The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1862-08-21
From the Cincinnati Gazette.

From the Cincinnati Gazette.
vallandigham's Speech at Dayton, Ohio
The DAYTON Journal gives the following
report OF Vallandigham's speech in that city
on Saturday evening:
speak not as m enace, but by way of en-
treaty, that you hereafter depend upon your
adherence to toe laws and Constitution.
Why. sirs. men Of position in this town,
are proclaiming and justifying TIE right Of
disregard.ng the Constitution, for allowing an
object which cannot be obtained without de-
parting from it. Have they read history
tThe speaker here referred to the Greece,
Rome. and the French Revolutions. for his
toric paraliels-reading at length from ALI
sons history of the terrible horrors of the lat
ter-tracing all of them to a disregard Of
fundame ntallaw, he stated that these excess
es came along step by step-til the atroci-
ties Of Dantop and Robespierre were reached
and added: What has been, may bell
It was the history of the past that In times
OF great public danger. the provisions of law
would not be respected. 1t was that which
made France go into such great excesses.-
They began with the lawyers of France
They Taught the multitude that constitutions
did not stand in their way; that men might
be put to death without process of law. In
such cases. power falls into the hands of th e
worst Of men.
Let the day of reckoning come. and these
men will perish as they have done in all ages.
Robespierre persisted in atoHement for his
crimes. &c. By the memories of the past, by
the histories of the tyrannes of Greece ard
Rome. and the terrors Of the Fren ch Revoln-
ton. call on all men to dem and of the AID -.
min:stration that it obey the Constitution. -
Ii ally man Is a traitor. guilty of any act of
treason. not for opinions sake. not for roliti-
cal difersnces-let him he proce eded agains.
according to law, and if guilty let him perish
on gallows as high as Hannah II is be-
cause would avoid these horrors, that call
on the President to keep the exercise of the
military law. where the Constitution keeps it
in the army and navy; and that no man
not in the army and navy, shall be arrested
without due process of law.
The convictions entertain as a patriot, of
the me cans to restore the union of csc Sta ties,
and for the Constitution as it is and the Un-
Ion as it was. will never give up-Heither
IN life nor death. neither principalities nor
power, neither things present or to come, nor
the knife of the assassin, will move me from
It.. Loud cheers1
He thinks it can be restored by arms vet.
/ do not. Those who agree with him should
fight with him. 1t is an impelling necessity.
manifest destiny, that we be one people. 1t
is in the hands of God, ONLY to be accom-
plished by the honesty of the people.
Now. fellow-citizens. have somewhat to
say about the attempt to suppress the rebel
lion. always have been in favor If sup
pressing the rebellion. Perhaps my mode
has not been that OF other men, for have a
right to judge what mode should be tried
am Tor SURPRISING all rebeilions; both re-
helllOpS. Gheya M f,vo a. G.
beil1on South. ind the Abolition rebellion
North and West am for suppressing both.
As for the armed rebellion of the Secession.
lists OF the South, / commit that to the army
OF the U nited States, four-fifths good Demo-
crats-to the abused. outraged Maior-Gene-
rail- George B. Mcclellan. If he is not able
to accomplish it. it is because it is not 10 the
nature OF things to be accomplished in that
way. Ii he had been allowed to do as he
wished, 1t would have been accomplish ed
by this time If it was possible to suppress
ny armed force, the plan proposed by him
was the only one which could have succeed
ed. 1.-THE speaker then went on rehasbinp
the slang OF those who desire to strike the
President by criticisms of the policy of the
war.J 1t implied the restoration of the Un-
ION as 1t was. That's the trouble. All our
victories were the result of his plau-all
our reverses followed his suppersession-
From that hour to this there has been no
victory
There are two rebellions against it. That
OF tue rebels of the South. commit to the
army: he Other is that of the Abolition
ISIS Q, ne North. Every man must choose
. Mnlen ne ne viii act against. have never
sn'o"n one straw's weight against the enlist
mens OF troops. have nv opinion about
the suppression of the rebellion. and will
s,'1s to it: Other men control the powers
restore the nation is by the force Of ans
Now. l have laid down this principle for
myself. and have not voted for an arm Hi
or navy bill, or appropriation bill, FOR this
war, and have not voted against any such
bill, since the 4th of July. 1861. appeaIto
the Globe for a record of my votes. Now. if
any man thinks the Union can be restored
by war, and feels like it, 1 tell him it is his
duty to enlist. Every man should follow
out the dictates of his own conscience, and if
he thinks he ought 10 fight the Abolition
rebellion, he should do II.
Let me ask YOU q few Questions Occnnv.