The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1867-09-13

HAYES ON THURMAN.

General HAYES nude q speech at Ham.
ilon, in which he referred to Judge THUR
MANS Waverly speech, aud exposed the
inconsistent record OF the Democratic can
didate for Governor. General HAYES said:
This is the first canvass since the war
in which any candidate for an important
Office in this State has placed his claims to
prelerment upon such grounds as those
now taken by Judge Thurman. In 1865,
the party with which the Judge is acting
with that " discretion" which is "the better
part of vaor" nominated for Governor
General Morgan, who could lit is well
known) show claims to the title of War
Democrat. In 1866, the same party placed
at the head of its ticket General Ben
LeFevre, a popular gentleman who had
belonged to the Union army during almost
the whole OF the war. But on the 9Th of
January last the State Convention of this
party, for some reason which is not nee
essary now to discuss, adopted change
of policy. The permanent Chairman Of the
Convention was Mr.. Pendleton, the destined
candidate of the Peace Democracy for Pres.
ident, the most conspicuous and most con
sistent adversary in the North, of the war
for the Union, was the leading and the
most active manager of the Convention.
and was the architect of it's platform, The
nomination of Judge Thurman, and the
proceedings and the organization of the
Convention were evidently intended to
place again in tho ascendenoy, that wing
of the Democratic party which has been
under cloud ever since Lee surrendered to
Grant. That Convention gave notice that
hereafter in Ohio, the Democratic wagon
to ho Irtx ,,,l
that war Democrats were to take back
seats.
Now, how does Judge Thurman defend
his anti-war record? He deliberately, aud
in strong language. makes charges of the
gravest character against the administra.
tion of Mr.. Lincoln, and against the loya
people who sustained it. He says:
Indeed, it is but truth to assert that
there is scarcely a provision of the Con-
stitution that has not, within the last six
years, been shamelessly and needlessly
trampled under foot, and that is not at this
day, yet more shamelessly and more need
lessy violated. From the mo-
ment, | say, that these enemies of our
Government obtained the ascendency, and
imposed their will upon our rulers, this
country has seen little else than woe.
II was owing to the Vaccinations OF
this faction that disunion aud civil war
We're not peaceably averted it was to
their Vaccinations that We owe the pro.
longation of the war two ears longer than
it would otherwise have lasted ii is owing
to them that the Union was not completely
restored as soon as peace was achieved
and they are the men who, with diabolical
ingenuity, add, every day, some new ele:
ment o. discord TO aggravate our unsettled
and dangerous condition, and TO monaco US
with future o. uarchy or despotism.
They oVerwnelm with abuse and ridi-
oule every man whnj before the war; sought
to preserve the Union by peaceful means
they hunted down, as far as they were
able. every General of tho war, however
meritorious. who refused TO becons their
servile partisan they deprived Mcclellan
of his command because, after South Noun
tain and Antietam. il was plain that peace
could be speedily obtained on the basis OF
the Constitution and Union of our fathers,
and because he was in favor of lhus OBJ
tanning il they converted the war from
what the President and Congress at the
outset declared it to be--a war to preserve
the Union and the ConstitutiOn--into a war
for the enfranchisement of negroes and the
perpetuation of the power OF a party"
After repeating long catalogue Of
crimes against the Constitution, against the
rights Of citizens, committed by the party
which supported the war-statemsnts iden.
tical in substance, and very nearly identical
in hnguageI with those which he was iu