The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-08-29
{ Whole No. 1851.

KNOW enough 70 FOt61 4AuA i4aA StiJo
no. He says 1t pleased the Almighty
to make them lower than other men.
If he made them lower tilaA he made
Judge Thurman, or any worse, God
pity them! ECheers.I For man. to
stand up in the nineteenth century
and talk about the Almighty .distriba
uting his favors uhequally among men,
is an insult to Omnipotenee and to
/, the intelligence Of mankind. 1t Is not
SO, Judge Thurman. It cannot be al
lowed. The Hundred and one thou
sand voters that buried Vallandigham
will carry a greater flood to sink you
and your doctrines out of sight,
/ CCheers. It is curious to see the Brit
ish tories and Thurman, Vallandlg-
ham & Co. making common cause,
and Ranney, my old associate in law,
God help him! He had better teach
ing than to be in that crowd. But he
/ follows, in the idea that the Almighty
made some men to be servants Of 9TH
er. Could he persuade any Of you
that he had made you for that service?
| Voices: ono, No.'1 No, thank God,
the American people have got past
that. They don't believe there is q
great deal Of difference in blood. There
is a vast difference in morals and exal-
tatiOn, but in government you have
to take mankind as they are, and un-
less compelled to submit to despOtism,
they who are governed are allowed to
! participate in the government. We
| govern ourselves. I have Thurman's
speech in my pocket and am tempted
to read some Of his lamentations, for
old jeremiah, in his most hyPOcOn-
driacaI moods never talked like the
Judge.
ooh he says, "the most terrible
tyranny that the world ever knew
has fallen upon the American people.
They have nowhere to look for hope,
and are in danger of falling under the
denomination ofdespots. The Repub-
lican party has excited the most hOr-
rid despotism" j"
If so, it is the peoples own choosing,
and they can make their way out Of
it whenever they see fit. I don't COM
miserate much with people who have
instituted their own government.
This Republican party, which to-day
reigns so triumphantly over the old
Democratic pRrty-hOw did it happen?
Thurman ought to be q philosopher,
and look into things of this kind I'll
tell you how it happened. 1t was be-
cause God is Just, and the Republican
party travelled according to the die
tates and principles laid down by Him.
You and your party served the Devil
and in the end didn't come out trium-
phantly. This may be harsh ex-
preston, but it is literally true. From
the time the Republican party first
organized, its numbers have continual
ly increased their principles become
more and more settled, and are now
more firmly held by the American peO-
pie than at any previous time. Why
is it? Have the people run mad, and
lredueed themselves to a despotism
from which they cannot release them
SELVES? Who dOminCer over them2
Am l one Of the number, your ser
want, whom next winter you can turn
out into the streets ? Call this despot-
ism? It is such insanity that those
men spout at their meetings. Such
despOtism doesn't hurt us in Ohio. If
it hurts anybody it hurts the people
of the seeded States, and their old
friends and associates who during tho
war looked to them for support, for
whom Vallandigham went down
South, after being condemned by
just government for treason, to devise
ways and means whereby he might
conquer the Government that was so
free and liberal as to allow him to es-
cape with his life-Thurman being
left at home to take care Of the rebel
wounded and prisoners. While our
brave boys languished and suffered
and died at AndersOnville, Belle Isle
and other prisons; while your wives
and daughters stimulated them with
pure and patriotic motives, and were
providing comforts and delicacies for
the pOorrsOldiers who fell fighting the
enemy, where were Vallandigham
and Thurman, who want your votes
tO-day2 They were ministerihg to
the rebels at Thurman's house, the
headquarters, where he shed not crOc-
odile but real tears over their condi-
ton. He is an enemy to this Govern
ment; there is no Use mincing matters.
God knows that the great war through
which we have passed was ordained
to try mons souls. There was no
middle course. As Douglas we'll said,
every man was either a patriot,or rcb-
ell and traitor. Where was Thurman?
When our nation lost battle did he
mourn over it? No, he gloated over it
with the same exultatiOn that jeff.
Davis, or any other rebel did. When
your armies triumVhed, his heart sank
within him, because he wished the
rebel cause to prevail. Will he get
any Of your votes? Is there a man
who spurned Yallandigham when no
was a candidate, that will vote for
Thurman, a rebel Of a lower grade?
As 1 love a bold man rather than a
sneak, God knows if l should make
choice between the two l would prefer
the bold convicted traitor rather than
the Shiny, miserable tool of traitors,
as is the man Thurman. But those
negroes are too ignorant to vote.
Well, a great many that now vote are
more ignorant than I wish they were.
/ am so myself; and the great num-
Der who come to the polls right from
across the ocean, from under the heels
Of despotism, with every sentiment Of
manhood almost crushed out of them,
most Of them knowing no mOIe of our
government than the horse You drive,
and yet you give them the right to
vote, and would refuse il to the color
ed man who was born among YOU
who has heard discussed from boy
hood up the great questions involved
in our Governmeni-whu has been
faithful to the dictates of better prin-
cipIes, beyond any class of equal alnum-
Der l know If you will make intelli-
gence the test, Mr.. Democrat, do so,
and you will, at least, be free from H.
charge of Dartialitv and favOritisnr,