The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-09-30
The Abolition Assaults Upon DTr.
VaIiardig ham; the Exiled Pa
triOt and Hero.

with the most monstrous lies and with
the yilest of personal attacks upon Mr.
Vallandigham. 1t seems to be theil
whole stock in trade in this campaign
to misrepresent and defame the gal
liant and patriotic exile whom the Ad
ministration has so cruelty wronged
and injured. Mr.. Vallandigham, by
the wickedness of the President, Is moi
able to meet his assailants on the
stump and blast them with the light
nings Of his indignant and forcible ell
oquence. They, therefore, with the
instincts Of the coward, basely and
maliclously invent the most horrid vi.
tuperation respecting his charactel
and political action. Bit It will avail
nothing. The Democrats we'll recol
lect that we never had a patriotic
Statesman who was not honored with
the same kind of abuse. Thomas JEFF.
ferson was denounced as an infdel, as
aperson of prohigate habits and char
acter; as the emissary of France and
the enemy of his own country; as a
'Traitor" in the Cabinet, and as a
vile and Infamous man, guilty of ev-
cry political and personal crime
There was no possible defamation and
slander that the grandfathers Of these
Abolitionists did not apply to Mr..
Jefferson. There was no abuse and
no tyranny that they did not practice
upon hisfriends and supporters. They
assaulted, they maltreated, they i'm
prisoned, and in some instances, they
murdered them in order to crafty
their 6endish passions.
The Administration of old John
Adams, in its disregard of the Consti-
tuition, its high>handed usurpations of
power, bore some resemblance to Mr..
Lincoln; but of course it was infinitely
better and more respectable. The fa-
theirs of these Abolitionists denounced
General Jackson as a murderer, a ty-
rant and adulterer, and applied to him
every other vile name that their de>
pravity and wickedness could suggest.
Who does not remember their infa-
nous persecution of the Hon. Stephen
A. Douglas, who declared that he
could travel from Washington to Chi
cago by the light of his burning eff
gies, which the minions of Abolition
ism suspended between heaven and
earth in order to show their hatred for
that patriotic and talented statesman.
Now the same game of wicked and
atrocous libel is tried upon Mr.. Val
landigham; who, in patriotism, in abil-
ity, in eloqucnce, in devotion to the
Democratic creed, is worthy of being
placed on the same list with Jefferson,
Jackson and Douglas. The people
know that the charges against Mr..
Vallandigham are as preposterous and
absurd as they are fiendish and cruel.
They know if Mr.. Vallandigham had
not been a virtuous, honorable and
true man, he would not have stood no.
bly, up and braved the torrent OF per-
secution and prescription, when he
could so easily, like Tod, and a host of
others, have purchased honors and
by selling out their prin-
cipies. They were not for sale. He
loved his country too well to assist in
her degradation and ruin for any Office
that could be bestowed upon him. His
tory presents few nobler instances of
unselfsh patriotism than that of Mr..
Vallandigham since this unhappy war
commenced, and no name in it will be
written SO high upon the escutcheon
of glorious and immortal fame.
In the future, tears of blood will be
weeped by the yotaries ofliberty, that
his counsels and his policy was not
followed, instead of the wild and silly
fanaticism of this era, and millions
will pay to his name that respect and
honor that we give to Chatham, Burke
and Fox, or to Jefferson and Madison.
He braved the fury and the malice of |
the most corrupt and wicked Admins
tration that ever ruled over an Anglo
Saxon people, and the venom of the
most Infamous faction that the world |
ever beheld. He became an exile
from his country rather than sacrifice
his honor, his manhood and his self
although by so doing he could
have had the highest places and the
richest emoluments. He put his life
and liberty, and property, in jeopardy |
rather than be false to the interests of
The people and the glory of the coun-
trv. The nennle will not fnrret Ii.