Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-09-13
Rebel Endorsement of ValIandig-
ham and His Party and their
Endorsement of Rebels.

Treason. against the United States
shall consist only in levying war against
them, or IN adherjHg to their enemies
diUing them AID AND CONFORMATION
titution of the United States, Art. 3
Sec 3.
The following Rebel utterances
made during the war show beyond
doubt that i'm mmense encouragement,
or in other words aid and comfort.
were furnished the rebels IN arms by
the speeches and letters of Vallan-
digham and the platforms and press Of
his party. In. reference to the Chiea-
go Democratic Convention which nom
mated Mcclellan for President, E. A
Pollard, editor of a rebel paper at
Richmond, says in his history of the
Rebellion
despite the protestations of attach
ment to the Union by the Chicago
Convention there is but little doubt
that the real programme of It's opera
tions had for Its final conclusion The &C
kRol0ledqeme1t Of the independence Qt
the Confederate States. "
The same might doubtless be said
as truly of many of their other con
ventions and platforms not excepting
that in Delaware co Inty Ohio, ofWhieh
we gave an account last week. 1T is
impossible for any sane mind to avoid
this conclusion from the language
used or avoid the belief that the Val
-landigham party fully intended to give
that aid and comfort" to the rebel
enemies Of the United States which
the Constitution defines to be TREASON,
and to give it with the reasonable in
tent Of helpiHg to secure the inde-
paudence of. the Confederate States
IF any one doubts this let him read
the utterances above referred to and
below given
J. B. Jones. a rebel war clerk Ia the
War Department at Richmond, IN his
diary, vol. 1, page 357, says
June %, 1S63-IO-day | sdr the
memorandum of Mr, Ould, Of the
convention held with MIR. Valiaudig
ham, for file in the archives. He Say
that if we CAN ONLY HOLD OUT
this year that the PEACE PARTY
of the North would SW EEP the Lin
coin DYNASTY out Of existence
He seems to have thought that our
cause was sinking, and feared We
would submit, " HIGH WOULD
OF COURSE, BE BUfNOUS TO
HIS PARTY.
The Chattanooga Rebel, in i1s issue Of May
%, 1858, said
How natural tits that we all feel
kindly toward Mr. Nalaudigham
We really Consider his prospects to be
Governor Of Ohio very fair 7Ce 10ish
them realized because he IS a peace man
an able and honest one. lie IS on
stvIe or man. We
admire Mcclellan; we admiIe Buell.
also; we admire Mr.. Nallaudgham
more than all because be was agaias
the war from t e startand has kept his
faith ever since
The Georgia Constituencies just
before The battle Of Chickamauga
urged Bragg to crush tu>eeran'
because;
We were never more fully convIn-
/ ced than nov, of the essential impOT
/ tance Of thick. fast and heavy blow.
from the Confederate armies, Ia order
to give vitality, system and organiza
l tiOn to the Peace men. Mr. Xallan.
! digham himself, as we have heard
most emphatically declared, that thI
| success Of the Southern arms alon,
could give strength and consistency L,
/ the Peace movement.
The traitor Maury, in letter to the
/ London Times, dated August II, 1868
/ said Vallandigham waits anC
watches over the border, pledged, /
elected Governor of Ohio, to array /
against Lincoln and the Bar, aud G,
4 for peace"
Tne Vicksburg Wing in October
! 1862, thus expresses its appreciation
Of the Northern Democratic sympa
thy
"All the energies of the Confedera
cy will be bent to maintain the war un
! II the expiration of Mr.. Line lin
! Presidential term the idea has be
come general, that by that time a maj
will be elected who will represent th
views of the Peace Democrats. Iti
we'll understood that every day adds t
the number Of their friends, and tina
already Northern secessionists, con
servatives as they are called here ar