Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1862-12-08
Letter From an indiana vOIun-
teer.
BowLNo GREEx KY, Nov 2s, 1862.
10 fhe Editor of fAe ENQUIRER:

letter ia homo news, prosperity, success to
ffisnds, and party triumph of principle and
truth and right
Yesterday letter from my wife, to me the
best Of women, cheered me 90 that could
walk ont from the hospital, and to-day
bought from the newsboy a copy Of the En-
qHirer, and having read It through, feel
we'll enough for writing letter, and almost
well enough for duty
free government. has again spoken loud aud
clear, and strong as q thunder-bolt for the
"Constitution as il is, and the Uuon as It
was" No degradation of white men by
placing negro laborin competition with theirs.
The people have responded to the command
Of God, and said we will not "coyet our
neighboEs man servant or his maid servant"
we will sustain the Administration if II is
right, but IL it is wrong, we will demand Il to
return through the ballotbox Down with
the Emancipation Proclamation, says the late
elections, down with Abolitionism and does
the President hear and will be heed the voice2
That ballot box made him President; can't
that bellotbox undo what il has done hasn't
that ballot-box elected q Congress which has
power to unmake, through impeachment,
what it has made through ballot2 We only
ask the question, has it such powerP
| me speech Vi v. L. tAllhDQlBnAm - one
Of the most cheering signs Of the times. Its
power in the nation is worth its thousand
men. There is in him q moral hero Part
of his greatness consists in the fact that he
has never faltsred, never hesitated for one mo-
nent to lift voice for freedom and his in
jured country. When the sky was dark above
him, and the storm swept around him in its
Jury, be stood upon the old Democratic ship,
and amid her tattered masts, and above her
breaking timbsrs, his voice was clear and
loud, bidding bold defiance to the power that
threatened him.
Those we're dark days when Vullsndig CHAM,
Ben Wood and Dan Voorhees, were the few
men who dared mention "Constitution.'
Newspapers were siieAeed, public speakers
we're takea from the stand and from their
homes and cast into Bastiles to suffer, rot and
die martial law was proclaimed the writ Of
habeds corpus suspended, and great cen
tral power had laid the AK at the root of re-
served rights, making way for the mighty des.
potism which was slowly lifting its head, set
ting its foot upon the neck Of constitutional
freedom, and casting its proud glance over
the continent And still these men are de.
nouneed as traitors and secesh because they
dare speak what our fathers died TO achieve
And by whomP By the soldtersH No, but
few of them speak that way Of c. L. Vallsn.
diKham. They love to read his speeches
they say he is right and to-day not few eyes
have frightened as read to them what he
said.
No, will tell you the class Of men who
abuse c. L, Vallandigham as traitor to his
country. heard two Of them denouncing
him to-day, and rejoicing over his late defeat,
and hoping his speech at Cambridge City,
Indiana, would be the cause of his arrest
They are citizens of this town. they are con-
tractors Of the army in the beef line, their
names are Omitted Editor - was last
winter strong rebel, took the oath of allegi-
ance, held Office, and received pay under the
rebel Government; smuggled cotton-cards
through from the North to the South; secur.
ed 10 their interests and purposes all the
means and capital of the branch Bank OF
Kentucky But soon after the evacuation of
this place by Sidney A. johnson, he turned
"Union man." and now holds conjoutly the
beef contract with -, who is 80 kind and
charitable 70 the Union cause that he charged
twenty-five cent? piece, and made the Gov.
eminent pay il, for hemming coarse fowls for
the hospital, when the towels could have been
bought ready hsmmed for twenty cents a
piece. am . sick soldier with but little
money, for am no contractor and no officer
walked up to these two men to-day and asked
them TO change for me one dollar, that
might buy some medicines, and - took my
silver dollar and offered me eighty cents in
post ofiee currency, telling me that change
was worth twenty cents TO the dollar. "a
private soldier" thought he, "dirty and sick,
feeble and sad, was 6ne bait for q money
sharker." Such are the men, and such are
the circumstances ander which heard that
patriot statesman abused to-day Well may
contractors and those in high places, when
they hear Of Democratic success, Rrowl and
; grumble treason, and socesh, and butternuts,
but the tide must and will sweep on. AZ /
sweep along down through one year and look
into the Halls of the coming Congress, l can
see the workmen all busy; they are making
the coffin and digging the grave Of Abolition.
ism; they are legisAting for the best interests
OF the poor whits men OF the North keeping
, the negro where be 70 and leaving the sim Of
African slavery between the people where it
exists and their God, feeling that as we have
: none, il is none OF our business Proposing
/ such terms 10 the seeedsI States as will be
Just and right under the Constitution, restore
tho broken Union, check the shedding Of
. oceans Of blood, roll back the dark cloud Of
A war, and cause the sun-light of peace to break
in again upon happy and prosperous people,
Ben Wood will be there Dan Voorhees, will
. be there, Fernando Wood will be there-ok,
i. that Q. L. VallAndigham could be there,
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Eightysixth Indiana Volunteers
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