The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-17
ALLAN q. THURMAN.

The interview with Ohio's great man,
produced IN another column, is en- echo OF
The voice OF a magnificent past. There Is
eloquenee in any utterance OF a contempor.
airy statesman OF the los and SOS. ''There
were giants in those days" Mr.. Thurmsn's
Congressional experience prior to the war
was limited to the XXINth Congress bit he
became an intimate of the reigning intel
lects Of that era and of the years succeeding
il. His bearing IN public life has been of
the order Of that school of siatesmen-some.
thing lofty. something noble. His course
hes been steadiastly in the direction indi-
Gated by the compass of statesmanship-
never veeTing TO or from political wave nor
trimming fo- temporarily political wind.
Though haying long outlived them he has
rehe cted no discredit on his association
with Clay and Calhoun, with Webster and
Benton, with Douglas and Stephens.
There were brainy and high.metaled and
aisunch men N the 40's and SOS. Thee
were hot spurs and Union loving men
from the South, aud patriotic and slavery
sgitatioDisis from the North. These
were years brilliant in forensic debate.
Joshua r. Giddings, the anlislavery, add
Robert Toombs the pro slavery leader, were
both conspicuous figures. Abraham Lincoln.
afterward President of the United States.
and Jefferson Davis President, contsmpor.
sneously of the Confederate States, each
served in the Lower House and Davis sub.
sequently in the Senate. ". Fl. Seward. OF
New York, met in the Senate Andrew JOhn.
son, of Tennessee, and afterward served as
Secretary OF State in JOhnson's Presidential
Cabinet Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, and
Alexander II. Stephens served on the same
committees Of the House and were friends,
one afterward becoming Vios President
of the United States, and the other of the
Confederate States. judah P. Benjamin, %
Louisiana and William Pitt Fessendsn, Of
Maine, were brother Senators. Fessendsn,
later, served in Mr.. Lincoln's and Benjamin
in Jefferson Davs's Cabinet, and Benjamin
after the war, having refugeed to England,
became Counsel to the Queen. There we're
also in Congress Lewis Csss, of Michigan,
and Walter 7. Colquitt, of Georgia, (father
| of present Senator Colquittl; Sam Houston,
of Texas, and ]. A. Baysrd, of Delaware,
u -
Wade, of Ohio, and John Bell, of Tennes
| see: jesse d. Bright and George ". Julian,
of Indiana; Henry Wilson and Charles Sum-
/ ner, of Massachusetts,; John J. Crittenden
and Cassius NJ. Clay, o; kentucky; r. NJ. T.
| (''Run Mad Tom " Hunter, of Virginia;
| William I. Yancey, the arch ssesssionist,"
of Alabama; Howell Cobb, Of Georgia, and
| J. NJ. Mason, of Virginia.
OF the distinguished figures named, Allen
| G. Thurman, George ". Julian, Robert
| Toombs and Jefferson Davis are yet this side
the grave. ToOmbs and Davis By gross mis-
direction aliensted themselves from the
! confidence OF their country. Mr.. Julian
/ has himself, though in a retiring way, pre-
served tho exalted bearing OF the patriot, as
/ distinguished from the timeserving politi-
cisD. But Allan Thurman, returned to
| Congressional life since the war, illustrated
| his adherence to the principles of govern
msnt and of honesty which made glorious
our leaders of forty and thirty years ago.
! All honor to the noble Old Roman When
viii Ohio rise to an appreciation of his mag
| nificent worth?