Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-01-14
Prediction of var. Vallandighan up-
On the Surrender of Mason and Sill

dell.
In the House of Representatives on the 9Th of
January. thu Hon. Mr. vallandigham said:
DIR. Vallandigham yDemocrst) of Ohio, said--I
avail myself, sir. of this the earliest opportunity
offered TO express my utter and strong cOndem
ton, as one of the representatives OF the people
of the act of the Administration in surrendering
up Ncssrs. Mason and Sdell to the British Gov
eminent. For six weeks, sir, they were held in
close custody traitors, in fortress OF the nj
tee States. by order of The Secretary of State
and with the approval and applause of the press,
OF the public men, of the Navy Department, of
this House, and OF the people of the United
States, with full knowledge OF the manner and
all the circumstances of their capture and vet in
DAYS after the imperioas and peremptory de
mand of Great Britain, they we're abiectly sur
ref dered upon the mere rumor even of the APP
preach of a hostile feet, and thus for the first
time in our national history have we strutted in
soently into quarrel without right, and then
basely crept out OF il without honor: and
thus for the first time has the American EAGLE
been made TO cover before the British Lion.
Sir, yaSal or fcltered and teir0r.stricken
press. or servile aud sycophantic politicians
in This House or out of il, NAV applaud the act
and iawn and ilatter and lick the hand which has
smitten down our honor in the dust; but the peo
pie, now or hereafter, will demand "A terrible reck
not trust myself to speak of il rs propose some
day to speak. i rose only to put ON record my
emphatic protest against it, and to express my
deep conviction that the very war which the other
day might have been avoided by combined wis
dom aud irmDeSs is now inevitable Sir, the sur
render NAV be no fault Of the Secretary of State
but he has sown, ] fear. the dragons teeth by
this. his fatal dispatch and armed war will spring
from it, In the name of God. sir, what does
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surrender Of the claim of the right to sezs them
on board her ships, under her flag, that She DC
maaded, and yet this Is the very thing that MIR.
Seward pertinaciouslv refuses and he only con
dennis Captain Wilkes, because he did not en-
force this asserted right with greater severity
against the offending neutral ship Why, sir.
upon the principles OF this Dispatch if mer-
chant vessel as at first intended. had been
employed TO carry these men out from
Fort Warren to England she might TO day
have been arrested on the high seas and they
dragged from her deck, provided only she
were forthwith brought back To the port of
Boston for couhscation. But more than this,
England needs, | do not saw wants a war but she
must and will have il, and this Administration
has acted from the beginning rs lift was their
purpose TO oblige her in IL 10 the utmost. Look
into your diplomatic correspondence. Look at
Your Stone feet. But let that pass " no | ask
in the House or the Senate, or the Administra.
ton itself. in the midst OF the dead calm of
lid security which seems now TO rest over all has
reelected for moment upon the Signihcancy of
the events of the passing hour A British man
of war bears 10 the shores OF England. there to
be received in triumph and with shouts OF exulta-
tion martyrs and heroes. and with the gustos
of the people of England and rs the profegcS OF
their ministers, the very men who, but Tor the
rash act of Captain Wilkes. aud the still more
rash Endorsement of the Administration and the
country, would six weeks ago nave been quietly
landed from private ship. in quiet security as
rebels aud refugees. All Europe echoes now
with their names All Europe will rise up TO
do them honor, and yet you surrendered them,
did you, 10 escape the recognition by England OF
the Confederate States: and your Secretary of
State, with Christian resignation stole philoso-
ply calmly rejoices that the eliectual check upon
and waning proportions of the insurecton, as
well rs the comparative unimportance, when
weighed dispassionatey, of the persons
concerned happily enable the Administration,
after six weeks of experiment, cheerully To lib
crate them, and thus to remove this teteTilg causi
beui. Sir, give me leave TO say that the moment
they Mason and Slidell) stepped upon the deck
OF a British man of wgr, yonr prisoners of State.
whom the other day YOU would have consigned
to lelon's cells. became indeed the envOys and
ambassadors of recognized independent State,
and ! predict here to- day, in spite of this deep
national humiliation or rather, perhaps, because
of il, and in spite too, of the surrender without
protest of the Monroe doctrine for forty years
the cherished and proud policy of dis Govern
ment. in less than three months you will be 1T
war with Great Britain or else in the meantime
will have tamelv submitted to the recognition OF
the Confederate States aud the breaking up of the
blockade; ard if "a war then. with hearts un
strung and hands unnerved by this very surrender
Couragel couragel courage! sir, is the first and
best OF peacemakerS. | know we'll OF course,
sir that like all similar predictions for some wears
past in regard TO our public affairs, YOU will treat
this one also with soothing and incredulity but
nevertheless put it on record here to day. 1.-The
prudent man foreSeeth the evil and hideth him
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