The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1863-06-04
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Indignant Feeling of the Soldiers
against Val1andigham---How He
was Got through the Lines in
Safety.
A correspondent Of the Cincinnati
Gazette, who accompanied the military
escort which conveyed Mr.. Vallaudig-
ham to the rebel lines, writes an inter
esting account Of the affair to that pa
per, from which we CLEAN the following.
The special train with Mr.. V. on
board reached Murfreesboro from Nash
vile at 10 o'clock on Sunday night. he
was quietly taken to the headquarters OF
General Rosecrans, where the General
and some Of his staff had some cou.
versatiOn with the distinguished ex.
lie, after which he was placed in wagon
and at about 2 o'clock in tho morning
the escort started for the rebel lines
They reached house lear the outposts
of our army, little before daylight.
Here they rested for an hour, when the
party again moved on, accompanied by
flag of truce. While resting, the cor.
respondent Of the Gazette had q free
conversation with Mr.. ", who he says
manifested no bitterness of feeling
whatever, seemed inclined to do full JUS
tice to the Government in reference to
its dealings With himself, and spoke
very respectfully of Gen. Burnside
In regard to tho feeling Of the army
towards MIR. Vallandigham, the CORES
pondent says:
"None save those Immediately sur
rounding Gen .Rosecrsus knew nything
about the time whom the prisoner would
arrive or whom he would be sent South;
and consequently there was no stir and
nc excitement. This secret proceeding
was a precautionary measure for tho
personal safety of Mr.. VaIlaDdigham.
No army in the United States is in q
better state of discipline than the army
Of the Cumberland None is more ca.
silly controlled by its officers, and kept
within the strictest bounds Of propriety
and law. But had it been publicly
known throughout the camps, that the
notorious copperhead, Vallandigham.
had arrived in town, it is the belief of
those accustomed to reason most coolly
that all sense of discipline aud restraint
would have at once been lost, and that
q crowd Of ton thousand men would
have instantly collected round the Pro-
vost MarshaTs, swayed by tho widest
and most ungovcrnable excitem ent.--
What might have followed no human
tongue can tell, but it is certain that
each soldier in the army entertaius for
that man, VallandiSham, an intense and
burning hatred, which can f1nd express
sion only in curses. X They know
that every speech he made, for tho last
two years, both in aud out of Congress,
has tended to encourage the rebels, to
render moro difficult and dangerous tho
task Of their suhjugation, to indefinite.
~ prolong the war, and thus to increase
the perils of the nation and put far of
the happy period when in the midst of
peace, the soldier may return to friends
aud home. Hence the bitter personal
hatred which every soldier felt for VAL
landigham, and hence the wisdom Of
bringing him into and through Muir.
freesbOro, whilO sleep and quiet over
spread the camps. Iimagine, however.
that had the man really been brought
into the presence Of the soldiers, their
feelings of personal detostation would
have given way, and that high above ev-
cry othor consideration would have risen
their idea, which I heard expressed by
soldier yesterday, that "tho nation
was wrOnging itself in sparing the life
of Vallandigham." An effort to right
this wrong, irresistible by human power,
would then have been made, aud Val.
labdig ham would probably have pur-
chased with his blood that crown Of
mtrtSraom which he has so anxiousiy
longed for, but which he has been so de
sirous Of obtaining at cheaper rate
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