Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-07-26

But thurman mas a AFeCOEQ OF MS owl
and in that record Out-Herods HerOd
Like the long n0sed mans long nOseC
son, of whom a Wag said he looked JUS
like his father, and more too so Thur
man is just like Vallandigham, anC
more too. During the war Thurman'l
for parOled rebels. tell you what ,
know, not what I hear. I have seer
numbers of rebel officers, in full uni
form, wearing the tinsil insignia Of rank
in proud display, pacing to and fro in
his gaiIy lit 8p house, feasting and re-
yelling in the rich receptions and Light
leVees-
'But never knew a boy in blue
To venture near his door.
have heard of a squad of loyal sol
diers, fred with the contrast between
comrades at AndersOnville and traitors
at Thurman's on their way to avenge
the insult, and but for the persuasiOns
a of loyal Barney McCabe, oh, ye gods
what a singing school there would have
been that night at rebel headquarters,
as each reb, piping treble, got the pitch
out ofsOme Jingling window
Thurman's carriage was ever rumb-
ling over the road to Camp Chase, con-
veying smiling faces, words of omtOrt
IUxuries and goodies generally to cheer
and buoy up the sinking spirits of reb-
els, but never a crumb of comfort, that
could learn, for our boys in or out of
hospital.
/ Clothing, sweetmeats, unneeded lux
uries of all kinds, expressed from reb-
els in the South to rebels at Camp
Chase, were marked, sfCare Of Judge
Thurman" Why to the care of Judge
Thurman Yes, why Was it solely
because he was born and raised in the
South, and was Influenced by a proud
Virginia wife
Letters to prisoners were filed with
treason, stratagem and spoils, with
plans of escape, conspiracies to over
come and murder the guards, fire the
Cities and escape to neutral Kentucky.
The Governor therefore ordered all let
ters to be examined and such suppress
sed. By this order I examined 13, 700
letters, and such sentences as the fol-
lowing were of common occurrence:
''If you want money, borrow of our
friend, Judge Thurman"
'fIf you want advice, ask our friend,
Judge Thurman
'If you want anything, call on our
friend, Judge Thurman"
While Thurman, far from the smell
I 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 and his soul in the work, strug-
Cling to reach some AndersOnviIle, Sal
| isburY, Belle Isle or Libby to lead our
y
ever varying "Dead Line" to where
Beneath the starry flag they could breath
OF the free land in their own beloved
- home"
Boys in blue which shall be your
Governor ?
| Soldiers, soldiers fathers. brothers,
sons or friends, win you vote for Thur
man and ever raise your heads in 10y
al company? F? Well says Governor Tod,
"God forbid that ever a loyal soldier
should find in high authority at the
/ capital such enemies of the country
| and of them as VallHndigham, Thur
! man, Olds, Pugh q Co.
/ But my friends, those who knew and
voted for Vallandigham will know and
vote for Thurman. Those who voted
for d traitor ignorantly, are past being
/ enlightened on any subject. We can
now count their vote as well as IN OctO-
! Der. We can now count their next vote
/ even ifJ. Wilkes Booth should prove
to be alive and should be their next
! candidate. Their vote for State officers
/ has been singularly the same since 1861
when Tod beat JeWett 55,0 600; since then
I it has been once a trifie above, and
| twice a trifle below Vallandigham'
| vote, 1S7 600, with no greater in
/ crease than by about half the new vO-
/ ters, in their own families, while our
4 vote has gone 900 1t7ldeT them and 101,-
/ O99 over them. In 1S62-3-4-5 their
/ vote in thOusa nds stood 1S4-1S7--I83-
! IS9; ours for the same officers were US
I-ZS8 -236-228 while their stereotype
vote varied but a frif1e, ours varied
/ 10000 in four years.
! Beaten in 1862, we were aroused from
/ our sleep and alarmed They were en-
! couraged not by what they had done,
/ but by what we had not done, and in
| their excess of joy dared to bring out
! their full bIooded, siinOn-pure EN- bod
I C1orrtnuk T. 1frrE7u
I polIed just their vote, while we walked
/ over them to the tune of I01, ,099 majori-
/ tY. Their vote this fall will be IS5, 900,
/ about their average. We can go IOO,-
! 600 over it If we like. What shall we
! do Shall we increase our majority
! one vote so as to make a number easily
remembered, s10l, 100 =? Thurman de-
| serves it, and we can do it if we choose. 4
/ viii not the fight between Buckeye
| Sheridan and "Old Funeral Swing
Round" wake us up to give our whole
vote They are fixed. Our opponents
are Joined to their idols, let them alone.
! Our business is to wake up our own
slum bering hosts or we may find our
! selves slaughtered as in 1862 or like
the children of Israel, whom the Lord
slew in their sleep, and (says the bible)
when they awoIze early in the morning,
behold they were all dead GOrpses.
Shall we go to sleep to awake on the
9th of October, all dead cOrpses :?
I W d5Le no blLll6 III attempting 10 COL-
vert VallandinghaUers They have
committed the objectionable sin and
there is no forgiveness either in this
| life or in the life to come, / fear. But
says one of these Vallandigham-Thur-
man BreCkinridge-Olds- s-BOOth-Confed-
! crates, "Gray, What's the matter? You
used to vote with us, what's the mat
| ter ?"
Suppose we examine little into the
symptoms of my disease, and perhaps
we can tell what's the matter. Observe |
the diagnosis, doctor.
I have been exhibiting my tongue for
about an hour, so the indications from
that are understood, and perhaps the
Confederates present are quite willing I
shall haul it about now. AS to my
pulse, when traitors began to throw
| hard shell water-mellOns into Fort
| Sumter, my pulse ran up suddenly to
/ l77 per minute. When the flag came
| do IN, the fever increased and my mind
muttered of sulphur and saltpeter.
4 When our boys left Bull Run, the blood
| Artemus would say, Il hadn't pult.
/ Cold chills came over me, and it was
with difficulty that I could speak
Strange symptoms, doctor, / shall new
er forget them. I have heard of others
/ affected in the samewRy. The mention
| of VicksbuTg or Gettysburg brought an
/ irTepressible spasDl of shouting. Queer;
! Wasu2tit? In 1868 I was subject to
nlghb-nare; L unougnG terrible nam
mer hung ready to fall on me, one of
those fearful Vallandig Hammers
When old Jack Brough walked me up,
wasn't I so happily relieved A dose
of tiueture ofvOte 100, ,OO0th potency cura
ed that symptom so it has never return
/ ed.
was next attacked with a rambling
/ propensity, and wandered off over the
/ Rapidan through the Wilderness,
| SpottsyIvania, Cold Harbor, past the
Weldon Railroad, and down to Fort
Fisher. Perhaps one more symptom
viii enable you to decide whats the
matter"
/ The little presentation by one Mr..
] Lee to one Mr.. Grant, somewhere be-
| tween Richmond and DanvilIe, affected
me remarkably. I remember when the
news of that little local item reached
me had a long train of ammunition
and supply wagons stuck in the m uddy
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