Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-05-28

Inc JujRe AuVOcate ODJected 10 tlrc
question. Of course the witness had pen
Gil and paper.
Q. Did you take notes Of any other
speech
commenced taking notes OF Mr..
Cox's speech; but considered it harm less,
and stopped. | took no notes Of any
other speech.
Q. Were You not sent expressly to lis
ten to my speech
| was not, any moro than any other
speech.
@. By whom were you sent or rcques.
ted to go =?
A. BY Capt. Andrew G. Kemper, AS
sistant Adjutant General of the Military
Commandant of the City.
Q. From whom did you obtain leave Of
absence
Judge Advocate. lie did not need any
leave Of abscence; the order was enough.
Mr.. Vallandigham. Then strike out
the words cor requested" from the an
swer for it leaves it ambiguous.
Q. Did yon make report to Capt KEN
per on your return?
The Judge Advocate objected to the
question, but the Court allowed it.
A. On my return l did not report to
Kemper.
@. To whom did you report ?
A. To Col. Eastman himself, and he
sent me to Headquarters Department of
the Ohio.
This closed the testimony of Captain
Hill on both the direct and cross-exam-
ination.
The Judge Advocate called
Captain John A. Means, 115th o. V.
l., who was sworn. lie was asked by the
Judge Advocate if he was at the Mount
Vernon meeting, and whether he heard Mr..
Vallandigham speak, and if SO, what he
said Of the war, &c,
Witness. | was at the meeting, and
heard Mr.. Vallandigham address the peo-
pie. l was in two or three positions
most of the time, and about five or ten
feet from the stand. heard the whole
speech.
By the Judge Advocate. State what
remarks you heard him make, and. give
as near as you can his language.
Witness. He stated that the war was
not carried on for the restoration of the
Union; and that it might have been stop
ped some time ago, and the Union restor
ed, if the plans which had been submit
ted had been accepted.
Mr.. Vallandigham objected to this tee
timony on the ground that he had applied
for subpoena to compel the attendance of
Fernando Wood, who would produce the
writted evidence of what he (Mr. " had
asserted about the return of Southern
Senators to their seats in Congress.
Judge Advocate. l will strike from
specification that part which refers to the
propositions by which the sSouthcrn
States could be won back" DC.
To the witnes: You will omit that part
of your testimon
Witness continues: eff the plans he
had proposed himself had been adopted,
peace would have been restored, the Un-
ion saved by reconstruction, the North
won back and the South guaranteed her
rights. That Richmond, Charleston and
Vicksburg had not been taken, and the
Mississippi was not opened, and could
not be as long as there was cotton on the
banks to be stolen or officers to be en-
riched. He said that after the rebuke
which the Administration received at the
last fall elections 10 more volunteers could
be had, and the Administration had to
sort to the French conscription law. But
he would not counsel resistance to militia
ry or civil law. That was not needed.
The people were not deserving to be free
men who would submit to to such en-
croachments on their liberties.
Mr.. Vallandigham. What was refer
ring to, when made the remark you say
l did?
Witness. He was speaking of the Con-
scription Act. He said he believed the
Administration was attempting to erect q
despotism, and in less than one month
Lincoln had plunged the country in this
cruel, bloody end unnecessary war. He
stated that General Order No. 3S was a
usurpation of power that he despised- he
spit upon it and trampled it under bis
feet. That he for one would not regard
y it. He styled the officers of the Admin.
q istration and officers of the army as Lin
q coin minions. He said lie did not ask
, Lincoln or Burnside whether he might
q speak; that he was a free man and spoke
as he pleased. He stated the military
orders and proclamations were intended
to intimidate the people and prevented
them from meeting as they had done that
day. He claimed the right to discuss and
criticise the actions of the civil and mil
tary authorities
@. Did he advise the people to take
any steps to obtain their rights3
q A. At the close of his speech he advis-
ed the people to come up together and at
the ballot-box TO hurl the tyrant from his
throne. In one part of his speech he styl-
O ed the President as King Lincoln.
Cross examination by Mr.. Vallandig,
i ham-Q. Did you take any notes at all
during the delivery of the speech, or are
? you testifying solely from mepory3
a A. took no minutes during the deliv-
n cry of the speech. After Pendleton COM
r, mencod speaking, went and wrote out
what l heard 1t was perhaps an hour
!. and a half after l heard the speech
;. @. About what was the length OF the
j. speech? ~
q A. | think about an hour and half,
a o. You made no short hand report OF
IS it, suppose. Did you ever report IN