“t BELLEFONTE, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 8, 1862. BY GEO. P. MORRIS. I May the dove of Peace, descending From celestial spheres above, Over earth lier piuions bending Fold usin eternal love. IL In her shelter, man reposing, Feels what war can never know, And each day some good disclosing, Cheers alike the high and low. 10t. Pea ce her priceless boon bestowing, We possess what none can buy, Ip a stresm of blessings flowing, From the fountains of the sky. 1v. Then may gentle Peace, descending From celestial spheres above, Over earth her pinions bending, Fold us in eternal love. GREAT SPEECH OF Hon, C. L. Vallandingham, Made at the Democratic State Convention of Ohio, on the 4th aay of July. 1862. Following the reading and adoption of the resolutions, loud and continous calls were made for Mr. Vallandingham and when he ascended the platform he was greeted with rapturous cheers. Ile spoke as follows ! Mr, President, and fellow Democrats of the State of Ohio : I am obliged again . to regret that the lateness of the hour preclude me from addressing you, either in the man- ner or the particular subjects which other- wise I should prefer. This is my misfor- tune again to day as last night ; but speak ing thus without premeditation, and upon such matters chiefly as may occur to me at the moment, if | should happen to get fairly under headway, it may turn out to be your misfortune.—(Laughter.) 1 congratulate the Democracy of Ohio, that in the midst of public trial aud calam. ty , of persecution for devotion to the doc. trines of the fathers who laid deep and strong the foundations of the Constitution and the Union under which this country kas grown great and been prosperous—the fath ers by whose principles one and all, the party to which we are proud to belong has always been guided—to day we have as sembled in numbers greater thanat any former Convention in Ohio. I congratulate you that despite the threats which have been uttered, and the denunciations which have been poured out upon that time honor~ ed and most patriotic orginization, peacea- bly and in quiet, with enthusiasm and earnestness of purpose, we are here met, and in harmony which is the secret of strength and harbinger of successs, have discharged the duties for which we are calls ed together. There was a time when it was questionable if in free America—in the uni. ted States—boasting of their liberties for more than eighty years—a party to which this country is endebted for all that is great and good, and grand and glorious, —would have been permitted peacefully to assem. ble to exercise its political rights, and per- form its political functions. Threats have been mad= in times more recent, that this most essential of all political rights, secured to us by the precious blood of our fathers in seven years revolutionary war, should no longer be enjoyed. The Demncrats of our noble sister State of Indiauna, second born daughter of the North West, have been menaced within the last ten days, with a military organization and the bayonet, to putdown their party: I hold in my hand a telegraphic dispatch from the capitol of that State, boasting of this infamous pur- pose. I will read it gentleman ; because I know that the same dastardly menaces have been proclaimed against the Democrats of Ohio, and because [ am here to day to rebuke them as becomes a free born man who is resolved to. perish—[Great applause in the midst of which the rest of the sentence was lost.] Some months ago, & Democratic State Convention was held in Indianna. It was a Convention of the party founded by Thom ag Jefferson, and built up by a Madison and a Monroe, and consolidated by an Andrew Jackson [applause] —a party under whose principles and policy from thirteen States we have grown to thirty~four,” for, thirty-four there were, true and loayl to the Union be~ fore the Presidential election of 1860—a party under whose wise and liberal policy the course of the empire westward did take its way, until the symbol of American pow~ er—the stars and stripes—waved proudly from the Atlantic to the Pacific, over the breadth of tke whole continent—a party which, by peace and compromise, and through harmony and wisdom and sound policy brought us up from feeble and im- Ppoverished colonies, struggling in the midst of defeat and disaster in the war of the Rev- olution to a mighty empire, foremost among the powers of the earth, the foundations of old Utfion which the Democratic party has ever irigintained and defended. The Dem-~ ocriltic party with such principles and such a history and record to point to, held a State Convention in pursuance of its uages for more than thirty years, and under the right secured by a Stat. and Federal Constitution older still, in the ctpital of the State of In- dianna, And yet; referring to this party and its convention, the correspondent of a disloyal and pestilent, but influential news. paper in the chief city of Ohio, dared to send over the telegraphic wires, wires whol ly under the military control of the admins istration, which permits nothing to be trans mitted not acceptable to its censors, a disw patch in these words: “The fellows are frightened, evidently not without cause.” “Well, gentleman, I know not how far Democrats of Indianna may be frightened | —and a noble and more fearless body of men never lived—but Ieee thousands of Democrats before me to whom fear and re- proach are alike unkaown. Frightened at what? Frightened by whom? We are made of sterner stuff. “The militia of the State,” he adds, *‘will probably be put on a war footing very shortly.” And who I pray, are the militia of the State? They are not made up of the lead. ers of the Republican party in Indianna or Ohio I know. I never knew that sort of politicians to go into any such organization in peace or in war. Nomen have ever been more bitter and unrelenting in their opposi- tion to the ridicule of the militia ; and none knows it better than [, as my friend be- fore me by his smile, reminds me that one of my own offences is that I am a militia brigadier in favor of the next foreign war. But who are the militia ? They are the free born, strong armed, stout hearted Dem« oerats of Indianna as they are of Ohio.— Let them be put on a war footing, Good! We have hosts of them in the army already and on a war footing, but who are as sound Democrats, and as much devoted to the principles of the party as they were the hour they enlisted. They have been in the South, and I have the authority of hundreds of officers and privates in that gallant army, for saying that not only are original Demo. crats in it, more devoted to the party to-day than ever before, but that Lundreds also who went hence Republicans, have returns ed, (Laughter and applause.) Sir, the army is fortunately, most fortunately for the country, turniug out to be a sort of politi- cal hospital or sanitary institution, and I only regret that there afé not more Repub~ lican patients in it. Well, putthe militia on a war footing. — Put arms in their hands. They never can be made the butchers or jailors of their fel« low citizens, but the guardian of free speech and a free press, and of the ballot bex.— Standing armies of the mercendries, not the mililia of a country, are the customary in~ struments of tyranny and usurpation. But this correspondent proceeds : «If the sympathizers with treason and traitors -~ We sympathize with treason and traitors! We, who have stood by the Constitution and the Union from the organization of the party, in our father’s day and in our own day, in every hour of trial, in peace and in war, in victory, and in defeat, amid disas~ ter and whe prosperity beamed upon us— we to be branded as enemies to our coun- t1y. by those whose traitor fathers butned blue lights as signals for a foreign foe, or met in Hartford Convention to plot treason and disunion fifty yearsago! We false to the Constitution and to our government, the bones of whose fathers lie buried on every battle-fieid of the war of 1812, from the massacre of the River Raisin to the splendid victory at New Orleans ; we who bore aloft the proud banner of the Republic and plant- ed it in tricmph upon the palace of the Montezumas : We by whose wisdom in council and courage 1n the field for seventy years, the Constitution and the Union and the country which has grown great under them, have been preserved and defended ; we to be denounced as sympathizing wlth treason and traitors, by the men who for twenty years have labored day and night for the suceess of those principles and of that policy and that party which are now destroying the grandest Union, the noblest Constitution and the fairest Country on the globe. Talk to me about sympathizing with disunion, with treason and with trai- tors! I tell you, men of Ohio, that in three months, in six wecks it may be, these very men and their masters in Washington whose bidding they do, will be the advocates of the eternal dissolution of this Union : and denounce all who oppese itas enemies to the peace of the country. Foreign interven- tion and the repeated and most serious dig- asters which have lately befallen our arms, will speedily force the issuc of separation and southern independence—disunion—or of Union by negotiation and compromise, — Betwoen these two I am—and 1 here pub- licly proclaim it—for the Union, the whole Union and nothing less, if by any possibility L can have it ; if not, then for so much of it as yet can be rescued and preserved ; and in any event and under all circumstances, for the Union, which God "ordained, of the Mississippi Valley and all which may cling to it, under the old name, the old Constitu- whoge greatness were laid broad and firm, | tion and the old flag, with all their precious in that noble Constitution and that grard | memories, with the battle fields of the past idea i a end tHe songs and the prod history of the past—with the birth place and the burial place of Washington the founder and Jack son the preserver of the Constitution ag it is and the Union as it was. [Great ap- plause. | But this correspondent again proceeds : «Ifthe sympathizers with treason and traitors meditate to carry out their plans in this quarter,” What plans ? Just such as to day have been the business of this Convention; the plans of the old Union party, laying down a platforin and nominating Democrats to fill the offices and control the policy of the Government, to the end that the Constitu- tion may be again maintained, and the Union restored, and peace, prosperity and happi- ness once more drop healing from their wings, ¢ Plans ” the fellow proceeds, ¢ in this quarter they will doubtless find the work quite as hot as they bargained for.” Andl tell the cowardly miscreant who telegraph- ed the threat that he and those behind him, will find the work fifty fold hotter when they begin it than they had reckoned on, both here and in I[idiana. ** Ten thousand stand of arms,” he adds, ‘ have been ordered for the State troops.”’ For what? To put down the democrat- ic party. Sir, that is a work which cannot be done by ten, or twenty or fifty thousand stand of arms in the hands of any such das: tards in office or out of it, or and so thirsty for blood, let them enlist under the call just issued for troops in Ohio and Indiana. Let them go down and fight the armies of the ** revels ” in the South, and let Democrats fight the unarmed but more insidious and dangerous Abolition rebels of the North aud West, through the ballot box. Forty thousand additional troops, I estimate it, are called for in the proclamation of yesterday, from the State of Ohio. Where are the forty thousand Wide- Aw akes of 1860, armed with their portable lamp posts and drilled to the music of the Chicago platform ? Sir, I propose that 35 = 000 of them be conscripted forthwith. They will never enlist ; they never do. They are +“ Home Guards.” They ‘don’t go,” but stay vigorously at home to slander and abuse and threaten Democrats whose fathers or brothers or sons are in the Union armies or have fallen in battle. I speak generally ~-certainly there are exceptions. But I wi'l engage that if the records of the old Wide-Awake clubs in the several cities and towns of Ohic shall be procured and the Re- publicans will detail or draft 35000 from the list, | will find 5,000 strong-armed stout-hearted, brave and loyal Democrats to go down and see that they don’t run away at the first fire. [Great Laughter.] Sympathizars with treason and traitors ! fecessionists ! Sir, it is about time that we i 4@ heard the last of this. The Democracy of Ohio and of the United States, are resolv. ed that an end shall be put to this sort of slander and abuse. ButI do not propose to discuss this particular subject just now. [Go on, go on.]. Well, then, from that which concerns the Democratic party to a word, a single word, a single word, about what relates to myself ; and I beg pardon for the digression. I am rejoiced that it has been permitted me to be here present to day in person before you.— Had you believed the reports of the Repub- lican press, you would no doubt have ex- pected to see the most extraordinary com- pound of feprous and unsightly flesh and blood ever exhibited. [Laughter.] Well, my friends, you see that I am not quite “monstrous ”’ at least, and bear no special resemblance to the beast of the Apocalypse either in the heads or horns ; but am a man of like fashion with yourselves. To the Republican party alone, and its press, and its orators, I am indebted, no doubt, for a large part of the ¢¢ curiosity’ which I am sorry to say, 1 seem to have excited ; and which has brought out even seme of them as if to * see the elephant.” — They have never meant to be friendly to- wards me, I know, but as I see some of them now within my vision, let me whisper in their ears, that 1 never had better friends and no man ever had since the world began. They have advertised me free of cost, for the last fifteen months ;—yes, I may say for some five years past, all over the United States. Why, sir, a Republican editor without the ¢¢ undersigned” for a text, would be the most unhappy mortal in the world. Every little “ printer's devil’’ in the office would be hollowing for copy, and no copy to be had, I know that they are friends, by the usual sign, ‘the remarks they make.” Gentlemen I have had my share of what Jefferson called the unction, the holy oil with which the Democratic priesthood has always been annointed— slander, detraction and calumny without stint, really I am not sure that with me it has not reached ¢* extreme unction,” though ¥ aw not ready and do not mean, to depart yet. Well, T wil not complain, It has cost me not a single night's loss of sleep from the beginning. My appetite, 1f you will pardon the reference— if you will allow me, as Lincoln would say, to “ blab’ upon 80 delicate a subject— has been in no degree impaired by it. Others before me and with: me, have endured the same. Ilere is my excellent friend near me, |[Mr. Medary.] Oh blessed Martyr! [Great Laughter and applause.] For one and sixty years, the storms of partizan persecution and malignity If so fall of val’ in every form have beaten upon hs head ; but though time and toil have made it gray, the heart beneath beats stil to day as sound and trife tb its ‘nstincts of Democracy and patriotism, and of humanity too, as when he I4id his first offerings upon the altar of his country just forty years ago. What others have heroically suffered in ages past, we, too, can endure. We are all, indeed, still in the midst of trials. es Here before me, is the geatleman of whom I have just spoken, whom you have honored with the Presiderty of this noble Conven- tion, for forty years a Democratic devotee and the firmness of a martyr, to the princi. ples and policy of that grand old party of the Union ; and now that the frosts of three score years have descended and whitened his head—he, I say, he lived to see the pas per to which he give the labor and the wis- dom of his declining years, prohibited from circulation through a part of the mails, as +¢ disloyal to the Government ! (Cries of no, no, shame.) Samuel Meda~ ry disloyal ! and Wendell Philips a patriot! Sir, it is not many months since, that in the city of Washington, in that magnificent building erected by the charity of an Eng- lishran who loved America, I wish there were more like him, that the art and sci~ ence might the more widely flourish in this country—the Smithsonian Institute—Wen- dell Phillips addressed an assemblage of men as false to the Union and the Constitu~ tion as himself. Upon the platform was the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the third officer in the Government ; by his side the Vice President of the United States, and between these two, in proportions long drawn out, the form of “Honest Old Abram Lincoln.” Am I mistaken, and was it an. other and earlier abolition lecture by that other disunionist, Horace Greeley, in the same place— there have been many of them —that Lincoln attended ? The Speaker and Vice President I know were there ; and with these two or three witnesses before him, and in presence of the priesthood of Abolitionism. the Sumners and Wilsons, the Lovejoys and the Wades of the House and Senate, (great laughter and cheers) sure rounded by these, the very architects of dis- union, he proclaimed that ¢¢ for nineteen years he had labored to take nineteen States out of the Union.” And yet this most spot- ted traitor was pleading for disunion in the city of Washington, where women are ar- rested for wearing of red, white and red, upon their bonnets, and babies of eighteen months are taken out of the willow wagons drawn by their nurses, because certain col- ors called seditions ars found upon their swaddling clothes ! The next day, or soon after, this same Wendell Phillips did dine with or was otherwise entertained by his Excellency the President of the United States, who related to him one of his choic est anecdotes. Yet Democratic editors, Des mocratic Senators and Representatives, and those holding other official positions by the grace of the States or of the people, are “‘traitors’’ forsooth, because they would ad here to their principles and organization of their noble and patiiotic old party ! Such are some of the exhibitions which Wash- ington has witnessed during the past win- ter. Congress, too, has been 1n session.— Sir, 1 saw it announced in one of the dis loyal papers of this city yesterday, that Jeff Davis and Toombs, and Yancy, and Rhett, and other secessionists of the South, would derive much comfort from this day’s meet- ing. Well, sir, I have just come from a body of men which I would not fora moment pre- tend to compare for statesmanship, respect~ ability or patriotism with this Convention. That body has devoted its time and atten tion to doing more in six months for the cause of secessionism, than Beauregard, and Lee, and Johnston, and all the Southern Generals combined have been able to ac. complish in one year. Said a Senator from the South the other day, a Union man, ‘Jeff Davis 1s running two Congresses now and 1s making a d—d sight more out of the Wash- ington Congress than the one at Richmond.” (Laughter, and many remarks of approval.) The legislation of that body has been al« most wholly for the “Almighty African.” — From the prayer in the morning (for, gentle- men, we are a pious body--we are —making long faces and sometimes wry faces, too, [laughter] we open with prayer but there is not much of the Almighty Maker of heaven and earth in it) from the prayer, to the mo- tion to adjourn, it is negro’ in every shape and form in which he can by any possibility ve served up. Butit is not only the negro inside of the House and Senate, but outside also. The city of Washington has been, within the past three weeks, converted into one universal hospital ; every church, except one for each denomination, has been seized for hospital purposes ; and while the sanc- tuaries of the ever living God—the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—not the new God of the Burlingames and Sumners and other Abolitionists, not that God whose gos- pelis written in the new Bible of Abolition— but the Everlasting Jehovalé God, have been’ confiscated for hospitals ; every theatre, ev- ery concert saloon, every other place of amusement, fron the highest to the lowest —from the spacious theatre in which a For~ est exhibits to an enraptured audience his graphic rendering of the immortal creations of Shakspeare’s down to the basest den of revelry and drunkenness, are open still ; as in the Inferno of the great Italian poet— “The gates of hell stand open night and day.” Sir, if these places of amusement—inno- cent some of them, but not holy, certainly —had first been seized as hospitals, for the comfort and cure of the thousands of brave and honest men who went forth believing in their hearts that they were tc battle for the Constitution and the Union, bit who now lie wasting away upon theif lonely pallets, with 1c wift or sister, or other there to soothe, groaning in agony with every dé scription of wound which the devilish inge- nuity of man can inflict by weapons, whose inventor was itispired by the very author of all human woe and sufftring—wounds; too, rangling and festering for the want of sur- gical aid—if those places, I say, had first been seized, and then if it had become nec- essary for the comfort or life of the thous: ands ot other sick aiid wetinded who are botne into the city every day, to occupy the churches of Washington, I know of no bet- ter or holier purpose to which they could have been devoted. And now, sir, not far from the stately capitol, within whose mar ble walls abolition treason now runs riot, is a building, “Green's Row’’—by name, in which 1100 fugitive slaves—‘‘contrabands” in the precious slang of infamous Butler — daily receive the rations of the soldiers, which are paid for out of the taxes levied upon the people. One hundred thousand dollars a day are taken from the public treas- ures for the support of these fugitive siaves while the army of Shields, and other Union armies in the ficld even so lately as six weeks ago, marched bare footed, bare head- ed, and in their drawers, for many weary miles without so muchas a cracker or a crust of bread to allay their hunger. Aye, sir, while many a gallant young soldier of Ohio, just blooming into manhood, who heard the cry that went up fifteen months ago, *‘rally to defend the flag, and for the rescue of the capitol,” and went forth to battle with honesty in his heart, his life in his hand, with courage in every fiber, patriotism in every vain, lies wan and sad on his pallet in the hospital, your surgeons are forced to divide their time and care between the wounded soldiers and these vagabond fugitive slaves, who have been reduced or forced from the service of their masters. These things and much more—1I have told you not a titha of an are donein Washington. We know it there. though it is withheld from the people ; and while every falsehood that the ingenuity of man can invent to delude and deceive, is transmitted or allowed by the telegraphic censor of the Administration —themselyes usurpers unknown to the Constitution and laws—these facts are net permitted to reach the people of the United States. Your newspapers, the natural watch dogs of liber- ty, are threatened with suppression if but the half or the hundredth part of the truth be told. And now, too, when but one other means remained for the redress of this and the hundred other political grievances, un: der the lands groan—party organization and public assemblages of the people—even these, too, are now threatened with sup- pression by armed force. Aye, sir, that very party, which not many years ago, bore upon every banner, the motto *‘Free Speech and Free Press,” now day by day forbids the transmission through your mails of the papers from which you derive your knowl edge of public events, and which advocate the principles you cherish. And Democratic editors too, are seized- ‘‘kidnapped” in the midnight heur—torn from their families—gagged—their wives with officers over them menacing violence if they but ask one farewell grasp of the hand. one parting kiss—thrust into a close car- riage in the felons hour of midnight, and wit violence dragged to this Capitol and here forced upon an express train and hur ried off to a military fortress of the Unjted States. Yes, men of Ohio, to a fortress tha bears the honored name of that first martyr to American liberty—the Warren of Bunker Hill; or it may be to that other bastile des- ecrating that other name sacred in Ameria can history, and honored throughout the earth—the name of that man who forsook home and gave up rank and title, and :n the first flush of manhood came to our shores and linked his fortunes with the American cause—the prisoner of Olmutz, the brave and gallant Lafayette. Aye, frecmen of the Wesl, fortresses bearing these honored names, and meant for the defense of the courtry against foreign foes, and out of whose casemates bristle cannon planted to burl death and destruction at armed invad ers, echo now with the groans and are wa- tered by the tears—not of men only from States seceded and in rebellion, or captured in war, but from the loyal Statesof the North and the West, and from that party which has contributed nearly three fourths of the soldiers in the field to day. Are these things to be borne? (Never ; no, never.) If you' have the spirit of free- men in you, bear them” not ! (Great ap- plausé, and cries of that’s it, that’s the talk.) What is hfe worth? What are property and personal liberty and political liberty worth ? Of what value are all these things, if we born of an ancestry of freemen, boasting, in the very first hours of our boy- hood, of a more extended libérty than was ever vouchsafed to any otier people, are to’ fail now in this the hour of sor trial to de- mand and-to defend them'at every hazard ? Freedom’ of the press! Fs the man who sits in the White House at Washington, and who owes all his power to the press and the ballot 1s he now fo play the tyrant over us! (No ! never, never.) Shall the man who sits at one end of a telegraphic wire in the War Department or the Department of State, a mefe clerk it may be, a servant of serv- ants ; sit down and by one single click of the instrument, order some minion of his a thousand miies off to arrest Samuel Medary Judge Ranney, or Judge Thurman and bur- rythemto a bastile? (No; it can't be done ; we will never allow it.} Thé Con- stitution says ** no than shall be held to ang wer for crime except on due proc ess of law. Qur fathers, si hundred years ago, assem- bled upon thé plains of Runney Mele mn old England, and rescued from tyrant nands, not by arms but by firm resolve, the God given right to be free. Our fathers in the time of James I, and of Charles I, endured trial and persecution and loss of life and of liberty, rather than sub- mit to the oppression and wrong. John Hampden, glorions John Hampden, the first gentleman of England, arrested upon an illegal execution warrant, went calmly and heroically to the cells of prison rather than pay twenty shilling of an illegally assessed tax, laid in defiance of the Constitution and laws of England, and the rights and privel- eges of Englishmen. And all history is full of like examples. William Tell brooked the tyrant’s frown in his day and generation in defence of these same rights, iu the noble republic of the Swiss: and that gallant httle people, hemmed in among the Alps, though surrounded on every side by the despots whose legions numbered more than the whole population of Switzerland, have by that same indomitable spirit of liberty, mains tained their rights, their liberiies and their independence to this hour, And are Amer- icans now to offer themselves up a servile sacrifice upon that altar of arbitary power 2 Sir, 1 have misread the signs of the tims and the temper of the people, if there is not already a spirit in the land which is about to speak in thunder tones to those who stretch forth still the strong arm of despotic power. ‘‘Thus far shalt thou come and no farther. We made you ; you are our ser vants.” That sir, was the language which I was taught to apply to men in office, when I was a youth, orin first manhood anda private citizen, and afierwards when Lolding ume as we gilt ot the people, to hear ap: plied to me, and J bore the title proudly. — And I asked then, as I ask now, no other or better reward than, “Well doce, good and faithful servant.” (Cries of, The ring -leaders of the world —The young ladies who lead their lovers on by hopes of marriage