Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1870-06-01
JOHN SHERMAN.
A Scathing Rebuke by his Col
league, Judge Thurman.

league JuuS6 AuuIluan'
Sherman's Infamous Lying
Slander of the Democratic
Party Delivered in the U.
s. Senate.
In the United States Senate, on
Friday night week, pending the
consideration of the northern Re-
construction bill, John Sherman,
United States Senator from Ohio,
made speech in which he charged
that "the strength of the Democratic
party for gears, during the icar and
since, has been in the pest houses o.
the cities Uhere vice Breeds" Having
so delivered himself, Sherman re-
tired from the senate chamber with
tho attrocious lie upon his con
science. Judge Thurman, as soon
as he could obtain the floor, admin
istered the rebuke which follows -
We commend it to the careful peru.
sal Of our readers
Mr.. Thurman. Mr.. Presi-
dent, / regret that my col
league has left the senate to.
night. l wish to say a few
words on a text of his ; l wish
to say them in his presence
but I cannot be deferred from
noting what he said by his vol
untary absence; and although
/ shall refrain from saying all
that | would say were he pres
ent, yet / am not to be preven'
ted from noticing what he did
say merely because he sees fit
to absent himself. The sena-
tor from California noticed the
singular declaration he made,
that if the last Presidential
election had depended on the
vote Of New York; that is to
say, if with that vote Mr.. Sey-
mour would have been elected,
there would have been war and
revolution, for that was the
substance, the meaning of the
remark. | let that pass with
the remarks that have been
made upon it by the senator
from California. But my col
league saw fit to go further,
and he saw fit to use this Ian.
guage
"rhe strength of the Demo,
cratic party for years, during
the war and since has been in
the pest,houses of the cities
where vice breeds"
That is the language that a
senator of the United States
uses of 2,650,000 voters Of the
United States. At the last
Presidential election there were
cast, exclusive Of the state of
Nevada, 5,622,163 popular
votes. OF those General Grant
received 2,978,551, and Mr..
Seymour ., ,643,312. The vote
of the state Of Nevada, as | am
informed by her senator, was
about $4,000; and General
Grants majority about 1900.
Making that addition, the Ell.
tire vote for General Grant
was 1855, SOL, and for Mr..
Seymour 2,649, 1862, and Gen
eral Grants majority was only
about $4,000. And now, sir,
in respect to substantially one
entire half of the American vo-
ters, in respect to that party
which held the reigns of gov
eminent for nearly seventy
years, and under which this
government grew up from a
poor feeble body of thirteen
states along the Atlantic coast
to be one Of the greatest en-
pires on the face Of the earth
in territory, in population, in
intelligence, and in wealth, my
colleague says the strength Of
that party "lies in the pest
houses of the cities, where vice
breeds
Sir, I should scorn myself if
I were to go into any refuta-
ton of such a charge as that.
| have heard the Democratic
party denounced again and
again. 1t is too common to do
it. 1t is too common to forget
senators even, too often for.
get-that when they denounc-
ed the Democratic party in this
way they are denouncing one
half of their own countrymen.
When they denounce the Dem