The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-08-08
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come ana murder Jne guards, ihre the
cities, and escape to neutral Kentucky.
The Governor therefore ordered all let
tiers to be examined and such to be
suppressed.-By this OrderI examin-
ed 1900 of these letters, and such
sentences as the following were Of
common occurrence: .- ....
elf you want money, borrow of our
friend, Judge Thurman"
"If you want anything, call on our
friend, Judge Thurman"
While Thurman, far from the smell
Of powder, was rolling in Iuxuries and
rolling his pets in Iuxuries, where was
General Hayes? ? History answers
"Gallantly facing the rebel rain Of
grape and canister, with his life in his
hand and his soul in the work, strug-
Cling to reach some AndersOnviIe,
Salisbury, Belle Isle or Libby, to lead
our CHASTITY, famished, loyal boys past
the ever varying sDtad Line" to
where a rS .
Beneath the starry flag they could breathe the air
Of the tree land in their own beloved homes"
Boys in blue, he shall be your Cover
nor?
Soldiers, soldiers fathers, brothers,
sons or friends, will you vote for Thur
man and ever raise your heads in 10y
al company? Well says Governor
Tod, "G0d forbid that ever a loyal
soldier should5see in high authority
at the capital such enemies Of their
country and of them as Vallandig-
ham, Thurman, Olds; Pugh & Co."
Now a word on that piece of political In
dia rubber Of African descent, what the
Johnnies used to call smoked Yankees. It
is singular what effect a vote in ones hand
has Oh neighbOr's respect. Foreigners,
before they can vote here, are often called
"hannel-mOuthed paddles" or 'lop-eared-
Dutch" but when they hold vote, we
discover that erich Irish brOgue and sweet
German accent" So a vote has converted
"nigger" into sour colored fellow-citi-
zen." Strange metamOrphosis, which the
South compelled US to make But to the
franchise amendment; four millions of
blacks on our border have been set free
and given the vote by our congressman,
D lie
our Constitution as it is, about half Of the
colOred class of Ohio have a vote. tNOwrI
ask what danger there is in giving it to the
little balance, and what consistency in
Withholding it from them .t ts
made speech in Wilmington, Y. C.,
to colOred regiment, who, with the con-
sent of their Colonel, had marched to the
front of my tent, as I was about to leave
the service, and startled me with lusty
cheers. Among other things, said:
"Black. boys, go home to tell the peO-
pie that have seen your valOr tested and
found you ever reliable, as half Your num-
! Der left on rebel breast-WOrks will testify
have seen you, COlOred soldiers, mount
and carry at the point of the bayOnet, re-
bel breast-wOrks, as gallantly as did the
600 at BalaklaVa, OF whom TennysOn
wrote and like them you felt it was
''Not yours to make reply
Not yours % reason why
Yours but TO do and die,
Though some one had blundered;
still into the jaws Of death,
Into the gates Of hell
Rushed the six hundred" ..
Again, I said I would advocate giving a
vote to four classes of cOIOred men;
First-I would give it to all who had
borne arms in putting down this accursed
rebellion.
SecOnd-To all who could read and write.
Third-FO all who had the thrift and en-
ergy to accumulate sufficient to take care
of himself and friends.
Fourth and last-To the balance.
Those are my sentiments to-day.
As to DISTINGUISHING white men, not one
is disfranchised by the amendment, but
bona tide, absolute, voluntary deserters.
who fled before the war was over. Our
opponents, on whom the cutoff falls, will
charge that it DISTINGUISHES all lOyal bows
who happened not to be with their COM
inands, and were marked on the rolls, cab
sent without leave;" but when the AMEND
ment is adopted theywil change front like
Johnson on the powers of Sheridan, and
go on the other extreme. johnson asks,
Where under the sun does Sheridan get
authority for removing civil officers?-
Sheridan answers, In your veto message,
Mr.. Johnson. -- ..s f|
A word or two about our opponents who
are floating off to sea. on those planks in
the old platforms which have decayed or
been knocked out by rebel shells. Those
persons who can't understand how a new
platform can be made with the old live
oak war plank in the center, surrounded
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fastened with the bolts of progress. 1t is
said that some of those Johnny rebs who
so desire the success of "Our friend, Judge
Thurman" when in Camp Chase, were
asked: ... .-r -
UniOn-"Whata are you Johnnies fighting
for?'' f0.-..
Rebel-(pompousIy) "For our rights"
UniOn-"But what rights7'
Reb.-''Our Southern rightsi - -a .....-
Union" Yes, but what southern rights?"
Reh.-''OUr rights in the territories"
UniOn-"Well, but what rights in the
pshaw, no matter, yOu don't understand
me. I'll ask you question you do under
stand. Did you know Jesus Christ was
dead2"
Reb. oil! no, what regiment did he
belong to ?" ...... ....
You see they make some progress. That
old plank 1867 years old they have
passed by a
When the Chaplain asked if they had
the gospel in camp, one scratching his
head, said; NO. thank God, they hadn't,
but they heard it had broke out pretty bad
up in Camp Douglas"
No party can rise and flourish without
Intelligence and loyalty. As to the latter,
the Marion County Democrat, which sup
ports Thurman, says of the AndersOnville
prisoners:
"The South served them right for not
staying at home and nlinding their own
business" . ..-.
I saw many thousands of those Ander-
sonvilIe prisoners as they came reeling
and staggering into Wilmington, and can
better Judge than any man can tell, how
Thurnan's friends would have Il man
served for being loyal. Vividly, the pic
ture looms up before me, and vivid Will il
remain while memory lasts. I observed
them as they came in, often with but the
iuttering remnant of a single garment on,
barefoot, scurvy, UncOmbed, covered with
vermin, with open, druling mouth, and
eyes fixed in vacant, idiotic astare-men
whom the surgeons had pronounced sound
of mind and body Oh, my COuntrymen !
can see the picture, but cannot show it t.
you! Will you, Oh, tell me, Will you
make a Governor of their murderers
friend? Never No, never!
go, mother, do send for the doctorn'
said little boy of three years. ''Why,
there's a gentleman in the parlOr who
says he'll die if Jane don't marry him
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