Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-03-14

With the earnest wish, sir, that your life
may be spared for many long years of future
usefulness, extend the right hand Of fellow.
ship and again bid you cheerful and hearty
welcome home
MR.. vALLASDIGHAn's RESPONSE.
After acknowledging in fitting terms The
cordial aud enthusiastic reception, he referred
to the struggle now going on between despotic
power and liberty, and Of the discrimination
of the Democratic party to maintain free
speech free press aud the ballot box, at ell
hazards. He was for obedience to all laws,
and for requiring the men in power also TO
obey them. He would try all questions Of
constitution and law before the courts and
then enforce the DEGREES Of the courts. He
was for trying all political questions by the
ballot He would resist no law by force; he
would endure almost every other wrong as
long as free discussion, free assemblages Of
the people and free ballot remained but
the moment they we're attacked, he would re
sist. We had right to change Administra
tions, and policies and parties, not by forcible
revolution, but by the ballot box; and this right
must be maintained at all hazards. He would
try the question OF the constitutonality and
validity of the Conscription Act in court, and
argue its inexpediency and odiousness be-
fore the people, but would have no resistance
to it, He then referred TO the three hundred
dollar provision and denounced il Us an IN.
just discrimination against the poor. He
proposed that the City Council of Dayton
land he recommended the measure TO
the citizens Of Cincinnati, OF Chicago,
and Of all the cities of the North
should appropriate money enough and vote a
tax for it, to release the city from the draft,
and thus spare the lives and limbs Of her citi-
zens who we're too poor to pay The tax
would equalize the burden and make the rich
pay some part of that "last dollar" Three
hundred dollars too, was just the price fixed
by an Abolition Congress for the emancipated
negroes Of the District of Columbia. II ioas
no'O the ePriee Of blood The Administration
said 10 erery man beiioeen toenfy and fortv-
fpe, THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS OR
YOUR LIFE. A tax by every city, township
and county was just the way to meet il and
equalize it.
He closed by q touching allusion to the
assassination of his friend Bollmeyer, the
first martyr in the cause of Constitutional
liberty. He missed from that vast assemblage
one familiar face, one manly form That
form once possessed as manly, as noble a
heart, as God ever gave to man. That form
now mouldered beneath the clods of the
valley, but his memory was still dear and
would ever remain so to the friends of the
Union and of law and order.
Mr.. VALLANDIoHAx descended from the
steps, from where he had spoken, entered
us carriage and was escorted by the crowd
his residence.
No man in this country has been more
.Alamously abused and denounced by the
Abolition leaders, their party press. min
ions and tools, than Mr.. VALLAxDloHAM.
But he has passed through the furnace Of
persecution unscathed, with not even the
smell of fire upon his garments. He
stands forth to-day the acknowledged able
and fearless champion of the Constitution
al rights of free people. The memory of
his noble, Self-sacri6cing efforts to preserve
intact the liberties of the people, will Eve
in history long after his revilers are for
gotten, or remembered only as Bum and
ARNOLD.