The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-20


which we have just referred. There was
heard an earnest and determined protest
coming from large portion of the best ele-
ment of the Republican party. 1t said as
plainly as words could say:-If these objection
able, incompetent unworthy, and corrupt
men are nominated we will not support theml
Was the voice needed? If so, how? Did
single man so uncompromlslngly opposed
withdraw? If SO, who? No! The warning
was treated with the most studied contempt
and the very states which had excited so much
indignation were confirmed by nearly every
convention.
Now, we are driven to one of two conclusions,
viz: Either the intelligent Republicans who
SO earnestly protested against the nomination
of the ticket which has been presented were
mistaken were grossly in error, or the greater
part of the ticket nominated is unworthy the
support of honest men. We do not propose
to solve this question here and now, we
respectfully present it to our thoughtful and
independent readers for their careful conside-
ration.
Having an eye to the common good, we
had ardently hoped the Republican party
would nominate only honest, upright, incor
rupt, and competent men; such men as would
be in every way worthy the support of good
citizens, knowing that such course would
have wholesome effect upon the managers
of the Democratic party, who would then not
dare to place any but similarly fit and COM
petent candidates in opposition, and thus we
would have two tickets worthy a hearty sup
port from the people according to their re-
spective political preferences. To the De-
mocratlc conventions about to meet we say,
make good nominations, the people demand
it show your respect for them by complying
with that demand.
In the contest before us the duty of every
man who has the welfare of the nation at
heart is plain, too plain to be mistaken by
any but the careless or the wilful. That duty
is to march up to the polls and vote only for
good men, and if the alternative is to vote for
bad men or none at all, then not to vote! In
this way only can we accomplish anything
for just SO long as we denounce and oppose
the nomination of bad men and then heartily
support them after they are nominated, just
so long will we be disgraced and cursed as we
are to. day.
THE DEATH OF MR.. VALLANDIGHAM.
From the NJ Y. World.
The death of Mr.. vallandigham will be sim
cerely regretted by his fellow-D Democrats in
all parts of the country, and by none more
sincerely than those who have not shared the
extreme opinions which, until the late Ohio
Convention, had in him foremost representa-
tive. He was politician in whom an un-
bounded ambition perhaps outran the measure
of his faculties; but he was politician of dis
tinct principles and incorruptible integrity
His political course was guided by his intel
lectual judgments, and he took the obloquy
which they brought upon him during the
trying days of our civil afwithout blench-
| ing without abating single jot their stead
| fast utterance. imprisonment and exile were
| the punishments laid upon him for opinions
sake. But these became crown of political
martyrdom upon his head and lasting stigma
upon the memory of Mr.. Lincoln who had
forgotten, and upon the names of Stanton
and Burnside who had never learned, the first
lessons of civil liberty.
| This, indeed, was Mr.. Vallandighams chief
distinction in the politics of his time. Before
the war he had never gone beyond scores of
his contemporaries in the application to af-
fairs, or the advocacy, of the principles of
pure Democracy. And certain acerbity of
! temper might have hindered his further pro-
motion despite his unquestioned capacity of
work and the intensity of his mental ener-
gies. At the outbreak of the war he joined
hands with those who sought to lead the DEM
ocratic party into paths fatal alike to it and to
the country; and during the war, by his os-
tentatious and sincere boldness he contri-
buted in no slight degree to paralyze the
| popular effect of the rejection of his opinions
and his leadership by the vast majority of his
party. Since the war he had not allied his
name with any public measure of sound or
unsound politics, until, within the month
which also sees his sad and untimely death,
he came forward and proclaimed, with the
manly frankness and the unhesitating bold
ness which marked all his political utterances,
his conviction that the decision of his
party, matured at the East and at the West
and fast maturing at the South, concerning
the issues of its future contests, had now
by him and all who went with him Cfor none
had gone beyond him) to be acknowledged
and obsyed.
But Mr.. Vallandigham will live in the his
tory of his country despite this isolation from
the progress of his party, despite the small
share he has enjoyed of its public honors,
and despite that he is cut off in the very ma
turity of his faculties when q new and bril-.
liant career seemed opening before him
wherein all his compatriots might have given
him hearty godspeed. He will long bt
remembered for the courage and the con
stancy with which in his own party he main
tanned unpopular opinions, which if fatal tC
its success were fatal also to his own advance
ment. But he will chiefly be remembered il
this and future times for his unflinching ad
vocacy and exhibition of the American free
mans right to freely think and freely speak
For this he suffered as few of the Thousand
; of victims suffered whom the Lincolns tn,
i Stantons, and the Burnsides of our disor
dered times tore from their homes withou
judicial warrant, immured in dungeons, i'm
) prisoned in forts, tormented with cruel ant
} unusual punishments, cut off from thel
} friends and the world exiled across the Dor
8 der OF over the seas, or liberated withou
s removing the stigma of crimes which If eve
Y alleg ed were never proved, and after givinl
0 by aw the form of justice to a complete de
: nial of future redress. He bore his suffering