The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-02
THE OHIO CAMPAIGN.
Anothsr speseh By ValIandAEhana.

Another Speech by VallandAgham'
Mr.. Vanandigham, on the 18th ultim, a0-
Ohio, on the political issues involved In the
present State campaign, there being, it Is said,
with much enthusiasm, and said he was not
present TO refer to himself personally: ne would
fc0Tn o o as he tSere 10 repY TO ne senseess
denunciRtions OF the Democratic party as trail
tors. 'Talk to me-" he said, of traitors, OF enc
mics OF the country, and disloyal men, and yet
not one single person who bore arms againstthe
United States in the late clvh war has been
contrary, every man that was charged with
political offense not only, but with the assassi-
f,ea S1 the acts of the leading noembeTs Of the
Republican party. Clement O. Clay, who lay
prisoner in Fortress Monroe for twelve months,
Thaddeus Stevens, the great leader of the Re-
publican party, and l saw the letter with my
own eyes, addressed to Andrew Johnson, that no
man could be legally and constitutlonally con.
Victed OF treason, and that, therefore, the sooner
these men were % LEI go s.n ihe better: NOW for
of the Republican party, petitions for the re-
lease OF Clay, and Horace Greeley becomes bail
man to Jefferson Davis. the aroh-traitor, the
symbol OF Rebellion, how dare you apply oppro-
brious epithets and talk about your friends In
the DemoeIaIe party VINO $50, stooG oy that glori
opinions? | know it is great grief that nobody
has been hung yet. Perhaps they had better
the midst of madness and rioting and terror,
and disregard of the Constitution and of the
Government, and disregard OF the fOrmS OF law
ana of courts and of justice, we should be pre-.
cipitated into such O revolution as once ragged
through France, there is no telling but what
more will be hung. There is very little doubt
who IL will be when it comes to that point, as /
trust 1t won't, for have always desired to pre-
vent the possibility of such occurrences, and 1
mean TO keep on to the end. Nevertheless, II
we are reduced to that political necessity, pro-
pose not to be hung; buttf the alternative is pre-
sented, to do little hanging myself"
Continuing, he said that he was not there
for, the purpose of discussing old questions,
although the Democrats were not especially
anxious to let bygones be bygones. Nor was he
about to take back one word that he has uttered
during the past six years. He only regretted
Btitution and the Union as it was. Had the
cOunsels that he learned from the fathers.
and of which he was only an humble apostle
in proclaiming, been listened to by the Repub-
lican party, never would drop OF blood been
shed. But there were new issues with which
the people must deal, and he was practical
man, not q Bourbon, end endeavored TO
discuss questions that the people like to hear.
reconstruction, interesting and profound as 1T
is On this point he said, "And here boldly
proclaim that, much as we sympathiZe with
the South, we (the Democratic party are power
less to do them good, and we have our own
interests and questions we saw state after
we stood by procaiming the principles of our
fathers. Itis time now TO come home" Mr.
allandigham then said the practical questions
were the tariff the currency, the public debt and
the mode Of paying 1t, ana the repeal or a6ro- S.
to be answered by the cry, "You were opposed
to the war;" The tariff had increased, he said,
to three hundred per cent. An enormous public
debt was one of the results OF the war, and 1t
was declared that the Democratic party was
reprehensible for 1t. But, the Speaker asserted,
out of three or four hundred thousand men that
enlisted in the beginning of the war, four fifths
Gratis opposed the war; The Republican party,
and not the Democratic, prolonged the war, be-
maintain % % the e" Union, % 'n could have SgS Been @
brought to close in eighteen months, but
that that war for for the negro would last four or
which they had learned from their fathers
and from the Whig party, it followed, would
have closed the war He spoke adyisedly when
he asserted that the party which refused to
compromise in 1860 and 1851 was res ponsible for
every drop of blood shed and every dollar ex-
pended. Il was said that Vallandigham and
Pendleton voted against loan bills in Congress,
and that tneIefore their hip party was responsible
true. He had voted against one bill, which he
characterized as an enormous imposition; but
the party was unjustly charged with voting
against loan bills, and then with being respon-
sible for the public debt. But 1t was not neces-
the public debt. The debt existed, and it must
Mr.. Vallandigham then went on to describe
the public debt, and said that IL was the design
of the Republican party keep up this debt. He
maintained that it could not be kept up with
out finally causing despotism. AS far as the
law to tax them, The bondholders should be
paid in the same currency as other people. Toat
Democratic party proposed that the bondhold-
ers should be put on an equality with those
question OF flooding the country
with currency, Mr.. Vallandigham said
that he never saw 8 time when there was TOO
much currency. The bondholders had loaned
their money as the usurer loans 1t, and drove a
hard bargain with tho Government, availing
themselves of its necessities. Other people
were glad to take greenbacks, and the bond
holders should be made to take them. This
policy would not break up the Government, as
was asserted; the Government would not be
broken up, it was able to pay its debts After
some further discussion of this subject, Mr..
VaIlandigham took up the question Of negro
suffrage treating 1t much in the same manner
| as in his first speech during the present cam