Year: 1859

the National 4mtelltgemcer OF


saturday


Below will be found a synopsis Of Mr.. VAL
lnudieham's speech as II appeared in the Ma
tional Intellgencer of Washington oity-a
paper that is not under the control Of any as
sociate news agent, and therefore not given TO
garbling. The reporter Of this paper gives the
speech as It was delivered


Mr.. Valandigham 8 entire speech will appear
in few days. The low Airg Of the bafled
etitor of the Dayton Journal comes from itr
ting source.


will the Dayton Journal publish this syuop.
sis9 Come, now, IL there is spark OF hones>
~, Of truth, of deceney left, come now, Mr..
Journal, publish the synopsis Of the Intelli'
gencer, or the people will only have one more
proof Of your wilful, deliberate and malicious
lying


Mr.. Vallandigham, Of Ohio, addressed the
House. He said though a young man, still he
had seen some legislative service, but be had
always endeavored go to be a politician ss not
TO forget that be was gentleman, aud he was
resolved TO exact from others that courtesy
which he was always willing to award. He
charged the Republican party with discourtesy
In refusing to adjourn according to his desire,
last evening. He had said that il any man had
endorsed book Of an ineendary character, and
had refused to disavow its sentiments, he was
not ft to be Speaker or member of this House,
and he repeated that assertion to day. A slave
holder had stated that such a person was not
fit to live, but there was no indignation on the
Republican side Of the House manifested, as
there had been when he made his declaration.
He would inform gentlemen on that side
that he was their peer, and he would exs
act from them as Western Democrat, the same
consideration which they were forced TO give
Southern Shareholders. If they thought other
wise, they had yet to learn his character, for
he was as good Western fre-eater as the hot>
test salamander in this House. Laughter and
applause He had been served with a notice
this morning that the Republican side did not
intend TO listen to any further discussion. He
cared not whether they would listen or not; he
told them the county held its breath in sus-
pense upon every word said here, and he was
determined to declare his sentiments


In this sectional controversy he held posi-
tion of armed neutrality. He was not North.
ern mao with Southern principles, but a Unis
ted States man with United States principles;
but when the South was threatened with armed
| invasions, servile instructions, and the torch
of the iDcendiary his sympathies were wholly
| for her He had no respect for Southern rights
simply as such; let the South defend them, as
he knew they would and COULD but he had a
tender regard for his own obligations. AS a
| Northern man he would give the South all
her constitutional rights, including three ifIhs
rule, fugitive slave law, equal rights in the
territories, and whatever else the Constitution
gives fApplause. He was not true to the
South In the sense Of defending Southern in
stitutions and giving Southern votes on guess
tion, regardless of his Free State identityi but
he was true TO the South, as were the great
mass of the Democratic party in the North, in
maintaining all the constitutional rights of the
South against all her enemies whatsoever
There were three classes in the country: those
who were proNslavery, those who were autiS
slavery, and those who occupied a middle or
neutral ground; and to the latter class he
claimed to belong, That he believed was the
true ground for all conservative Union men of
this country. He demanded neither an anti
slavery Bible, an antisslavery Constitution, nor
an anti,slavery God; and was neither Norths
ern nor a Southern man, but Western man,
devoted to the Union, representing one Of the
Free States of that valley, which was in
interest, and bound as by hooks Of steel with
| all the other States Of the great valley of the
mighty Mississippi He had learned that in
this City that man without section was a
nonenity in Congress, and so had become a
Western sectonalist. He too, like the Lesth~
er Stocking Of the praires, would fight fire
with fire. He found that the North and South
respected each other, but regarded the Western
members as outside barbaTians. He assured
his colleague (Mr Sherman) that he was des.
tined to be laid upon the shelf, or only sent
forward to draw the FIRE of their opponents
and then make way for another man. and he
believed that a similar fate awaited his other
colleague, (Mr. COrwin,) who would never res
alize that


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And robes the Speakers tribune in its radiant
hue.n


But he congratulated the West that the day.
spring Of their deliverance was near; that the
| long period Of their minority was about TO ter
inmate. After the next census the people of
the great Mississippi would have the power to
take into their own hands this great Governs
ment, and they would administer 1t for the ben>
| eft Of the whole country, II the North or the
South conspired TO control the Government for
the benefit Of their sections the great North~
west would rescue it from their hands, and
would crush out treason and sectionalism -
Some of the Western Republicans were under
the miserable infatuation that the West would
secure the Presidential nomination. Let them
cease this seryIle vassalage to the proud and
domineering North, and no longer permit the
Northwe est to be identified with those who are
warning against slavery. They were only wan
ted as soldiers for the fight, food for powder,
while their Northern masters were reaping all
| the glory. Seward meant the West when he
spoke Of Northern power but in the distribus
| tion of patronage he would know no West
| If they would be sectionalists let them be
Western sectionalists. They had in the West
plenty of objects upon which TO exercise their
philanthropy, He despised and condemned
Western servility to the North as much as they
| dsspjsed seryility to the South. The gentle-
man from Pennsylvania (Mr. Hickman) had
spoken of precipitating eighteen millions OF
| people upon eight millions, but he must learn
that the West were not militia men, To come
forth at the sound of his drum II he inten
ded to raise the black flag of internecine war
he must find his troops at home.


Mr. Florence, of Pennsylvania. He cannot
| find them there.


Mr.. Vallandigham was glad to hear it. He
csmenow TO a most painful and difficult subject,
the subject Of disunion. For many years after
this Government was formed no man dared
breathe that word In this Capitol, but 1t was
now familiar. In this contest the Democracy
of the West would stand as between the living
aud the dead. Too many Of the North were
! striving to force the South out OF the Union,
aud too many Of the South were anxious to be
forced out. The doctrines Of Hale, Banks
Seward Chase, Gddings, ard Lincoln, and
above all Of the New York Trlu.e, ~ re the
doctrines Of large majority Of the North and
of respectable minority Of the West, and
there was no use 10 denying it, His colleague
| (Mr, Corwin) not only did not represent the
sentiments Of the Republicans Of Ohio, but
was not a respectable follower Of that party


which he professed to lead, II was not eloquent
aud conservative speeches like his that are wan
! ted here, but conservative votes at home, That
| gentleman entered the Republican party with