The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-07-01
The Aboiftios Lies About WF.
vRiiRndigham Exposed.
READ, FREEMEN |
Specimens Of the Eloquence Of
Hon. C, L. Vallandigham.
A FEW EXTRACTS FROM HIS
....uA,s SPEECHES.. ys-...,
MS DEvoTIoN TO THR UNION.
Ii Democratic rIeettvg-Is65.

uH Tie Sttn oI OCtoOcF, ioOp, q
Democratic meeting was held in the
City Hall, Dayton and addressed by
Mr.. Yallandigham at length, The res
ohtions Of the 'sCompromise Meeting
Of 1850 were reafirmed. Mr.. VS.
speechon the occasion is regarded as
the most valuable and important ofhis
life. Of it we only say that what was
then prophecy is now history. The
following are extracts:
p f,'Ail this, gentlemen, the spirit OF Abolition
has accomplished in twenty years of conun
ued and exhausting labors Of every sort
But in all that time, not one convert has ii
made in che South not one slave emancipas
ted except in arceny and in fraud OF the
solemn compacts of the Const tuition. Mean
time public opinion has wholly, radically
changed in the South. The South has ceas-
ed to denounce, ceased TO condemn slavery,
ceased even to psliate, and begun now al
most as one man, to defend it as great NOR
al, social and political blessing The bitter
and proscriptive warfare of twenty years has
brought orth its natural and legitimate fruit
In the South. - Exasperation, hate and re.
venge are every day ripened into fullest ma
turity and strength, and now but the acts OF
the North to unite in solemn leauge and
covenant to resist aggression even unto
blood. .'' 't'''i 'f,'
know we'll indeed, Mr.. President, that
in the evil day that has be allen US, all this
and he who utters it, shall be dt nounced as
'proslavery:' and already, from ribald throats
there comes up the slavering, drivelng, idiot
spithet Of dough face Again, be it so.--
These Abotionists, are your only weapons
Of warfare, and | hurl them back defantIy
into your teeth. Il speak thus boldly, b.
caus speak in and to and for the North. 1t
10 time that the truth should be known. and
heard, in this age OF trimming and -ubter
fnge. speak this day not as a Northern
man, nor Southern man; but God be thank
ed still as United States man, with Uni
ted Stated principles: and though the worst
happened which can though al be
lost, if that shall be our late, and walk
through the valley of the shadow o political
death, l will live by them and die by them.
II to love my country: to cherish the Union,
TO revere the Constitutions; tito abhor the
madness and hate the treason which would
lift up a saeriligious hand against sther;'i if
in the present, TO .foresee it in the future OF
this lane, which is ei more value to us and
the world for ages, to come, than the multi
piled s. millions who -bave inhabited Africa
frotnthe creation to this day--if this isato be
pro slavery, then in every nerve, fiber, vein
bone, tendon, joint and ligament, from the
topmost hair Of the head to the last extremi.
ty OF the foot, Lam all over and altogethera
pro slavery man. .- I.' ..',-'' 80 .r"
Tbs true and only question now before
you is, whether you will have Union with
all its numberless blessings in the past pres
ent and future; or qdisunlon and civil war,
with all the multiplied crimes, miseries and
atrocities, which human inauguration nev
er conceived and human pen never can por
tray. s-s ...r .-,+.
speak it boldly; avow it publcly--it
is time to speak thus-for political cowar
dice is the bane of this, as OF all other repub.
lies. To be true to our great mission and to
succeed in il, you must take open, manly
one sided ground upon the Abolition ques
tion. In no other way can you now conquer
Let US have, then, no hollow compromise;
no idle and mistimed homilies upon the sin
and evil of slavery, in crisis like this; no
ouble.tongued, Janus faced, delphic respon
ses at your State Coventions No, fling you
banner to the breeze, and boldly meet the
issue; PatriotismSabove mock philanthropy;
the Constitution before any misealled higher
law Of morals or religion; apd the Union Of
more value than many negroes ....r
II thus, sir, we are true 10 the country;
true to the Union and the Constitution; rue
to our principles true to our cause and to
the grand mission which lies before us, we
shall turn back yet the fiery torrent which
Is bearing US headlong down the abyss oi dis
union and infamy, deeper than plummet ev
or sounded. But If this day OF our trial, we
are found false to all of these; false to our
ancestors; false TO ourselves; false to those
who shall come after US; traitors to our coun
try and TO the hopes Of free government
throughout the globe; Bancroft will yet write
the last sad chapter in the history Of the A.
merican Republic.
Of his speech, the Dayton Journal
(Republican) said: = |.s 'f@
z The principal demonstration OF Mr.. Val
landigham was against fanaticiSm and sec
sionalism; and here much that he, said was
Just to the roint. He was anxious to meet
and repel every attempt to make the exis
tence of slavery In the South, or elsewhere,
pretext for the formation Of sectional par
ties which must endanger the perpetuity OF
the Union. au Y~4Es at.sss.
Extract from his speech in Congress,
the session of 1859 and 1860, during
the contest for Speaker Of the House
Of Representatives:
Then, sir, am against disunioh L. find
no more pleasure in Southern disunionist
tbaA in aNofthern or'Western disunionist. !.
Do not tell me. that you o.. the South have
an apology 10 the events and Developments
OF the last few months know you have
But Will you secede now?7 Will you break
up the Union Of these States? win you
bring down forever, in one promiscuous ruin,
the columns and pillars Of this magnificent
temple OF liberty, which our fathers reared
at so great cost Of blood and treasurer
Wait o little! Let US try again the peaceful,
the ordinary, the Constitutional means for
the redress forn grievances. Let US resort
once mors toahe ballot box. Let as try yet |
again chat weapon, surer set and better than
che bayonets SR.J IN r. ttifT}
tn Mr.. Clerk, ! am not, perhaps, SO hopeful
Of the final result as some other men; but l
wss taught, in my boYhood, the noblest of
Roman maxims-Anever TO despair Of the
Republic. / was taught, too, by pious lips,
yet higher and holicr doctrine still Ia tirm
belietiR . experimenting Proyidsnee, which
governs In the affairs OF men do believe
chat God ,tin his Intimate goodness, has, FORE
ordained for this land higher, nightier, no
bier destiny than for any other country since
fhe world began. Times. noblest empirs is
the last. F.om the Arctic Ocean 10 thu