Sunday morning globe., 1901-08-25
lost HIS LIFE
And Saved That Of His Client Ac-
cuSed of Murder.
HON. CLEMENT C. VALINDINGHAM
Ohio Champion Of tho Coniederaoy and His
Tragic Ending After the War-Ths Raid
and Destruction Of The Sentinel Office BY
Tho Second Ohio as Narrated BY ER-SOdlor
Gauss-A Historical Chapter.

Mr.. Isaac Cause, an eX-sOldler or Co.
E, Second Ohio Cavalry, has prepared
the manuscript history Of his regiment
and proposes Issuing the same in book
FORM Il is entitled, From a Rural
District to the Cavalry Service as IL
Looks From the Ranks"
Mr.. Cause served four years and one
month at the front, and wears the
medal of honor for the capture Of the
Eighth South Carolina Infantry, its
battle-hags, etc. The action took place
Sept 10, 1864. Cause led the advanced
guard Of his regiment and meeting the
enemy's infantry promptly charged
them three times, finally penetrating
to their rear and forcing the surrender
of the remnants of the regiment.
He has permitted the Sunday Morn
ing Globe to extract a chapter from the
proposed publication detailing the raid
on and destruction Of Clement l.. Val
lindgham's Columbus (O.) Sentinel
during the war. Before proceeding to
quote Mr. Cause, The Globe desires to
reminiscently touch upon the tragic
ending Of this noted historical charac-
ter and firm friend Of the COnfede-
racy's legal right to secession, other
wise champion States rights advocate.
MT. Vallindgham, after the war, re.
turned to Ohio, from whence he had
been expelled as "a rebel sympathizer,"
and settled down to the practice Of his
profession. While defending a man
named Thomas Mcclellan at Hamilton,
Ohio, on a charge Of murder, he lost
his life i'm the following manner.
Mr. Nallindghdm and his associate
counsel were In consultation in the
evening at their hotel Vallindgham
had a theory of the killing which he
was explaining to his confrere. This
theory was to the effect that the muir.
dered man accidentally discharged his
own pistol in his pocket, and therefore
Mcclellan was innocent of his murder
There were two pistols on the table be-
tween the learned counsel; one was
loaded and the other empty Mr.. Val
indgham had repeatedly snapped the
unloaded weapon in explaining mat
ters to his confrere, and laying down
the pistol, continued to outline the the
ory more I'm detail. When he arrived
at that portion of the defense where
the murdered man was supposed to ac-
cidentally shoot himself while drawing
the weapon he intended to use on Nc
Gehan, Mr. Valindingham seized one
of the pistols on the table and placing
it in the position he had described
pulled the trigger To the horror and
CONSERVATION of his brother counsel,
the weapon exploded and Valinding
ham fell to the floor mortally wound
ed, shot exactly i'm the same portion of
the body as the murdered man, or the
man the State claimed was murdered
by Mcclellan
1t would be impossible for the people
of to-day to realize the impression Val
ingingham's death caused throughout
Ohio and indeed the nation at large.
BY the legal profession he was regard
eu as q martyr in llis -ciunta causci
the old abOlitiOnists saw in his death
the hand of Providence, while the De-
mocracy Of the State keenly felt his
loss His thousands of personal friends
mourned his untimely death, and the
South he had so gallantly stood up
for passed resolutions of condolences,
and in every way manifested its sor-
row for his death and its gratitude for
ID
as his counsel only too realistically es-
tablished his innocence or at least the
correctness Of his theory of the death
Of McGehan's victim. The latter was
assassinated subsequently, and sup
posedly by his victims friends, who
shot him through the window of his
saloon while behind his counter.
re son Of this champion of the
South, Charles Valindingham, was
twice elected to the Ohio legislature,
was subsequently elected clerk of the
Ohio senate and went back on the Dem.
ocratic party I'm a crisis and drifted
into the Republican camp as a report
er on the Cincinnati Commercial Ca
zette. We have heard young Valinding-
ham and the son of stephen A. Doug
las speak from the same platform i'm
Of the Republican party and
candidate I'm the city of Columbus!
Longstreet Moseby and other gallant
Confederates doing the same thing was
not half the shock to the rOckribbed
Democracy Of Ohio as that the sons
OF Douglas and Valindingham should
have repudiated the memories Of two
such historic characters as Stephen A.
Douglas and Clement L. Vallndingham
The story told by Mr.. Cause, in his |
proposed book, is substantially as fol
lows:
THE 80 days leave having expired |
returned to camp Chase, and was |
treated to a surprise when Sergeant |
Harris informed me that a raid had |
been recently planned to clean out the |
Sentinel Office and invited me to join |
the party
The Sentinel was a sheet published |
In Columbus by one G. l.. Valinding.
ham, the sentiments Of which were an |
.agonistic to the Union soldier. When |
The regiment was In Kansas some ed |
.torials appeared in which the writer /
expressed the wish that any soldier |
hat crossed Mason and DiXon's line /
would not live to return. The article |
raised our ire, and some threats were |
made at the time, and IL appears that |
some took 1t to heart so much as to put |
he threats inO execution at the first |
Although / could see no
'eason how anything Valindingham
might have said would affect us in any
way, but as there were others who
Knew more about such matters, and
hey belonged to the Second Ohio, 1
vas willing to help them get revenge
Il was showing at the time, and [ OBJ
ierved that ft is a bad night He re-
)lled Tt Is. but the leaders have been
waiting for the boys to return from
cave, and everything Is now ready and
viii be carried out tonight. The prin-
.ipal reason being that we can pass the
guard and enter the city under the
yuise Of a church party on Sunday
light, and evade detection by applying
or a pass
After retreat, the usual call for vol
inteers to form the church party was
made, and to which none would re-
pond on such a bad night bu those un-
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