Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-08-10

some broken window! a-a:i- .TY-..
Thurman's carriage was ever rumblinp
over the road to Camp Chase. conyeyinS
smil; ( faces, words of comfort. luxuries =
and goodies generally to cheer and buov
up the sinking spirits of rebels, but never
crumb of comfort, that I could learn,
for cur boys in or out of hospital. ss'i53'
Clothing, sweetmeats, unneeded luxu-
ries of all kinds expressed from rebels in
the South to rebels at Camp Chase were
marked "Care of Judge Thurman
Why to the care of Judge Thurman +?
Yes why ?odWas it solely because he
was born and raised in the South, and
was influenced by proud Virginia wife.
Letters to prisoners were filled with
treason, strategen and spoils, with plans
of escape, conspiracies to overcome and
murder the guards, fire the cities and es.
cape to neutral Kentucky. The Govern
or therefore ordered all letters to be ex-
amined and such be suppressed By his
order / examined 1900 of these letters
and such sentences as the following were
of common occurrence. 80 5iiiiih-;-,a 1855
'1f you want money, borrow it of our
friend Judge Thurman" ."1Fi t- ~ az.
eff you want advice, ask our friend
Judge Thurman" ''i'l la'H F.n.!i Obs .e
Ifyou want anything call on our friend
Judge Thurman. a El.F-'' .Ta a.s.i -'r.
While Thurman, far from the smell of
powder, was rolling in luxury and rolling
his pets in luxury where was General
Hayes? History answered. "Gallantly
facing rebel rain of grape and canister
with his life in his hand and his soul in
the work, struggling to reach some An
dersonville, Salisbury, Belle Isle or Lib
by to lead out CHASTITY famishing loyal
boys past the ever varying 'Dead Line
| to where .Toij i !adItl> ~ t4HrH agas.
Beneath the starry flag they could breathe the air
or the free land in their oOwh beloved home ''.
Boys in blue! which shall be your
Governor? -
Soldiers, soldiers, fathers, brothers,
sons or friends, viii you vote for Thur
man and ever raise your heads in loyal
company? Well says Governor Tod,
''God forbid that ever loyal soldier find
in high authority at the capital such en-
emies of their country and of them as
VaIlandigham, Thurman, Olds, Pugh &
Co." And all the people say Amen! p.
But, my friends, those who knew and
voted for Vallandigham will know and
vote for Thurman. Those who voted for
traitor ignorantly, are past being en-
lightened on any other subject. We can
now count their vote as well as in Oct
ober. We can nov eoant their next
vote even if J. Wilks Booth should
prove to be alive and should be their
next candidate. The vote for state Off
GERS has been singularly the same since
1861 when Tod beat Jewett $1,000; since
then it has been a trife above, and twice
a trihe below Vallandigham's vote, 1S7,-
900, with no greater increase than by
about halt the new voters, in their own
families, while our vote has gone 4 700
aeader them and 1Ol ,099 over them. In
IS62-3-4-5 their vote in thousands stood
1S4-lS7-l83-1s9; ours. for the same Off
GERS were l75-2Ss-236-22S; while the ste
rotype vote varied but a trife, ours va
ried 10000.
Beaten in 1862, we were aroused
from our sleep and alarmed. They were
encouraged 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 .embodi-
ment, Clemont L. Vallandigham, and
poled Just their vote, while we walked
over them to the tune of 101, ,099 majori-
ty. Their vote, this fall will be 1885, 900,
about their average What shall we do?
shall we increase our majority one vote
so as to make number easily remem-
bered 1ol,l0O? Thurman deserves it,
and we can do it if we choose. Will not
the fight between Buckeye Sheridan and
"OId 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 slumbering hosts or we may
find ourselves slaughtered as In 1862 (;
or like the children of Israel, whom the
Lork slew in their sleep, and (says the
bible) when they awoke early in the
morning, behold they were all dead corp
ses? Waste no time in attempting to
convert Vallandighamers. They have
committed the objectionable sin and
there is no forgiveness neither in this
life nor in the life to come, / fear. But
says one of these ValIandigham-Thu
man-Breckinridge- Olds-Booth-C Confeder-
ates, "Gray, what's the matter? You
used to vote with us, what's the matter?
Suppose we examine little into the
symptoms of my disease, and perhaps
we can tell what's the matter. Observe
the diagnosis, doctor. ~ -.
l have been exhibiting my tongue for
about an hour, so the indications from
that are understood, and perhaps the
Confederates present are quite willing l
shall haul it in about now., As to my
pulse, when traitors began to throw hard
she'll water-melons into Fort Sumter my
pulse ran up suddenly to III per minute.
When the flag came down, the fever In
creased and my mind muttered OF sulphur
and saltpeter. When our boys left Bull
Run, the blood left my face, my pulse
stopped, till, as Artemus would say, L
hadn't pult. Cold chills came over me,
and it was with difficulty that could
speak Strange symptoms, doctor, shall
never forget them. l have heard OF 9TH
ers affected in the same way. The mea-
ton Of Vicksburg or Gettysburg brought
on an irrepressible spasm of shoutlng--
Queer, wasn't it In 1868 Twas subject
to nightmare l thought aterrible ham
mer hung ready to fall on me, one OF those
| fearful Vallandip Hammers. When old