The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-02-10
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Monday Morning. February 70. 1868.
Ingrafitnde 10 yaiiauaish.m.

xnRrafitnde 40 Vaiiandishnm.
When Vallandigham returned from a tenn
porary residence in Canada during the war
breathing defiance and revenge, President. Lin
coin remarked that the great Copperhead had
set his heart upon being made a martyr, but
that he had set his heart upon Disappointing
him. So thecoveted aureola that flashes on the
brow of the faithful in wood-cut Illustrations
of Fox's Book of Martyrs has never adorned
the head of Vallandigbam, and the Clement
who was thrown into the Euxine in the reign
OF the Emperor Trajan is still the only saint
OF that name in the calendar. r aoi
But the hour of triumph has come to Val
landigham. The blow that must entitle him
TO great consideration in any revision of the
martyrologies has just been given by his own
| friends. He wanted to be Senator from Ohio,
and came very near it, but Judge Thurman
beat him bya small majority. This defeat
was not pleasant to the great soul of the Ca
madam exile. When therefore, at the late
election in the eighth Ohio congressional dis
trict, Gen. Beatty, Republican, defeated
Burns, Democrat, by a very large majority,
Vallandigham rejoiced exceedingly and sang
editorial TIE Dsatms in the columns of the
Dayton Ledger. He not only rejoiced over
the disaster to his associates, but predicted
their total overthrow IN the coming Presiden-
tial campaign. Thereupon the leading Dem
ocrAtic paper of the country at once declared
that Vallandigham had placed himself he
yond the pale Of Democratic sympathy 1t
gave him notice that he had always been de-
spised and hated, and that it gave his party
associates uncommon pleasure to bid him
| farewell. The lesser journals have followed
IN the same strain, and soon from one end of
the country to the other we shall hear moth
ing but Down with Vallandigham! A con-
| temporary, indeed, cannot forbear tribute OF
admiration for his noble conduct in the little
affair with Burnside and a Iachrymose expires
sion of "the kindest sympathy for him in
that contest with the minions of despotism.
But he must walk--instantly. There is no
delay, no hope of pardon. ills g. Is. r. gt.5 s..
4 NOW we undertake to prove most conclu-
sively that this summary ostracism of the
man who has furnished whatever of brains
there may have been in the Ohio Democracy
since 1851 is piece Of consummate hypocri.
sy.. The New York World and its satellites
attempt to give the impression that he Is ig-
nored on account of the obnoxious political
sentiments which have rendered his name a
synonym for treason, and that his voluntary
detection from the party in the local election
fur cI,ac
1 throwing him overheard. Nonsensel Since
his return from Canada and since every treas
enable act of his life has been committed the
Democrats have hugged him to their bosoms
and, until they found him too heavy load to
carry, conferred upon him every honor in
their power. Did he not give laws to the
Chicago convention of 1864? Was not the
national platform of Democracy in the last
Presidential campaign of his building? Has
he not been the most prominent of the cam
paign stump-speakers at every election since
How long since his principles became dis
tasteful to his false friends? The exact date
of the change of feeling toward Vallandigham
is the moment when it was found that in the
Presidential election of 1868 it would be i'm
possible to succeed SO long as there was an
Endorsement of him and his principles, and
when the plan was conceived of imposing up
on the people the idea that his doctrines were
dismissed at the same time with himself
But the outcry against him means nothing
and the people know it. The opinions of
Clement L. Vallandigham are as dear to his
party to-day as they were when he was the
the regular nominee for governor of Ohio.
| bn This can be demonstrated. Vallandigham,
unhappily, is not alone in his gross political
heresies. He only happens to possess more
character and ability than most of his sym
pathizers, and has therefore become obnox-
ious to all American patriots. But there are
many Others who are his peers in recklessness
and indecency. Why are these lesser vipers
still cherished? u Henry Clay Dean has just
been brought from Ohio to help in the New
Hampshire campaign. There is not SO much
as greenback between him and Vallandig-
ham. Indeed he claims to be the author of
the greenback reputation scheme He is
widely known as the man who called Presi-
| dent Lincoln an Ignorant babboon." Again,
let the relative popularity of the La Crosse
Democrat, edited by Brick Pomeroy, and more
moderate Democratic papers be considered.
/ That infamous sheet holds all the heresies
which are associated with the name of Val
landgham in an intensified form, besides
many peculiarly hideous and shameless dog
mas OF its own. The fact that the Democrat,
with all its prurient denominations, utter lack
! of ability and more than Satanic mendacity,
has larger circulation than any other Soon
servativea paper in the country, is measure
of the increased purity of the Democratic par
| ty by reason of expelling single man from
| its ranks. wy .r .