Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-06-11

standing, 1t Is objected that "NALLAN'
D1dHAM was at the Convention in which
that platform was adopted"
Republicans there are who are free To
confess that the policy of the Radicals Is
destructive to the best interests OF the
country, and that, therefore, it is the duty
of the people to vote them into retirement
so that its welfare may be promoted, yet
make judy's of themselves by declaring
that they can not vote for the Democratic
Ticket, because "VALLANDIGHAM was
participant in the Democratic State Con-
vention."
HVALLANDIGHAM were as bad In the past
as he has been represented by the Oppo-
sition politicians-if he really had done
something for which he deserved to be sent
out of the country, instead of being sent out
of it, as President LINCOLN alleged, for fear
he might do something wrong-that cir
cumstance should not be allowed to
weigh even the, weight of feather
against good candidates, sound plat
form and patriotic purposes-as the
candidates, platform and purposes of the
Democratic party are admitted generally
to be.
Up to the time of the breaking out of the
war, VALLANDIGHAM, with other Demo-
crats, labored increasingly in behalf of
compromise that should be satisfactory to
the people North and South, and that would
serve to avert war. Had he and they been
seconded In these efforts by the Republican
politicians, there would have been no
war; there would be no maimed and
broken down men throughout the
country in consequence Of the war;
there would be no crushing debt, which
blights everything with tax; there would
not be widespread desolaton and poverty
in one section of the Union, and there
would not be in Congress scheming and
planning to disfranchise the White people
of the South, under pretense OF serving the
cause of humanity. The men who plead
for such compromise and adhered to the
Democratic organization, are arraigned be-
fore the public on the charge of having
been i'll sympathy with the South, and con-
tributlng thereby to the cause of secession,
while the Republican politicians who did
their utmost to discredit and defeat COM
promise-who declared that rather than
abandon their principles they would sacri-
flee, if need be, fifty such Unions as we
then had, and who told the Southern peo-
pie that if they did not feel like abiding in
the Union they might withdraw from it
men who boasted that for twenty years they
had labored for a dissolution of the Union,
and who had denounced the Union as "a
league with hell and a covenant with
the devil"-the men who, in 1856, in vari-
Gus parts of the free States, in attestation
of their deep-seated hostility to the
Southern people, carried sixteen starred
Aags-the men who had avOwed willing
ness to ''let the Union slide"-the men who
had declared that the necessity existed for
an anti-slavery Bible and au anti-slavery
| Constitution-are the men who rule to-day
and claim to be the exponents of true 10y
atty. They have been the sappers of the
Constitution and the despoilers of the
Union. FRED. DOUGLASS, colored though
he be, in 1856, while supporting FREMONT
for the Presidency, spoke the purposes OF
the Republican party when it should sue
ceed to power. Said he, we are now fight
ing on the defensive; but when we shall be
successful, we will compel the South to
make peace on any terms.
| When the war broke out, and Democrats
were besought to 90 into it, they were told
to never mind the unworthy course Ut these
men; that when the war should be ended,
then would be the time to examine into
their unworthy and anti-patriOtic conduct.
Their then support of the war was held to
be an exculpation, and that no patriotic per-
son could be justified In refusing to fellow
ship with them.
The argument was potential then. We
can not see why 1t should not be potential
now. The interests of the country are in
peril now-the subversion of our form of
Government is seriously threatened. The
Democratic party is confessedly rallyng
to their support. Why should any patriot
hesitate to join in this grand rally, because
VALLANDIGHAM keeps steps to the music of
the Union and marches along with the rest
of the sturdy upholderS OF Constitutional
Liberty?
By reference to the "fnding and sent
ence" Of the Commission that tried VAL
LANDIGHAM, we find that he was found
guilty of having said, "That propositions
BY which the Southern States could be won
back, and the South guaranteed their rights
under the Constitution, had been rejected
the day before the last battle OF Fredericks-
burg, by LINCOLN aud his minions," and
that ''the men in power are trying to
establish despotism In this country more
cruel and more oppressive than ever ex-
isted before" This Is the crime he COM
mitted against Abolition patriotism, ac-
cording to the Military Commission that
tried and sentenced him. These same men
that VALLANDIGdAM thus accused, have
been arraigned by President JOHNSON be-
fore the people on the charge of an inten-
tiou 10 subvert and consolidate our form
of Government. Is 1t nobler then, TO fol-
low and support them in this bad work,
than to rally with VAIIANDIGHAM to the
support of the Right9 Is it better to sup
mort them In the destruction Of our Repub-
lican form Of Government and In the