Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-19
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they will have usurped all the wealth OF
the country, as well as all power In the
Government. They know that the Democ-
racy will carry New York, that nine thou
sand more Democratic votes will carry the
Keystone State, and he hoped there was
patriotism enough in Ohio to give the
Buckeye State to Judge Thurman. They
want the Black man to vote under the bay
onet in the South, because they see the
White men of the North are deserting
them. They hope to annul the vote OF
Northern White men in the presidential
campaign, by the forced ballot OF the
Southern Negro, and thus virtually de-
prive free White Americans of choosing
their own President. "'A '-.a
Judge Thurman's speech to-day was the
longest and clearly the most forceable he
has thus far delivered in this campaign.
He occupied two hours. and kept his audi
ence as if spell bound. He discussed all
the questions of Importance before the
American people. From the earliest de-
signs of the Abolitionists upon the Consti-
tuition and the Union down to the last
whelp of the party-Negro Suffrage-he
gave light ard knowledge to his hearers.
Could all the White people of Ohio have
been within the sound of his voice this fine
afternoon, verify believe he would get
all their votes, the tax exempt bondholder,
the fanatic and him that feeds at the pub
lie crib only excepted. Here in the beau
tiful little city of Lancaster, the home OF
Tom Ewing, General Sherman and Henry
Stanbury, surrounded by the Democrats
and intelligent Republicans of Fairfield
county, Judge Thurman could we'll afford
to treat with silent contempt, as beneath
the notice of q gentleman, the slanders OF
an anonymous blackguard, in the Cincinnati
Gazette. His dignified bearing, his fine
oratory, his holy love of country and his
undying loyalty and devotion to the Con-
stitution of our Fathers, win for him the
confidence and respect of all who hear
him.
The National Debt, the system of Taxa
tion and the weight with which it falls on
labor, the Negro Suffrage question and the
Record of the Radical Saints, were all re-
fiected, as in mirror, on the minds of his
thousands of hearers. 70
If long endeavors to divide the Union,
an infdel disregard for the obligation OF
an oath, an entire absence of honest prin-
ciple, wholesale plundering of the people,
the making away with the public domain,
and, worse than all, the encouragement
given to the Southern leaders to secede
from the Union, be crimes of any magni-
/ tude, then, indeed, will the leading saints
of the Radical party be politically damned
The whole history of the Revolutionary
party from its very inception to the kick
ing of the Southern States out of the
Union, was given, and the disunion records
of nearly all its leading men fully exposed
not by scraps cut from newspapers, or from
what this or that man said, but from the
1 Congressional Globe, and other official
records that Judge Thurman had on the
stand. He did not seek to convict the
Radical party by anything said on the
stump in the heat of campaign, nor by the
thoughtless or foolish expressions of OBJ
scure politicians, but he produced the de-
liberate avowals of the acknowledged ex-
ponents of their principles those whom
the party honored for these very utter
ances, by electing or appointing them to the
highest positions.
He began with Mr.. Lincoln, and read
from the Congressional Globe, extracts from
his speech, delivered in Congress, January
II, 1s4S, under the solemnity of his Off
cial oath, showing that Mr.. Lincoln held
tile doctrine that any people, anywhere,
not only in the South, but anywhere, had
the right, if they were inclined and had
the power, to rise up and shake off the
Government under which they lived and
form a government that would suit them
better. That this was valuable and
SACRED right, and one that he hoped and
believed would liberate the world. And,
further still, that a majority had right to
put down the minority who might not
agree with them. Mr.. Lincoln having
thus told the South that they had the right
to shake off the Government and put
down any minority of Union men that
might be found there, was elected PresI-
dent by the Republican party $50 called)
and was held up to the world by them as
the most honest and truthful man in the
country. The South, said the speaker,
took the word of the Republican party for
Mr.. Lincoln's honesty, and took Mr.. Lin
coin at his word, he being so highly en-
dorsed. So much for the very head of this
Revolutionary party. Now for the next
highest of these very loyal saints,
Benjamin F. Wade, who, as Presi dent of
the Senate, would succeed Andy johnson,
if that terrible traitor had been successful
ly impeached. Mr.. Wade avowed his be-
def, under the solemn sanctions of his Of
fetal oath, in the United States Senate, in
the Virginia resolutions of 177S and 8, and
told Southern Senators if this Union endan
gered their institutions, he was not one of
those who would expect them to remain
long in it; nor would he ask them to remain,
because it would be doing violence to the
platform of his party, Ah, ha! Benjamin
so the platform of your party was dis
union one, was it?l as they had adopted
the old Declaration of Independence as the
basis of their political action. n You
cannot says Ben., forcibly hold men in
this Union; for the attempt to do so would
subvert the first principles of the Govern
ment under which we live. Indeed
And yet, said the speaker, when
the Southern People took Mr.. Lin
coln-honest Mr.. Lincoln-at his word
when they took the sanity Benjamin
F. Wade at his word-when they
took the Neu York Tribune at its word
Mr.. Wade was amongst the first to cry out
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