The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-07-20
OHIO POLITICS.
\ he GubernatorisI Campaign Opened
Extract rrdtn !" lively speech by
nm Ex.DemoernIie EdiIor.

the leading journal of the Democracy
| in Northern Ohio, made a speech at
youngstown, Ohio, in the course of
which he gave an expose OF the record
of Judge Thurman, Democratic candi-
date for Governor, after the following
tashion:
"During the war Thurman,s house at
| Columbus was notoriously heRdQuar-
| ters for paroled rebels. / Will tell you
what know, not what L have heard.
! have seen numbers of rebel officers in
| tull uniform, wearing the tinsel insig-
mia of rank in proud display, pacing 10
and fro in his gaily lit up house, feast
ing and reVeling in the rich receptions
and light levees-
But never knew a b1y In blue
To venture near his door"
I heard of squad of loyal soldiers,
fred with the contrast between com
rades at AndersonviAe and traitors at
Thurman's on their way to avenge the
insult, and but for the persuasions of
\ of loyal Barney McCabe, oh ye gods
| what singing school there would
have been that night at rebel head
quarters as each reb. piping treble, got
! the pitch ont OF some jiDgling window
Thurman's carriages was ever rum b.
I ling over the road to Camp Chase, con
veying smiling faces, words of comfort;
| luxuries, and goodies generally TO cheer
and buoy up the sinking spirits of reb-
| els, but never n crumb OF comfort hat
could learn, for our boys In or out OF
the hospital.
Clothing, sweetmeats, unneeded lux
uries of all kinds, expressed from reb-
els in the South TO rebels at Camp
Chase, we're marked, "Care of Judge
1 Thurman" Why to the care of Judge
| Thurman3 Yes, whyT Was it solely
| because he WAS born and raised in the
| South, and was influenced by proud
| Virginia wifef aL.
| Letters to prisoners were filled with
! treason, strAtegem and spoils, with
plans of escape, cOnspiracies to over
come and murder the guards, fire the
| cities and escape 10 neutral kentucky.
The Governor therefore ordered all let
! ters to be examined and such to be sup
pressed. By this order examined 49,
| 700 of these letters, and such sentences
as the following were of common oc-
curTence:
'If you want money, borrow of our
friend, Judge Thurman"
"Ifyou want advice, ask 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 luxury and
| rolling his pets in luxury where was
General Hayes? History answers
"Gallantly facing the rebel rain OF
| grape and canister with his life in his
| hand, his soul in the work, struggling
to reach some eAndersOnville, Salisbury,
| Belle isle or Libby, 10 lead our
! Hhastly famishinH loyal boys past the
ever varying Dead Line to where
Beneath the starry flag they could breathe
or the he rfee rec land land In their own beloved home"
Boys in blueI which shall be your
Governor? Pc
1t is said that war, like poverty.
makes strange bed-fellows, and am
tainted with being in bed with that in
fernal Thad. Stevens. Suppose ! get
| out of that bed and crawl over into that
other bed; leave the Internal Thad. to
crawl into bed with nest of Internal
| Copperheads--V -VRllandigham,T Thurman, ,
| Olds & Co. What a brilliant change !!
Excuse me, gentlemen, II go back
| to Internal Thad. for l would rather be
InIerHdlly right than in Jet7latty tVrOng.
| rbad. stevens is some distance from
| the main army, on picket or vidette
! line, watching the movements of the
| enemy from u near standpoint, and Il
restless, ugly customertO skirmish with
| is he, but when the main battle comes
on he falls back and takes his place in
the line, and we overlook the gyrations
and tantrums he cuts when alone and
| far from us. We may yet be made to
| adopt his dreadful measures. If we do
| the South may thank themselves for it.
| They have made us do great many
things dreadfully against our wishes.
They made US take arms. They made
us quiet guarding their property and
| destroy II. They made us send Sher-
man through the South without gloves.
| They made us call coloTed soldiers to
the tield to help us save the county and
20O, 900 came to the call. They made us
free the slaves, and " hen we gave them
their forfeited rights, by obsti-
nance and insolence they made
us take another step, and that step WAS
forward, not backward, as they hoped!'
| Refusing to give freedmen their rights
and protect loyal lives, they made US
do it. Their Obstinacy made us give
them the Freedmen's Bureau and the
Civil Rights Bill. They made us give
thenIl loyal governors, mayors and
Judges in place of traitors. Pressing
right on in this way they at length
made us give the vote to their former
slaves. wonder how they like At as
| The next step II they make us take 1t,
will make such tracks as old ThRd's
right fool always makes, "bFoad as It
is long" If necessary we shall take
that step, for we shall strap them down
and buckle them snugly until they
work kindly in loyal harness. Caval-
ry sheridan is on the ground and is a
good hand at breaking colts. l have
seen him in the South followed by 80
900 horses in faultless discipline. And
| if-mark me-if our modern Moses re-
moves him, the people of'69 will rush
him into the Presidential Mansion at
such rate that his coat tail won't
overtake him In three days. You may
turn leaf down there TO mark that
place In history.
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