The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-08-29
l)olitital.
GEN. r. 3. HAYES,
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Review of Judge Thurman's
Waverly Speech.
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Condemned out of His own Mouth.

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we publish below that portion of
Gen. Hayes speech in which he no.
tices Judge Thurman's aWaverly ad-
dress, and which will we'll repay an
attentive .perussh ~ o=
The akey note of the Democratic
campaign for this year IN Ohio was
sounded by my friend Judge Thur
man, in his speech at Wa,erly. He
makes an elaborate attompV to justil
fy the course which was aiken by
himself, and by the Peace Deaocracy
of Ohio, daripg tbs sVarof the ebeli.
ion. The purpose OF fthO speech SENS
to be, to obtain from the people of
Ohio, al, the approaching election, ~
endorsement Of the wisdom and pa
triotism of his opposition to the meas
ures and policy of Mr.. Lincoln's ad-
niinistration. oi1'n7isc7 11airn.iu- 'd'I
This is the FIRST canvass since the
war in which any candidate for an i'm
portantiofice ID thisState Misplaced
his claims to preferment upon such
grounds as those now taken by Judge
Thurman,,- In 1865, tho party with
which the Judge is acting, with thai
;,ssdiseretionn which is the better par
ofTal6r, ~ nominated for Governor
General Morgan. who could CT il
known show claims to the title oi
War Democrat. In 1866, the same
party placed at the head of its State
ticket q eneraT Ben. EeFeyre, a pop
ular gentleman who had belonged to
the Union Army during almost the
whole pRlhelNdrD 10 l3DOES
But on the 8th of January last,
the State Convention of this party,
for some reason which it is not nee
ossary now to discuss, adopted a
change of policy. The pcrmanen nj
Chairman Of the Conception, was Mr.,
Pehdleton, the destined candidate OF
the Peace Democracy for President
Of the United States, Mr., Yallan,
digham, the most conspicuous and the
most consistent adversary ih the
North, Of the war for tho Union, was
the leading and most active menager
Of the Copyention, and was. the ar
chiteet Of its plafofm.F The homiha-
ton of Judge Thurman, and the
Proceedings and organization Of the
Convention were evidently Intended
to place againSina the iaseehdency,
that wing Of the Democratic party
which has been under a cloud ever
since Lee surrendered to Grant That
Convention gave notice that hereaf.-
ter 10 Ohio, the Democratic wagon
was to be driven bypeace Democrats,
and that war Democrats we're to take
back seats. l@u a.le'.a- .rll' 'Hos
Now, how does Judge Thurman
defend his anti.war record2 He de-
liberately, and in strong language,
makes charges Of the gravest charac-
ter againE the administration Of Mr.
Lincoln, and against the loyal people
who snstainedit, 2 He says: m
"lpdeed it is but truth TO assert that
there is scarcely provision Of. the
Constitution that has not, within the
last six years, been shamelessly aud
needlessly trampied under foot, aud
that is not, at this day, yet mors
shamelessly and more needlessly vio-
lated. i y From this moment,
say, that these enemies Of our Cow
erEment obtained tho ascendency,
and imposed their will upon our rui-
ers, this country has been little else
than woe. .1gt
IL was owing to the Vaccinations
Of this faction that disuuion and civ
u war were not peaeeably ayorted; i