The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-12
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JUDGE ALLEN G. THURMAN,
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Wapokoneta, Ohio, Aug. go, 1867.

MI. Thurman is the Democratic candi
date for Governor Of Ohio, and spoke
to about 1000 persons, who frequent
ly applauded his great effort upon the
great questions that concern our com
NOR country. w are free to say that
we have read nothing in q long time
that surpasses this speech, and next
week we shall endeavor to give it in
full to the readers Of the Home Jour
nal. This week we will extract from
it rs appended. His defence of the
democratic party,his castigation of the
demons who are destroying this coun
try and trampling upon the Constitu-
ton under the name of 'loyalty," and
who answer all patriotic opposition to
their mad schemes by crying out"Cop-
perhead-Traitor;" his review of the
past history Of Lincoln, Wade, Chase
Stanton, Holt, and all the Radical
saints, who advocated State Rights,
and advised Secession, but who now
bankrupt the country and want to hang
all who followed their advise, andwh o
would make a'perfect Golgotha of the
whole Southern land for going into a
q rebellion they counseled and urged
his Just remarks upon the absolutio1
which the Radicals grant to all, howev-
or rebellious they may have been, If they
only now join their party-Gcn. 10
.seph Longstreet, for instance, and JEFF
ferson Davis if he would only come out
on their side; his speech in general, are
matters deserving of careful attention.
However, this week, we must content
ourself with giving only the following
extracts. Read them:
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY NEEDS NO DE-
Nor am There, my friends, for the
purpose of defending the Democratic
party, and that for the very plain rea-
son that it needs no defense. l am not
here to treat this great old party as if
it were a criminal, and l a lawyer de-
Tending it before any bar whatsoever.
For nearly fifty years our party admin
istered the Government of this coun
try, and in all that time there prevailed
within our limits the p%rofoundest do
nestle peace the world ever saw; and
in all that time the Cons iitution of our
common country was obeyed by the
Government and furnished the rule of
its action; in all that time no man in
all the length and breadth of the repub.
lie lost his life for q political offence /;
in all that time no man was deprived of
life, liberty or property without due
process Of law in all that time no law
was passed or act done to restrain the
free exercise Of our holy religion; in
all that time freedom of speech and Of
the press was never interfered with by
either the Government or the people !;
in all that time VIC were the least indcbt
ed and the most lightly taxed people on
the face of the earth; and in all that
time the sun in his annual round shonc
on no part Of the earth that exhibited
such Announcements in civilization, such
advancement in prosperity, and so glo-
rious and happy Il contcntcd Il pco-
pie us ours. That was what this coun-
try was under Democratic rule, and a
party that can point to such 4 record
rs that needs no defense. l will not
say what this country has become since
power passed from our hands, but yet |
may briefly remark that when we lost
power then peace departed from the
land when We lost power them came
an Indebtedness such as the world new
or saw then came taxation such us no
people ever groaned under before then
came the ~silencing Of ministers of the
gospel, Of public speakers, and the pub
lie press then came the bastile and
Punishment, where bastiles and Danish
mcnt were never heard Of before; and
then came q suffering among the pco-
pie such as this continent never witncs.
sod, and / trust in God never will wit
ness again. Now, my friends, / say
once more, that this party ofours needs
no defense,
But further, Mr.. Wade says that this
late rebellion was q Democratic REBEL
ion. Why, pray, who were more inter
csted than any others in preventing a
disunion Of the States? 1t was the
Democratic party Of the North. We
knew fall well if the South attempted
TO go out of the Union and succeeded
in going out. that with it went a great
Democratic strength. We knew that
it left our fate in the jaws of the Adolf
ton lion, and therefore if party feeling
could have swaycd any man upon such
II subject as this, we Of all others had
the most interest in keeping the South
in. But we were actuated by higher
motives than that-higher than any
party motives whatever. This great
country ofours was one in which we
had n cOmmoni inheritance, with its glo
rious memories, with its free institu.
tons and with. it, mighty prosperity,
and we had the same interest that 9th
er people had that it should not be dis
severed, but that H. should continue to
be the great and mighty and cxemplar
republic of the world. That was oul
interest. What more interest had the
Radicals than We had in the prcserva
ton of the country? Had they any
more lives to be saved, any more liber.
ties 10 be enjoyed, any more character
to maintain than We? Hthey had prop
crty had we not property too? If the,
had wives and children, had we no
wives and children too, and quite a
good and quite as beautiful rs theirs
If they were interested IN this being on
great and mighty republic, had we no
the same interest? And, in additio