Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-10-07
Traitors Hypocr1cy Unmasked-
ssThe Union as It Was.

The following article, we copy from the
Norwalk Reflector. If anything were
wanting to stamp with utter hypocrisy
and impudence the pretence of Valland-
ingham that he ever desired again to see
the Union as it was,p the facts here set
forth are sufficient The article is from
the pen of the Hon. Mr.. Worchester, who
was one of Ohio's best Congressman in
the last Congress, and who knows Val
Iandigham,s written and unwritten Con-
gressional history like book:
No man of candor and intelligence can
follow and read the Record of Mr.. VAL
landigham, as it now appears in the pub
lished journals of the House of Represen-
tatives, and the Daily Congressional Globe,
without coming to the unhesitating con-
clusion, that he was from the beginning
to the end of the 37th Congress in COM
plicity with the rebels. and in heart and
purpose. as rank traitor as any rebel
General in the field, or any member of the
rebel Cabinet
The special extra session of the 37th
Congress met on the 4th of July, 1S6l.-|
On that day, Henry C. Burnet, of Ken
lucky, and W. Reid, of Missouri, took
their seats as members of that body. That
session ended on the 9th of August. Bur
net and Reid continued members of that
Congress, and were in their seats voting
and participating in all that was done, till
Saturday the Sd day of August, inclusive,
when they left, Burnet to join the rebel
Senate. and Reid to join the rebel army.
To show what ''style of man" Mr.. Val
landigham was then considered by the reb-
els, it will be seen by reference to the
journal of the special session, page 3, that
Burnet, Reid, and Ben. Wood, cast their
votes for him for Speaker of the House.
That session continued nearly i've weeks
from the 4th of July to the 9th OF Au-
gust. During that session it is well known
that vast amount of business was done,
vital to the welfare of the country. No
three members were more constant upon
their attendance in the House, than Bur
net, Reid, and Vallandigham. The vote
by yeas and nays upon questions before
the House, was taken between forty and
fifty times during the session, and 1t will
be found on examination of the lists OF
yeas and nays, that Burnet, Reid, and
Vallandigham rarely failed TO vote, and
when they did vote, they all voted to-
gether upon the same side upon srsIy Bill,
and upon each amendment TO eUsry Bill
If in any case they voted upon opposite
sides. ii was on motions to adjourn, or 9th
er matters of no significance to the i'm
por;ant business of the session. Such was
the course of Mr.. V. during the special
session.
In tracing the votes Mr.. V. gave through
the journals of the I'd and Sd sessions, not
one will be found that there Is the least
reason to believe would not have met the
iapprobation and had the concurrence OF
the traitors Burnet and Reid, had they
remained in the House, instead of openly
uniting with the rebels as they did, and
as ValIandigham, with his principles and
sympathies should have done.
But it is pretended that Mr.. V. and
those with whom he was in sympathy and
completely, wished to restore the Union
as il was. Never was there more arrant
and impudent hypocrisy. His purpose
has been and still is to promote secession,
and TO prevent restoration of 1.-The I'm
ion as it was That such has been and
still is his purpose, no testimony can be
more conclusive than his action and votes
on the bill introduced into the House just
before the close of the last session, Ito
uroyide for the election of members of
Congress, under the census of 1860, in the
States of Tennessee and Louisiana" as
they appear in the Congressional GLOBE, 81
Session, 3Tth Congress, Vol. =, PIP. l,4eS,
,4S4.
That bill was originally introduced IN
to the House by NJ. Maynard, OF Tennes-
see, to provide for elections IN that State
only, and on his motion referred to the
Committee on elections. That Commit
tee having revised the original bill, unan-
imously reported it back, with an amend
ment introduced by Mr.. Hahn, OF Louis
lana, extending its provisions to that State.
On the I'd of March, Mr.. DAVIS, Chair
man of the Committee on Elections, OBJ
tanned the unanimous consent OF the
House to report back the bill from the
Committee, with instructions from that
Committee to recommend Its passage, MI.
V. at that moment not being IN his seat,
Mr.. V. upon coming IN soon after MADE
objection to the introduction OF the Dill,
but found himself too late to defeat 1t In
that manner, as he might, and undouot-
edly would have done, If he had been IN
the house at the time it was introduced
As it was, he violently and bitterly OPP
posed its passage, under the pretext that
it provided that if person who offered
to vote should be challenged for disloyaI-
ty. his vote should be rejected unless he
would take an oath to support the Con
stitution of the United States.
The Bill however passed the House, not
withstanding the opposition OF Mr.. V. by
a vote of l04 yeas 2 nays, t0s Dem ocrats,
all the Republicans, and all the Border
States men, then in the House voting for
it except Henry May, the rebel ymPa-
thizer of Baltimore; and May, Conway OF
Kansas, and p Democrats, including Val
landigham, Ben. Wood and Wmren r
Noble, voting against it. The bill went
to the Senate the same day it passed the
House, was referred to the judiciary Gem
mittee of that body, who reported unan-
imously in favor of its passage. This was
on the last day of the session, and the bill
failed to become a law, partly owing to
the want of time, and partly to the fac
tious and persistent opposition OF two or
three Copperhead Senators. See Congress
ional Globe, Sd Session, 31th Congress,
Vol. 3. pp. 1923, 1924, 1890.
There is no bill that came before the
last Congress, for the passage OF which
Ioyal men of Tennessee and louisiana,
both within and out of Congress, who
knew about its provisions, were united or
40 earnest and anxious. Had it become
a law. as it would have done but for the
onposition of Mr.. Vallandigham, Ben.
Wood, Mr.. Noble and slieh as they, the
States of Tennessee and Louisiana would
have had nearly, if not quite, their full
number of Representatives on the hoor
of the next Congress. No act that was
competent for Congress to have passed