pediment and embarrassment in the
way of Grant and his party. Their
shots were all for the North, their
batteries ever had their breech to-
wards Richmond. Carrying their
action in this direction as far as was
safe with personal liberty, and lit
tie farther, in some instances, fol
Hall, Olds, Vallandigham and others
went beyond loyal endurance and
were given private apartments and
time for reflection. Olds took quar-
ters at Warren and complains that
the damned scoundrels deprived
him of bible Vallandigham
was arrested, and but for Governor
Tod in the ftreets of Columbus,
when General Burnside's Adjutant
from Cincinnati approached and said
! (privately,) ''if the Governor makes
no objection, Burnside feels it his
duty in this emergency to hang Val
landigham at once. The Governor
thought it would enrage his South
ern friends, and ''fire the Southern
heart" and though deserved, policy
pointed to the Dry Tortugas. The
1enient lamented Lincoln modified
this, and Vallandigham was banishet
to his friends,-was received will
shouts of joy, given safe conduc
wherever he desired to go, ran til,
blockade, sought an ASYLUM undel
the flag of the Alabama builders
hoyered on the. border, became tn,
chosen leader Of the party o
whose principles he was the EN-
bodiment, and was beaten over one
hundred thousand votes. The civi
wing of that party now gives th'
standard into the hands of Thurman
the endorse1 Of Vallandigham, thu
advocate of his election and the Val
landigham voters.
! Gentlemen, that is enough for me
/ never will forgive Vallandighan
for his desperate struggles agains
his country in her dark, dark hour
never, never, never. Nor will I eve
forgive any man who voted for hin
so help me God.
i I think / hear some one ask
J; Deacon, is that a good Christian
spirit ? Do you pray to be forgivel
as you forgive % Exactly, exactl.
SO. When | have occasion to be for
given for voting for Vallandighan
or any one of his supporters, it vii
be time enough for me to forgive th
sin in others.
On second thought, will say that
on the whole, l will forgive them
) but I'll put it off till my last sickness
and till have been in the hic- cough
| about three days.
, But Thurman has record of hi
own, and in that record out-Herod
Herod. Like the long nosed man
longer nosed son, of whom wa:
: said he looked just like his father
and more too. so Thurma
is just like Vallandigham an
) more too. During the wa
l Thnrman,s house was notoriousl
f headquarters for parolled rebels.
&. tell you what l know,not what l hes
t | have seen numbers of rebel off
= GERS, in full uniform, wearing the til
, sci insignia of rank in proud display
: hazing to and fro in his gaily lit u
), house, feasting and revelling in th
e rich receptions and light levees-
!. sBut never knew boy in blue
,. To venture near his door.
Y I have heard of a squad of loy'
J, soldiers, fired with the contrast b'
tween comrades at Andersonvill
and traitors at Thurman's on the
e way to avenge the insult, and b'
c for the persuasions of loyal Barne
i McCabe. oh We gods ! what singln
: school there would have been tha
d night at rebel headquarters, as eac
# reb, piping treble, got the pitch OF
/. of some jingling window!
Thurman's carriage was oyt
d the road to Camp Chase, conveyin
h smiling laces, words to comfor
e luxuries and goodies generally t
e cheer and buoy up the sinking spi
it's of the rebels, but never a cruh
n of comfort, that I could learn, fe
It our boys in or out of hospital :
o. Clothing, sweetmeats, unneede