The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-08-01

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what l hear. / have seen numbers
OF rebel officers, in full uniform, wear
ing the tinsel insignia Of rank in
proud display, pacing to and fro In
his gaily lit up house, feastipg and
rsvelling in the rich receptions and
ievees---
"But never knew boy In blue
To venture near his door"
I have heard Of a squad Of loyal
soldiers, fred with the contrast Be.
tween comrades at Andersonville aud
traitors at Thurmau's, on their way
to avsnge the insult, and but for the
persuasions of loyal Barney McKabe,
oh, ye gods what a singing schoo
there would have been that night at
rebel headquarters, So each reb., pip
ing trebel, got the pitch out Of some
jingliug window.
Thurman's carriage was ever rumb.
ling over the road TO Camp Chase,
conveying smiling faces, words Of
comfort, luxuries and goodies, gener-
ally to cheer aud buoy up the sink
ing spirits Of rebels, but never
erumb Of comfort, that could learn,
for our boys, in OF out Of the hos
pital.
Clothing, sweetmeats, hnneeded
luxuries of all kinds, expressed ffo.a
rebels in the South TO rebels at Camp
Chase, were marked, Care of Judge
Thurman" Why to the care df
Judge Thurman Yes, why2 Was
IL solely because he was born aud
raised IN the South, and was inAu-
enced by proud Virginia wife2
Letters to prisoners were filled with
treason, stratagem and spoils, with
plans of escape, conspiraoies to over.
core and murder the guards, fire the
cities aud escape to neutral Kentucky
The Government therefore ordered
all letters to be examined and such
to be suppressed. By this order ]
examined l3, 200 Of theee letters, and
such sentences as the following were
Of common occurrence:
"If you want money, borrow ofour
friend, Judge Thurman"
If you want advice, ask our friend
Judge Thurman"
"lf you want anything, call on our
friend Judge Thurman"
While Thurman, far from the Smell
of powder, was rolling in luxury, aud
rolling his pets 10 luxury, where was
General Hayes? History answers
i" Calamity facing the rebel rain of
grape and sauister, with his life in
his hand and his soul in the work,
struggling to reach some Anderson
Vile, Salisbury, Belle Isle or Libby
to lead our CHASTITY, furnishing loyal
boys past the ever-vsrying dead
Line" to where
" Beneath the starry flag. they could breathe the
or the ifec land in their own beloved home"
Boys in blue which shall be your
Governor
Soldiers, soldiers fathers, brothers
sons or friends, will you vote for Thur
man aud ever raise your heads in
loyal company Well says Cover.
nor Tod, "God forbid that ever a
loyal soldier should find in high au-
thority at the capitol such enemies of
their country, aud Of them, as Vollan-
digham, Thurman, Olds, Pugh & Co" 4"
Aud all the people shall say, Amen
But. my friends, those who knew
aud voted for Vallaudigham will know
and vote for Thurman. Those who
voted for traitor ienorantly are past
icing enlightened on any subject -
We can now count their vote as we'll
as in October. We can now count
their next vote, even if j. 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 $4,000; since then
il has been once 4 .trife above, aud
twice triae below Vallandigham' s
vote, $4,000, with no greater in.
crease than by about half the new
voters, in their own families, while
our vote has gone about 1000 under
them and 10l l,099 over them. In
1S62-3-4-5 their vote in Thousands
stood: 1S4-1s7-lS3-Is9; ours for
the same Offices were: 17s-2s9-236-
288; while their stereotype vote va
ried but trifie, ours varied 10000
in the four years.
Beaten in 1862, We were aroused
from our sleep and alarmed. They
were cncouraged-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 blooded, simon
pure embodiment, Clement L. Vallan-
digham, and polled just their vote,
while We walked over them to the
tune of 10l, ,099 majority. Their vote
this fall will be 195, 900, about their
average. We can 90 100, 900 over it,
If we like. What shall We do T? shall
VIC increase our majority one vote so
as to mako number easily rsmem
hered. 101. 1902 Thurman deserves
il, aud We can do it If We choose
Will not the fight between Buckeye
Sheridan and f0ld Funeral Swing
Round waks uS up to give our
whole voter They are fixed. Our
opponents are joined to their idols,
let thens alone. Our business is to
wake up our own slumbering hosts, OF
We may find ourselves slaughtered as
in 1862; OF, like the children Of Is.
rael, whom the Lord sleW in their
sleep, and (says the bible) when they
swoke early in the morning, behold
they were all dead cOrpses. Shall we
20 to sleep to wake on the 9th OF
October all dead ccrpsesH
Waste no time in attempting to
convert Vallandighamers. They
have committed the unpardOnable sin
and there is no forgiveness neither in
this life nor in the one 70 come,