Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-07-25

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cratic Editor.
Mr.. N. A. Gray, formerly editor of the
Cleveland Plain Dealer, the leading Dem
ocratic paper of Northern Ohio, butpow
a sound Republican, delivered sharp
speech at Youngstown, on the 10th inst,
in which the antecedents of Judge Thur
man, the Democratic candidate for Gov
ner were exposed in a manner more clear
than fiattering. AS Mr.. Gray has had an
intimate acquaintance with the Democ-
racy and thorough affiliation with its
chiefs, his statements have much weight.
He said:
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,
SOuoreigns Of the Repu6ttc:'
1t has been well said that External
Vigilance is the price of Liberty, "-vig-
ilance at the primary meetings as well as
at the polls TO despise politics is to de-
spise government. To despise lazy, pro-
fessional office-seekers is quite another
thing. To neglect the primary meetings
is to surrender the field to professional
office-seekers. 1t is us if a 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 Eow over with us so far
as the chief fstandard-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
in this nation, each having civil and a
military wing, and may with marked
propriety be dcnominated the Union and
| Confederate parties They are sometimes
called Union-Republican and Democrat
! ic, sometimes Radical and Copperhead,
but the first is better in accord with the
rules of chemical nomenclature. The
military wings were lately led respect
lively by Grant and Lee. The civil wings
in this State are led by Hayes and Thur
man, or the civil wings, one, i'm the late
struggle, stood steadily and resolutely by
! Grant, encouraging enlistments and en-
forcing the draft. The other discouraged
enlistments, resisted the draft, and threw
every impedinent and embarrassment
in the way of Grant and his party. Thei1
shots were all for the North, their bat
teries ever had their breech towards Rich
mond. Carrying their action in this di-
rection as far as was safe with personal
liberty, and little further, in some in
stances, for Hall, Olds, Nalandigham
and others went beyond loyal endurance
and were given private apartments and
time for reflection. Olds took quarters at
Fort Warren and complains that the
"damned scoundrels deprived him of a
Bible" Vallandigham was arrested, and
but for Governor Tod his wife would have
been a widow. The Sunday after hi!
arrest was walking with Governor Too
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Burnside's Adjutant from Cincinnati ap
preached and said (privately): "If the
Governor makes no objection, Burnside
feels it his duty in this emergency to hang
Vallandigham at once.n The Governor
thought il would enrage his Southern
friends, and "fire the Southern heart, v
and, though deserved, policy pointed tt
the Dry Tortugas The lenient lament
ed Lincoln modified this and Vallandig
ham was banished to his friends, s,-was
received with shouts of JOY, given safe
conduct wherever he desired to go, rar
the blockade, sought an asylum under
the flag of the 1tdJanld builders, hover
ed on the border, became the chosen lead
er of the party of whose principles he was
the embodiment, and was beaten owe
one hundred thousand votes. The civi
wing of that party now gives the stand
ard into the hands of Thurman, the en-
dorser of Vallandigham, the advocate o
his election and the Nallandigham voters
Gentlemen, that is enough for me.
can never forgive Vallandigham for hi
desperate struggles against his countr.
i'm her dark, dark hour-never, never
never. Nor will ever forgive any maj
who voted for him-so help me God.
think I hear some one ask" Deacon
is that good Christian spirit? DO yol
pray to be forgiven as you forgiven
Exactly, exactly so. When have occa
: sion to be forgiven>for voting for Vallan
digham or any one of his supporters, l
will be time enough for me to forgive tn
sin in others.
On second thought, will say that, OF
the whole | will forgive them, but i
put it off till my last sickness, and till
have been in the hic-coughs about tire
days.
But Thurman has record of his own
= and i'm that record out Herods Herod.-
Like the long nosed mans longer nose'
son, of when wag said he looked jus
like his father and more too; so Thur
man is justlike Vallandigham, and NOR
too. During the war Thurman's hous
was notorOusly headquarters for parole'
rebels. tell you what know, not wha
, I hear. / have seen numbers OF rebe
officers, in full uniform, wearing the tin
sci insignia of rank in proud display
pacing to and fro in his gaily lit up house
: feasting and reveling in the rich recep
tions and light levees-
} "But never knew boy In blue
To venture near his door. \"
have heard of squad of loyal sol
diers, fired with the contrast betweel
? comrades at Andersonville and traitor
at Thurman's. on their way to aveng
the insult and bat for the persuasions @
, loyal Barney .McCabe, oh We gods! wha
: a singing school there would have beer
$ that night at rebel headquarters, as eacl
reb., piping treble, got the pitch out @
some jingling window! goo
Thurman's carriage was ever rumblin
over the road to Camp Chase, conveyin
smiling faces, words of comfort, hlxurfe
, and goodies generally to cheer and buo,
e up thesinking spirits of rebels; utneve
a crumb of comfort, that could learn
: for our boys in or out of hospital.
Clothing, sweetmeats, unneeded luxu
ries of all kinds, expressed from rebels i
the South to rebels at Camp Chase
a were marked, "Care of Judge Thurman.
= Why to the care of Judge Thurman
Yes, why? Was it solely because he wa
born and raised in the South, and wa
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