Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-06-03
Dickinson on valland,gham.


is new name for him, and divides tn
credit of, appropriateness with one W,
heard him called few days since, to wit
PiLlaiu-dam-him. Mr. Dickinson said:
A noisy, blurting braggart and gass.
traitor, named Vilindam roars of laugh
E ter and applausel or Vallandigham,l late
member of Congress from Ohio, who ha
Extensively opposed the war and justified
the rebellion from the beginning-wht
] has been openly claimed by the rebels a
their friend-who strenuously opposed
supplies for the war-who was drummeC
out of camp of volunteers in his owl
State-''Good for him-he ought to b,
hung" who, in his last race for Con
gressional honors, was allowed to stay a
home by the loyal people of his district
who resides near the borders of Kentuc
ky-has been arrested by General Burn
side, in whose military department he is
E"good"1 and the moment he is arrested
for some alleged offence in that Military
Department-we don't know for what
and his admirers here don't know fol
what, but by consent, they set up how
from Richmond to Canada in behalf oI
'free speech r' Poor Vallandigham ar.
rested in the night time and at his own
house, as though he ought to have been
arrested in somebody's else. Laughter
and applause
Two great and hasty and noisy meetings
have been held, one in New York, al
which Captain Rynders and others spoke
and even the late Thomas H. Seymour, ol
Connecticut, preached, laughter, one
at this Capitol, where his Excellency
Governor Seymour administered by let
ter. The Governor says this arrest is full
of danger to our homes. Who is danger
in his home, pray tell? No one, unless
he has done something to put himself in
danger. The pious thief and burglar,
Gordon, of Brooklyn, who attended con-
lferences and prayer meetings with the
young ladies, discovered where they kept
their jewelry, and then entered their
houses and robbed them by night, was a
\ long time in danger in his home lroars of
laughter, and by and by the cruel police
went in large numbers and with their
murderous clubs, and in the night time,
too, and arbitrarily arrested" him and
put him in prison, and the Court sent
him to State prison for twenty years. All
for stealing few trinkets. Yet Cover
nor Seymour says nothing. Had he con-
uived with rebellion for the overthrow of
the only great free Government on earth,
and he had been detected and arrested, it
would have been arbitrary" But it in
terfered with the freedom of speech. y
How? Who has objected to the freest
possible discussion. Freedom of speech
does not confer the right to go before an
enemy and stimulate mutiny and disobe-
dience and recommend desertion. 1t does
not justify any thing which, in time of
war, is calculated and intended to weak
en- the military arm of the Government
The Governor complains that the Cover
nors of the Western States haYe sunk in
to insignifcance 1t is certainly time to
be on the lookout. hope whatever may
become of other States, New York, may
not herself in the same pitiful category
Laughter 1t is certainly humiliating
position for the first State of the Union,
when the scales of our being as nation
are vibrating,-when our children are dy-
ing by thousands in defence of the Union,
to see the Chief Magistrate turn from
contemplating the picture with anxious
solicitude, to denounce the Government
and encourage the rebellion, because a
ranting, foaming, frothing. gasconading
traitor Icries of chang him, hang him"
has been charged with an offence cogniza-
BILE by martial law, and has been arrested,
and after full and fair trial, convicted.
This is the species of support which
Gov. Seymour, and those who are with
him from the beginning of the war. have
given to the Administration, and this he
calls generous" onel They now pro-
pose to ''pause," as he tells us; and if
they will but pause" in their assaults
upon the AdministratiOn-int their pro-
claimed sympathy with traitors, and it
their encouragement to rebellion-they
will confer favor upon the present and
coming generations. Applause. The
people cry pause" but it is to those en-
gagged in assaults upon the Administra-
ton, not to those who are striking death
blows at the rebellion. They cry ''pause"
but they cry to those who give aid, en-
couragement and comfort 10 the rebels.
The soldiers are among us here, and they
cry "pause," but it is that you ''pause"
in stimulating the rebellion. They have
periled their lives in defence of the Gov
ernment. With heads uncovered and
with bosoms barred, they have met the en-
emies of free institutions upon the battle
field, vociferous cheering, and they cry
s'pause" to you who are encouraging this
rebellion. The wife and the mother cry
"pause," toyou who by sympathizing with
traitors, encourage resistance to the Gov
ernment and its institutions; they con-
iure you to pause-pause in your mad ca
reer; the husband and son have been
slain; your partizanship gives aid to the
rebels. The father cries ''pause" in your
announcement to rebels in arms. ''Jos-
eph is not, Simeon is not, and you would
take away Benjamin also" There are
others who cry pause" l adopt the
language of his Excellency, the Cover
nor, and cry pause"
Our sons and brothers sleep in DEATH
Tongues which are silent in death, could
they speak, would cry pause
would say you have marched us here-we
come to defend our country's flag-we
come to vindicate the honor of our nation
we come to preserve the holy memories
that cluster around the banner for which
our fathers fought; you have lent hope
and encouragement to rebellion; ''pause"
in your course. Yes, l say pause
When you sit down at your table pause"
set vacant chair there--a skeleton will |
be at your side. When you proceed to
your chamber "pause" death will be there.
At the hour of midnight "pause;" the
pale face and skeleton finger will point to |
the record of aid you have given the reb-
els in arms against the Government. I'll
these men arenot punished,at judgement
if not here, l shall be mistaken. For
men who assist in this rebellion, if not
executed and damned eternally hereaf-
Ter, hemp will lose its value, and hell will
'orfeit its charter for misuser. lGreat
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