New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-10-12
PENNSYLVANIA And CElIC.

The vote of these great States tomorrow will
90 very far toward determining whether ma
jority of the People of the loyal States do now
or ever did really desire and purpose the over
throw of the Shareholders Rebellion, and as
such is awaited with profound interest through
out the country. In this light only are to-
morrow's elections of decided interest; for no
Members of Congress are to be chosen and no
choice of u. S. Senator depends on the result.
Mr.. C. L. vallandigham is very generally re-
garded by Unconditional Unionists IS a worse
man than orr Governor Seymour and the
trimming, balancing, ss-sawiug politicians
of whom he is tie most conspicuous. We non
concur in this estimate. Val. is a deyotee Of
the Slave Power, mistakes Slavery for the Con-
stituton, and is as wrong headed as man can
be; but, for a Comprehend aspirant in these
days, we consider him unusually honest. He
never pretended to desire or favor a vigorous
prosecution of the War" for be has from the
outset not only dctestcd and exccrated Tie War
for the Union, but has frankly and faithfully de-
clarcd it. He does not pretend to Lave been
aienatcd - the Emancipation policy; for he
has realized from the outset ard never even
seemed to deny that. the Rebellion beng
lpalpablv a Shareholders demonstration III
behalf of Slavery, it was not possible
earnestly TO fight it without fighting Slavery,
nor to put it down without putting down
Slavery. Noone can seriously doubt that. had
he remained as he was born II resident of a
Slave State, he would have been q jealous,
fighting Rebel his migration to Ohio was
blundcr for which not lac but his father is re-
sponsble Having been sent TO Dixie by Gen.
Burnside, lie ought TO have remained there,
scGnt and unsavory as the fare is. If he were
running to-day for Governor Of South Carolina
under the JEFF. Davis regime, We could consci-
entiously certify to his capacity and fitness for
the post. Admit his main premise that the
Constitution of the United States has for its
chief end the buttrcssing and perpctuation Of
Savery-that Whatever threatens Slavery as
sails tho ConstitUton-and he is a consistent
and loyal statesman. lie does not want the
Union dydcd-hc only wants il so transformed
and reconstructed that the Slave Power can
have lis will of it eyermore-that Blacks may
be legally brutes and Aboli;i9nistS shot or hung
wherever and whenever they may BE- found.
Such Union would fulfill his idea Of political
perfection; and, because il suits him, he per-
sists in believing that the Rebel Shareholders
would eagerly return 20 it. II Is in vain that
they tell him to his face that lie is utterly mis-
,aken--he will not believe them-he knows that
they ought to be satisfied with the Union "a he
would have it-wherc'orc he asserts in their de-
spite that they rouid be. He patterns closely
after the philosopher who, being informed that
his theory was at war with the facts, coo,ly re-
Piled, $50 much the worse for the iac's."
The election Of Mr.. Vallaldigham would be
simply an official declaration by q majority OF
the voters Ct Ohio that they sympa,hze with
the Rebels and desire their triumph No mat
ter though half or two-thirds Of those voters
did not mran this-meant only to "vote the
regular Democratic ticket as their fathers did
before them meant TO pronounce against
Arbitrary Arrests" or whatever else you
please-the egect would be exactly what we
have stated. There is not an ambassador or
political agent of any sort in our country who
would not write thereupon to his Government
that the great central State OF Ohio had voted
against further prosecution of the War for the
Onion. If Lord Lyons could deduce, III sub
stance, this from Seymour election in ourSiate,
NEar he -
equivoca demonstrations of his lieutenants, he
would surely Ear more positively and reasonably
draw a like inference from the triumph OF Val
landigham. But the Ohio soldiers vote; and,
though enormous frauds will doubtlessbc per-
petrated by the Copperheads Of the darker
Counties, We do not believe they can cheat
enough to save him from defeat of many
thousands. His election would be by far the
most important and substantial triumph of the
Rebel cause in 1868, and an all but fatal blow
to the integrity Of the Union.
Judge Woodward, who is the Vallandigham
Of Pennsylvania is by far the crafticr politician,
has an excellent talent for silence, and will Sc
cure good many votes from thoroughly loyal
men. The fact that no Pennsylvania soldier
can vote unless personally present a. the poll of
the district in which he resided when he enlisted
or was drafted, gives him an immense advant-
age in the canvass-certainly not less than
Forty thousand votes. His friends shirk the
National issue 10 the utmost OF their ability,
hoping to win by personal assaults on Gov.
A.
issues This assures US that they know as well