Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-09-07
VaIIandisham, the Liar and Traitor.

SstT 1ustiess of the Peace-DANIEL STEPHAN,
fRBDERICk A. aL---SD.=
yaIlandieham, the Liar and Traitor.
Strong villainy requires strong words Of |
condemnation. Sensitive COpperheads
nay vince and grOwl at being called Cop |
perhsads, OF at having their High Priest |
called liar and traitor. But the evil
dence Of the truth OF these charges has
lately been piled so high and SO strong that
no amount Of denial can overthrow it.
The official record Of VaIlandigham in
Congress is enough to condemn him as an
enemy Of the Government and its pres
ervation. That record we have lately
made public in a succession Of reviews Of
his Congressional career, and no candid
man can read those reviews carefully with
out agreeing with cur conclusions. But
that record, conclusive as it is, is only
mart Of the evidence Of Vsllandigham's
treason, and the part that he carefully
guarded. because it was to BE his official re-
cord. Within the past week no less than
four different and widely separate witness
es have given their testimony to the pub
lie to prove beyond doubt that Vallandig-
ham has reached the lowest depths of
degraded and purjured traitor.
A dispatch from Stevenson, Alabama,
dated August 8Ist from a reliable cores
ponIent, reports that repeated converse
tons with Union citizens of Alabama and
Tennessee, proved as fact beyond dispute
thst while Valiandigham was in that sec
tion, after his exile, he repeatedly exhorted
the rebels to hold on 10 Vicksburg, declsr
ing that the success of his party in Ohio
Sapapded sItogsiber on the ability Of the
armies besieging that place.
The evidence of this fact is stated as
abundant and indisputable, loyal men be-
ing gready to testify to it under oath.
One day later, comes a report from one
EHenry Reinish," who processes to have
lately returned from Richmond, that an
officer Of the Confederate Government as
sured him that the invssiOns-Of Pennsyl- L
vania by Lee, and of Indiana and Ohio by
Morgan-were made upon the representa-
tions Of "a that true Southern man." VAL
landigham; that the North only wanted
the presence of rebel force to rise and
overthrow the Lincoln Administration in
fayor Of that Of JEFF. Davis. Now, this
GHenry Reinish" may be entitled TO no
credit, IS he is an utter stranger to the
public, but the intelligence no gives is in
perfect accordance with the character Of
Fallandigham, and with a speech which
he made in New Jersey in which he said
that under certain circumstances the South
ought to invade the North.
The European newspapers received by
the last steamer, bring TO hand letter
written to the London Times by Lieuten-
ant NJ. F. Maury, who has lived for many
years on the bounty Of the United States,
but is now vile rebel, dated August 17th,
In which he discusses the prospects Of the
rebels, and claims that they are stronger
than ever before. Among the reasons he
adduces to prove this ststsmsn! is the fol-
lowing:
Vallandigham waits and watches over
the border, pledged-f elected GOVeraOr Of
the Stete Of Ohio-tO GrTayit against ineOln
and the WaT, and to 90 for peace. What the
result Of the election there will be | can
not tell; but the canvass is going on, and
We know that opposition TO Lincoln and his
var party is growing more and more pop
ulsr every day, and throughout the whole
North"
This shows what sort Of assurances Val
landighRm has given the rebels in Eng
land, in one Of whose colonies he has taken
refuge after leaving the Confederaoy.
So much evidence We have given to
Prsve VaIlandigham's treason. That he is
equally proficient in lying to suit his trea-
sonable purposes, is more than proved in
an important letter which We publish here
with, from General Garfield, the Chief Of
Rosecrans' Stat, and one of the leaders oi
the Federal armies, whom Ohio and par.
tioularly the Western Reserve has IN
bounded confidence in. That letter proves
that VaIlandighsm has wilfully and grOss-
y ignored all fact in his bOmbsstic ed.
dress to The Ohio Democracy. Read that
letter and then deny if you can, in the face
Of al the evidence before you, that C. L
VGllandigham is peIjured and convicted
traitor to his country.