Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1863-02-20
vallandigham's Speech.

vallandigham's Speech.
We extract a few paragraphs from the
speech of Mr.. Vallandigham, recently
made ii the United States Congress:
Sir. my judgement was made up and ex-
pressed from the frsl. I learned it from
Chatham my Lords. you cannot con-
dGsr America. And you have not con-
quereG Is. South. YEA never will Il is
not in the nature of things possible much
Tess under your auspices. But money you
have expended without limit, and blood
poured out ike water Defeat, debt. taxa
ttion, supulchres, these are your trophies.
In vait the peorls gave you treasure and
the soldier yielded up his life Fight,
tax, emancipate--let these. said the gen.
tleman from Maine (Mr. Pike, at the last
session, ''be the trinity IF our salvation. y
Sir, they haze become the trinity Of your
deep damnation. The war for the Union
is. in your hands, most bloody and costly
failure. The President confessed It On the
22d q September, solemnly, officially, and
under the broad seal Of the United States
And he has now repeated the confession.
The Priests and Rabbis Of Abolition taught
him that God would not prosper such a
cause. War for the Union was abandoned :;
war for the negro openly begun. and with
stronger battalions than before. With
what success? Let the dead at Frcdericks-
burg answer. . a8
And now, sir. can this war ecsoptinue p
Whence the money to carry it on? Where
the men !? Can you borrow From whom ?
Can you tax more? Will the people bear
it? Wait till you have collected what is
already levied. How many millions more
of illegal: tender to day forty one per
cent below the par of gold Can you float ?
Will men enlist now at my price !? All,
sir. it is easier to die at homc-I beg par
don but | trust | am not discouraging en-
listments." If am, then, first arrest Lin
coin, Stanton and IalIeck, and some Of
your other Generals, and | will retract
yes, will recant. But can you draft
again Ask flew England New York
Ask Massachusetts. Where are the nine
hundred thousand? Ask not Ohio the
Northwest. She thought you we're in ear
nest. and gave you all, all-more than you
demanded.
ssThe wife whose Babe FIRST smiled that day,
The fair, fond Bride of yesterday eve,.
Aha aged sire and nat-on gray,
Saw the Lowell warriors haste away,
And deemed it sin to grierc."
Sir, in blood she has atoned for her Gre
dulity and now there is II burning in every
house, distress and sadness in every heart
Shall she give you any more?
| But ought this war to continne? I ar
swer ho-hot day, not an hour What
then Shall we separate? Again 1 an
swer no, no, no! What then And now,
sir, | come to the grandcst and most SOL
emn problem of craftsmanship from the be-
ginning of tin e and to tie God It Heaven;
ilumiDer Of hearts and minds, would
b :mbly appeal for some measure, at e It
of light and wisdom aud strength to ex-
pierre and reveal the dark but possible fu.
ture Of ibis latid..
SIT; Ibis war. horrible as Ii Is, has taught
Us al! se1ie of the most important and salu-
tary lessons which ever people learned.
First-it has annihilated, in twenty
months, all the false and pernicions theories
aud teachings of Abolitionism for thirty
years; and Which Htterrcc appeal to fact
and argument could not have untaught in
half a century. We have learned that the
South is not weak, dependent, unenterpri-
sing or corrupted by slavery, luxury and
idleness; but powerful, earnest, warlike,
enduring, supporting. full of energy,
and inexhaustiblc in resources. We have
been taught, and now confess it openly,
that African slavery, Instead of being
source Of weakness to the South, is one of
her ihaih elements Of strength; and hence
the military necessity" we are told, of
abolishiHg Slavery in order to Suppress the
rebellion. We have learned, also, that the
non.slaveholding white mon Of the South,
millions in number, are immovably ut,
tached to the Institution, and are its Chief
support; and Abolitionlsts have found out,
TO their infinite surprise and disgust. that
the slave is not ''panting for freedom, ticr
pining in silent but rcvedgeful grief over
cruelty aid oppression inflicted upon him,
but happy cdhtehted, attached deeply to
his master, and unwilling at least not
eager-to accept the precious boon Of free
dom which they have profered him. +
appeal to the President for the proof.
appeal to the fact that fewer slaves have
escaped, even from Virginia. in nov near
ly two years, than Arnold and CORVALLIS
carried away in six months of invasion in
1881. Finally sir, we have learned, and
the South, too, what the history of the
world ages ago, and our own history might
have taught US, that servile instruction is.
the least Of the dangers tt w,iith Sic is CT
posed. Hence, in my deliberate Judge
ment, African slavery, as au institution.
will come out of this conflict fifty-fol
stronger titan When the was Began.
Personal appearance Of Major
Gen. Van Dorm.
In height Earl Van Dorm is five feet, six
or eight inches, aud compact, but not stout
in stature. His hair is long aud curly and
Of dark chestnut color, as are his NOUS
tache and imperial, which are large and
thick. His features arc somewhat bronzed
by exposure, bur are peculiarly pleasant and
agreeable. His eye is large. and beauti-
full clear blue. His speech is ready and
voluninous, yet chaste. He has extremely