Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-07-06


eulogize him as patriot and states
man and man endowed with every
public virtue, and tremendous loss
to his country, and so on, and thus
reflect upon the people and public
men who opposed him and who pre-
served the republic, and that then
they may suppress all truths ~ the
plea of the mantle of scilence that
should cover the dead. If they de
sire the mantle of silence they should
have spread it themselves. Valland
igham was man who pleaded the i'm
munitics of the laws of peace when the
whole country was in n most danger
Gus and cruel war, to give him person
al safety in dotng his worst TO give
aid and comfort to the enemy. He
was so blinded by his own evcl pas
siCns as to believe that the south
would triumph, and that then he
would receive his reward. To this
selfish, treacherous course he added
the role of secret conspirator. The
ostcntatious display of hypocritical
eulogy with which the INTEL igcnt
members of his own party cover up
their joy at his taking off, and the fee
bleness of some republican journals
IN this case, have made no impression
on the public mind in either party but
a feeling of contempt, and will not at
all prevent the infamy of this man in
our history.
In return for the Dayton Hcrald's
yillainous provocation we give the
following expression of the democrat
ic estimation of Vallandigham. II
was given in the Cincinnati Enqulrer's
Columbus correspondence at the
democratic state convention. A7d it
is fact well known in Ohio that this
expresses the estimate held of Val
landigham by the most intelligent
portion of demo cratic party, in regard
to his course during the whole OF the
war and since:
That every thing is not exactly
lovely in the camp, and that there are
many of the s:auacLe t ofthe democ-
racy who are not prepared tn swallow
Val.'s sugar coated pills as they say,
surrender at discretion" is very ap
parent to even q casual observer. ]
have conversed with a number ofper-
sons to-day, who openly denounce
the whole platform, and speak with
exceeding bitterness of its author, as
man of boundless ambition, para
gon of heartless selfshness. and c
dead weight to the party for whose
success heprofesses to labor SO faith
fully.
A friend of Judge Thurman (and
one whose voice will be heard in the
convention } said in my presence to
day, "Why, d-n that cold blooded
reptile { Val. J, he found himself sink
ing into oblivion, and with a view to
his own advancement, and the injury
of Others and better men, he sprung
this game ofsurrender. Ii he can get
hook into the nose of the party, and
bandage over itseyes and then lead ii
into the radical camp and pocket the
reward of his infamy, he will have ac
complished both of his objects. If he
only brings about the surrender and
don't get the reward, he will have the
satisfaction Of knowing that he has,
by killing the party, also killed his
rival. AS far as he is concerned lie
will, like the youth who fred the
Ephesian dome,' have made himself
notorious, if not infamous. Notorie
ty," continued this indignant gentle
man, warming up with the subject,
'ls Val s passion, and it makes but
little difference to him whether it is
famous or infamous, so that it notori-
ETY.. If the Cd rascal had died ten
years ago our party would have been
in much better condition to day. He
hates everybody and everything that
stands in his way, and will adopt any
means to craush out rival. His par
ular hates in Ohio are Judge Thurman
and George Ii. Pendleton, and this
id new departure business is only
a dirty game to kill them off and
place himself in the lead.
To the above we Sdd what lead
ing Democrat of Ohio, who is a can
didate on the State ticket, said to US
IN private conversation, at CoIum
bus, on Wednesday evening Of last
week. He had been attending bIr.
Vallandigham's funeral and was in
Columbus on business connected with
the Democratic canvass this fall.
Speaking of Mr.. Vallandigham's
hatred of his personal enemies, he re-
marked.
ga few days ago Mr.. Vallandig-
ham took up paper and read an TN
favorable criticism of himself and his
new departure, which had been repro
duced from an influential Democratic
journal.
After he had read it, in 4 merciIess
tone, remarked substantially to an as
sociate, 'the sooner That fellow dies
and goes TO hell the better" Again
speaking of Mr.. Vallandigham's pers-
onal ambition and hopes, our Demo-
cratic friend remarked: I slept with
Mr.. Vallandigham, a few nigts ago,
and when we arose in the morning,
he placed his hand upon my shoulder
and said: "Yoang man, I am going
to be q United States Senator"
ThOS. w. Harvey.
While we regard all the nomina-
tions made by the republican conven-