Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-11-18


he deserves and which the w hole people OF
the United States expect he will receive at
the hands OF the Democracy of Ohio, whose
champion he is, and whom he has SO faith
fully and nobly served. All just minded
men will accord to Vallandigham's honesty,
patriotism, craftsmanship and consistency,
and that he has fairly won the prize by
long and hard fight, and if the Democracy
having the power do not now give it to him
it will be one more act ctofingratitude as well
as cowardice to disgust thousands OF honest
men OF our party.
Respectfully submitted,
ra H. T. VAN FLEET.
Regarding Mr.. VAN FLEET as man OF
gentlemanly breeding, we do not suppose
he would knowingly give utterance to that
which is the reverse of truth in regard to
anything. His right to urge earnestly the
election of Mr.. VALLANDIGHAM to the Uni
ted States Senate we do not question but
We do deny his right to represent the
STATESMAN as undertaking to say to 'the
Democracy of Ohio" they must send to the
United States Senate any particular man.
By strict impartiality it has been governed
in the Senatorial matter. Not one word
has it editorially uttered in favor of any
man. 1t has published articles from all the
Democratic papers in the State that have
spoken on the subject. as far as they have
come under our observation, and we have
watched their Editorial columns with care.
In our issue of the 1Ith of October we COM
mended the grand campaign Judge THUR
MAN had made. We referred to the fact
That the Democracy had carried the
Legislature, and in that connection said
t lat no man did more toward doing so
than Judge THURMAN. We felt that this OF
itself was grand result. We remembered
how bitterly he had been assailed in
the contest; we had not forgotten, and
we cannot forget, how his estimabie
wife--her acts of kindness and char
ity perverted--was dragged into the
contest by the scullions of the Republi-
can party with the view of damaging him
-and we asked the Democrats, ''in con-
| templating the magnitude of this grand
result" to remember how nobly the Judge
bore himself under this, "the strongestag ag-
gravation." Never once did we refer to
|
On the 18th of October, four days afte1
we printed the editorial referred to above
we copied from the Dayton Ledger an edi-
tOrial administering substantial repri-
mand to Hon. BARNABUs BARNS for max
ing jollifying speech at Mansfield. and
therein advocating JUDGE THURMAN for
Senator and HoRATIo SEYMOUR for Presi-
dent. Into the same number of the
STATESMAN we copied the Butler county
resolution nominating Mr.. VALLANDIGHAN
to the United States Senate. On the day
following we published a correspondence
in which this language occurs: 'But il
the great and good THURMAN is elected
Governor. and if the classical and gentle
manly PENDLEToN is to be taken up fol
President, let the mighty VAL. be sent tt
the United States Senate"
Up to this time, the reader would doubt
less have been inclined to adopt the con
clusion that the STATESMAN was the organ
of Mr.. VALLANDIGHAM. 1t was not thei
and is not now the organ OF any man.
seeks to reflect the will and promote tn
interests of the Democratic party.
On the 10Th translation from the Wes
Bote, in favor of Judge THURMAN for th'
United States Senate, was handed US, ant
as an impartial journalist, we could not re
fuse its publication, and we gave it to Ou
readers next morning. In the same issu
we published u paragraph from the Plai
Dealer, stating that the gentlemen mos
t,lked of in connection with the Unite,
States Senatorship were Hons. GEoRGl
H. PENpLEToN, HUGH J. JEwETT, RU
FUs P. RANNEY. Judge THURMAN ant
C. L. VALLANDIGHAM. On the 19tl
we published an article from the Hamilto
True Telegraph in favor of Mr.. VALLANDIG
HAM. In the issue of the 2lst we gave ar
ticles from the Ohio Democrat, Clermon
Sun, Norwalk Experiment, Western Stan
dard, Bryan Democrat and Portsmouth
Times, favorable to Judge THURMAN. o.
the 26th, under the caption If the spirit G
the Ohio Democratic Press" we gave edi
torials from the Shield and Banner, Cadi
Sentinel, Urbana Union, Allen Count
Democrat, Norwalk Experiment, Brow
County News, Ohio Eagle, Seneca Advel
tiser, communication from the Ohio Stat
Register and Madison County Democra
in favor of Judge THuRMAN, and from tn
Hamilton True Telegraph. Dayton Ledge
Mt. Gilead Union Register, Marion Mirror
Holmes County Farmer, Peoples Defende
and Woodsfeld Spirit of Democracy, i
I favor of Hon. C. L. VALLANDIGHAM. o
the morning of the 2Sth, under the sam
l oI; o1e = Cal;
Standard, Springfield Transcript, HILLSIDE
70 Gazette, Guernsey Jeffersonian, Mar
eta Times and the Logan Gazette, in fave
of Judge THURMAN, and from the Nortf
vest and the Circleville Democrat, man
testing a willingness to be satisfied wit
any man the Legislature may elect.
On the 29th we published Mr.. VALLAN
DIGHAM's Mt. Vernon speech.
In the issue of November a, we gave et
itorials from the Shelby County Democra
the Warren Constitution, the Gallipol
Dispatch, the Democratic (Fremont) Mes
senger, the Greenville Democrat, tt
Volksfreund, the Clermont Sun, in favor
Judge THURMAN, and from the Eaton Den
ocrat in favor of Hon. C.L.VALLANDIGHA,
and from the st. Clairsville Gazette, WayI
County Democrat, Chillicothe Advertis,
and Mount Vernon Banner, assuming Il
position of neutrality. On the 18th "
gave editorials from the McConnelsvil
Conservative, Hancock Courier and Piqr
Democrat in favor of Judge THURMAN, au
from the Stark County Democrat in fave
of Hon. c. L. VALLANDIGHAM, and from I'll
Peoples Defender saying that the Perr
County Union, Kenton Democrat an
/ Crawford County Forum were among tn