The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-09-24
RESULTS OF VALLANDIGHAM's
ELECTION,

How will it effect the country? How
the people of Ohio? Let us look events
in the face, and draw from them their
Legitimate sequence. Does any man
doubt that the measures adopted by
Vallandigham tend to embarrass the
Government in prosecutingthe war;
Does any man doubt that Vallandig-
ham is opposed to the prosecution of
the war? Take his refusal to vote
"men or money" his opposition to
every appropriation BILL" to every
measureforputting into the field, organ
izing and equipping armies; his BIT
ter denunciation Of the authorities, his
expressions of sympathy and devotion
to the rebel cause, his public and pri-
vate efforts to poison the minds of the
Northern people against the war and
its further continuance
What did Mr.. Vallandigham mean
by denouncing the President for call
ing into the field $4,000 troops to
"maintan the authority Of the nation
''enforce obedience to the laws" and
"repossess the forts, arsenals and dock
yards Of the South, after seven States
had seeded, after they had adopted a
Constitution and laws in defiance of
our Constitution and laws; after they
had inaugurated a President, establish
ed a Congress and organized armies
in violation of law, after they had built
batteries around Ft Sumpter, and bat
tered down its walls, after they had,
by open war and shameful defeat, dis
graced and dishonored the American
flag and brought reproach upon the
American name? What did he mean
by opposing the bill authorizing the
calling forth Of 100000 men and the
appropriation of 5OO,0O0,O0O dollars,
after the terrible disgrace and over
whelmning disaster Of Bull Run"
with an insolent, victorious and insult
ing foe threatening Washington, their
banners floating in sight of the Capt.
tol? What did he mean by insulting
the graves of our gallant dead by de-
claring them to have fallen in an Gun
iust,' "unholy" abolition" war;
What did he mean by refusing to vote
money to pay thepromised pension"
of the manned invalid, who had sacrifi-
ccd his strength upon the alter of his
country-to the dependant mother
the sorrowing widow and helpless or
phan, whose son, husband or father
had fallen on the bloody field? What
did he mean by proposing as he did,
Feb. 7th 1868 TO "stop fighting, with
draw our armies from the seeded
States" "break up the blockade Gre
duce our navy" and by declaring him
self in favor of "practical and informal
recognition of the independence of the
Confederate States, thus acknowledging
our inability to preserve the Govern
ment, thus acknowledging ourselves
conquered and submittig to the disrup-
ton of the Union; thus acknowledging
the existence oftwo Governments, two
Presidents, two Constitutions, and two
Flags, upon the soil of the United
States; thus setting the example and
atfording ample justification for foreign
governments to recognize the indepen
, dence of the South. Do not these things
show Mr.. Vallandigham to have been
the firm, consistent, and unswerving
enemy of the war-the devoted, zeal.
GUS and persistent friend of the re-
, bellion? Could Jefferson Davis, had
he been in the Congress Of the United
States, have done more to embarrass
the Government? Could he have done
more to favor the rebellion and bolster
up its cause2
What then would be the effect Of
clccting Vallandigham Governor OF
Ohio? Would it not be an endorse
ment of his principles and policy ?
Would itn prolsng the war? Do not
the rebels in arms count largely and
hope ardently for Vallandgham's elec'
ton? Do they not this day place more
faith in divided North-in the EN-.
barrassments ''peace party would
b throw around the government than in
their own strength? Is it not true that
without this hope, and with united
North, the rebellion would have end
ed before this? Are there any who
at this day doubt these things? Fol
! such we produce tho testimony of the
rebels themselves. Mr., Maury, of the
Confederate States, now in 'London,
as the special agcntof his Government
publicly declares that the "Peace par
ty' in the North "is an offset against
the tide ofmilitary reverses' sustained
by the Confederate cause in July, HC