Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-10-19
The struggle I'm Ohio-Speech OF Hon.
ID. w. Voorhees,, delivered at the
Great Democratic Mass Meeting at
Newark, Ohio, Oct. 5, 1853.

The Struggle I'm OhfO-Speech OF Hon.
ID. W.Voorhees, delivered at the
Great Democratic Mass Meeting at
Newark, Ohio, Oct. 5, 1863.
Hon. d. W. VOORHEES, addressed an immense
Democratic gathering at Newark, Ohio, on Mon
day, Oct. 5. In alluson to the threats of John
Brough,. Cows. Yates and Morton, and other alb
oIitionists, that Mr. Valandigham, in the event
of bis election, shall not be inaugurated, Mr..
VOORHEES, spoke as follows:
EXTRACT.
But a new feature has beer introduced into this
canvass. The leaders of the abolition party have
abandoned argument. They address you no
longer as beings endowed with reason and entitled
to its exercise. They do not ask your votes by
appealing to your untrammeIed judgements.
| They approach you now with threats. They as
sumo the bullying tone of masters and slaves
] They demand your votes for Mr.. Brough, or your
lives The penalty of not voting for him is TO be
death and desolation to you and your homes
Mr.. Brough himself comes before you with this
demand of the highwayman-this threat of the
brigand. He does not condescend to reason
with you, but. placing the sword to your throats,
declares that, if you fail to elect him Governor,
he will deluge your fair State with all the horrors
and nameless woes of civil He appears in
the attitude of the reckless and the profigate
gambler. determined to seize the stakes whoever
may win the game. He leaves the people of Ohio
but one choice and that is the choice of fear and
cowardice His appeal is made to all that is
craven and pusillanimous in man. To prevent
you from defeating him he announces everywhere
that civil war in Ohio will follow that event.
Who will make that war against the voice of the
msjority7 Who is it that wants to fight, because
Mr.. Brough cannot be elected Governor Not
Democrats. We submit to majorities acting
under the laws We will inaugurate drama
of blood. But Mr.. BrouGh proclaiTas that he will
not submit. He will rebel against the voice of
the people fairly and legally expressed, accord
ing to the constitution He declares that your
votes shall not make Governor. He determines
that question in advance of election Cay He
gives this notice now, in order that you need not
trouble yourselves to go to the election at all
| By one roll OF his tongue he renders election
unnecessary, worse than useless. By one word
of his potent voice, he kills your ballots in ad-
vance. By one GESTURE of his hand, the ballot
box of Ohio is crushed to atoms and John Brough
reigns supreme the Constitution the laws
and the wishes of the people. You wish to elect
Mr.. Valandigham. Mr. BrOugh SAYS that if you
do, your lives will be forfeited the edge Of the
sword, and the plOw share of war will make its
burrows across the bosom of your State. This is
the issue, fairly stated, as presented in the
speeches of Mr. Brough. ti3 well TO understand
it fully. and determine now whether we are men
enoHgh to meet it. or whether shall bow our
necks to the CALLING yoke of a brutal despot-
ism. Cheers.
But Mr. Brough is not alone in this atrocious
threat against the right of the people to select
their own officers few days since most ex-
traordinary scene was witnessed in the city of
Dayton. Two Governors of neghboring States,
one from Indiana and the other from Illinois
met there to give advice to the citizens of Ohio.
With what voice did they speak to you? In what
language did they seek the suffrages of the free
men of Ohio? / have read with amqzement ard
grief their speeches on that occasion They
came before the people of Ohio with all the
staggering air of consequence which indicates
the public master instead of the public servant
They came not to persuade; they came not to
reason. They came not to entreat; they came
not to justify their ways and opinions with facts
and argument. They came to command, to
threaten. 10 menace and to terrify Like the bloat
ed Roman Consuls of old intoxicated with power
giddy with their elevation, they came to treat you
in advance as a conquered, subjugated province
These Governors of sister States tell the great
State of Ohio that, if she dares to select a man
as her Chief Magistrate who is obnoxious to them
and to the President, war will be levied against
her; though the people elect Mr.. Vallandigham
vet he shall not be Governor; though your Con
stitution declares him Governor who receives
majority of your votes, VET the fat has gone forth
! from Dayton, uttereO DY the governors OF lnuidna
and Illinois, that your Constitution shall be over
turned and dsregarded They threatened the
streets Of your cities with blood your fields with
pillage. and your homes with desecration; for all
/ these woes wait on civil war The horrible al
tentative was held up before you. Take Brough
for Governor. take civil war and the fate of
| Missouri. Are you slaves7 Shall these men
come here and crack their whips over your heads?
| Are you to be terrified like wavward children
/ fnfr,e eonl,x .CsN
any decent member of the Republican party de
sire to succeed upon such a principle2 Does
any member of tina, party, decent or indecent,
expect the Democracy to submit to such an abom
| nationl
But these Governors at Dayton pronounced
Mr.. Vallandigham ga convicted traitor" and all
the small dogs of party barking at bis heels have
been vocal with the same cry. This is the rea-
son which they assign for their own contemplated
treason in resisting his election and Inauguration.
j might rest upon the testimony of Mr.. Lincoln
| himself on this point, to show that the men who
thus charge Mr.. Vailandigham are themselves
convicted liars. The President expressly stated
that Mr. Vallandigham was not sentenced to
banisbment for anything he had done, but be
cause of what it was feared he would do. IL is
/ time this thing was met. fully met The Presi
dent did not find. even in his bgoted and blinded
judgment. anything criminal in the conduct of
Mr.. Vallandigham. take this important Presi-
Dental admission. and cram il into the throats
of the abandoned and depraved calumniators who
are now preying, like jackals and unclean beasts.
on the fame and character of one whose enforced
absence enables them to do with that impuuty
which cowardice always secures before it strikes.
(Applausel
Convicted traitorp' Mr. Lincoln himself saws
he had committed no treason or any other crime.
Like Pontus Plate. of hideOus memory, he found
| no 0uilt i'm the conduct of the victim hefore him
but gave way to the cry of Cruelty him.
"Crucfy him." and at the same time, no doubt.
promoted and honored more thieves and public
punderers than were confined in the prisons of
Jerusalem during all the time that it was Ro-
man province Indeed, we'll might the President
/ be forced to admit that Mr.. Vallandigham was
guilty Of no otfeuse. He had simply made a
speech to the people The Constitution which
Mr. Lincoln had sworn to support guarantees in
express words the freedom of speech To exer-
cse this constitutional right can constitute no
ofense These Governors from Indiana and IL
IinOis know this They are men of ability but
what shall be thought of their candorI They
both knew that Mr.. Vallandig CHAM had commit.
ted no crime They know il well and every in
telligent Republican in the land knows it. The
wanton, wicked tongue of slander should blister
when il utters this hackneyed and Infamous
charge
"a convicted traitorl" Convicted by whom
and how? Not in your courts established to try
criminals Not before jerry, as the Constitution
provides. Not, in any particular, according TO
the laws of the land Convicted by Burnside,
who now himself stands charged by the public
DISPATCHES sent out under supervision of the War
Department, with an offense somewhat more Sc
rious than the exercise of free speech-mis
conduct in the front of the enemy. and disobedi
ence ef orders when brother officer needed
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