The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1863-10-01
How Vallandigham is Regarded IN
the South--statement of a Refugee.
CINCINNATI. Sept. "a, 1863.

How ValIandigham is Regarded In
the South--S tatement Of a Refugee
C1No1NNATI, Sept. "a, 1863.
EDITORS CoMMERc1AL:-Tho writer
having come from tho interior of the
Confederacy, where he has resided du-
ring these long years Of dreadful war,
and seeing the contest now wsged in the
loyal State of Ohio, for the Gubernato'
raj Office, feels called upon to tell the
Ohioans how one of the candidates for
their votes is regarded by those. in re-
rebellion against the Government.
G. L. Vallandigham is, and has been
regarded by the rebels as their devoted
and efficient friend His public speech
es of the last two years, have been pub
lished and repubished in the Southern
papers, and sown broadcast over the
country. The Memphis Appeal print
ed at Atlanta, Ca, issued them in full
t,oice, and eulogizcd them, for the sake
of keeping up the spirit Of the people,
by showing how the "Yankees" we're
quarreling among themselves, These
party dissensions at the North are, and
have been, ever since the outbreak of
the war, the chief support of tho REBEL.
ion. "King Cotton" as inducing for
eign intervention, was the first hope,
but that being proved to be the "hope
deferred, which maketh the heart sick, !"
Cotton has lost his crown, and foreign
nations have not yet interfered. The
hope of division in the North, that
would completely clog the wheels of the
Government, early in the rebellion
cheered their hearts.
These divisions were to strip the
President of his power to carry on the
war-.to compel him to turn his atten-
ton to the preservation of peace in
the loyal States, and thus enable the
rebels to win such success in the field
as would lead to foreign recognition and
ultimately to Confederate independence
In promoting this object they have al
ways regarded Vallandigham as lead
sr. He has done them more effective
service in this way than if he had been
heading a column in the rebel army.
The rebels were willing to use hin
in this way, anxious to see him SOW thc
, seeds of dscord over the land, whilt
they laughed at his schemes Of compIo
mise and reunion. He may have beer
o honest enough in advocating these, bu
what cared they what he advocated, ifir
so doing it he weakened theGovernment
and aided them in their work Of destruC
tion7
= The old serpent used the fair fruit {
the tree of life, when be betrayed th
innocence Of Eden.
Talk of ''compromise." The reb
It leaders desire no compromise. The
n, would not accept it. They despise ii
y namo. They sneer at its NOrthern a,
!, vocates, but they willingly use them
L tool. Whom the gods would destrc
le they first make mad" is an a
tn age of antiquity, which seems to ha,
ve found its verifcation in their case. I
a sanity, stepped in bitterness, rules t
TO hour. The only way in which Il
We people can be reached is through IL
IT, destruction of their military powor.
at Thalk of unconstitutional acts. WI
to care they for the Constitution? TIL
live, or pretend to live outside its ran
ty beyond the limits of the Unit
d. States, They rejoice to see the Mort
ms ern people quarreling over this bone
n, contention. 1t gives them AnOtt
ms chance to establish tho Confederaoy
,as the most complete despotism that g,
re- cursed this fair earth. ..
I'D Those in the North, who have helped
de- keep alive these dissensions, are /
ate friends of the rebels, and are labori
in their cause. When Vallandigh
ear was arrested, the rebels were both
ly. and rejOiced. Sad because one of th
cd, friends was removed from position
md effective service to their cause, and
ers ioiccd because they believed the crt
by in the North had come. They expe
ing ed to see the partisans of Vallandi
ham raise an jnsurroction at home, ,
thus overthrow the power of the Pr
..., dent. They were disappointed in
..J result; and when their Northern CHI
a. pion was shipped off to their mi
they had no further use for him tn
W" lie was sent back speedily as nea
on possible to the scene of his fort
in machiuations, where he might still la
or hand in hand with them for the destr
~ ton of the constituted Governmen
u the country. NERITAS
lus. The Synagogue of which Rev. Il
ton NJ. Wise is the Rabbi, and the Tai
a. Yelodim Institute, of which he is P
~ ident, requested him decidedly