M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1863-10-15


Iandigham COmmitted-TheR Reasons
Of His Banishment.
After two years and q half Of per.
Secution - after all the lies Of the
Abolition press, ard all the malig.
nacny Of the Abolition orators had
been employed-the Administration
arraignec Mr.. Vallandigham before a
military court-martial of its own
creation upon the following atUfaI
charges. 1t was alleged that at .
public meeting in Mount Vernon,
Knox County, Ohio, and at meeting
in Columbus, M. Vallandigham said,
on or about the first Of May, 1862:
"This is a wicked, cruel and IN
necessary war"
"a war not waged for the preser.
vation Of the Union" LII
"a war for the purpose Of crushing
out liberty and creating a despOtism.'
"A war for the freedom Of the
blacks and the enslaVement OF the
whites"
"lf the Administration had 90 wis.
he'd, the war conlj have been honora
bly, terminated months ago."
"Peace might be honorably obtained
by listening to the proposed informed.
iatiOn OF France" :.
Propositions by which the South,
ern States could be now brought back,
and the South guaranteed their rights
under the Constitution. had been re-.
jected before the late battle Of Fred.
ericksburg, by Lincoln and his min.
IONS"
The Government Of the United
States was about to appoint Military
Marshais 10 every district, 20 restrain
the people Of their rights and privi.
leges." a
h Order 0s, from Headquarters
Army Of Ohio, is base usurpation Of
arbitrary authority" t,'s-r ~.
"The sooner the people inform the
minions OF usurped power that they
will not submit to such restrictions
upon their liberties, the better" !,
He (Vallandigham) was at all
times and upon all occasions resolved
to do what he could to defeat the
attempts now being made to build up
monarchy upon the ruins Of our free
Government" .
"He firmly believed, as he said six
months ago, that the men in power
are attempting to establish q ceSpot.
ism 10 this country more cruel and
oppressive than ever, ex sted before"
There, that Is all that ,oaa charged
against Mr.. Vallandigham, and for
it he was sent an exile from his home
and family into another land. ...
For using this language he 10, in
the estimation OF tie Abolition orators
and EDITORS, a convicted traitorl There
is not Democratic speaker IN the
Union, and there is hardly one Demo.
crat out of the million and . half, that
has not employed against the Admin
istration much more severe and bitter
language OF just censure and denunci.
ation. Fhs is a traitor, there are a
million and a hafJ traitors in the
free States. How utterly lost must
the liberties of the people DO when a
man is punished With Punishment and
exile for addressing his iellow-citizens
upon the manuer in which their ser.
wants are managing the affairs Of the
Government
No such proceeding could occur in
Europe, save in despotical Russia,
aud ii it is uot rebuked III Ohio at the
coming election, then the people are
poor spirited indeed, and have the
laihtest and most humble conception
Of the rights and duties of freemen.
There never was in the history Of all
this world a more disgraceful aud
abominable outrage than that COM
mitted by the Administration upon
Mr.. Vsllandigham tits admitted BY
every respectable Administration
man. .-Enquirer.