Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-08-07
NO. 49,.

! man or dollar for their support. You r,
serve your honors, your highest honor, to
e man who is a hero with every rebel regimen
: and dare not face a single regiment from b
: own State. And why? because you say b
: has been illegally convicted of aiding thes
/ rebels. Well, what of it? Can you not fint
0 some man in your party whose fidelity to tn
: Government is unquestoned? Can you fin,
no brave soldier to honor with your votes?-
! Is The Democratic party so completely uHde
the control of disloyal men that you must Sc
: lect your standard bearer one whose hear
is with the rebels, and whose arms would al,
them ii he could not render them more ser
vice here?
L have, therefore, only alluded to the acts o
Mr.. Vallandigham, for which he was arrested
by Gen. Burnside, because this arrest uudoubt
edly induced his nomination. The leaders il
this movement never would have ventured up
on 1t but that they hoped to cunceal his infa
nous record under a clamor about illegal ar
rests. They know the sensitive jealousy oil
our people to the personal rights of the citi.
zen and under a preteuse that these rights are
in danger they hope 10 conceal The political
opinion of Mr.. V. l served as a member OF
!
| He was The intimate friend and associate, per
sonal and political, OF the leaders of this rebel
lion. You will look in vain for any word
from him of reproof, Encouragement or dissent
TO any act e( theirs in the progress Of the re.
! bellion. He defended all the outrages in
Kansas. The repeated invasions of armed
| Missouri mobs, the fraud, violence, murder
and crime, with which these same rebels over
! come freemen Of Kansas-the Infamous laws
! OF bogus egislature-the attempt to estab-
| llsh a prO-slavery constitution by election
frauds, all these were defended and excuced bv
him. He applauded and joined in the noisy
threats of disunion uttered in both houses of
Congress when Mr. Lincoln was elected. Du-
ring the memorable session that followed Mr.,
Lincolns election, and when those rebels, en-
uraged by the imbecility OF Mr. Buchanan
were seizing forts, armories, custom houses
and killing and robbing our citizens, Mr.. Val
landigham defended aad excused them. He
was with them in consultation, co-operated
with them, was party to all their plans and
encouraged them more than any ether south
ern man in acts of open war. He was the
first and indeed the only man who personally
proposed in Congress a substantial dissolution
o. the Union, and in its place the substitution
of four confederacies, When Maj Anderson
removed from Fort Moultrie aud occupied
Fort Sumpter, Mr.. Vallandigham was the on
y man from OhU who voted mo in a reso-
luton of thanks to that gallant officer. Up
to close Of the Both Congress there was not a
single act or declaration of Mr.. Vallandigham
that was approved of by the leaders in the re-
bpl mil
that they took up arms boldly to overthrow
the Government, while be avaiIs himself OF his
position as member of Congress from Ohio
to sap and undermine the authority of the Co
vernment and thus more efectually aid the
rebels than by sharing their dangers in the
field.
When the extra session of Congress met in
July, 1861, party ties had disappeared, the
people Of the loyal States were acting heartily
together in defence of the capitol then be.
eagued by hostile armies. Where was Mr.
Vallandigham then? No political debates
about the conduct of the war had then arisen,
when Crittenden and johnson, Union men of
the North and of the South, Democrats of the
North and Of the South, were acting heartily
together in providing means of defence, what
He was active and spoke frequently, but not
one word against The rebels then in arms
around the capitol, but arraignment after ar
raignment, accusation after accusation against
the constituted authorities, the record will
show that six men at this session were espe-
ciatly prominent 10 every measure of offence or
defence Breckenridge of the Senate; Bennett, !
Norton, Wood, Reid and Vallandigham of
the House. Since then Breckenridge, Reid |
aud have joined the rebel service; Wood crop
ped out in the New York riot, and our Dem
ocratic friends now propose to make the other
Governor of Ohio. You will not find his vote |
recorded in favor OF any measure of National
defence, or any appropriation for the support
os the army. l have before me the record of
the vote on the bill to authorize National
loan, taken on the 10th day of July 1861
These who voted in the negative on this i'm
portant bill are Bennett, Reid, Wood and Val
landigham. Is not man known by the COM
pany he keeps?
If any patriot has heretofore doubted the
position of Mr.. Vallandigham that doubt should
be removed by his recent address from Canada.
He commences by pointed acknowledgment
of the independence of the so called Confeder-
ate States. He draws the line between the
United States aud the Confederate States as
between two independent powers. Will the
Democracy Of Ohio make this acknowledgment
Are they willing TO regard our soldiers as the
invaders of an independent Government? But
he says he refused to stay in the Confederate
States, or identify himself with their cause,
and thereby has proved his loyalty. What hy- |
pocrisy. Do we not know that be was receiv-
ed as friend, ieted, welcomed and solaced p
Would any loyal citizen of the United States
have been thus treated? Is he not now acting |
as the agent and enissary of the rebel Govern
ment in the very role marked out by them
Does he not issue his address from the very
place and in the very words they long since die |
tated I? Is he not now advancing their cause
far more effectually than if he had taken his
place by the side of Breckenridge and Davis ?
Read his address. He has no words Of unkind- |
ness for the rebels seeking to subvert our Gov. |
erpment, his invectives are only aimed at those |
who fight and strive for the Government. He
tells you he has travelled more than one thous- |
and miles through the rebel States, aud that |
he met neither man woman nor child who |
would submit to the United States as if any
loyal man, woman or child would con6de 10 |
Valandigham an opinion sure to be joyfully
betrayed TO those who would hang the loyal
man to the nearest tree He dare not cay but
thai thousands, yea, millions, would hail the
old flag with joy, but he glories in the iniamy
that would bring to him only malignant ene-
mics of his country, and would drive from him |
as from the stain of leper, the loyal patriot
r. Tennessee, Of North Carolina and of Vir- |
ginia.