The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1863-10-01
vallandigham's Record.

In MS speech at cooper Institute,
New York, Nov. 2, 1860, a short time
before South Carolina seceded-we copy
from his own published vOlumc-he
said:
"If any one or more Of the States Of
this Union should at any time secede-
for reasons Of the sufficiency and justice
of which, before God and the great tri-
bunOl of history, they alone may judge
much as I should deplore it, never
could, as a Representative in the Congress
of the United States, vofe one dollar of
money ,ohereJy one drop Of american
blood should be shed in civH toar."
In the Cincinnati Enquirer of Nov
10th following, in a card, Mr. Val
landigham says to this New York dccla
ration: "And now l deliberately repeat
and le-afhrm it," He further says IN
the same card: Coercion is civil war;"
so he was utterly opposed to coercion,
and soon afterwards declared in pres
ence Of several Of his colleagues in Con-
gress, "that the troops Of Ohio, before
they should march through his district
10 coerce the South, would have to
march over his dead body"
On the 7th of January, 1861, aftOr
Major A nderson had moved from Fort
Moultrie to Fort Sumter, Mr.. Adrain
of New Jersey, Democrat, introduced
the following resolution in the U. S.
House of Represe ntives:
Resolved, That We fully approve Of
the bold and patriotic actof Major nder-
son in Withdrawing from Fort Moultrie
to Fort Sumter, and Of the determina-
ton Of the President to maintain that
fearless officer in his present positions;
and that zoe ,oiU support the President in
all constitutional measures to enforce the
la,os and preserve the Union.
Vallandigham voted against this res.
olution!-just as did the other traitors
then in Congress! He was then, as he
is to day, opposed to supporting the
President Cat that time Mr. Buchanan)
'in all constitutional measures to enforce
the laws and preserve the Union," his
"constitutionaP talk since is the sher.
est pretence. He favored then just what
he does now-submisSiOn to secessionl =,
On the I'd February, 1861, Mr.. Val
andigham voted against the Loan Bill
(S25, ,000,0 ,000)-a bill to enable tht
Government to be carried on, after itt
treasury had been left empty by the
traitor Cobb, the Democratic Secretary
of the Treasury.
In letter to Sabin HOugh, "a pulpi
pOliticinn,) of Cincinnati, dated Apri
: 26, 1861, he said: "his too late for an,
thing but tpedceable separation"
In letter dated May l3, 1861, ad
dressed to Richard H. Hendrickson n
and others, of Middletown, Ohio, speak
ing ofthe Presidents proclamation call
ing out 5000 volunteers to put dowr
the rebellion, Vallandigham said:
. "7he auddclous usurpation Of Presi
dent Lincoln, for Which he describes in,
peachmcnt, in daring against the yer
t letter of the Constitution, and withou
Il shadow of law, to f'rnise and supper
armies" for three or FIVE years, b
a mere executive proclamation, 1 wi
# not vote to sustain or ratify--NEvER.-
" Millions for defence--not a dollar or
d men for aggressive or offensive war"
10 -AOS------
COMMISSIONER OF IMMIaRATIoN. =
- We notice that Benno Speyer, ESQ
= Commissioner of Immigration for ii
State of Ohio, has returned to his hon
in Cincinnati In few days he wi
:, submit to the Government report
-, his labors 10 Europe. The Cincinna
Commercial, speaking of his rstur
~ says:
During his sojouru in the 9th
hemisphere, he visited every part of Il
Germanic States, including Russia al
Austria, and spent some time, likewit
v in France and England. lie found t
n people we'll Informed upon the subje
of the rebellion, and q widespread Al
nd lively sympathy with the Govern me