end Judge Thurman. I ask you to apply to it the
principle that whoever, during the great struggle, was unfaithful
to the cause of the country is not to be trusted to be one of the
men to harvest and secure the legitimate fruits of the victory,
which the Union people and the Union army won during the rebellion.
In the great struggle in 1863 in Ohio, I had not an opportunity to
hear the eloquent voice of John Brough, which I knew stirred the
hearts of the people like the sound of a trumpet, but I read, as
occasion offered, his speeches, and I saw not one in which he did
not warn the young men--warn the Democrats of Ohio--that if they
remained through that struggle opposed to this country, the conduct
particularly of leading men would never be forgotten, and never
forgiven. Now, in this canvass, I merely have to ask the people to
remember the prediction of honest John Brough, and see that that
prediction is made good.

It is not worth while now to consider, or undertake to predict,
when we shall cease to talk of the records of those men. It does
seem to me that it will, for many years to come, be the voice of
the Union people of the State that for a man who as a leader--as a
man having control in political affairs--that for such a man who
has opposed the interests of his country during the war, "the post
of honor is the private station." When shall we stop talking about
it? When ought we to stop talking about that record, when leading
men come before the people? Certainly not until every question
arising out of the rebellion, and every question which is akin to
the questions which made the rebellion, is settled. Perhaps these
men will be remembered long after these questions are settled;
perhaps their conduct will long be remembered. What was the result
of this advice to the people? It prolonged the war; it made it
impossible to get recruits; it made it necessary that we should
have drafts. They opposed the drafts, and that made rioting, which
required that troops should be called from all the armies in the
field, to preserve the peace at home. From forty to a hundred
thousand men in the different States of this Union were kept within
the loyal States to preserve the peace at home. And now, when they
talk to you about the debt and about the burden of t