The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-08-07
From the Mt. Vernon Banner.
The Feeling of the Army for VAL
Iandigham.

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Iandigham.
We are permitted to publish the fol.
lowing from q letter written to E. D
Bryant, Esq, of Mt. Liberty, by friend
who is citizen of Knox county, dated
near Nashville, Tenn, July 10th, 1868.
speaking of the feeling of the army in
regard to Mr., 'Vallandigham, the wri-
ter says;
III don't Judge the signs Of the times
wrong, there is terrible alteration in
the tone of the army here, since the ar.
rest, trial, conviction and bauishment of
Vallandigham. He passed through
this place, (Nashville) and then through
Rosecrans' army, when he was sent ont
of his own State. Well, since the re-
view of the Presidents reasons for send
ing him out of the Federal lines by S.
s. Nichols, it has worked q powerful
change in the soldiers. They think now
that the President and his Generals had
no right to try any man for ''conserva.
tive treaSon;" that they can't under the
Constitution send man out of his own
State
They think if Clem. was tried at all,
it should have been by the courts of the
State of Ohio; therefore it has made
him hundreds of friends, and is making
him more every day, and will while he
stays out Of the country; and when the
President gives him leave to return that
will make him more, for they say here if
the President lets him come it will show
that they had no right to try and con-
Vict him; that they were afraid of his
political influence in the coming cam.
paign, and also the Presidential cam.
paigu Of one year from this fall. 1t is
thought by some of the best men here in
the army that he will get at least three,
ffths of the army vote, and it will not
much surprise me if the Federal powers
should take up few more of the free.
men of Ohio that he would get four out
ofevery FIVE of the army vote; for tell
you that the curses are low but deep in
the army for the way that the soldiers
have been used in the field and their
friends at home. For when it was found
out that Mr.. Valandigham tried all he
could last winter in Congress to raise
the privates wages from l3 to II dollars
per month, and curtaiI the officers wa
ges, it wrought a perfect reyoution :;
, his favor, and if he had not ,een sem
away it never wo-,,uI wo.,u nave been gener
al'v [-nown in the army what be hat
+, dcne for them; for as soon as he passed
through this place to his exile there wer
, men here who clubbed together and sen
j for the Congressional Globe, which hat
all his speeches, votes and bills in it, ant
it made change in the sentiment thu
= was nice to behold, by US at least Their
were long faces on the other side; ther
were some of them went 20 Gen. Gran
ger to have the paper stopped, bat h
told them that the Globe was the Gov
ernment paper and must come into cam
and hospitals. Then they tried to ge
: the doctors 10 stop it, under the plea tina
: the sick soldiers were too weak in tn
head, and our docter said he would sto
). the Globe and all other papers tha
n came into camp, if that wosld be salts
Is factory, and we agreed to it. The 9th
n ers could not think of that, for they mus
it have the Abolition papers, for the
;. would not hurt the head Of the sick so
h dierS; so we got our paper without an
" more trouble, and it is God-send to |
i? for it is the only paper we can get thu
d is official, that we can depend upon.-
it l want you all to do what you can fC
1t the cause in that part of the countr
|. and you may rest assured that we wi
y. not be idle here as far as we are able
is act. B. A.
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