The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-09-18

true interests of my country; and that
is my offense, that the crime, and the
only crime, of which l have been guilty.
Yet l am to be singled out now by
these very men, or their miniOns, for at
tack; and they who have waited, watch
ed and prayed, by day and night, with
the vigilance of the hawk and the fero.
city of the hyena, from the beginning Of
this great revolt, that they might catch
some uuguarded remark, some idle word
spoken, something written carelessly or
rashly, some secret thought craven yet
upon the .lineaments of my face, which
they might torture into evidence of dis
loyalty, seize now upon the foul and in
fectious gleanings of an anonymous
wretch who earns o precarious subsist.
ence by feeding the local columns Of q
pestilent newspaper, and whilst it is YET
wet from the press, hurry it, reeking with
falSehood, into the House, and seek to
dignity it with an importance demanding
the consideration of this House and the
country.
So, let the member from Pennsylva
MIA go on. 1 challenge the inquiry, un-
worthy of notice as the charge is, but l
scorn the spirit which provoked it, Let
it go on,
Mr.. Hickman then replied briefly, and
in the course of his remarks said:
GAS the gentleman has called upon
me, l will answer further. Does he not
know of camp in Kentucky having
been called by his name-that disloyal
men there called their camp Camp Val.
landigham? That would not indicate
that in Kentucky they regarded him as
man loyal to the Federal Union"
Mr.. Vallandigham - Is there not q
town, and may be camp, too, in Ken.
tucky bythe name of Hickman? Laugh.
ter.
Mr.. Hickman, after a few words fur
ther, withdrew his resolution, and the
matter ended.
SLAVERY IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
On the 1lth of April, 1862, Mr.. Val
landigham spoke and voted against the
bill to abolish slavery in the District Of
Columbia. The following is an extract
from his remarks:
Had l no other one, am opposed to
it because l regard all this class of legis.
lation as tending to prevent the restora.
tion Of the Union of these States as it
was, and that is the grand object to
which look. know we'll that in very
little while the question will be between
the old Union of these States-the u
nion as our fathers made it-and some
new one, or some new unity of govern
ment, or eternal separation-disunion
To both these latter l am unalterably
and uncouditionally opposed. 1t is to
the restoration Of the Union as it was in
1889 and continued for over seventy
years, that l am bound to the last hour
of political and personal existence, If it
be within the limits Of possibility to res
tore and maintain that Union.
Ben Wade's Attack and Repulse
On the 2lst of April, 1862, Benjamin
F. Wade, of Ohio, whom John A. Cur.
ley declared to be /" good combination
of Old Hickory II Zack T&Ior," at
tackled Mr.. Valahdingham in We Senate
in the following language:
l accuse them the Democratic party
of deliberate purpose to assail, through
the judicial tribunals and through the
Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States, and everywhere else,
and to overawe, intimidate and trample
under foot, if they can, the men who
boldly stand forth in defense of their
country, now imperilled by this gigantic
rebellion. l have watched it long;
have seen it in secret; I have seen its
movements ever since that party got to,
gether, with q colleague of mine in the
other House as Chairman of the Com,
mittee on Resolutions-a man who new.
er had any sympathy with the Republic,
but whose every breath is devoted to Its
destruction, just as far as his heart dare
permit him to go.-Cong. Globe, p.l735.
Quoting the foregoing extract, in the
House, on the oath of April, Mr. Val.
landigham said:
Now, sir, here in nv place in the
House, and as q representative, de-
nounce-and l speak it it!adviSedly-the
author of that speech as liar, scoun-
drel and coward. His name is Ben.
jamin F. Wade.
His speech was mainly devoted to 9
defiance fthe threats of suppreSsiug the
Democratic party by force, anda denuu
citation of the usurpations of power and
violation of the Constitution by the Ad.
ministration, especially in the matter O
the freedom Of speech, Of the press, ant
of illegal and arbitrary arrests. Tht
following is on extract:
Talk to me about sympathizing will
disunion, with treason and traitors
tell you men of Ohio, that in six months
in three months, in six weeks it may be
these very men and their masters il
Washington, whose bidding they do, vii
be advocates Of the eternal dissolution o
this Union; and denounce all who op
pose it as enemies to the peace Of th'
country. Foreign intervention and th,
repeated and most serious disasters whicl
have lately befallen our arms, will speed
lily force the issue of separation ant
Southern independence disunion-o