Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-07-14
The President I'm the ValIan-
Cigham Case,

90 proceed TO Washington and to en-
deavor to secure Mr. VaIlandigham's re-
lease, has been published. Were it not
for its great length and our limited space
we would give it in full.
The letter of the committee to the Presi.
dent, is couched in the most respectful Ian
guage, and gives that functionary to under
stand that the Democracy of Ohio do not
ask the revocation Of the order banishipg
Mr. Nallaudigham as favor, but as
right, due to an American citizen,i in whose
personal injury the sovereignty of the PEG.
pie Of Ohio, as a free State, have been of
Tended. The committee, therefore, claim
the revocation of the Sc ntonce of Mr.. Val
landigham upon lawful and constitutional
! grounds, and intimate to the Executive that
by con tinuing him in exile the public safe
ty will be far more endangered than by re-
leasing him to the enjoyment of those
rights which vast majority of the people
OF Ohio believe he has been unconstitution-
ally deprived.
The Presidents reply to the Committee
is on par with other pred uctions that have
eliminated from the Executive Mansion
within the past year. 1t takes the same
position as was the reply to the New York
committee and is equally if not more absurd
and ridiculous.
Indeed 1t does seem to US that our Chief
Magistrate Is endeavoring to make himself
appear as ridiculous as possible. While
he re-asserts his right to make arbitrary
arrests and expresses bis belief in Mr.,
HallandigbGm's guilt, be nevertheless pro-
poses TO release him, as cur readers will
perceive, by perusing the following extract
from his letter:
II VIII make the way exceedingly easy.
l send you duplicates of this letter. in or.
der that you or majority of You NAV if
you choose, InGorse your names upon one of
them, and return it thus Endorsed To me
with the understanding that those sipning
are thereby committed to the following
propositions, ard to nothing else.
l. That there Is rebellion in the United
States the object aud tendency of which is
to destroy the national Union, ard that in
your opinion, an army and navy ore con-
stituuonal means fer supervising that re-
belIion.
z. That no one Of you will do ANYTHING
which, IN his own Judgment, will tend to
! hinder the increase or favor the decrease
or lessen the efficiently of the army or nayy
while engaged in the effort to suppress that
rebellion, and
3 That each of you will, in his spbere
do all he can to have the officers. soldiers
and seamen of the army and navy. while
engaged in the effort to suppress rebellion,
paid, fed, clad, and otherwise well proyid
! ed and supported.
And with the further understanding that
upon receiving the letter and names thus
lndorsed, will cause them to be published
Which publication shall be, within itself. a
revocation of the order in relation to Mr.
ValIandigham."
Now, OF ali the indefensible and unvar-
ranted acts of which the President has
been guilty of since his Inauguration, this
takes the lead.
ltseams that be is willing to release Mr..
Vallandigham, if the committee appoin.ed
by the Ohio Democratic State convention.
sign the truisms given above, which have
no relation to Mr.. TalIandigham's arrest
whatever. 1t is true be eudeavors to es-
tablish his guilt, of which he appears to
have no doubt, but at the same time is
ready to revoke the sentence of Punishment
It the members Of the committee will max @
l -
themselves ridiculous by signing their
names to the propositions submitted for the
purpose. lie does not require anything of
OF AIR. Valiandigham, not even asking him
to take the oath," but wishes the commit
tee to bind themselves to what thew have
always maintained.
Was ever a more nonsensical request
submitted to intelligent men? The Presj.
Gent las no more right in this case to ask
the committee to pledge themselves in the
manner required, than be had to arrest
Mr.. Vallandigham in the beginning.
The committee, however, in their reioin.
der to the letter of the Pl esideO, place the
whole matter in its true light They Ger.
tainiy leave our worthy Executive in pre-
d'cament from which he will find it diffic
ent to escape. They warn him against the
further exercise of arbitrary power in
Ohlo' aud expose the erroneOusness and
sOphlstry of his arguments. They al
lege that the arrest and Punishment of Mr.,
Vallandigham, if they weredeserved and the
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president had the legal right to make them,
ought not to be revoked, merely because
the committee hold, or express opinions
accordaDt with thts Of the President Rut
II the arrest and Punishment " ere not legal
or were not deserved, as the committee
hrmiy believe, then surely, Mr.. Vallandie.
ham is entitled to a discharge, without
considerations from any quarter.
The letter of the President is a remarka-
bic document; discreditable to the country.
and can but excite contempt for its author
SOLDIERS VOTE IN CoNNEcrIcUT.-The
Judges of the Supreme Court of Connect
cut, at the request of the Governor, have
given their opinion upon the act of the
General Assembly providing mode of ta>
king the votes-in the election of State
and other Ofhcers-cf persons absent from
the State as volunteers in the military SER
wee Of the United States, that the same is
uncOnsti utional and void. The judges ssy
that the provision of the constitu ton clear.
~ indicate an unquestionable purpose, in
those who framed and those who adoptsd