The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-06-20

so. He had arrived at the threshold
Of that time TO which he had so often
appealed-the time of the second
thought of the people, when the war
drums throbbed no longer and the bat
tie flags we're furled, and had taken a
position out of which great results
would have flown, and brought to him
honor and renown.
There has not lived in the present
generation public man who has been
more abused than Mr.. Vallandigham.
During the late war, the advocacy OF
peace involved him in untold trials, and
was received by majority OF the peo-
p'e. who would not understand his
proposition, with outcries OF wrath
They branded him as dlsunlonlst'
when every aspiration of his heart was
for the union indissoluble, always
spreading its boundaries and never sur
rendering its jurisdiction over one foot
of soil that now rests under the shadow
Of the stars and stripes. He was ar
rested by virtue of an order OF Gen.
Burnside, whose grave will be no green
err for the tyrannous act, and banished'
While an exile he was nominated by
the democratic party for governor oil
Ohio. Out of that conflict the demo
crats came beaten-beaten by in
timidation and ballot box stufiing; bu,
in defeat they found victory---the vic
tory of freedom of speech and the lib
erty of the press. That canvass de-
monstrated the fact, that a tyrannica
majority controlling the government
has more to fear from the indignation
of the friends of outraged liberty thar
from all the abuse of liberty of speech
in which all the enemies of the unior
might see proper to indulge for cen
fury. Nallandigham was the last maj
arrested under Gen. Burnside's in
famous order, which thereafter wa
trampled under foot and denounced oil
every square foot of soil of that doubt.
generals department.
After the war Mr.. Vallandigham re
NAMED, for the most part, a spectato
of events, aud only a few days ago agail
took prominent place before the pub
lie but the manner in which he die
that act-plucking fruit that was read,
to fall, making his own what had beer
before advocated by weak men in (
timid, half-fearful manner-proved hin
to be the great sensational politician OF
the age.
But he is gone, and let his faults
slumber with his bones and be never
raised in judgment against him. Let
his good qualities only be remembered
his courage, that would dare any
thing in defense of his convictions his
honor, that elevated him above the petty
meanness of doublc-dealing his frank
ness, that made him wear his heart
upon his sleeve; his love of his family,
which was pure and intense; his devo-
ton to his friends, which was constant
and knew not variableness nor the shad-
ow of turning. If he had been But.
Ter or Logan he would have been the
leader of the republican party, but he
was an honest man. and in the shadows
OF defeat and danger defended what he
believed to be right, leaving his vindi-
cation to the future. He would not
barter with dishonor. He fought from
first to last the good fight Of devotion
10 principle, and went down to his
grave loved by his friends and respected
~ those who hated him. Dead. He
hould have died hereafter there would
ave been a time for such word.
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