The daily Evansville journal., 1863-08-21
The yalIandlgham Record.

hammer asserting that all good Demo- in
Gratis endorse the traitor, draw it on them q
nd ask them if Democrats can endorse
such Record. Mr.. Pugh himself ad- II
mits that Vallandigham is the Demo A
cratic party, for had any other man been O
on the ticket for Governor, he says he s.
would not have accepted the nomination y
for Lieut.. Governor. The Democrats OF
this city--those who have control OF the /
party orsanization-make the support
of Vallandigham test of Democracy.
q No good Democrat in Ohio, said one :
of our selfconstituted Democratic lead
ers, some days ago, Twill refuse to vote ,
for Valandigham.
We Insist that voting for Vallandig-
ham is not so much condemnation OF
the President as an endorsement Of the
traitor. Yet, we doubt not, hundreds of /
voters will cast their ballots for Vallau
| digham under the foolish impression that |
they are vindicatfng free speech s.nd
censuring the administration, while in
| their hearts they lnathe the r'''i IN --r''e'
| and conduct of the Butler county traitor,
Why, Vallah&gham, and Pug,h, his
spokesman, have always been bitter op-
ponents of free speech. Pugh justified
all the outrages upon free press and
free ballot box in Kansas, o the ground
that they endangered the institution of
slavery. Now he is a rnonomaniac for
free speech, because its unlimited indrl
| gence may result in the defeat of the
government and the success of the rebels.
Why should he oppose " free speech in
1856, and so warmly advocate it in 1868,
unless it be for the reason stated. No
other conclusion can be reached than
that he desires the success of the South
and is laboring to that end.
| However, we started out to give Val
landigham's S record in nutshell Here
it is:
|. He has always been pro Slavery,
and intensely Southern in his feelings;
though born in Ohio, he was educated in
slave State.
2. He was the first man who proposed
to divide the Union. His proposition
for four divisions of the Nation was such
as to make the election of President
, impossible, and thus would throw the
Government into four independent sec
tons.
e 8 He is believer in the right of Sc
: cession.
! 4 He never voted man nor a dolla
for the preservation of the Union Whe1
= the whole House voted for the first ap
d preparation bill but five, Valandighan
1t was one of the FIVE. The other four wer
a Burnett of Kentucky, who went into tn
: rebel Congress; Reed and Norton c
} Missouri, who went into the rebel army
j date whom the Chattanooga Rebel nom
} mated for Governor of Ohiol
5. He either voted against every meas
ure of Congress, or lodged the question
II NJ - H. .;1~-er- H. & G..,=i>-->,
every question arising out of the Kansa
d. troubles. Sustaining the most enormou
o swindling and fraud perpetrated forcib
:. by the Border rutfians
- 7. He openly discouraged volunteer
:, ing to defend the Government agains
q this unprovoksd rebellion, in severa
o speeches to the people.
a 8. He was before his arrest one SOLE
O mass of venom and spite against the Ad
ministration, because it attempted t,
" crush treason, and enforce the laws.
. 9. He as thoroughly represents tn,
r interests of the Southern Conlederac,
n as JEFF Davis could himself
d 10. He committed numerous offense
= against the military authority, for somt
: OF which he was arrested under a militia
ry order duly proclaimed: was kept a
II the Burnet House till brought to a .nili
y tary trial, before a military commission
l. consisting of all of his own poitica
=. friends, except one-that is, they had
always been Democrats; he was dul,
J convicted, after hearing and such {
5, defense by his own counsel as could be
f made; he brought his case before Judge
. of his own choice, on the writ of kdbeds
corpus, when it was again argued anc
t taken into careful deliberation, but the
y rendering of the Commissioner wa:
i confirmed, and the conviction declared
/ legal The sentence of Commissionel
: W. (. Warren was passed, but by the
President 1t was commuted to Danish
: lnent to his friends in the South during
S war.
: As a set off to this damnable record
'~s--------e
3 for him on the ground that he was lille
: gally arrested and banished for simpl,
3 exercising the God-given right of free
j. speech, and that in his arrest the liber
e ties of every citizen are endangered
and by his election free speech will be
:; vindicated. To this it can be answered.
]. He was illegally arrested But one
o of the Oldest and ablest judges of the
: United States has pronounced his arrest
Y legal, his trial and conviction legal, and
!, who but a judge of competent iurisdic.
ton has the right to determine the
: question of legality? With the same
e reason they might declare the convic.
ton of horse theft illegal, nominate
, him for Governor, elect him, and insist
upon his pardon, that he may be inau.
S gurated!
, "He should have been tried BY a iu-
ry Of twelve men, in the civil court"
: But, though the Constitution guarantees