Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1863-06-09
From the Atlanta Confederacy.]
A GLANCE AT AFFAIRS IN THE
NORTHWEST.

A friend who has had an opportunity of read
ing the Cincinnati Enquirer of the ed May. fur
nishes us with the follC wing items of news from
the Northwest:
The Democratic State Convention of Ohio will
meet on the 18th of June next and it is almost
absolutely certain that Valandinghanl will be
the nominee for Governor of that State without
opposition.
The columns of the Enquirer TEEN with ac-
counts of outrages by Lincoln's soldiers upon
unoffending citizens in Ohio illinois and Indiana
and several cases referred to wherein SO .dicrs
and officers have been assaulted and beaten for
no other cause than merely wearing Lincoln's
hated livery.
The comments upon the war and its general
features are melancholy and full of foreboding
The foilies of Lincoln, the incompetency OF
his Generals, and the atrocious profiigacy OF his
administration, sorrowfuly depIortd
The story OF Mrs. Vallandingham's insanity is
a sheer tabreation-she glories in the fearless
and patriotic attitude her husband has taken.
The speech OF Voorhees,, made in the midst Of
threatening bayonets, and surrounded by hostile
cannon, is pronounced the abIest and most plain
sIuken and withering Grafton ever delivered on
his continent. Ii is considered far more trea-
sonaDe and obnoxious than tie one # Vallan-
bingham, which caused the iatter's arrest
There were more than rs, 000 citizens present
at the meeting at Indianapolis, on tn goth of
&
cled by several regiments and batteries of United
States soldiers, and that no one was allowed to
enter without especial permission. Voorhees,
presided, and his speech was received with en-
thuslastic approval.
The resolution stated that Government powers
are vested in three departments Legislative
Executive and Judicial and all legislative pow
er therein granted should be vested in Congress.
All power is inherent in the people. Military
power must be in strict subordination to civil
authority.
The Constitution enacts that Congress can
make no law abridging freedom of speech, and Of
the press; the right to assemble, petetion for
the redress Of wrongs, &c.
The people nave right to discuss the acts OF
public servants.
The day has arrived when the servants of tie
public, setting themselves above their employ
ees, have two wars their handsome on the
rebels, the other en- the Constitution and those
attempting to uphold it at the North
The legislature of Indiana are denounced for
deserving their seats in time of emergency, and
the Governor can only free himself from partic-
ipaton in their crime by repudlating their act.cn.
The arrest of Vallandingham for no other
cause than the exercise o: his right of free dis
cussion, has been received by the democracy OF
Indiana with feelings of just dsapprobation, as
another evidence that the first and most sacred
right of the citizen has been stricken down in
his person and we send to that gallant tribune
of the people the sympathies of his democratic
friends Of Indiana, who, though assaulted at home
by kindred oppression, are Yet prepared 10 stand
firm by him in his defence of the sacred rights of
of constitutional freedom.