, 1864-07-08

fALLANDIGHAM.-I ne return OF y. L.
Vallandigham to Ohio, has furnished the
newspaper world with new material where
by it has an opportunity to ventilate stale
subject. Now, as prior to the pstriot-trai
tors banishment, we can scarcely pick up a
paper without seeing one or more articles
headed "Vallandigham." With the papers
strongly, fercely in the Administration in
terest, he is still, as formerly, denounced as
vile traitor of the Benedict Arnold stripe.
With the papers urgently and bitterly in
the Copperhead interest, or as the Admins
tration papers say, in the JEFF. Davis inter-
est, he is extolled as one of the purest
patriots that the world ever knew But the
question which now seems to agitate the
public mind most, upon this popular topic,
is, Will the government send the patriot
traitor back to Canada or not ? If he was
lawfully tried and banished, it seems clear
that the government should promptly re-
arrest him and enforce obedience to its de-
cree. To let condemned, banished traitor
defy the power of the government with i'm
punity, would be, on the part of tb' govern
ment, an admission of weakness 1mis-
sion of incapacity to enforce J. Is of
the land and maintain the dignity o. the ma
ton. 1t is universally known in the rebel
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demned by our government and banshed as
a traitor, and will not the rebels, when they
learn that this banished traitor is at home
by means of his own will, and in defiance of
the authority of the powers that be, take
it as confession of weakness if he be per-
mitted to remain in the loyal States unmo-
Tested Viewing the matter in this light
it is simply reasonable deduction to infer,
that the rebels will gather new courage and
confidence to find that our government is
too weak to arrest one of its traitors at the
North, and that they will redouble their ex
ertions in the field impelled with the feel
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rapidly growing impotent. 1t is the duty
of the government to arrest Valandigham
and show the people North and South that
it can do SO without fear of harm to the sta
bility of the nation. 1t is not possible that
our government is SO tottering that the ar
resting of one of its convicts would endan-
ger its stability To view the matter in an
other light, we will suppose that the officers
of the government have discovered that
they made mistake in trying Yallandig
ham by military court and subsequently
banishing him, and that they have concluded
to atone for the mistake by letting the ban
ished man return in safety to his former
home With this view of the case, it would
show that the officers of the government
transcended their powers in dealing With the
man, that his Punishment was arbitrary or
unlawful, and this would be humilating
confession of weakness and ignorance on
the part of the chief officers of the govern
ment To admit that such a view as this
last, is correct, would be to weaken
the confidence the people have felt in the
ability Of the Administration to interpret
and execute the laws of the nation. View
it in any manner we may, and we are still
driven to the conclusion that the Admins
tration can do nothing else than abide by
its former action and rearrest and remove
Yallandigham from Ohio.
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