Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-01-05

"Thc true and only question before you, Is
whether you will have Union with all its num-
berIess blessings in the past, present sad To-
tire or Disunion and Civil War, With ell the
future multiplied crimes, miseries and atroci-
ties which human imaginatinon hevor CON
ceived, and hafnan pen never can portray. &
In Congress, in 1858, Mr.. XAliandigham as
stoutly opposed threats Of disuni0n coming
from the South, as ten years before he had 10
the Legislature Of his State opposed
Northern disunionists. He said ~
Then, sir, / am against disunion. l lind
no more pleasure In a southern disuniouist
than in a northern or western disunionist. Do
not tell me that you of the South have an
apology in the events and developments OF the
last few months. know you have. But will
you secede now2 win you break up the
Union of these States ? Will you bring down
forever, in one promiscuous ruin, the columns
and pillars Of this magnificent temple Of lib
erty, which our fathers reared at so great a
cost Of blood and treasure Wait q little
Let us try again the peaceful, the ordinary,
the constitutional means for the redress OF
grievances. Let us resort once more to the
balIot-box. Let Us try again that tcedpon,
surer set md better than The bdyonet"
After the Presidential election OF 1860, Mr..
V~allandigham published a letter debating
that as a Represenatiyein Congress he would
never vote one dollar to be spent in shedding
American blood in civil war adding
.fIf Abraham Lincoln is wise, looking truth
and danger full in the face, he will take the
counsel of the old men,, the moderates Of
his party, who advise peace, negotiation, con-
~eession butt i, like the foolish son Of the
wise king, he reject these wholesome coun-
sells, aud hearken only to the madmen who
threaten chastisement with scorpions, let him
see to it, lest it be recorded at last that none
remained to serve him save the house
of Judah only" Al least II he will for
get the secession of the Ten Tribes, will he
not remember and learn a lesson of wisdom
from the secession of the Thirteen Colonies p
But Abraham Lincoln was not wise and
the result was that war ensued. In Congress,
July 1861, Mr.. Vallandigham offered the fol
lowing %proviso TO the army bill .o aa al.as
"Prouided further, That before the Presi-
dent shall have the right to call out any more
volunteers than are already in the service, he
shall appoint seven commissioners, whose
mission shall be to accompany the Army on
its march, to receive and consider such prop
%ositions, If any, as may at any time be sub
mitted from the executive OF the so-called
Confederate States, or of any one of them,
looking to q suspension of hostilities and the
return of said States, or any one of them, to
the Union, aud to obedience to the Federal
Constitution and authority"
This of course was voted down by the Re
, publican disunionists
In Congress, Dec, 1861, Mr.. Vallandigham
opposed the resolution thanking Capt. Wilkes
for the seizure of Mason and Slidell; and be.
ing outvoted by the House, remarked
- l4Tkana .,n, u,ll ha anrrapAaraA- haforn
three months in the face Of a threat. Imake
/ that prediction here today"
And the prediction, like those which year.
before he had made in regard to abolition
Q causing disuuion and civil war, was fulfilled
On the 4th ofJuly, 1862, Mr.. Vallandighan
spoke thus before the Democratic Convention
ofOhio:
Talk to me about sympathizing with dis
union, with treason and %traitorsl l tell you
men Of Ohio, that in six months, in three mon
tbs, in six weeks it may be, these very mer
. and their masters in Washington whose bid
, ding they do, will bethe advocates Of the eter
! nal dissolution of this Union and denouncI
o all who oppose 1t as enemies to the peace o
{ the country, Foreign Intervention and tn,
repeated and most serious disasters which
o have lately befallen our arms, will speedil
g force the issue of separation with Southern in
Observation-Disclosures Of Union by neg
= ~oeiation and compromise. Between these tw,
| am-and here publicly proclaim ito
the Union, the phole Union and nothing
: less, if by any possibility | can have it; it moi
then for so much Of it as yet can be rescue
and preserved; and in any event and unde
all circumstances, for the Union which Co
! ordained, of the Mississippi Valley and al
which may cling to it, under the old name
= the Old Constitution and the old Flag, wit
all their precious memories, with the battle
fields of the past and the songs and the prou,
is history Of the present-with the birthplace
Gland the buriaLplaee OF Washington the four
= der and jackson the preserver of the Constity
ton as it is and the Union as il was. TGres
Applause. 7
Z We print this brief synopsis of mis- publ
record, as a bare act of Justice to the braves
th Ablest, most eloquent-and therefore mo,
p, bitterly Eilifed-of the Peace Democrats.
7 will be seen that Mr.. Vallandigham, so "a
ed from being a traitor, has been a lifelong Unic
man and that it was his remarkable %foresigl
re which led him to oppose abolitionism al
'es civil war so strongly and SO constantly. Il
nd saw more clearly than other men the tender
~ eies-o of events. The facts of the present 81
TO %iciently indicate his action in the past. H
lP- demand in Congress now, for IAN immedia
'fs cessation of hostilities,' is the voice OF swisdo
1ft and patriotism. The people have already 50
~ cause to regret that they did not earlier iollC
nat the counsel Of the Ohio statesman; and G
as suredly il bis advice is still spurned, the co
ne sequences to the country will be still me
we disastrous.
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