ing with pestilence; in a word, to destroy, as far as
possible, the moral force of the government in the struggle, and
hold it up to its own people and the world as the aggressor that
merits their condemnation. It was for this that I arraigned my
colleague, and that I intend to arraign him. It was because his
remarks, as far as they could have any influence, were evidently
calculated to depress the spirits of his own countrymen, to lessen
the moral force of his own government, and to inspire with
confidence and hope the enemies of his country."

He goes on further to say:

"What a singular mode it was of supporting her in a war to bring
against the war nearly all the charges that were brought by the
peace party Federalists against the last war, to denounce it as an
unrighteous, unholy, and damnable war; to hold up our government to
the eyes of the world as the aggressors in the conflict; to charge
it with motives of conquest and aggrandizement; to parade and
portray in the darkest colors all the horrors of war; to dwell upon
its cost and depict its calamities."

Now, that was the doctrine of Judge Thurman as to the duties of
citizens in time of war--in time of such a war as the Mexican war
even, in which no vital interest of the country could by
possibility suffer. Judge Thurman says that General Hayes, in his
speech, has a great many slips cut from the newspapers, and that
he must have had some sewing society of old ladies to cut out the
slips for him. I don't know how he found that out. I never told it,
and you know the ladies never tell secrets that are confided to
them. I hold in my hand a speech of Judge Thurman, from which I
have read extracts, and I find that he has in it slips cut from
more than twenty different prints, sermons, newspapers, old
speeches, and pamphlets, to show how, in the war of 1812, certain
Federalists uttered unpatriotic sentiments. I presume he must have
acquired his slips on that day in the way he says I acquired mine
now.

Now, my friends, I propose to hold Judge Thurman to no severe rule
of accountability for his conduct during the war. I merely ask that
it shall be judged by his own rule: "Your country is engaged in
war, and it is the duty of every citizen to say nothing and do
nothing which shall depr