Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-10-07
Letter from Gen. Thomas T. Meagher
Irish Heart and Common Sense.

| LCtttI HUN uCIs L llUiiiJS L . lICu-ltCi .
Irish Heart and Common Sense.
General THOMAS Frances MEAGHER, the
| rish-American patriot and brilliant orator,
was invited to address a Union meeting in
Ohio, but being unable to attenl sent a let
ter, from which we make the following ex-
! tract:
THE EFFECT OF ELECTING VALLANDTGHAM.
Electing Mr.. Brough, Ohio yindicates and
| fortifies the national government Electing
| Mr. Nallandigham, Ohio abandons, and, so far
| as one State can DO so, wea1ens and pros
| trates it. Elccting Mr.. Brough, Ohio stands
true to the splendid soldiers who, from the
rocks of Gettysburg hurled back a bold in
| vasion-from the bluffs of Nicksburg broke
| the letters of the Mississippi, consecratiug it
! to freedom aud the untrammeled service of a
/ united people, and who, at this very hour,
Elin a deserved chastisement on the city in
which the national flag was first struck down,
| and the torch of treason tossed aloit rs the
| signal of revolt. Electing Mr.. Vallandigham,
| Ohio turns her back on these brave men, dis
| owns their services discards the victories
| they have won, sends them a vote of repudia-
| ton instead of vote of thanks and, In place
| of cheering them on in their enterprises
casts cloud between them and their iame
! their proud memories, their exalted purposes
and hopes making them feel they have pour
| ed out their blood in the defeat of armed
| traitors in their front but to encounter the
| faithlessness and base ingratitude, or at best
the equivocal recognition and impoverished
| praise, of a mutinous party in their rear
EFFECT IN THE SOUTH.
The election of Mr. Brough will deepen the
depression and confirm the discontinue Of
the South, going far to convert into wotul-
| ness and blank despair the ecstas.es inspired
( by the peace meetings and riots Of New ork,
Iowa and other places where copperheads
abound and the venom, as well rs the slime,
the fangs, as well as the slippery skin Of the
reptiles warn the community of danger.
On the other hand, the election of Mr.. Val
| landi CHAM will rouse the dropping spirits Of
the guilty States that have been so etfectually
crippled of late. 1t will revive in these States
| great expectations of a diversion IN their
| favor. and stimulate them to renewed efforts
| of desperation. summon Mr.. Nallandigham
| from his congcnial exile in the bosom Of his
| British sympathizers, seat him in the Curule
chair of your State, let him have the disbursc-
ment of the patronage with which it IS richly
padded and, not doubt Of it, the usurpcrs at
Richmond will have good reasC:. to infer they
have reliable friends at the North, and that
President Lincoln is beset, undermined ham
pered and Overborne by swarm OF enemies.
Picture to Yourselves the transports of the
refined and exquisite editors who danced-as
the King of Dahomey dances Mt bis lUathsOme
and awful holocausts-over the strangling and
mutilation Of the harmless and helpless ne
groes Of New York and the massacre at Law
renee, the instigation to which barbarities-
unparalleled since the butcheries Of the Sep
tembrists and the Noyades Of Lyons-must
have sprung from the deepest abyses of hell
Picture TO yourselves the transports OF these
delicate and chivarous gentlemen when the
news reaches them that their persistent cham
pion, who from the outset Of the war has done
everything in his power to aid the insurrcc-
ton, while he has left no stone uutUrned that
could embaUTass and incapacitate the national
government, has triumphcd in his disatteCti0n
and disloyalty becoming invested with magis-
terial functions that Will enable him all the
more boldly, all the more defantly, ali the
more mischicvously, to resume the ZINE Of
conduct that compelled the national govern
ment to send him beyond our lines. =
EFFECT ABROAD.
Nor will the election of Mr. Vallandigham
be hailed filth less satisfaction in Canada and
England than in South Carolina and Virginia.
Canada will illuminate in celebration OF the
event, and give full swing to the iOy-bells of
her town halls and churches. The London
Unrestricted a little and brought TO It's
| senses by the repulse of Lee, by the surren-
der of PembertOn and Gardner, and the Greek
fire that brought home her doom to Charles
ton and awakened her at midnight to the
| consciousness of her crime and the punish
ment it suprcmeIv mcrits-thc London Times
on its being tclegraphed from Liverpool that
Mr. Nallaudigham has been elected Governor
of Ohio, will be itself again; and over this
check and disparagement 10 the national gov
ernment viii plunge into the widest raptures
of rhetoric.
The southern loan viii have sudden rise,
figuring at a premium proportional to the
| slide it has had since General Grant invested
| some of its best securities in United States
stock Lord PalmcrstOn viii straightcn him
self up and talk more iauntily and lmpudcnt-
" than ever Spirited old rake that he Isl
about the rights of belligerents, the tenaclty
of the South, the faulty Of the North, the
| sacred duties of neutrals and the impossibIhty
of hindering steamships, ordered for the
| Grand Lama Of Thibet, or a dead Pasha of
Egypt, running down American merchant
| ships. and robbing and burning them in sight
of the Irish coast, in the name of Contcdc-
racv the keystone of which Is slavery, and
the presfiqe and hope of which seem now TO
| depend mainly upon the exploits Of It's buc-
| cancers Members Of Parliament-Messrs
Roebuck, Gregory, and Lindsay will grow
all the more importunate with their mo-
tons for Intervention and as for the CON
scientious shipwrights Of Glasgow and Bir-
| kenhead, they viii be emboldened by the
i event TO lay the keels of another couple of
monstrous ironclads, christening one Of them
| the TdUaadtgtdm and the other the Cogpe'-
| head. and consecrating both, in the enlighten-
| ed and holy spirit of Great Britons, to the
| cause Of slavery and the devastation Of COM
| meTcc.
| From THE 10Th WISCONSIN, letter IRON
| Capt. Palmer. now sick in hospital, to his