The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-09-24
SIXTEEN REASONS FOR NOT sup
o PORTING Dir. VALLANDIGHAM.

| lhIoI ost anu Tie interest OF their COun-
try at heart cannot support Mr., Val.
landigham;
l. To support Vallandigham is to
prolong the war, because, since the
rebels have given up the hope of es,
tablishing their independence by their
own strength and the hope of foreign
recognition, their only hope has been
in the anti,war party of the North led
by Vallandigham. Every vote cast
for him encourages tho rebels to con-
tinue in rebellion, and thus prolongs the
war, Therefore no peace man can vote
for allandigham.
2. TO vote for Mr.. Vallandigham
is to vote for civil war in Ohio, because
the General Government has banished
him as public enemy and will use
the power ofthc Federal Army to make
that banishment good If elected
his friends declare they will bring him
home and inaugurate him at the point
! Of the bsyonet. Tho result will be d
conflict in Ohio in which the Federal
Army will suppress the mRitia. For
this reason, no peace man can vote fol
Mr.. Vallandigham.
3, Because Mr. Vallandigham is
both a disunionist and a scccssionist
On the 7th Of February, 1861, he in.
troduced in the House Of Representa-.
tives n joint resolution proposing
amendments TO the Constitution, in
which he proposed to "diridc the com.
try into J0r sectjOns," and to lc
galize secession by making it right
in the Constitution. These amend
ments to the Constitution begin as flo
lows "Article XIII. Sec. 1. The Unjted
States are dirided into four Secfi0us Il.
yJollo~S:' = All the slavchoIding States
and all territory south Of 800 3O' anc
East Of the Rio Grande were put into
one Section to be called the SoUTu-
The second section Of this amendment
provides that before any measure car
be adopted it must have a majority O.
the votes Of the Senators from eacl
section; thus making majority Of the
votes of the Southern section necessary
and enabling the South to defeat legs
lation. Article XIV of this proposed
amendment begins 'as follows; M
state ShdH Secade With0m the consent o.
the legislatures Of the section to mhici
the State proposing to sccede belongs. :
This was intended to legalize secession
and to enable the South 10 scccd,
pcaccably. The South had dctermin
ed to scccdc, they desired peaceabl,
). secession if possible, and they there
fore employed Mr.. Vallandigham tc
introduce a proposition giving then
tho right to secede, and taking from
the Government the right topreven
secession. The proposition will b,
found on page 704 of the Congression
al Globe, Part /, 1S60-61, and on pag,
8S of the Record published by hi
friends.
= 4. Because he is in favor Of rccog
nizing the Confederacy. In his speecl
delivered in the House, January II
1868, beginning on page 173 ofthe Rec
, ord, hosays withdraw your armies,
break up your blockade" make 81
armisticc' That is give up New Or
leans, Vicksburg, and the Mississippi
River take down the flag wherever on
army has planted it, "letthe South atone,
the very thing they have been 0skin!
from the first, and recognise tie COntcd
, erdcy, the very result the rebels ar
fighting for. Onpagc 200 Of the RECORD
he says; "BW certainly what | propoS
e is Mformdl practical recognitiOn."
+ 5. Because Mr., Vallandigham ha
constantly and pcrsistcnt|y oppose,
the war for the restoration of TIL
Union, and has never voted in Con
grcss for single measure to aid tn
prosecution of the war, hut has on tn
contrary, opposed every such measur,
and done all in his power to ombarras
the Government. In his Cooper insti
tute speech, delivered on the I'd of No
vember, 1860, he declared that if an,
= ofthe States should sccedc, II NEVEl
WOULD, AS A REPRESENTATIVE
IN TIE CONGRESS- OF THF UNI
TED STATES, VOTE ONE DOLLAI
OF MONEY WHEREBY ONE DROl
OF AMERICAN BLOOD SHOULl
| BE SHED IN A CIVIL WAR;" An
f in card published in the CInciana
| Enquirer on the 10th of November
, 1860, referring to the above declaration
q he says; "Aad ToU deliberately II
peat and re-G6im il, resolved, Though
l stand alone, though all Others yieId an
D fall dcaN to make it good to the last mo
= ment of my public tJe.'-Page 81 of tn