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ValIandigbam's Experience In the
C0nfederacy. $50 Exposure OF his
Observation-Disclosures from General
Garfield. sa5 ~ 4nie1 ls37s''7
HEADQUARTERS DEPT or THE CUMBERLAND,
WINCHESTER, TENe;., Aug IL i I
zS01E.- nm. DeRnison; Chairman Uaio1,
State Central Committee, Col,smbas.
Ohio:
DEAR SIR: In the address of c. L.
Vallandigham to the Democracy of Ohio,
dated, Niagara Falls, July 18th, 1863, the
following passage occurs: - aanssls
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Travelling thousand miles and more
through nearly behalf of the Confed-
crate States, and sojourning for time
at widely different points, met not one
man, woman or child who was not re-.
solved 10 perish rather than yield to the
pressure of arms even in the most des
perate extremitles. AND Whatever may
and must be the varying fortune Of the.
war, in which recognized the hand of
Providence pointing visibly to the ulti-
mate issue of this great trial of the
States and people of America, they are
better prepared now every way to make
good their inevitable purpose, than at
any period since the beginning of the
struggle. These may indeed be unwel-
come truths; but they are addressed to
ever, let me add did | meet any one,
whatever his opinion or his station, po-
litical or private, who did not declare
his readiness, when the war shall have
ceased and invading armies been with
drawn, to consider and discuss the
question of reunion. And who shall
doubt the issue of the argument?
X y X
The substance of this extract is clear
ly this:
lst. That the South is a unit on the
question of resisting the Federal Gov
ernment to the last extremity, and the
unanimity is so great that he saw not
one man, woman or child that dissented
! ID. That the Confederate States are
better prepared than ever before to car
ry out their inexorable purpose of re-
| bellion.
3d. That the people of the rebellious
States, with great unanimity, declare
their readiness to discuss terms of re-
union, on the cessation of hostilities and
| the withdrawal of our armies.
1t is strange that Mr., Vallandigham
had the temerity to make the first of
these statements, when it is notorious
that no precinct in this State, not even
in East Tennessee, has so large a per
cent. of Union men as Bedford county
and Shelbyvile, its county seat, Mr..
Vallandigham's first resting place after
he left our lines That village gave
three hundred and fifty Union votes to
fifty for Secession at the beginning OF
1 the war, and it has retained its reputa.
ton for loyalty untarnished during the
struggle thus far. IF Mr.. Vallandigham
4 had attempted to ascertain the senti
ments of its citizens, he lDould haze
found that nine out of eUe'y ten wert
in fauor of immediate submission to til.
Federal Government.
l would be glad to believe it possible
that these facts escaped his notice, but
having recently visited Shelbyville, anc
conversed with large number of citi
! zens who saw and conversed with Mr.
: Vallandigham during his stay there,
am forced to the conviction that he knew
the statement quoted above to be false
; The second statement is not less wilt
t and singular than the first. He mus
have known that at the time of his visit
and before the late heavy disasters hat
fallen upon the rebellion, the CONNER
cial affairs of the South were in a mos
/. ruinous condition. Prices current stoo
: as follows: Boots were selling from So
+, to s75 per pair; soldiers brogans at 81
!. per pair; common felt hats from $40 I
!, $50 apiece; bacon, 81 80 per pound
e -four, SOC per pound; corn So 90 pc
i bushel, and other commodities in pr
y portion. He could hardly have failed I
e notice that nearly the whole availabl
d furce of the Confederacy was alread
D in the field; that bareley enough citizer
e were left at home to oversee the slave
d and manage the plantations; that th
If Confederacy was a shell, which, thong
Of made of iron, when once pierced mu