relating to the
integrity of the Nation and to human rights has been settled, and
settled rightly, no man ought to be trusted with power in this
country, who, during the struggle for the Nation's life, was
unfaithful to Union and liberty. That is the proposition upon which
I go before the people of Ohio. At the beginning of the canvass, as
I have said, the gentlemen who are engaged in advocating the claims
of the peace party of Ohio did not desire to have this record
discussed. I am happy to know by this long Wapakoneta speech of
Judge Thurman that at last they have found it necessary to come to
the discussion of the true question. Judge Thurman, in that speech,
invites us to the discussion of it. He says:

"I give all of them this bold and unequivocal defiance, that there
is no one act of my life, or one sentence ever uttered by me that I
am not prepared to have investigated by the American people; and I
wish them to stand up to the same rule, that I may see what is in
their past record, and see how it tallies with what they say to the
American people at the present time."

He proceeds to do this. He proceeds to examine the record of
various gentlemen connected with the Union party. Now, I am not in
the habit of giving challenges or accepting challenges, but I
desire, for a few minutes, to ask the attention of this audience to
the record of my friend, Judge Thurman. He under-takes to justify
the course he took as a leader of the peace party of Ohio, by
telling us what Mr. Lincoln said in 1848. Now, what is it that Mr.
Lincoln said? He made a speech during the Mexican war as to the
title which Texas had to certain lands in dispute between the State
of Texas and Mexico, or rather between the United States and
Mexico. He laid down the doctrine that a revolutionary government
is entitled to own just as much of the property of the former
government as it has succeeded in conquering; and he says, in the
course of that speech, that it is the right of every people to
revolutionize; that the right of revolution, in short, belongs to
every people; that it was the right exercised by our forefathers in
1776. Now, that is all true--that is all correct; but how does my
friend Judge Thurman find any justification for the rebellion in
that? What is the rig