The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-01
VALLANDIGHAM.
He Tells Why Chase Was Not Nominated, and
Clears His Coat Tails.

Clears His Coat Tails.
Mr.. Valandigham, in the Dayton Ledger, in
dignantly denies the charge that he prevented
the nomination of Chase, and caused the over
throw of the Democratic party in the late cleo
tion He says:-
The facts are exactly the reverse. Within
much less than one hour," had ''Vallandigham
not done anything another man than Chase
would have been nominated There may have
been-no doubt was-an unfortunate error of
necessity; but there was no mistake in judg-
ment." Certainly, Seymour declined the no.
minatiOn in good faith; he was sincerely
for Chase, and had he possessed the presence
of mind and boldness to have anticipated ''Val-
landghams furious declarations so-called (Of
which we had just had previous notice. by con-
Guiding his speech with the suggesting of Chase
Vallandigham would have been silent; similar
scene would have followed, Chase have been
nominated, and President to-day, and the De-
mocratic party, with its bold, brave men at the
front in power After the multiplied treache-
ries and stupidities of the Democratic managers
from October, 1867, to July, 1868, there was but
one thing which could and would have COM
manded success-the nomination of Salmon 7.
Chase, who, unlike Andrew johnson, had
brains enough to comprehend that if he
was to overpower the strong-minded,
strong-willed audacty of the Republican
leaders, it alone by an antagonlzing to it of
the strOng-mnded, strong-wiled audacty of the
''Copperheads" of the Democratic party. He
was not nominated wherefore, and by reason of
| the premises, Grant and his relatives now hold
| place, IL not power, Willie CGyLnOuu crops HIS
| hay, mlks his cows and churns his butter near
| ''pent up Utica;' Blair, in silent retirement,
no longer even a railroad director, chews the
| cud of sweet and bitter fancies over Grants pro-
| foundly hidden capacity to develop himself into
an American Caesar, ceaving to the White
| House till carried thence a corpse; Pendleton,
from the height of Bowler Place, calmly sur
veys, with musing eye, the green-banked slopes
and pastures of the valleys of Mill Creek
and the Licking; Mclean creates pleasant
parks along the Roman-noscd decliyites of Deer
4 creek; while Vallandigham, no longer concerned
1 about that great hereafter" whose slow-paced
movements he has delivered over to history, con-
| tentedly hurs his furious declarations" ut
courts and jures in the vicinage of Burnsidcs S
raid vindicating the rights and redressing
the wrongs of those venerable gentlemen OF
ancient family and renown, john Doe and
! Richard Roe-the aforesaid Seymour, Blair, PEN
dleton, Mclean, and Valandgham, with divers
others ITO the grand jurors unknown, being all
| sweetly oblivious to the fact that a New York
| Convention was ever assembled; and each con
soling himself with the heavenly reflection
| that
| "When wicked men bear sway,
The post of honor is private station"
This consolatory reflection is as essential as it
is gratifying; for no party that has the audaclty
TO elect Carl SchurZ to the Senate can even be
beaten by party which stones its prophets and
rejects its martyrs.