Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-06-27

convention of 1880. To accomplish
this Mr.. Thurman became the leader of
those, who in the last Congress declared
that not another dollar should be ap-
propriated to the support of the army
or to carry on the Government in its
various departments, until the war leg
islation, TO its last vestige, was wiped
from the statute books of the country.
To put the finishing touches upon
the Ohio Senator's character, and to
show that he Is pre.eminently fitted
to become the great leader of the Con-
federates next year, his friends now
point proudly to d resolutiOu.offeredb by
him as far back as January 23, 1861,
when the Secesslohlsts were busy In
taking their respective states out OF
the Union, and gripping the General
Government in every possible way, SO
that it would be powerless when the
newly elected Republican President
should be sworn into office. II was at
that time that Mr.. Thurman rose in
the Democratic State Convention of
Ohio and offered the following resolu-
tion.
Resoiged, That the two hundred thousand
Democrats of Ohio send to the people of the
United States, both North and South, greet
ing; and when the people of the North shall
have fulfilled their duties to the South, then,
and not until then. will It be proper for them
to take into consideration the question Of the
right and propriety of coercion.
This was two days before JEFF. Davis
withdrew from the United States Sen
ate, but some time after the secession
of South Carolina and other Southern
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| sympathies were at that time, and the
republication of the resolution at this
juncture cannot fail to help his chances
materially in the lately rebellious
| States. The Confederates want for a
leader no new convert to it's doctrine of
State sovereignty, and the action of
Thurman in 1861 shows that in that
supreme moment to them he was In
active sympathy with them, and send
ing them the warm feeling of the two
hundred thousand Ohio Democrats
who subsequently supported Vallandig-
ham for Governor. With this shining
record as a Confederate sympathizer,
and his later efforts in the way of with
holding appropriations and repeating
war legislation, 1t seems clear that
nothing can defeat Mr.. Thurman S am
bition, so far as the Southern States
are concerned, unless it be the superior
and overwhelming influence of Til
denis new barrel, which he seems to
have opened recently among the inn
| pecunious politicians of that section OF
the country.
Senator Hill, of Georgia, the readiest
Democratic speaker, and the most
prominent Democratic leader in the
United States Senate to-day, has q
record somewhat more pronounced even
than that of Thurman. In October
1862, Mr.. Hill was member of the
Confederate Congress then in session
at Richmond. AS an act of retaliation
to the preliminary proclamation of Mr.
Lincoln emancipating the slaves, Mr..
Hill offered a bill of which the follow.
ing is the second section:
"That every person pretending TO be
a soldier or officer of the United States
| who shall be captured on the soil of thu
Confederate States, after the 1st o.
January, 1868, shall be presumed t.
have entered the territory of the Con
federate States with intent to ineite in
surrection and to abet murder; and un
less satisfactory proof is issued to the
contrary before the military court be
fore which the trial is to be had, hi
shall suffer death, and this section shall
continue in force until the prOclama
ton issued by Abraham Lincoln, dateI
Washington, Sept. %, 1862, shall b(
rescinded.n
This was the gentle humane treat
ment which the then Confederate anC
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give all +" Lincoln hirelings" found ant
} captured on the sacred soil of the Con
federate States.
The list of Confederate records nigh
be extended almost indefinitely. AM
the men who have made them ar
now the ones who take thei
places naturally and legitimatel,
as the leaders of the Democratic
party. And it is worthy of remarl
that while the Democratic party is di
vided on every other issue-6nances
the tariff, internal improvements, etc.
etc. they are a unit when it comes I
the principle of State sovereignty, tn
! very principle ON which and by whic
: the secession of the Southern States il
1861 was justified. And it is also a fac
, worthy of notice that since the "capi
) ure of the Capitol" by the ConfedeI
= ates in March last there has been
5 marked revival of the Confederate caus
in the South. Confederate monument
5 are being dedicated with unprecedente
r frequency, the Confederate flag is os
: tentatiously unfurled, while the star
and stripes are left neglected, and tn
t Confederate cause is justified and glor
: fled with an enthusiasm not know
, since the fall of Richmond. The Soil
South once more assumes the oifensiv
/ and challenges the North to trial {
: strength. And the signs of the time
indicate that the North is aroused to
= sense of the danger, and will accep
l the challenge thus detiantly made. Th
, spirit of the Republican State Conver
7 tion at Des Moines last week was ur
mistakable. 1t was the feeling of 1861
intensified; a manifest determinatio
= to meet the Confederate revolutionist
. at the threshold and defeat them over
5 whelmingly at the ballot-boX, and thu
t prevent bloody collision on the tente
= field. Burlington HdUk- Eye.
Democratic Blunders.
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