The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-02-06
Letter from Hon. G. l.. Vallandig-
ham.
DAYTON, ONO, January 81, 1857.


DAYTON, ONO, January 81, 1867.
10 the Editors of ne Ne,o York Day Book:
GENrLEMKN do now as / meant year
ago 10 do thank you. really and earnestly,
for copy of your democratic Almanac
I am glad TO see the country supplied, NJ
last, with documents like this and others
which YOU are now furnishing. We have.
for years. allowed the enemy TO sow tares
labundantly. day aud night In the shape OF
such publications, and our friends were
often compelled to buy, in order TO supply
a want. let Democrats now, everywhere,
utterly reject all such, no matter how dis
| guiscd or what called, and buy their own
and none others. A year ago, | said "Ihe
pulpit, the tract, the society, the lecture,
| the fair the banquet the magazine, the
almanac. the pictorial art, science, music,
poetry, literature and all the other APP
pliances which instruct, amuse, or move
mankind, we must no longer surrender up
| To our enemies You, gentlemen, are
doing good work, by your book and tract
publications; go on and prosper. Let
there be light" Till then chaos VIII "um-
pire Sit" The Old Guard, too, Is doing
aveomans service" May it prosper and
bring forth fruit abundantly. With the
pay Book. Freemdn'S Journal, Crisis, and
lother Democratic weeklcs, to rely upon,
trust no Democratic family will permit the
poisonous and pestilent publications OF
"Rcpublicanism," so-called TO cross their
! Threshold no matter under what name or
form they may come.
out ofevil arises good and the result OF
| the late elections is teaching Democrats 60
rely on themselves, on their principles, on
their organization. on their own newspa-
pcrs, and their own public men, "pestifer-
ous" and 'odious' as some of these may be
| to the common enemy. or TO false or cow
ardly friends. 1t Is all well. The Andes
are not 1.-The hills whence cometh our
help
Your list of arbitrary arrests is a most
! important chapter of The Democratic Alma
nae but of course incomplete. Who can
sum up the number of Abraham Lincoln's
victims? There were, in this county alone,
between the 9TH of May, 1863. ..and the llth
of June. 1868 five weeks,) One-third as
many military and arbitrary arrests of cit
/ izens as your list contains. ! think | can
furnish you most Of the names. And, in
your new list, do not forget Flanagan s
case-a Democratic editor, who was tried
| by military commission" at Cincinnati,
| in lsGi-5, organized by one Joseph Hooker
the same who gained that great victory"
over Lee and ''Stonewall" Jackson, at
| IChancellOrville.
| | see that some one proposes n naval and
a military hero as Democratic and "Con-
Servative' candidates for President and
Vice President, in 1868. This is cool! Who,
does he think, would vote for them? |
guess" that the next candidates of the
Democratic party, for these offices, will be
| true and tried democratic statesmen :"
and all this without any sort of disparage-
ment to real military and naval men (such
rs those named), and who were also true to
the Constitution as it is, and the Union as
it wasn (once; HioR f,it.)
But all this en- pdSsant; for | am now
only looker-on in politics, and am deyOt-
| ing my time exclusively to my profession.
Very truly, SC.