Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1863-09-18
..s4. From the Nashville Daily union.,
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When the bill for raising money for paying
our soldiers in the field was put upon rs final
passage in the United States House Of Repfesen-
tatives, it received vote Of $50 in favor TO five
against t. The names Of those FIVE members
who voted against paying our brave troops are;
Clement l.. .Vallandigham, Of Ohio On exile
now IN Canada having been ekpatuated for
completely with the enemy,
Benjamin Wood, Of New York, new editinga
rank copperhead newspaper, who recently tried
to send package Of his sheet across The lines on
which was written "To the soldiers OF the C.S.A.
with compliments OF Ben. Wood which pack
age was seized and destroyed by our police Of
! 6cers.
| II. o. Burnett, Of Kentucky expelled From he
House OF Representatives for treason, now, In
the rebel army. hIft
Elijah II. Norton, of Missouri, who ran away
from his home, and is now in the rebel army.
John W. Reid, Of Missouri expelled from the
/ House of Representatives for treason, and now,
or recently, in the rebel army.
These were the "infamous Ave" who voted
against paying a dollar to the gallant men who
are defending the nation az the hazard Of their
lives and strange 20 tell, the first named of this
number is now the conservative" Democratic
candidate for Governor of Ohio Soldiers of
Ohio will you vote for him3 Citizens Of Ohio,
viii you choose him for your rulerf
All is it not strange that convention which
met few weeks ago in the great State OF Ohio,
should have dared to nominate such candidate
/ for Governor, and have furnished US a reason for
asking such question: He the representative
of free speechi Why, who desires that free
speech should be free to the who opposed
the payment Of the Union soldiers, in company
with Burnett Ben Wood, the New York mob
leader, Norton and ReidH He does not deserve
to breathe far less to speak and act his irnpu-
dent treason in the face of the nation. Nay, let
him live and die in exile, dishonored and detest-
ed by his countrymen. All, but says one, Mr..
oil
[ that tleo
Let us try him then BY his own record and see
the nature ofhis Unionism. Let the reader turn
TO the Vallandigham record in the Congressional
Globe of February 7th, l66l-page 70l-and he
? will find that @. L. Vallandigham introduced
+ into the House of Representatives joint reso-
, luton proposing amendments to the Constitu-
tion, and in that proposed to amend article XIII,
by parttioning the Union into four sections, as
follows: v
The States of Maine, New Hampshire, YER
mont, Massachusetts,, Rhode Island, Cennecti-
o cut, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania,
S shall constitute one sec
ton to be known as the North.
The States Of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michi-
; gan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Kansas,
shall constitute another
\ section to be known as the West.
The States of Oregon and California
shall constitute another section,
to be called the Pacific.
The States of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
North Carolina. South Carolina, Florida, GeoF-
dia Alabama, Mississippi, Texas Arkansas, Ten
nesee, Kentucky, and Missouri,
shall constitute another section to be
Y known as the South.
{ Why the slaveocracy do not go far enough for
: Vallandigham in the work of disunion. They
propose to divide the Union into two sections,
whilst he advocates its division into four confed-
eracies. Heis arethmetically and literally twice
seta Il t.Npfaf oo a
Davis. Vallandigham has no hope or belief
in the possibility of Union, even il he desires it
y Read the following letter:
y DAYTON, Ohio, April 26, 1861.
Is Rev. lSaJin Hough-Dear Sir:--I thank yoI
4 most cordially for your letter of the 2fth. i
strengthens me in the cause of truth and right
= Its words are fitly and truly spoken. This fol-
&C ly and madness and wickedness must soon have
i / send you copy of my speech of February
u 90, 1861 But it Is all over now. 1t is too late
: now for anything but peaceful separation.
i Very truly, @. i. VALLANpIeHAM,d
e "Too late for any thing but peaceful separa'
,r tion. Citizens of Ohio, in your beautiful homes
soldiers of Ohio, in the field, following the ban
ner of Rosecrans, is that the doctrine for you
= Do you consent to be slaves and serfs for the
e siaveocracy, who after ruling you as as long a,
I. they could, electing thirteen Presidents to YOU
,f six are trying TO break up this nation because
they can rule III no lOHgerI ana Will you uls
If grace yourselves by electing Vallandigham,w wht
D. is the co-woi1er the fellow conspirator,the agen
O. and tool of the Richmond dynasty2 What re
;, sponse that would be to the guns which thun
" dered forth the joy of the nation over the yicto
e. res of Corinth of Iuka, of Shiloh of Vicksburg
Of Gettysburg of Murfreesboro2 On thos'
II memorable fields drenched with precious patrio
blood, no blood flowed more freely, no soldier
"a fought more gallantly than those of Ohio. Thin
e. of that record, and think of the bastard who re
ty fused TO vote dollar to pay those gallant sold
iers, and vote for Vallandigham if you can
That vote would rankle in your memories like
's- poisoned arrow to your dying day. 1t woul
he haunt you like ghost whenever you walked b
,st the grave of patriot victim of this rebellion,
:, met his orphans on the street. or faced cripple
) soldier Ohioansl many thousands of whor
Is will read this article it will not be enough tina
he you beat this man Vallandigham simply by
is majority; the majority must be towering,
must be tremendous, it must be so appallin
that it will fall upon the ears of all the council
I'd of treason North as well as South like the door
ht of final judgment upon the ears of the damned
ir What elect man Governor of Ohio, who sal
that the defeat of Grant before Vicksburg woul
y greatly help his prospects? If this should be 8,
TO then Ohio richly deserves to be member of tn
n Southern Confederacy, to lie in the same bed O
IL thorns, and drink of the same bitter dregs in tn
- cup ofdegradation.