The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-07-19
Judge Thurman.

NOGutN, regarding tue 'NAE IcCO!u
OF Judge Thurman, the Democratic
candidate for Governor of Ohio
The speech is u forcible one and
presents some points that will place
the Judge in 4 not very enviable
Hight. Read it:
Nr. Chairman, Ladies Ggd Gentle
nlea:
There are two great leading par
ties in this nation and no more each
having a civil and = military wing,
and the two parties may with mark
ed propriety he denominatcd the
Union and Confederate parties, alas
Union and Democratic, alas Radi-
cal and Copperhead. The military
wings were lately led respectively
by Grant and Lee. The leaders OF
the civil wings for this State are
Hayes and Thurman. OF the civil
wings, one stood steadily by Grant,
and by enlis.meDts and draft gave
him every aid in the field The 9th
er discouraged enlistments, resisted
the draft, and in every way embar
rassed, criticised and fsulted Grant
ard his party. Their shots were all
;or the North, and the breeches OF
their batteries we're ever towards
Richmond, carrying their action as
Tar as was safe with personal liberty,
and q iesile farther, for Vallanding-
ham, Odds and others carried their
treason beyond loyal endurance, and
were given private rooms 10 devote
TO reflection.
Vallandingham has TO this day to
thank Gov Tod for his lie, for up
on a certain Sunday i was walking
with the Governor in the streets OF
Columbus, when General Bun inside s
Adjutant approached from Cincin-
natl and said, privately, III the Gov
ernor has no objection, General
Burnside thinks the emergency re
quires that you hang Vallandingham
at once. The Governor said that
the salvation os the Union was para,
mount to all else, and such step
though just, might enrage his rebel
friends and fire the Southern heart,
and he thought policy pointed to
wards the Dry TOrtugas. The leni-
ent, lamented Lincoln modified this,
and VallandiDgham was banished to
his friends-wa5 received with shouts
of Joy, given safe conduct wherever
he desired te go, ran the blockade,
sought an asylum under the dag OF
lhe Alabama builders, lowered on
the border, became the chosen lea
der of the civil wing OF the party oi
whose principles he was the embodi-
ment, and vas beaten over one hun
dred thousand votes.
The civil wing of that party now
gives the standard of that party into
the hands Of Thurman, the endorseT
of Vallandingbam. the advocate oi
his election and the Vallandinsham
voter.
Gentlemen, that Is enough for me.
| never will forgive Vallandingham
for his desperate struggle against his
country in her dark, dark hour-nev-
er Hsrer NEVER! nor vii! / ever for
give any man who voted for him, SO
help me, COP!
But Thurman has record of his
own, net second to Vallandinghsm,
and IN the record oct herods Herod.
Like the long nosed mans longer
nosed son of whom II wsg said. "he
looks like his father and more too,
so Thurman is just Ike Vallanding-
h&m. and more too.
During the war Thurman's house
was notorioGsly the headquarters for
paroled rebels / tall you what
know, not what | have heard. !
have seen numbers OF rebel officers in
tull uniform wearing the tinsel inslg-
MIA OF rank in proud display. pacing
TO and fro IN his gaily lie up house,
feastin2 snd reyeling in the rich re.
ceptions ami the light levees.
"Bu,Rsvtr knew hoy In blue
To venture near his door"
l have heard Of a squad of loyal
soldiers, fred with the contrast be-
tween comrades ST Andersonville and
traitors at Thurman on their way
to avenge the insdlt and but the per
suasioEs of loyal Barney McCape-
Oh ye gods what q singing school
there would have been that night at
rebel headquarters, as each piping
treble got his pitch through some
jingliug window.
Thurman carriage WAS ever rum
bling over the read TO Camp Chase
To convey smiling faces, words OF
luxuries and goodies gen
orally, to cheer and buoy up the sink
ing spirits Of rebels, but never a
crumh OF comfort, as l could learn,
for tue Boys in Blue, in CT out OF
the hospital.
Clothing, sweetmeets, unDee ded
luxuries OF all kinds, expressed from
rebels in the South to rebels in Camp
Chase, were marked In Care Of
Judge ThErmag." Why to the care
of Judge Thurman; Was it because
he was born AMI raised in the South
and influenced by a proud Virgins
wife: Letters to prisoners were filled
with treason, stratagems and sp0ils-
with plans Of escspe--eonspiraeies
to overcome and murder the guards,
fire cities and escape to Neutral"
Kentucky. The Governor therefore
ordered all letters to be examined
and such to be suppressed. BY his
order | examined 1900, and such
sentences as the following we're OF
common occurrence,
"lf you want money, borrow OF our
friend Judge Thurman
"lf yon want advice, go to our
friend, Judge Thurman"
If you want anything, call on our
friend, Judge Thurman"
While Thurman, far i,oia ,he smell
of powder, was rolling in luxury,
and rolling his pets in luxury, where
was Gen. Hayes? History answers,
''galIantly facing the rebel rain OF
grape and canister, with his life in
his hand, and his soul in tue work.
to reach some Anderson
vile, Salisbury, Belle Isle, or Libby,
to lead our shastiy, famishing loyal
boys past the everyarying Dead Line
to where
Beneath the starry Gag they c5u!i bres:bs
tho air again
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