The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-08-29
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sUsPICIOUs COINCIDENCE.
vanandfsham and seymour.

vaHandfgIam and Seymour.
The traitor Vallandigham, whom the
Democrats of Ohio are running for Con-
gress, ard who, in the New York Con-
vention, insisted upon the nomination
of Horatio Seymour, it appears. from
an affidavit lodged in the State Depart
ment at Washington, has had business
with Seymour before. This affidavit
was made and subscribed in London,
by the English captain ofthe blockade
runner Harriet PInckney, which yes
sci conveyed YallandighRm to Canada,
during the war, after his escape from
the South, where he had been sent by
General Burnside, and after his visit
to and consultation with JEFF. Davis
and his rebel Cabinet. Captain Johns
swears that Yallandigham, with several
rebel officers, whose names he gives,
went to Canada charged with the duty
of getting up pinsurrectionsi in the North
.ern States, and that Vallandigham
said part of the plan was to have
riots in New York. and Boston on
or about the 4th of July, 1868, for the
purpose of making a diversion in favor
of Lees army. Now the riots in New
York ard Boston did actually occur on
the 18Th and 14th of July, 1858, and did
create so much of a diversion in favor of
Lee as to compel the sending of large
force from the Union army to preserve
order in the North. Concerning the
4th of July, moreover, Greeley's Amer
lean Conflict says: .'A most incendia-
ryl haDd-bill. appeal TO the people 10
rise for the vindication of their liberties
had been circulated anonymously
throughout the city on The night of The
4th, sUith evident intCnt to inctte an in
suTrecttonaTy moVement on that day;
but the tidings received by telegraph
of Meade's success at Gettysburg, call
ing all the supporters OF the war into
the streets, and inclining their oppo-
nents to solitude and seclusion, infer
Jered tpith the execution of the pro
grammc." l
We now refer our readers TO the afh-
dayit of Captain Johns, the original of
which Is now on file in Washington, 1t
having been received there only few
months ago, wherein 1t is charged that
operating from Canada, TO excite in the
North Just such riots, at just that par.
ticular time. Aud then we commend
the reader to Horatio Seymour's speech,
made on the very 4th July when the
riot was planned to take place, in
which he declared that this bloody
reasonable, and revolutionary doc
trine os public necessity can be pro-
claimed by q mob, as we'll as by gov-
eminent" Then read his speech declar-
ing the mob his friends, and saying that
their objects and his object was the
same-upposition to the edraft-which he
had sent his adjutant to Washington TO
have stopped. II Captain Johns atti-
davit is true, wherein he declares Val
landigham said the purpose of his visit
to Canada was ''to incite mobs in the
Northern cities, and thereby create a
diversion in favor of General Lee and
the Southern army" it is pretty plain
than Vallandigham and Horatto Sey-
mour were working together 10 the
same end, with the same means at the
same time, in the same place, and with
the same result, whether there was any
previously arranged understanding be-
tween them or not, or any common
purpose between the two. 1t is GER
tainly, if the affidavit is true, most
IsuspicIous coincidence.