Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-04-13
So tFrom the Putnam County Sentinel ve
Letter from G. Il. VaIlandigham,


f.4e,. IFrom the Putnam County Sentinel.1. ,,oF
Letter from C. l.. Vallandigham.
His Opinions, OF the -SituatiOn-The
tyConnecticut ElecttOn-Impeaehm
9Scheme me-Theeb Louisville COnVen-
stiOn., &c, dcc.set ~ I.srs5s. -rh1 H...H<
g.as os bas DAYTON, OHIO, April 8, 1867.
Leonard II. Miller, Esq Otta,oa, Ohio-MY
DEAR SIR Yours of the 9th ult., invit-
ing me, ION behalf of your Central Com
mittee, to address mas meeting of the
Democracy of the Tenth and Fifth Con-
gressional Districts of Ohio, to be compos-
ed, as you say, of ''men who are not afraid
to have Vallandigham speak" was duly re-
ceived. Having twice failed, because of
accident or sickness, to fill my appointment
i'm your county, / am fairly under obliga-
| tion to accept and / do it most cheerfully.
| But it cannot be at an early day, as you re-
quest; nor, indeed, earlier than September,
inasmuch as my professional engagements,
| to which l now devote all my time and at
tention,Ewill not permit.
But any appointment which you may
make for me at that period, will hold my
self in readiness to fill, since it will be but
payment in part, of the annual interest
which owe to the Democracy of Ohio, as
well for political favors and support as
upon that ''heavy pecuniary advance
ment," so-called by some, and by shallow
| fellows referred to very wittily ever and
regard as the most honorable testimonial
ever bestowed upon any public man in any
country. Meantime, allow me a passing
word on the situation.
Dark as the days have been, and certain
as the total overthrow was, of our original
form of constitutional government, already
badly wrecked and shattered, had our enc
mics but possessed the revolutionary au-
dacity to drive on, / see now distinct
g1immerings of dawn, which, / trust, will,
sooner or later, ripen into the perfect day.
First. The Connecticut election is not
only full of encouragement, but most graf
flying. 1t was fit that the home of Thomas
III. Seymour, and the State, of all others in
the East. most firm and radical in its DEM
ocracy, and where true "Copperheads" did
and do still, most abound, should, first of
all, give signs of this coming reaction in
the North. Two years ago the majority for
Buckingham (Republican) for Governor
was 11,035 over o. S. Seymour (Dennocrat).
Now English (Democrat), divested of the
dead weight OF last spring and fall, beats
Hawley (Republican) seven hundred, and
we elect three out OF the four Representa-
/ tiVes in Congress. Verify, there has been
resurrection; and that 'sdead Democratic
party" in grave clothes, it may be, and
| bound about with napkin, has come forth,
T6lT6SHSu dUU SGT6DSIu6u6u. NY lGs
; slumbers. i have long had the pleasure OF
a personal aequaintance with Governor
English. During the three sessions of the
Thirty seventh Congress, and throughout
I 5he first two years of the war, years OF
/ especial frenzy, he sat by my side, when at
any moment stray bullet, aimed at another,
might have struck him to the floor. al
ways found him a friend and now, with
/ peculiar pleasure, hail him as first of DEM
| ocratic Governors in the new era. Let
Ohio now, first of all States in the North
| vest, follow Connecticut on the roll ot
! Democratic States; and she will. 80
! Ne1t. phe failure of Congress to depose
the President is the most hopeful omen OF
5he times. In the first place, melancholy
J as have been and still are the weakness and
Iincapacity of Andrew Johnson-I do not
question his sincerity-he is still most
| impeding obstacle in the way of the revo-
lutiOnary chariot. But far more than this
deeper, more enduring, more significant
t-the failure clearly indicates that the fury
and audacity of the revolutionary party
to which. nlo.S-ss3s..*s..N to all other causes
lthey owed their success, are on the wane
In revolutions a stek, backward is death
and pause midwaS the beginning of dis
solution. Now is the ausp.cious momen
or US. Providence has once more given tC
I Is chance to rescue from the adestrOyers
he site and foundations. at least of the
federal Republican Government, and tx
reconstruct it very nearly after the mode
# the old. Shall the chance be again cas-
laway? No; let US shun the errors, TIN
lesitaneies, the entanglements and th'
Gimidities of the past, and let the peopl
tSpeak to their leaders that the work shal
20 forward. fTe H:aa EDS
If the men of the South will but consen
to be patient, learning to remain passiv
| and to endure, all may yet be well. Sub
mission to tyrannic force, to military coer
,cion, is one thing; voluntary servitud
tquite another. In any event, we have ou
Town rights, duties and obligations to fire.
constitutional government, from which n,
act of any other State, section or people
can absolve us. i 5-.-s
] AS to the Louisville Convention, word
The Democratic party of Ohio, by forma
resolution of the recent State Convention
has committed itself to general delegat
convention, suggesting Louisville as TIN
place for it. The State Central Committe
las therefore, no discretion in the matter
Indeed, the movement originated in Ohio
by the action of our committee in July last
| have myself in no other way been con
/ erned in it; but am not able to perceiv
any good reason why it should not be held
1t is designed only, az understand, 70
consultation and expression of opinion
I and with no view to candidates for TIL
Presidential campaign of 1868. Neithe
can it bind any one by ''platform."
t But why not meet and consult? Wha
better means of promoting concert and or
Egaaization than general convention p
''Warn the committees" were the dyinl
words of Jefferson. Let us first have com
mittees and organization everywhere. Sug
gesting respectfully that the Convention b
postponed till the Fourth of July, trus
that whether 'NationaI'' committees O
State committees concur or not, the distric
and local committees and the Democrat
masses will see to it that delegates are ap
pointed, and that the gallant and late
depressed Democracy of Kentucky, unde
Whose immediate auspices the Conventio
lis to be heldAthey who. last summer, frs
taught that Hannibal might be conquere
t-are not cOldly and ungenerously rebuke
and repudiated by their brethren in otbe
States. Very truly, &c.
q T., VATJANDTcuAN1