Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-06-22
yalIandlgh a m Dead.

| Mr baHanuIShdm was oHo vi tho
counsel employed to defend man named
Mcclellan, charged with murder, and be-
ing tried at Lebanon, Ohio. Mr. '. en-
tertained an idea that the man whom
Mcclellan was charged with numbering
had shot himself Advancing this the>
DRY to Judge McBurney, an associate
counsel, that gentleman expressed some
doubt on the subject, and to illustrate it
Mr. V. picked up one of two pistols ly-
ing on a table in the rooIn where the two
gentlemen were together, and putting it
in his pocket quickly withdrew it, keeps
inc the muzzle toward his body. In be-
ing withdrawn from. the pocket the piss
FOL was discharged, the ball entering the
abdomen, inficting wound it is SAID
precisely the same as that found on the
deceased man. Mr. Y. CALCULATED " Oh,
murder took the wrong pistol One
Of the two pistols being loaded and the
other empty, he supposed he had the
empty one in his hand. The accident
happened Friday evening, and he died
Saturday morning,
Mr. Vallandigham was perhaps as
widely if not as favor"bly known as any
man in the nation. Whatever his faults,
he was not demagogue, or time server.
No matter how unpopular his opinions
might be, he boldly advocated them, re-
CARELESS OF consequences. In his social
and private relations he is said to have
been agreeable, kind and generous. In
ability he ranked with the first men OF
tho nation, and had his talents been
rightly directed he would ,unquestiona
have rivalled Douglas in the hearts OF
his party friends, and in the admiration
Of the whole people.
Now that he has stepped off the plat
form of life, brief biographical sketch
Of him is in order, which we give, con,
densed from an article in the Chicago
Tijanc;
He was the son of a clergyman Of Lis,
bon, Ohio, where he was born in the year
1922 After receiving a common school
education he spent one year in Jefferson
College, Ohio. He then obtained the
charge of an. aca1emy in Snow ll:ll, Md;
he returned to Ohio in 1910; studied
law and was admitted to the bar in 1913;
served in the State Legislature in 1915
and 1916; edited the Dayton Empire
from lS46 to 1919; ana then devoted
himself to his pro tession, taking also an
active part in politics. In 1886 he was
the Democratic candidate for Congress
against Lewis D. Campbell The certi.
ficate was awarded to Campbell, but VAL
landlgham contested the election, and
was admittedao the seat. He was again
elected in 1858, and in 1850, his term e1-
p,ring in March, 1863
When we have said that Mr.. Vallan-
digham was an ardent, untiring, and
fearless character, possessing an undoGs
table will and keen and penetrating in
tellect, and he was n pro-slavery man
from conviction, we have furnished the
key to his erratic and somewhat unfor-
tunate career. In speech just before
he left Congress in 1863 be said:
''I am one Of that number of men who have OPP
posed AbohtoniSm or the political development of
the anti slavery sentiment of the North and est,
from the beginning In school at college, at the bar
in public assemblies, In the Legislature In Congress-
boy and man, as private citizen and in public life,
in tne OF peace and in time OF war ali tunes and
as, every sacrifice, fought against IT, II cost me ten
years exclusion from office and honor at that period
OF life when henors ara sweetest. No matter;
learned early to do right end wait"
He was opposed to the war as a matter
of policy and because it threatened the
humiliation of slavery But in defining
his position he made a distinction be-
tween his duty to his own convictions
and his duty rs representative, and he
explained his action IN voting for troops
and money to conquer the war, by says
ing:
"Tla country wss at war and belonged to that
school OF pcaics Which teaches that when we are at
war, the COVER NEST II do net mean the Executive
alone, but the government lis entitled to demand,
aud have, without resistance, such number Of men,
and such an amount OF money and supplies generally,
as may he nece 4ary for the war until an appeal can
be hadto the people"
On the 18Th oS April, 1868, Gen Burn.
side, commanding the Department of the
Ohio, issued General Order No IS, ~ in
which it was ordered, among other things,
that the habit of declaring sympathies
ror the enemy will no longer be tolerate
ed in this department. On the LIST of
| May MIR, Nal.andighum commented upon
aud denounced this order in a speech
delivered at Mount Vernon, O. lie was
arrested at Dayton, at his house, at three
o'clock n the morning OF the tth hy q
military force, and carried Immediately
/ by special train TO Cincinnati. The news
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