Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-10-08
Letter from Gen. Thomas T. Aleagher.
Irish Heart and Common Sense.

Irish Heart and Common Sense.
General THOMAS Francis MEAGHER, the
Irish-American patriot and brilliant orator,
was invited to address Union meeting in
Ohio, but being unable to attend, sent let
ter, from which we make the following ex-
tract:
THE EFFECT OF ELECTING yALLANDIUHAM.
Electing Mr.. Brough, Ohio yindicates and
fortiies the national government Electing
Mr. Nallandigham, Ohio abandons, and, so far
as one State can do so, weakenS and pros
trates it. Electing Mr.. Brough, Ohio stands
true to the splendid soldiers who, from the
rocks of Gettysburg, hurled back bold in
yasion-from the bluffs of Vicksburg, broke
the letters of the Mississippi, consecrating it
to freedom and the untrammcled service of a
united people, and who, at this very hour,
rain a deserved chaStiSement on the city in
which the national flag was first struck down,
and the torch of treason tossed alott as the
signal of revolt. Electing Mr.. Vallandigham,
Ohio turns her back on these brave men, dis
owns their services, discards the victories
they have won, sends them vote of repudia-
ton instead of vote of thanks, and, in place
of cheering them on in their new enterprises,
casts a cloud between them and their fame,
their proud memories, their exalted purposes
and hopes, making them feel they have pour
ed out their blood in the defeat of armed
traitors in their front but to encounter the
faithlessness and base ingratitude, or at best
the equivocal recognition and impoverished
praise, of mutinous party in their rear.
EFFECT IN THE SOUTH.
The election of Mr. Brough will deepen the
depression and confirm the discontinue OF
the South, going far to convert into woful-
ness and blank despair the ecstasies inspired
by the peace meetings and riots of New York,
Iowa, and other places where copperheads
abound, and the venom, as well as the slime,
the fangs, as well as the slippery skin Of the
reptiles, warn the community of danger.
On the other hand, the election Of Mr.. Val
landigham will rouse the dropping spirits of
the guilty States that have been so effcctually
crippled of late. 1t will revive in these States
great expectations of a diversion in their
favor, and stimulate them to renewed efforts
of desperation Summon Mr.. Fallandigham
from his congenal exile in the bosom of his
British sympathizers seat him i'll the Curule
chair of your State, let him have the disbursc-
nent Of the patronage with which it is richly
padded and not doubt OF it, the usurpers al
Richmond will have good reason to infer they
have reliable friends at the North and that
President Lincoln is beset, undermined, ham
pered and overborne by swarm of enemies.
Picture to yourselves the transports of the
refined and exquisite editors who danccd--as
the King of Dahomey dances at bis loathsome
and awful holocausts-0yer the strangllng and
mutiation Of the harmless and helpless ne
gr0cs Of New York and the massacre at Law
renee, the instigatlOn to which barbarlties-
unparalleled since the butcheries of the Sep
tembrists and the Noyades of Lyons-must
have sprung from the deepest abyses Of hell.
Picture to yourselves the transports of these
delicate and chivarous gentlemen when the
news reaches them that their persistent cham
pion, who from the outset of the war has done
everything in his power to aid the insurrec-
ton, while he has left no stone unturned that
could embarras5 and incapactate the national
government, has triumphed in his disafection
and disloyalty, becoming invested with magis-
teral functions that will enable him all the
more boldly, all the more defantly, all the
more mischievously, TO resume the line Of
conduct that compelled the national govern
ment to send him beyond our lines = y x
EFFECT ABROAD.
Nor will the election OF Mr.. Vallandigham
be hailed fifth less satisfaction in Canada and
England than in South Carolina and Virginia.
Canada will illuminate in celebration of the
event, and give full swing to the joy-bells of
her town halls and churches. The London
I1n,es-startled little and brought to its
senses by the repulse of Lee, by the surren-
der of Pemberton and Gardner, and the Greek
fire that brought home her doom to Charles
ton and awakened her at midnight to the
consciousness of her crime and the punish
ment it supremely merit8-the London Times
on its being telegraphed from Liverpool that
Mr. Vallandigham has been elected Governor
of Ohio, will be itself again; and over this
check and disparagement to the national gov
eminent will plunge into the widest raptures
of rhetoric.
The southern loan will have a sudden rise,
figuring at a premium proportioned to the
slide it has had since General Grant invested