Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-08-05
e E III
HON. C. L.VALLANDIGHAM,
At the Democratic State Com
Senti0n held In Columbus.
July 4th, IS62.


Following the reading and adoption of
the res lutions, loud and continuous calls
were made for Mr.. Vallandigham and
when he assembled the platform be wa
greeted with rapturous cheers. He spoke
as Elbows:
Mr.. President, and fellow Democrats Of
the State Of Ohio: ! am obliged again to
regret that the iateness OF the hour pre
ciudes me from addressing you, either in
the manner or upon the particular Subjects
which otherwise should prefer. This is
my misfortune again to-day Us last night:
out speaking thus without premeditation.
ana upon such matters chiefly as NAV oc
cur TO me at the moment, If / should hap.
pen to get fairly under Roadway, it NAV
fprn ont to be your misfortune. Laugh
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i congratulate The Democracy 81 ono.
that in the midst of great public trial and
calamity, OF persecution tor devotion to tie
doctrines of the fathers who laid deep ard
strong the foundations of the Constitution
and the Union under which this country
has grown great and been prosperCus-the
athers, by whose principles one and all,
the party TO which We are proud to belong
has always been guided-to-day we have
assembled in numbers greater than at ary
former convention in Ohio. / congratulate
you that despite the threats which have
been uttered and the denunciations which
have been poured out upon that time hon.
ored and most patriotic organization, peace
ably and in quiet, with enthusiasm and
earnestness OF purpose, we are here met.
and in harmony, which is the secret of
strength aud the harbinger of success,
have discharged the duties for which we
were called together. There was a time
when 1t WAS questionable If il free Amer
ica-in the United States-boasting of
their liberties for more than eighty wears
"a party IL which this country is Indebted
for all that is great and good and grand
and gIorious-wouid have been permitted
peaceably to assemble 10 exercise its n lit
zeal rights and perform its political fune-
tons. Threats have ever been made in
times more recent, that this most essential
OF all political rights, occurred to us by the
precious blood Of our fathers in q seven
years revolutionary war, should no longer
be enjoyed. The Democrats of our noble
sister State Of Indiana, second born daugh
ter OF the Northwest, have been menaced
within the last ten DAYS. with military
organization and the bayonet, to put down
their party. l bold in my hand a tele-
graphic dispatch from the capital Of that
State, boasting of their infamous purpose
l will read it, gentlemen because know
that the same dastaIdly menaces have been
proclaimed against the Democracy of Ohio,
and because | am here to day to rebuke
them as becomes free born man who is
resolved to perish Great applause in
W nf fha
was lost.
Some months ago a Democratic State
Convention was held in Indiana. 1t was
Convention of party founded by Thorn
as Jefferson, and built up by a Madison
and Monroe, and consolidated by an An
drew jackson applause Ia party under
whose principles and policy from thirteen
States we have grown to thirty. four, for
thirty four there were, true aud loyal to
this Union, before the Presidential election
OF lo60-a party under whose wise and
LIBERIA policy the course If empire west
ward did take its way. until the symbol of
American power-the stars and strines-
waved proudly from the Atlantic 20 the
Pacific, over the breadth of whole conti-
nent-a party which, by peace and COM
promise, and through harmony and wisdom
and sound policy brought us up from fee
BILE and impoverished colonies, struggling
IN the midst of defeat and disaster in the
war of the Revolution. to a mighty empire.
foremost among the powers of the earth,
the foundation of whose greatness, were
laid, broad and firm, in that noble Consti-
tuition, and that grand old Union which
the Democratic party has ever maintained
and offended. The Democratic party, with
such principles and such history and rec.
ord to point to, held a State Convention in
pursuance of its usages for more than
thirty years, and under the right sccuI ed
by State and Federal Constitution older
still, in the capital Of the Stnte of Indiana.
And yet referring to this party and it's
Convention, the correspondent of disloy-
al and pestIlent, but influential newspaper
in the chief city of Ohio, dared to send
over the telegrapbic wires, wires wholly
under the military control of the admins
tration, which permits nothing to be trans
United not acceptable to its censors, dis
patch in these words:
The fellows are frightened, evidently
not without cause"
Well, gentlemen. know not how far
Democrats may eirightened-and mob
Ter and more fearless body of men never
| lIved-but / see thousands Of Democrats
! before we to whom fear and reprnach are
| alike unknown. Frightened Mt what p
! Frightened by whom? We are made oe
! sterner stuff.
! The militia Of the State" he adds.
Twill probably be put upon war footing
! very shortly"
And WIN, pray, are the militia Of the
State. They are moi made up OF the lead
/ ers OF the Republican party iG Indiana OF
| OHIO, know. l never knew that sort of
| politicians to 60 into anv such organization
IN peace or in war. No men have ever
| been more bitter or relenting in their oppo
sition to and ridicule of the militia and
none knows IT better than |, as nv friend
| before me by his smile reminds me that
| one OF my own oBenses is that am q mil
itIa brigadier in favor of the next foreign
| war.
| But who are the militia? They are the
Tree born, strong armed, stout hearted
democrats OF Indiana, as they are of Ohio.
Let them be put on a war fJotiug. Good
We have hosts of them in the army al
ready, and on a war footing, but who are
as sound Democrats and az much devoted
to the principles of the party as they were
the hour they enlisted. They have been
IN the South. and have the authority of
hundreds Of officers and privates in that
gallant army, for saying that not only are
! the original democrats IN it, more devoted
to the party to-day than ever before, but
that hundreds also who went hence Re-
publicans, have returned or will turn,
cured Of the disease. Laughter and a D
plause. Sir. the army is. fortunately.
most fortunately for the country. turning
/ out to be a sort of political hospital or san
itsIy institution. and l Only regret tba;
there are not many more Republican pa
tients in it. Laughter.
Well. put the militia upon a war footing,
Put ar ms in their hands. They never can
be made the butchers or jailors of their
fellow citizens, but the guardians rather Of
| tree speech and free press, and of the
ballot box. Standing armies of mercena
ries, not the militia of country, are the
| customary instruments of tyranny aud