Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-07-09
The President,s Reply.

We publish to day President Liucoln's
reply to the Ohio Vallandigham Committee,
whose mission 1t was to visit Washington
few days ago and in the name of the
Democracy Of Ohio, request Mr. Vallandig
hams release. Mr. Lincoln met the Com
mittee in personal interview, and in that
interview requested them to state their
grievances in writing, which they after
wards did. To that writing his letter this
morning ia a reply, and our readers will
End 1t very interesting, covering, as it
does, the main points which compelled the
Presidents endorsement of Gen. Burnside's
arr, st of Vallandigham and the sentence
of the court martial sending him beyond
the lines of our army.
Mr.. Lincoln's letter is remarkable, as all
his argumentative documents are, for its
simplicity and clearness as well as the
fraukness with which he states his couVic-
tons, and the keen analysis with which he
exposes sophism, which if admitted would
be destructive to anything like his ade-
quate power in the prosecution of the war,
about the suspension of the writ of Habeas
Clrpus? We do not see how it could be
improved. Could any review of Vallan-
d gham's course, in and out of Congress,
BIS more sententiously yet uuanswerably
expressed than in the paragraph wherein
that the bindrance of eulistments-the re-
sistance to the errollment-the shooting of
government officers, has been ''due to the
course in which Mr.. Vallandigham has been
engaged. in a greater degree than to any
other cause and is due to him personally
In a greater degree than to any other man"
Is there loyal man in the land who doubts
this7 Or is there one such who will not
agree with the President that the "whole
burden of his speeches has been to stir up
men against the prosecution of the war,
and ia the midst of resistance to it be
has not been known in any instance to
counsel against such resistance" All men
who read know that these few words de.
zoe exactly Mr.. Vallandighams status and
along with him all those who now, through
the old name of Democracy, insidiously
poison tie public mind in favor Of dis
honorable peace. Even if the President
had not made the point against Vallandig-
ham his own record would make it. II
any one will turn TO the Appendix of the
Congressional Globe, page $40, seth Cong.
Al Session, they will find that in a very in
cendiary speech, he made the following
remarks:
"Aud now let me add that did say, not
In Washington, not at dinner table, not
10 the presence of ERE eaters, but in the
city of New York, in . public assembly of
Northern men, and in public speech at
the Cooper Institute, on the I'd of Novem-
Der, 1860, that, IF any one or more of the
States of this Union should, at any time,
secede-for reasons of the sufficiency and
justice Of which, before God and the great
tribunal of history, they alone may judge
much rs deplore it, [nerer IeouEd, as a
Representative IN the Congress of the Unlted
States, Uote one dollar of money, rksre6y one
drop Of -americGH blood should be shed IN q
ciriL tcdr' That sentiment. thus uttered in
ths presence OF thousands of the merchants
and solid men of the Tree and patriotic city
of Nav York, was received with vehement
and long continued applause, the entire
vast assemblage rising as one man, aud
cheeriI g for some minutes. And now de- |
repeat and reatfirm it, resolved,
though stand alone, though all others
yield and tall aWay, to make it good TO the
! s. moment of my public life" 4.
Whist is the use of auy man claiming to
be loyal with even ons such unretracted
a.terance in his record. yallandigham has
.ept his wOrd-hs never yeti has voted a
I0llar or man to the ws.. K