Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-07-27
The address Of vaIIandigham.

We publish this week the address of Mr.
VALLASDIGHAM, to the people of Ohio, accepting
the nomination for Governor. No one can read
the bold and manly sentiments of the distinguish
ed exile, so eloquently expressed, without feeling
indignant at the perpetrators of the great wrong.
Mr.. VALLASDIeHAN has been guilty of no crime
against the Government and his only offense
that his judgmeD. and conscience could not
approve the policy of the Administration. He
may in this have erred in judgment. but we be-
lieve him more true to the great principles of
liberty and right, upon which our republican gov
ernment is based. than the men who exiled him
because they had the power to do go. Mr.. LIN
coin said, I'VE are making history" and the
men who now boldly stand up for the rights of
the citizen, to secure which the fathers of the
Republic pledged their lives. their fortunes,
and their sacred honors," will have fame and a
name when those who trampled them under foot
will only be remembered to be e1ecrated.
The Chicago Times, in commenting upon the
address of Mr.. VALLANDIGHAA. remarks:
We print this morning the manly, lofty, and
feeling address of Mr. Vallandgham to the peo-
pie Of Ohio. Few will read il whose brows will
not mantle with indignation that an American
citizen, and he eminent scholar and statesman
and patriot, guilty only of an excess of devotion
to his country, should thus be wronged. insulted
and outraged. Few can read it without the
stinging consciousness that every Democratic
citizen is wronged, insulted and outraged in Mr..
Vallandigham's person. The original proceed
ings against him. utterly unwarranted in law
his banishment a bald, mean, malicious usurpa
tion-the military order under which he was con-
vcted aud sentenced has been de6ed and spit
upon by the whole Democracy of Ohio, and is to-
day dead aud despised. Mr.. Pugh, in his speech
before the Democratic State Convention at Co
lumbus, deied it and spit upon it with ten times
the contempt it had been treated by Mr.. Vallsn
dgham. Mr.. Pugh is not arrested. None of the
hundred others who have openly and boldly fol-
lowed Mr. Pugh's example are arrested. Why
does Mr. Valandigham still sbfferf What pet
ty meanness or malicious spite stimulates the
continued pursuit of him
And the pursuit Of him does not consist sim
ply in his continued Punishment. We have al
ready informed the public of the government
inte-dict laid upon the transmission to US by
telegraph Of his address to the people OF Ohio.
We have yet to inform the public that govern
ment interdict is laid upon all telegraphic mes
sages from Mr.. Vallandigham Messages from
him to his wife are suppressed Our reporter
whom we sent to Mr.. Vallandigham, when he
sion of Mr.. Vallandigham's address, resorted to
the express and that denied himi From the
time that our reporter attempted to transmit the
address by telegraph from Buffalo until he left
Detroit for this city. be was dogged by COVE
meut detective. Had he placed copy of the ad
dress in the post Office for transmission, no doubt
the mails would have been rifed by official au-
thorityi
Such, fellow citizens, is something Of the per-
secution of Mr.. Vslsndigham by the partisan
dynasty at Washington. Such is something OF
the espionage, unlawful as It IS abominaole, TO
which he and every person or interest connected
with him, is subjected. Is there an example for
II in modern historyf Does it not capthe climax
of all the folIies and crimes perpetrated by this
Administration
It is especially for the people Of Chic to resent
and punish these wrongs and outrages- IL is es-
pecislly for the people Of Ohio in this case 70 re-
buke and repuIse this malicious and shameless
partisan dynasty at Washington. and vindicate
their own manhood and dignity and sovereignty
IL they shall not do IT, they will deserve TO live
forever under the basest partisan dynasty that has
ever afflicted the face Of the earth.