Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-07-16
element 4. yallaniigham.

paign with Clement j.. ValIandigham rs
their candidate for Governor
The history of our country shows that
the best men we have had in it, ate pre-
cisely tho men vho have been most We
hemently abused and eliminated. All
parties in the country, ut one time or an
other, have erred in this way, and been
guilty of tho crime of cndcavoring to dc.
gtroy, by fair means or foul, the very best
man in the nation, for the simple reaso n
that he held political views not accoIdaut
with their own. But sll parties alike,
when the hour of excitement and anger
was past, and when they have found time
to review their conduct dispassionately,
have made ample amends for their wrong
doing, Our people: the masses of all
parties desire to be Just; and when con-
WINGED that they have done wrong, are
prompt to make reparation. They will.
we are absolutely certain, yet confess and
atone for the wrongs which have been
done to Mr.. Vallandigharn, For Amer
lea has never produced a purer patiiot,
or a more devoted, fearless, singh heart
ed defender of the Constitution.
We said that all parties have been gull
ty of this wrong-doing. The Wings as
sailed General jackson with bitterness
which was attested by Mr. Brough, in his
Marietta speech, when he said che rem
embered the time when it was considered
crime in Washington County" to be
one of his supporters. He was stigma
tized in the "Coffin Hand Bills" as a
wanton, cruel murderer and it was the
received opinion of the party, opposed to
him, that "War Pestilence and Famine"
were to be preferred to his election.
The Democrats assailed Mr.. Clay with
quite as much malignancy. He was
charged with "Bargain and Sale" by
which it was alleged that Adams was
made President, and lie Secretary Of State.
1t was averred that he was the inst gator
of the murder OF Cilley, who fell in du-
ell with Graves. 1t was said that he was
a proaigate in private, and scoundrel in
public life.
1t is but few years since tie country
bazed with the burning ef1igies of Ste
phen A. Douglas, whom the Republicans
execrated as the embodiment of political
villainy and personal dobauchery-at
once q political rascal, and drunken
blackguard.
But these ISLANDERS have all perished
. and sunk into the "mass of stale an(
4 loathed caumnies." The whole people
!, without respect to party, do honor alik,
to jackson, Clay and Douglas. Indeed
@ Republicans, who so late as the campaigl
4 of 1860, pronounced Mr.. Douglas, vii
G and unprincipled trickster, debauche
i alike in politics and morals, claim no'
n after the lapse Of three years. to be bet
S ter Douglas men than we, who deiende
] him against their attrocous lies.
This clanaor against Mr.. Vallandigham
e as against jackson, Clay and Douglas
is the work not of the people-but 0
/. politicians. Mr.. Vallandigham is Selec
S ted as the victim, just as Jackson, Cla.
f ard Douglas were, because from his grea
if mental capabilities, his heroic courage
= his consistent, fearless, preserving devo
ton to principle, he is regarded as tn
= most formidable, and to the politician
t Of the opposite party, the most danger
e GUS man in the Democratic organization
It This is the whole of it.
Il The Democracy of Ohio 60 before g
) intelligent, honest, and wel-meanin
.. people, and ask to be heard in vindica
J. ton of this outraged, illuminated, eS
t, lied man, who by despotic act of arbi
10 trary, lawless force, is made powerles t
" say even one word in his behalf. Will
Y generous, magnanimous people, refuse
listen to such avindication They can
not refuse without ceasing to be magnal
imous, or even just.
t. II an individual in community is char(
ed with the commission of crime, there
no man so unjust as to demand his cor
vction on the &c pdrte, one-sided, test
mony of his foes. All would say sue
conviction would be violation of a
right, and an outrage of all justice. {
would say, "Give him tlial by an i'm
partial unprecedented jury; allow him
call his witnesses. and let them be heal
in his behalf"
Now this right-which you would co
cede, nay, demqnd-for the meanest 4
ST. on that was ever accused of crime, is
that we ask for Mr.. Nallandigham. y
|. demand hearing before the people
Ohio; and if he is convicted, we shall
prompt to say: Away with him;
him be punished" But if ho is vim
Gated, as he will be, then in the name
on all that is honorable in the Americ
Sc, character, we ask that he shall so aquitc
ch without the taint Of guilt upon his II
he fame.
IN, Clement L. Vallandigham, is now f
to ty-three years old. lie is n native
on Ohio; and has, with the exceptions OF
of college life, and year or two passed
- Principal Of an academy in Maryla
ri always resided in this State-iirst in {
ish hmbiana county, and subsequently
in Dayton, Montgomery county. His
nto vate life is before the people. Amid
he storm of obloquy with which he has b
cad assailed, aUe haOe heard no charge M
against tile purity ofhis prigatc charae
His morals are unimpeachable.
= Mr.. Vallandigham entered public
eSS early, when he was but twenty-five ye
the old, as Representative in the Leglslat
ION from Columbiana county. After his
use moval to Dayton, he was elected to o.
ing gress, and for six consecutive years I
'ity resented his District to the acceptance
DC his constituents ; and would have b
lor their member now, if he had not b
=! s.o,,,,,,,, n n 1aro1 ont of his Office nv ono