Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-07-03

The PEACE PATRIOT, Y ALLAxDIGHAM.-
ValIandigham having been first nominated
for Governor Of OHIO by rebel paper, and
his nomination having been confirmed by a.
so-called Democratic State Convention in
!. Ohio, hisireeord is manifestly in order, and is
clearly adopted and endorsed by those who
have made him their candidate. There can
be no further shifting Of responsibility and
dodging Of principles His record ought
hardly 80 be the subject ofdspute, with any
one. He has pronounced his opposition TO
the war from The beginning; he declared 1t
wrong and wicked, denounced the call for
$4,000 volunteers for the defense Of Washing
g ton, and has in almost every Imaginable way
manifested sympathy. not with the Union, but
with the rebel armies. He has made multi
fudes Of speeches denouncing the Constitution
al Government, and the acts and doings of its
officers, has denounced every measure and
every act which bore upon the rebels and re-
bellion, while at the same time he has wasted
no breath in derouneing the pretended gov
ernment Of the Confederacy, or the outrages
committed by its officers and agents.
He has done DO act, said no word to en-
barrass the rebels, but has said and done all
that malice or ingenuity could invent, TO en-
-barrass the Constitutional authorities. A
brief reference to point or two will suffice
for the present. In bis speech made at Day
ton on the I'd Of August, 1862, he used the
following language 1--WE copy from his rec
ord, page 142.)
90 "War is upon us; and from the beginning
believing as Gid, and vet powerless for good
r laid down the rule for myself, and have
faithfully adhered to it, and viii to the end
neither TO vote for or against any purely war
measure of The Administration. Whenever
have voted on any question my course has
been governed by other considerations thar
thosehayiBg reference to my opinions on the
war. Accordingly, have not voted for any
army bill, or navy bill, or army or navy ap-
propriation bill since the meeting of Con
gress on the 4th of July, 1861. Neither
have voted against any such bill from the
beginning"
This is Vaandingham's own declaration
and is certainly conclusive. Not soldier
nor sailor, has received one dime Of pay since
the rebels precpitated war on Fort Sumter
by the vote of Mr. VaIlandigham.
But more than this, even. In a preceding
paragraph of the same speech, Vallandingban
confessed that his whole future was contin
gent upon the failure of suppressipg the re
bellion by force of arms-and If upon that
failure, necessarily, upon the success of the
rebels. He deliberately declared. in speak
ing of the war !:
"If it, (the war; is successful in maintain
ing the Constitution and restoring the Union
will make full, open, explicit confession that
was wrong-utterly, totally wrong, and
will retire to private life the residue of my
days"
All this no more nor less than an open dec
laratiop, that all bis ambitious schemes for
the future, all his hopes of success, honor
fame. place, position, hinged upon the failure
Of the National armies to subdue the rebel
lion. If so, that failure, and if the failure
then the success Of the rebels, which must fol
low the failure, constituted his sole hope O
selEglory in the future. Can mortal man con
ceive how a man, standing on such platform
refusing 10 vote men or money and consent
ing to everlasting banisbment from publ,
life, if the rebels were subdued and the Unior
saved, cou Id be any thing else but a rebe
sympathizer ?-eoud be any other than sucE
as the Chattanooga Rebel declared him TO b,
-"OUR STYLE OF MAN p
Yet this man VallaHdigham is today the
standard bearer Of The democracy" of Ohio
their candidate for Governor of the thirt
State in the Union. The friend of the rebels
the man who has denounced every war meas
ure, since the rebels levied war upon the
country, now within the rebel lines, compli-
meated by leading rebel papers, his speeches
in circulation all through Dixie, and yet pre-
sented to the people OF Ohio as a eandidat,
for their sufrages for the highest Office in theil
gift. His nomination itself is a shame and /
disgrace to the State, while his election
would be an indelible infamy.- (Sandusk,
Register