The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-11-15
Connect With Tunnel No. 3.
How Lincoln Disposed of Vallandigham
LA Toilette Should Meet Similar Fate

Did President Wilson need a pre-
cedent, a sign, to enhearten him as
war chief, beset by pacifists, sneo Cop
perheads, counter reVolutionists,
enemy comforters, spies and plotters
who hamper the mobilization of the
nation for war, there stands Lincoln,
writes William J. Black in the New
York Tribune.
In the darkest hour of the war,
when, in July, 1868, the northern
cause seemed lost and counter rebel
lion in the northwest bred new peril
to the Union, Lincoln met the shady
army of Copperheads and dissenters
on the field of constitutionalism,
which was their Shield and put them
to rout with a suspension of habeas
corpus and with arrest and imprison
ment, so that the nation might sur
| ViVe.
Copperheadism and paciiism in the
north summed themselves up under
the name of Vallandighamism. Lin
coin stripped the cloak of constitu-
tionalism from those mouthers of the
law threw back into their teeth their
cries of free speech and of 'liber-
| ty," and made an example of their
spokesman, Congressman Clement l..
vallandigham of Dayton, O., by ar
resting him and sending him over into
the southern lines.
Likened to La Toilette.
What is acknowledgements, and who
was Vallandigham? In his Racine,
Wis, denunciation of La Fallotte,
Colonel Roosevelt, with his customary
adeptness in historical conjuring,
summoned forth the skeleton of VAL
landigham and caused it to wear the
flesh and countenance of La Toilette.
The colonel said:
! MEN like Senators La Toilette and
Stone and Congressman Lenroot occu-
Ipy substantially the same position
which Vallandigham occupied in 1868.
They aid Germany as Vallandigham
aided the cause of secession. They
denounce the war as Vallandigham
denounced the war for the Union,
They now slur over or defend the
hideous iniquity of Germany as he in
his day slurred over and defended the
iniullity of slavery.
Lincolns letter to the mass meeting
of protest at Albany, justifying his eX-
| ling of Vallandigham, affords an eX-
position of authority of the execu-
4 tive which is particularly apt at TINS
moment, when a thousand voices cry
their treason wares, believing the con-
stit1tion to be in time of war a suffi-
cient cloak for their indulgences. Lin
coin wrote:
LincoIn's Attitude on Free Speech.
"The constitution is not in its appi-
cation in all respects the same in cases
of rebellion or invasion, involving the
public safety, as it is in time OF pro-
found peace and public security
"The constitution itself makes the
distinction, and I cannot be persuad-
ed that the government can constitu-
tionally take no strong measures in
time of rebellion because it can be
shown that the same could not law
fully be taken in time Of peace.
"Nor am | able to appreciate the
danger apprehended by the meeting
cat Albany that the American peo-
pie will, by means of military arrest
during the rebellion, lose the right OF
public discussion, the liberty of speech,
the law of evidence, trial by jury and
habeas corpus throughout the indefi-
mite peaceful future which, I trust, lies
before them.
"Must | shoot a simple minded sold
Ter boy who deserts, while l must not
touch hair of willy agitator VINO
Induces him to desert?