The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1863-09-18
MR.. vALLANDIGHAM
Aud the Biil to Increase the Pay Of
Soldiers. His Con sisteucy vindi-
Gated from the Attacks OF his own
partizan.

| On the second OF November, 1860 pri-
or TO the rebellion and before the scccs.
sion Of any rebel State, in q speech de-
lyered nt tho Cooper Institute, in the
city Of New York, Alr. vallandigham
made the following pledge to the people
Of the United States .t.-
fany one or more Of the States Of
this ULion should at any time sccede--
for reasons OF the suilicicncy aud Justice
Of which before God aud the great tribu.
nal OF history, they alone may Judge
much as may deploro Il, never would,
as a Representative in the Congress of
the United States, rote one dollar Of mon. 4.
sy Whereby one drop Of American blood
should be shed in eirH par. ~ Mr.. VS.
Rs,orl, p. 81.
In another speech delivered to his
constituents Dayton, Ohio, on tho I'd
of August, 1861, Immediately after the
close of tho I'd session Of the last Cou.
gress, he made tho following statement
having reference to the pledge above quo
ted:
L have not voted for any army or ma
Wy bill, or any army or navy appropria-
tion, since the meeting of Congress on
the Ith of July, is6l."--[Mr. VS. Rec
ord, p. l47.
In a third speech, made hy him ut
Newark, N. j., and reported in the New
York World the following sentences oc.
cur:
81 remember that il was in the city OF
Newark, little more than two years ago
that ] first gave the pledge to any por-
ton of tho people of the United States,
that | never would ntributc, by my
isords or acts, to the shedding of one
Z drop of blood in civil war. (Great ap-
T, plausc.) How far aud consistently
! have kept that pledge, let you, a part of
I my countrymen, determine"
! retiD face OF the above pledge ns TO
what he pouid not DO in the event of u
! civil war, and oi the foregoing assertions
\ in regard to what he had not done, some
of his too zcaloss partizans, in tho face
alike Of his Congressional Record, and
OF his own solemn pleGgc and dcclara-
tions, say Of him that he was guilty Of
the gross Inconsistency of supporting the
( Bill passed ut the special session of Con-
gress for the increase of the pay of pri-
vutc soldiers from 81 to Sl3 per month.
( IL Mr.. v. had voted for that bill. he
would have voted not " one dollar only,
but many millions of dollars, :" whereby
not one drop" merely, but many thou
sands Of drops "of American blood should
bo shed in civil wm." Nor would il
buyo beon true, on the I'd of August 1862 +,
as Mr. V. then said il wns, that he had
4" voted for no ARMY BILL OR NAVY BILL"
An examination Of Mr.. VS. Congress
fsionpl Record in respect to the Bill in
question, shows that he is gailty of no
such Inconsistency. The original Bill
for the increase OF the pay OF private sol
diers designated as Senate Bill No. 69)
was introduced into the Senate on the
4th Of August, 1861, the last day but one
OF the session, by Mr.. Wilson, Of Massa.
chusetts, and as at first introduced con.
sisted of a single section only providing
for the increase of the private soldiers
pay from 81 TO $l3 per month. Upon
its introduction q motion was made by
Senator Colamor, of Vermont, aud adopt.
cd by vote of 10 yeas to IL nays, to in
crcnse the monthly pay to S 10 per month.
II being 50 amended, on motion of Mr..
Wilson new section was added, "lcgul-
izng aud approving all dcis proclGmaiions,
and orders of the President alter the 4th
of March, 1861, respecting the army aud
navy, and calling out aud relating to the
militia and volunteers" Most of these
acts aud orders Of the President Mr.. V.
had denounced as unconstitutional and
void, and on the 10Th OF July previous
had introduced into the House Resolu-
ton decla ing those. orders and acts of
the President unconstitutional" aud
without warrant of Lawn and denounc-
ing the President as u I" "usurper" on ac-
count Of them. Ifthc opinion expressed
by Mr.. V. in his resolution was correct,
most of the soldiers and sailors called
out by the President would have been. en-
titled to no pay at all, unless those or
ders and acts were madelegtl BY acts OF
Congress as was proposed by the new
section of the Bill. But the Bill SO
amended, passed the Senate by vote
OF SO yeas to nays, the rebel Brecken-
ridge, and the rebel con ioderntcs, Powell,
Polk, Kennedy, and. Salisbury, voting
against it.-[Cong. Globe, Vol. /, 37th
Cong, PIP. 4a8, 442.
The Bill went TO the House the same
day, and was sent to the Speakers table.
After II was there, Mr.. Stevens, Chair |
man OF the Committee of Ways aud
Means, (and who had charge of the Bill
in the House, asked "the consent of the
House to call from the Speakers table
Senate Bill No. SO, to increase the pay
OF non-commission officers, musicians,
privates," &c. h
Mr.. Vullandighsm (thereupon) sob
jected To the introduction Of the Bill till
he could hear il readn sand asked for the
reading of it," "The Bill was then read
at length" After 1t was read, MIR. v.
said 81 must still object to the intro
duction of the Bill"
Upon Mr. VS. insisting on this objec- |
ton, Mr.. Stevens was compelled to re-
sort to u vote of the House, and upon q
vote being taken, sc voted in favor of
taking up the Bill, and 10 against il, no
quorum voting. To save call Of the
House in order to obtain a quorum, Mr.. !
=. appealed TO Mr.. V. to withdraw his |
objection. In reply to this appeal, Mr.. |
v. soys, al will withdraw my objection |
to the frat section If the gentleman will
consent to have the second section |
stricken out" thus showing as clearly as
language can, that he was opposed 10
both sections, but was willing to compro.
mise his objection to the first, is Mr.. s,
would consent TO sirfke Out the second.
To this proposition Of Mr.. v. Mr.. S. re-
piled, connot do that" and the House |
proceeded to take second vote upon the
question Of taking the Bill from the table
and while this second vote was progress.
ing, Mr.. ". foreseeing that he would be