Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-09-21


! borne themseves in the field, merit and re-
ceive the confidence and gratitude Of the
country"
This noble attitude Of the Union
Party so provoked Democracy that
one of its leading exponents, the AS
land Union, said, September, 1862:
1.-THE Democratic press unanimously de-
nsunces this infamous rebellion Of President
hacoln's. wiz the people submit to such
revolution and despotism7 If they do, the
toasted liberty of american citizens is gone.
! We shall have more to say Of the TRAITOR
LINCOLN next neck"
The Confscaton act Of July, 1862
the Emancipation Proclamation of
September, 1862, and the law requiring
draft to fill up the broken ranks Of
the Union armies, adopted in February,
1863-and the act passed March, 1868,
authorizing the President to suspend
the writ of habeas corpus, were op-
posed by the Ohio Democracy with all
the bitterness in its power, and that
bitterness was concentrated in Plat
folm and a candidate at the Democrat
ic State Convention, which met at Co.
lumbus, June 11th, 1868,
1t presented Clement L. Vallandig
ham as the Democratic candidate for
Governor, and passed twenty three re-
solves, declaring the Ohio Democracy
against the Federal administration
against its Emancipation policy
against paying for slaves-against
martial law and the suspension of the
habeas corpus-in favor of Federal
Convention-in favor of new guaran-
ties to the Shareholders in case they
would come back to the Union-against
the arrest, trial, and Punishment of Val
landigham-against "the Abolition
Jacobins who are seeking to bring
about civil war in the loyal States
against the libelers of the Democratic
party who are engaged in representing
that party as wanting in sympathy with
our soldiers in the field"--but not one
Dord against The traitors in arms to
divide and destroy our country.
The nomination of Vallandigham
was Platform in itself. 1t was so re
cognized by all Democrats in Ohio, a:
well as by the rebels in arms, because
his record was known and approved by
them. What had been the services tt
, Democracy and to Rebellion which
made him thus acceptable q?
In a speech at Cooper Institute, New
York, November I'd, 1860, short tim'
before South Carolina seeded, then ,
member of Congress from the Mont
gomery District--we copy from hi
own published volume-he said:
,, -'"If any one or more of the States of thi
Union should at any time secede-f0r rea
sons of the sufficiency and Justice of which
before God and the gleat tribunal OF history
they alone may judge-much as shoul'
doplore it, neUer ,oould, as a Representa-
, tue in the Congress of the United States
; vote one dollar of msney plereby one dro
of american blood should be shed IN a civI
tU1r".
In the Cincinnati Enquirer Of Novem
Der 10th, following, in card, Mr.. Val
f landigham said of this New York dc
a claration: "And now deliberately re
i. peat and re-affim it," He further sal
e in the same card: "Coercion is civ
war"
It Soon afterward he declared, in pres
= ence of several of his colleagues in Cor
d gress, ''that the troops of Ohio, befor
q they should march through his distrit
!. to coerce the South, would have t
'e march over his dead body"
y On the 7th of January, 1861, aftt
$, Major Anderson had moved from Fo
y Moultrie to Fort Sumter, Mr.. Adrial
IF of New Jersey, Democrat, introduce
i, the following resolution in the Unite
y States House of Representatives:
IN "Resolued, That we fully approve of Il
to bold and patriotic act of Major Anderson
at Withdrawing from Fort Moultrie to Fo
B. Sumter, and of the determination Of Il
in President to maintain that fearless ef6c
We in his present position; and that zoe 10
IS support the President IN all constitution
on measures to enforce the la,os and preserve
'e. Union"
,e, Vallsndigham voted against this re
n nf olution!
in On February I'd, 1861, Vallandi
Use ham voted against the Loan Bill (S2
in in. 900, ,0OO)--a bill to enable the Cover
an ment to maintain itself after its tres
ier ury had been left empty by the trait
etc Cobb, the Democratic Secretary of
OF Treasury. 's r'F @.. ..i.a."
ous oos On the 7th of February, 1861, \
we vallandigham introduced a propc
ant tion into Congress for dividing
b;o ti United States into four sections ! Is
'ete Congressional Globe, Part 1st, I'd S
urn sion Seth Congress. s.,
cid On February 18th, 1861, Valland