The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-10-03

think ofihaL2 You are the dele
cato Of your county to the Stat
Convention. You are made tn
platform. builder of the State Con
vcntion. You are State Contra
Committee Of that party, to elee
The candidates of that convention
You are posted and speak forty
diiferert times through August
!. September and October, in behal
OF that candidate, and who is he
Tho man that tells US "defeat, debt
/ taxation, sepulchers, these are you
(, trophies. Ay, sir, it is easier Il
! die at homo." What is his de
, feuse? What is his answer 3?
Why, he says ifI will send it e
! Vallandigham, no will explain ii
perhaps He says he has not seer
it. Has not seen /? Judge Thur
man, on matters Of fact, I accept
any statement you may make with.
in your personal knowledge: and
| accept that statement; but il
amounts to not a rush by way oI
defense, unless you 90 one ster
further, and say youdid not know
when yousupported ValIaudigham,
and voted for him, what his senti-
ments were did not know, in
1868, where Vallar digham stood,
when you tried to elect him Gev.
ernor.
While Mr.. VaIlandigham has
some faults, as most Of us think,
there is one fault hc has not got.
Ho never agrees to hide his light
ander a bushel and every man
knows where he stands, Every
man knew that he was. against tie
war in 1868, and Judge Thurman
engaged in helping him. The
correspondent ofthe London Times
wrote: ''Vallandigham sits waiting
and watching over the border, pre-.
pairing to array Ohio against Lin
coin and the war, in case he is elect
ed Governor" Did you not know
it, Judge Thurman? Did you
not know, Judge Thurman. where
Vafandigham stood? That sort
OF failure Of memory will not au-
swer. | do not wonder that they
wish .by'g cones TO be by cones.
Judge Thurman says that Cen.
erai Hayes throws Quito him the
keynote of the canvass. lie wrote
to Yallandigham, telling him OF his
nomination. Vallandighan writes
back letter, which | call a good
thing, and Judge Thurman took it.
up and resounded it over the State.
What is it? Says Vallandlgham
81 have travelled over more than
a thousand miles in the Conicdera-
cy, and | have not found man.
woman, or child who is not prepar-
ed TO die rather than submit to the
force Of arms"
On the 18th of July, 1863, mark
you. they are better prepa.ed to
make gool their iDcxorable purpose
Il a1itany previous time-"lf'this
war" says he, sis only to end by
subjugation Of tho rebellion, the
infant OF today will not see the
end oiit." He says: "Why docs
General Hayes say that? Why notI
talk about The platform ?"
DO you pretend, Judge Thurman,
that the platform of 1868 differed
from the candidate that they put
upon it9 Was theroa war between
Valandigham and tho platform on
which hc stoodS 1t was all of one
piece, and you supported tho whole
thing.
Why, says he, General Hayes is
inconsistent. He finds fault with
me for quoting what ValIandigham
wrote in the letter accepting the
nomination. AS to 1864, Thur.
manspIatform pronounced the war
II four years failure, and Mcclellan
wrote letter that did not tally.
Why not take Mcclellan s letter
us he did in the first place. We'll,
| will tell him. Lot us have il
understood. | take the letter and
platform IN the first case, and the
platform and not the letter in 1861.
have already indicated onereason
hat in one case platform, letter and
were all alike but in the
'ther the platform was one thing.
md Mcclellan, with his friends,
thing-they allowing that
t would not do. The fact was
his; In the last days Of August
hey met in convention and passed
he resolution. | was in the army
IT the timc, and we did not got news
10 promptly as you did. We got
hat news, ono night, the Cd or 3D.
u September and on the very same
light that we got tho news that
old US this war was a four years
allure, wo got news from Sherman
hat he had captured Atlanta Tap.
'lause and that night you could
lear, along the picket lines, our
'oys hallooing at the Johnny rebs,
Have you heard the news?n Ol
curse they had heard that the war
vas n failure. The answer was, 7,
NOT bit OF IL; Shermanshas got
itlanta." See the difference now.
When Mcclellan accepted tho nom.
nation, he had heard tho news.
I was not good to talk that way
NY longer, aud 80 ,he letter didn't ,,
ally with tho platform, Thurman
aye, Why take tho platform and !
lot the letter? | will tell you ~
'ou were delegate at large, in the
)hicago Convention from tho State
t Ohio, You helped mako the !
latiorm, and Lhayo not hoard that !
on helped Mcclellan to write the !