The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-31 00:00:00

THE WESTERN STATES.

(From the Times' Special Correspondent)
CINCINNATI, OHIO, OCt. 13.

The day has dawned at last—the day big with the
fate of Vallandigham and Ohio. The Democrats
bail their " gra'ad rally" on Saturday evening last.
The great mraater of the Republicans came off last
night. By a 4s rally" in this country a monster
torchlight procession is meant, with banners and
music, wad mounted men and triumphal cars, illu-
mination,, transparencies, fireworks, Chinese lan-
terns, nylttoes, devices, shouts, groans, and hisses,
with ari occasional scuffle as the actors in the pa-
geantry fall in with ill-intentioned spectators hostile
to their cause. There are instances on record, lam
told., when opposite parties held their rally and
counter rally in the same evening, and the tug of
vex from their encounter in the streets was by no
means so terrific as people anticipated. But it has
Been deemed expedient to avoid even the chance of
a collision, nevertheless ; and so an agreement has
"been made this time that the friends of Vallandig-
ham should have their grand march on the last
evening but one, and the very last should be left for
the partisans of Brough. To give an unhoped -for zest
to the festivity of this latter party, the arrival of the
Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Chase, contributed in
no small degree. This great man arrived at Columbus
on Sunday morning at half-past two o'clock, and was
received by a vast crowd who were waiting for him
at the station, notwithstanding the lateness of the
hour. He came here last evening at five o'clock, and
his progress from the terminus to the Burnet House,
the hotel where he put up, was what was called a
perfect ovation," with cavalry escort, warlike
bands, a row of carriages, a squad of horsemen, and
a crowd of cheering people. Wherever he alighted
from his railway car, wherever he set his foot
on the threshold of a public or private house,
"Mr. Secretary" was expected to hold forth, and be
disappointed no one.
I shall not write down his
several speeches at full length. I have read them
through, chiefly with a view to spare the reader the
trouble of doing the same. Mr.Chese came to Ohio
ostensibly with a view to favour the election of Mr.
Brough, and to defeat the efforts of Vallandigham's
supporters. "He hardly knew," he said at Columbus,
6, whether he even had a right to vote in his own
State,"
owing to his three years' absence at Wash-
ington. (The crowd at once settled the question for
him with shouts of " Of course you have !" " Cer-
tainly you have !") " But in so grave a contest as
this," he continued, "he could not rest easy in his
place, and he had resolved at any rate to come home
and try." (Voices—" Bully for you! that is just
like you l'')
It is, however, in the minds of most men here
doubtful whether the Secretary really came to vote
for Brough, or to canvass for himself. Mr. Chase is
not a native of Ohio; he " was raised" in New
England, and " hails" from Vermont; bnt he came
to the West very early in life, and has spent his best
years in this State, where he is generally popular,
and where friends and enemies have an equally high
opinion of his abilities and character. Mr. Chase, it
is no mystery to anyone, burns with desire to offer
himself as a candidate for the next Presidential
election, and naturally enough he was anxious to
keep his memory green among the good people of
Ohio. He is at the head of the Radical faction in the
divided Cabinet at Washington, and his speeches
here were prompted by the most unrelenting war-
like spirit and in accordance with the narrowest
views of uncompromising Abolitionism. "He had
said at the outbreak of the war that the rebellion must
be put down, if in doing it we had to come to the old
revolutionary standard, and 1,000 dole. for a break-
fast." He now "considered the rebellion as virtual'.y
subdued. The enemies have large armies in the field,
but ours are vastly stronger." The war was not of
the Federals' own seeking. For his own part,
although averse to slavery, he would at all times
have avoided and discountenanced all interference
with Southern institutions ; but the war once begun,
" when President Lincoln thought fit to issue his
Pioclamation, he said amen with all his heart."
"Either that Proclamation was a great monstrous
sham and imposition in the face of the whole
world, or else that Proclamation was an effectual
thing, and there aro no slaves to-day in the rebel
States."

That, however, is precisely the whole matter at
issue. Mr. Chase is quite sure that the war is to be
pursued without respite, and that whether by war
or peace slavery has ceeue to an end ; but such he
knows very well are not the unanimous views of
the nation, nor of the Cabinet of which he is
a member. The election of Ohio will, I have little
doubt, terminate in a triumph of the Republican
party, for a great many whose ideas are purely
Democratic, a great many who are weary
of the war, afflicted by the present, anxious
for the future—a great many whose sympathies
are with the Southerners, who do not wish for
immediate, unconditional, and violent abolition,
and who do not think the subjugation of the
South on these terms is either possible or desirable
—a great many, in short, who think and privately
talk like Vallandigham, will this day vote against
Vallandigham, because it is the instinct of the mass
of moderate men in all countries to be, above all
things, " governative," to go with the Government
through thick and thin, to identify the ruler's I
cause with that of the country, and to look upon all
"ceders and seceders' friends as traitors, conspira-
tors, and public enemies. In the minds of many of
theseh .worthy citizens the American Union was
ingetraatillai?.ner floated on its Capitol—at Wash-
" Union, andegiance to Washington was loyalty to the
and ehati however wrong Washington might be,
wrang side4tir right, the latter put itself on the
pealed to arrastext itself out of the law when it ap-
upon the vecielrultinfurled a rebel standard, and fired
lours.
These views -ee-°
among
all and feelings are yet strbng enough
upright andingetmonss, and especially among these
shrink from a vote whirople of Ohio, to make them
at the head of their Stateh'll putting Vallandigham
ivtelould create and organise
an official and legal oppe:
rise:tagainst the Washing-
ton Government and give
not,
hooa dangerous dualism
in the State. They are
ever in the main,
satisfied with the policy of the
Washington Cabinet;
nay, they are, many of them, sirnpi
power
sure schemes ;
its past conduct and alarmed at itsY4l:sensted with
into should be en-
but they think that the men in
dared by those who raised them
think that their redress is and alwayers,
be in
their own hands, and they await Mx. Lincoln anda
his colleagues at the next Presidential election,
when the question of war and slavery, of State
rights, of personal Lind local freedom, will be decided
by the collective suffrage of the nation. They do not,
any of Will
perhaps, consider that m the questions
have found their practical solution
in the vicissi-
tudes of the war long before they are called upon to
choose a new Executive ; they do not reflect that the
work of emancipation, confiscation, and devastation
the North, is
•
in the South, and of usurpation in
going on blindly, recklessly, while they aro devising
a distant remedy. They are confident that the
he
mischief will at no time be irreparable, and in the
meanwhile they are willing to give Government the
longest tether; they strengthen it by their staunch,
however reluctant, support, and will prolong Val-
landigham's exile until such time as Vallancligham's
views may be debated on the hustings without fear
ofi weakening by division an Executive which will
en Fe on the eve of its legal and natural downfall.
It is by these considerations, I believe, that Ohio, a
Democratic State, has been led to give that day a
Republican vote.
Mr. Chase did not limit
of the general peeit • himself to the exposition
cal views by him attributed to
the Government; he
ellao throw out very broad
hints in viodievion
his management of the fin-
ance,. lie was hauled
d
are Zion, areeribac.i, at Columbus with " How
and " Bully for you, old
Greenb.:cke?" and he thought he would acknow-
ledge the compliment by a few
words on the cur-
rency. "We were 3.1)1 in the h •
1, ' he said, " of trac-
ing our evils to a peculiar institution (slavery); hut
he had endeavoured to do something towards
removal of those evils by another pecnliarinstittu
he
tic), to which they had been pleased several times
to
refer. (Llog%ter and cries of Hurrah for Green-
backs.') IL: thought be might felicitate himself,
and them too, tli.tt the currency was certain not to
break so long as unytbing iu the
nation r,:oaair.,ed