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THE BLESSINGS OF GOVERNMENT, LIKE THE
SPEECH OF
Mr. C L. VALLANDIGHAM,
At
gyracuie on Thursday, Auguit
IStn 1564.
From the New York World.
The Hanover square stand, which was
the principal meeting, was presided over
b Hon Wm L Houjsh, of Onor.dajra, a I
gentleman who was a member of Con
gress when Mr. Lincoln was there. Mr.
Vallandigham was the first speaker.
After the applause succeeding his intro
duction" was stilled, he spoke as follows :
Gentlkmkn of New York: Had I
regard on this occasion for whatever of
reputation, I may have required as a
public speaker, 1 would not have been
here to-day. Having declined your ori
ginal invitation, your special messenger
found me at home, with'as little expecta
tion of being with you as I have of being
present at the future coronation of the
L'rince of Wales. Rut he presented so
powerful a case that I felt that I would
bo doing not only injustice to myself, but,
perhaps, under the circumstances of the
- w i
case, injury to the great cause it 1 further
dhied. He came on, too, with a writ,
Vi,i yet obsolete among Democrats a
habcuj corpus and ho has produced inv
body here to-day. Applause. Rut I
como WUUOUI seilMlleneta upon 1wc4u.es-
j tion of a mere personal reputation as a
1 IT 1-
speaKer, ana 1 appear o...y uinoi.g 3uu 10
ypcnk tne words 01 trutu f.na souerness
! V.. Ml.. ,1 o l-.nn im.n
other occasions and in other assemblages,
I have been accustomed to speak, I am
not hore to parade before you any private
grievance. I am not with you to speak
of ought that I may have done or suffered
in the cause all these sink into insig
niiicance in comparison wilh the great
interests which have brought us together
in such a mass to-day. Allow me, how
ever, merely one word of personal allu
sion. In the beginning of this w.-.r it was
the custom of a exeat number of Demo
crats, as it was with the entire mass of
the Administration part', to denounce the
views, which from the beginning, I en
tertained upon the question of the war,
to misrepresent and malign me personally,
until, I believe, at that time. I can safely
say that I was the best abused and the
worst hated.
1 the most execrated man
in America.
Laughter. When, sub-
sequenlly, time, to which I appealed, be
gan to reverse the unjust judgment, it
still continued the custom of some of the
Democratic party, as still it is with all
1 the Uepublican party, occasionally to in
I du'ige in harsh and otl'ensive remarks, and
j still more frequently to sp.cak in dispara-
ging language of the views which were
attributed to me . and even now, when
in the progress cf this four years of the
war, time has vindicated almost to the
utmost extent whatsoever opinions I may
have expressed, or prophesies I may have
I uttered in the beginning, it is still the
I fashion of some to express dissent from
1 what they are pleased to call the peculiar
j views of Mr. Vallandigham. However
j it may have been at first, I tell you to
day, men of New York, that my views
are no longer peculiar, but most general
! among the people. What they have
been from the first moment of the war.
and are at this hour, you shall hear and
judge for yourselves ; and I trust that
men who claim to belong to a party of
which I have been a member from inv
cessation ot hostilities and a convention
i of s'atcs thev ,l:lve advanced to the very
t Illatorm wind" I occupied from the first.
I One word further to all whom it may
concern. L Laughter, j It is not the pur
pose, as 1 have been advised, and now
know, of this convention to sow the seeds
of dissent and ill-feeling in the Democratic
ranks. "Good," Applause. It is no
part of. my mission here to-day. A del
egate unanimously chosen by my own
congressional district to represent them
in Chicago, I should be not only false to
the instincts of my own nature, but, what
is more important, flt!sc to the great in
terests of my country, if I gave any help
ing hand to any such object. Applause.
Neither shall I be present at that conven
tion at Chicago except for the purpose,
along with sound doctrine and the nomi
nation of a sound candidate, to do the ut
most in my power to promote good feel
ing and harmony among the Democrats
and conservatives, if you please, of this
country. Great applause. Let all ap
prehension on that subject be at once dis
missed. Men of New York, there is now
but one question before the country the
DEWS OF HEAVEN, SH0VL1) BE
EBENSBURG, PA. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
question of war or peace every other ia
involved in that one question. I assume
that it is the desire of every sound minded,
1 right-hearted Democrat, and Republican,
too, and all who love their country, that
first her liberties should be made secure,
and then her material prosperity promo
ted. These are the two grand objects
They, among the ranks of the people who
have no contracts, who hold no offices,
and who from party habitude or other
causes, are of the Republican party, I
i ,i . i i . i .i .
assume honestly, did believe once that
these objects were to bo secured by war.
Some among the Democratic party in the
beginning, now a vast majority of it, be
lieve that this great purpose can be ob
tained only through peace. They who
believed that war was the proper instru
mentality, having the power both in the
executive, in the Senate and in the House
and being supported at first by a vast
majority almost unanimously I may say
by a vast majority of the people, de
termined that the experiment should be
tried by war. The honest among them
expected to restore the union of these
states, as a part cf securing permanent
political liberty and promoting the mate
rial prosperity of the land. We who
thought otherwise were obliged to submit.
For one, I did submit. Had 1 the power
in the beginning there should not have
been any war ; not one drop of blood
should have been shed ; no march of hos
tile armies should have taken place ; no
hostile cannon should have sounded in
the cars of the people of this land ; and
tho etfusicn of blood which has stained it
from one end to the other would have
been spared. That mighty public debt,
now near four thousand millions of dol
lars, would uot have weighdd down as a
burden to you and your children ; taxa
tion would have been unknown, except in
the old fashioned way of our fathers, but
little fo't ; none of the calamities Which
have made this country a land of mourn
ing would have visited this people. But,
as I have said, they who have insisted
that the great objects of statesmanship
were to bi secured by war, being in pow
er, made war, I submitted. The Presi
dent has ' now for four years had all
the men and all the money that he de
manded ; there ncvr has been an
example from the beginning of the woild
where a people, with such an unanimity
sei-.t forth their sons to battle, with such
submission abided by and acquiesced in
all that was demanded of tie: in in proper
ty, in zea!, in efibrt, to further this war.
Nothing has been wanting that the con
stitutional power has conferred upon the
executive or Congress could give ; noth
ing has been wanting that the most auda
cious usurpation on the face cf the globe
could take from this country, to make this
war successful. Men they have had to
the number of over two millions, money
or credit to the amount of over four thou
sand millions ; a paper currency poured
forth from the manufacturing establish
ment in the treasury at Washington has
been scattered all over this land. What
else could have been secured '? What that
was demanded has been withheld ? And
now, under these most favorable circum
stance?, I ask you what has been the re
sult of this grand experiment ? You have
had four years of war; battles more in
number than the three greatest conquerors
of the earth have fought in any live years
of their military career ; blood poured out
i;i-a vtir : treasnrv oYnrnlil without
j Hmit what is the result to-day ? Is
vmir Union restored? f"No. no"! Is
a single state brought back by fighting ;
has the Constitution been maintained;
have your liberties been made secure ?
"Usurped, no, no," Constitutional
ruarantees been observed ; have you had
trial by jury ; have you had a free press ;
did you have free assemblages by the
people some time ago ? "We have to
day." Hid you have arrest by due pro
cess of law? ("No, no,") Did your
citizens sit down under their own vine and
jjg irce: Itll UUIHJ to IlKltvC L lie ill .111.11 s
( " No ! No 1") How is it in the material
prosperity of the land ? What is your
currency to-day ? " Shinplasters."
Your greenback dollar 13 worth thirty
seven or thirty-eight cents to-day, tested
by the only standard of value, the consti
tutional currency of this country and tho
uniform currency of the world. " That's
more than Lincoln is worth." Laughter.
It is depreciating every day. Two months
ago it was worth a hundred per cent, more
than it is to-day, and in two months it
will be worth a hundred per cent, less than
it is to-day. The violation of the laws of
commerce, trade, and currency is bringing
with it tho inevitable punishment which
has followed in all lands, from tho great
scheme of John Law in France, in the
eighteenth century, down to 1809, when
the Austrian government issued its paper
DISTRIBUTED ALIKE. UPON THE HIGH AND THE LOW, THE RICH AND
money ; and ruin is impending upon th'i3 1
country ; and now, in tho fourth year of ;
the war, what better prospect is there of ;
a successiui issue Uravcr men than our
soldiers never drew tho breath of life.
Applause. Under different leaderhip,
and with a cause which in their hearts
they felt was the cause of the country
and when they volunteered three years ago
they did feci it to be so they might have
been victorious over any set of men less
brave or equally brave with themselves.
What trial by arm3 that failed in G1 is
more likely to be successful now ! At the
end of 'G2 what had been accomplished ? ;
wr.. - a ia ii ii
as miy oiam rcsioreu i uau iovc ior j
the Union of our fathers been beaten into j
the hearts of any man or woman, or child, j
in the South 1 In 'G3 how was it again ? ;
We began the campaign under auspicious j
circumstances. iiie army was more
powerful than at any previous time. Suc
cess had crowned our armies at Vickburg,
Port Hudson, Gettysburg. The country
believed that this great rebellion was j
finally and completely to be crushed. I low the fjll spirit of abolitionism rose, that
completely you believed this at the time, ; -dark, foul, dismal, poiuling soirit, which
I know. When from Niagara, after my j has overshadowed this land for thirty
return from that visit South which I owe ; years pak-t, rose as a horrid specter! grin
to the courtesy of Mr. Lincoln, I an- ning and ghastly. A party found it, and
nounced what I knew to be true, that the j the land was threatened by a sectional
South was in better condition than to ! organization. In 1850, on the question
make good their inexorable purpose to re- j of the Wilmot proviso, the troubles be
sist our armies, it was denounced, of j twetn the North and South had almost
course, by men who supported the admin- j
istration, as treason, and regarded as the
consummation of folly by thousands and
tens of thousands of men of my own
party. What have you to say alter the
experience of another year ? Look at the
result. With an army still more augment
ed by the levies of 1SG2 and 1333. and
the winter of ISol ; men who were sun
posed to !-. the r.vi-t ;:;:;! !:hv ! at the
head of '.hi aiiny, uni vi::.l was e.ill.d
tne fea-teration ii.;i.-v w.i- aba:-.-!o::e.l-
P
;j record of
the reoult.
answer v. :
been
From the -1th day of
May, when from the liapidnn General
Grant advanced in the Wilderness, and
General Sherman advanced, to this hour,
what have we gained ? After the reckless
effusion of blood, expenditure of money
to the amount of five millions a d:iy, has
Kichmotul been captured, has Petersburg
fallen? The final hope of success the
mining process lias beep, tried in vain.
Even Petersburg, a town not half as large
as Syracuse, still bids dolian?e to the
federal armies. Yet an immense array
went forth, as highly disciplined as any
that ever trod the earth, undr a general
supposed to be tne most capable man in
the federal service, remarkable for his
tenacity of purpose, and reckless of tho
expenditure of life to secure a given ob
ject. Forward I13 marched ; he reached
Richmond ; he went beyond Richmond ;
but Richmond itself is General Lee's
army ; to-day it is unbroken, stronger
than it was on the 4th of May last. How
is it with General Sherman ? The object j
..r t,; -,a, Atl.nnt.i. Ala r three I
months of wearisome marching, and terri-
o. ti u.; .l ,.;!, 1 Lu, f.f sn-.no
i.. ..".i,..., .,.,.i .v, Ivw i-i.a,:.,l At.
,,tilv tn n',t. 1.iv!i !i3 General Grant i
I . L ! 1 V . L 1-' ' - " - ' " -' ' -
has
Ki;.,.-,.! t. .1.. in front of Peter- '
LJ I. I 1 VL'tl - - v - - - ----- .
i
X".. ,. f.M-,t nf TUU;niii is oars.
IIL11 11. ai.- . ... ...... ,
excel
confederates. They have regained in the
rear more than we have obtained by the
onward march of General Sherman's
ami'. These are stern facts, that de
mand that the people should consider
l 1 .1- !!, 0Yn,.r ,,i,.nt
except a iew macs arouou iujuui;: .nn ; . . ,
Natchez ; none of Louisiana, except about dihieult.es arose, growing out ot the
New Orleans. The whole R-d river question ot s.nvery, instead ol com pro
country was lost by the failure of General niise, instead ot conciliation, instead of
, , t 4 , ,! ,. i f t;.f -lrU ot neaee an I the counsels; ot har-
Uank's expedition. Arkansas, with slight t'-? l-OI l'L--L - .i,m i
. . it. i i. ..c .i... w.in'. thev resolved that there should be
. r i ir:. . i. i .... t i i-Mt'cii u;i:;ine.
. t . .- z' nit'iin ill i ni i ? i i in irn- " j
loireiner ana nm-in.-i n. .t . - ...,i v ...
. . r -i l Tfi--.f ,(,. ti . ;- ; aun'.y. hen last 1 addressed a . New-
ot war has not failed. It is not only ti.ei. t j .
interest buttlieir boundenduty as chi.er.s, ork alienee, ia the month ot Novem
as ChiitWn men, to reckon whether there b,r, 18JO, it was to a lvoeate the election
as nuaiianuii, iu U,: on tn-ket m the State of New
be not some other mode ot secuimg tUJ l"- .
great purpose of maintaining our liberties, ork-tho real Umon ticket --the ticket
of supporting the Constitution and of re- j "P of nvn who were wi ,mg to try,
luting die Union of these State, I il were o even a; that ate day.
am
for holding on still for these great oh-
iocts. I am for attempting by the instru- i
mentalities of peace compromise to ac
complish that which four years of terrible
warfare has failed to effect. Applause.
The results of your experiment are before
us; now let us try ours. Have I only
conjecture and theory to offer in defense
- . . . s .11 " .
of that mode which trom tne oegmning as
to-day I insisted was the only one by
which our difficulties could be adjusted ?
Let us see. How was this government
made in the beginning? At the mouth
of the cannon, the edge of the sword, the
point of the bayonet? Did Washington
and Franklin and that other Sherman
the old revolutionary Sherman and the
patriots of the times that tried men's souls,
meet together in Philadelphia by single
combat in the old Hall of Independence,
and sword in hand attempt to make a
31, 18G4.
Constitution ? "NoJ" How then T
In peaceable assembly, each Stato, having
secured its independence, met thero under
that old be'!, where we had declared tho
independence that was at tho price of
blood mad-j ours ; thero, in debate, with
pen, ink, and paper, they made our Con
stitution. There was no smell of gun
powder there ; there were no t-cars
there, except those that had been won
on the buttle field of the Revolution.
Uy free speech, coining from the hearts
of freemen ; by the arts of sound states
manship and not war, were the founda
tions laid deep and firm and the super-
. , t'i . .
structure reared wnicu has become tho
admiration and envy of the earth.
Proud, stately, and massive, column after
column rose in gotgous mchitecture, and
for seventy-three years we prospered as a
people. How? Uy civil war ? (" No.")
let we hud our utuerer.ees. 1 he Union
was more than onco threatened. In 1820
we had the Missouri question ; but civil
war was averted bv compromise. Again,
culminated in ciil war. How was
lt
;ttled ? I Jy cailin-r out seventy-five
thousand militia for three mouths ; by
commanding the Southern States to dis
perse in thirty days; by commanding an
OTiward to 1 'ii 1:11! n 1. No, ILury Chiy
yet lived, D miel Y bster survived. Ca.--s
was there, Douglas (iond applause) was
these, and by conii.i'oini-e sigain c:da::i
ifV ;. t. veiled. Wl.. Vi.-b-d a;;-:! :;:-! eoill-
protatS'.- in i-j' wtA-n .!.. ;ay hh- al
tering up the last remnant of his life a
sacrifice on the altar of his country.
Sumner was there and voted against it,
Ch;:se was there and rejected it the very
leaders and founders of that party which
has been in power for the last few years
to the ruin of the country. Hud they
been in the mnjorify then, fourteen years
r.o, this civil war would have begun.
We miuht, indeed, have been in the midst
CI
t.f it el :
ver.'s eai'ii
but it v.-ould have been eleven
r in its commencement. It
w;is ijv co:icu:atiort a:w compromise taa
a
these calamities w.-re turned aside, as bv
! bv
h .'s-?. means
."en
.r.:.-nt had b.
uataiLT. 1 lie resint el
n
! il
v,is2 counsels ami this proiounu
aad this
at we
piYiie.UU
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"tatesmai'.ship was t
no ot.'ier tuopie ever v.: i p:oMr.
i
t i i . . -
thirteen States. w. became
tntrtv-iour,
! from three millions we became thirty-one
'; millions, from an obscure and insiginticant
I government and i'e.g we bec;une the
nrtintiest repuonc
on tne r:.o:e. i ros-
peiitv and plenty were ours. No
peoj
were ever so bl st. And yet we p'.uved
ourseive
rseives than.viess ov casting meso iness-
m2S irom us.
It is that for which lie
visited us with tm terrible scourge,
It so hai'Dcne l that alter t:i; men ot the
revolution oral
it i-.-iss. (1 :iv:iv
w! en the
had died ;
compromise
, a n-w tien-
fonnaers ot out
iv.ri:me:.:
when the men who me
. 1 1 . I
I ) passed to I n-ei.
last ho
.
war lilai llirouilti u n itui me' .luurn iiu-
satisfied and discontented should be forced
back into the Union ; and men who did
j still live, and men who had taken the
plaees ot those. w!:o lai.I pas'
t away,
this ca-
SOU'ZIU, l'll" cais u, a-.l ll.
! ' " V' ' ' " , , . "
Ol xev xoiie i;u;u ocuij, e.isi nu .'iiiii-
ham Lincoln. I was a Union man at
that time, r.s I have been at every hour
since. (Great applause. ) Had the vote,
cf your State then been cast against
Abraham Lincoln, you never would have
had this civil war. ("That's so.") Rut
you were persuaded to your hurt to the
ruin of your country to choose him as
your President, and put in power the pat ty
of which he was the recognised head.
You placed him there knowing that he
had avowed that the republic could not
endure part slave and part free. The
election produced the natural consequences
which the Democratic party and the
Whig parly had proclaimed would bo the
result. Then it was when Congress as
sembled in the month of December, 1860,
that still the true men of the country, tha
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VOL. 1 I --NO. :$5
Democrats, Americans, unj Old Lino
Whigs, united together with all zeal and
earnestness of purpo inspired by pa
triotism, and labored day and ni"ht
through compromise to prevent civil war.
The Crittenden proportions were intro
duced, bearing heeling upon their wings.
They were rejected, and by whom ? Not
ona Republican Senator voted for them :
not one Republican representative voted
for them. Every man of the Democratic
party in the House and in the Senate,
every man of the American party, every
man that remained of tho old Whig party
cast his vote my own was included in
favor of those propositions which would
have prevented civil war. And these men
now exclaim, with cheek blanched and
eye distended, in the langunge of one of
old, "Out dammed spot," and it will not
out. I hold to the faith that in the Re
publican form of government it is im
possible by the force of arms to keep the
people united. The capital fault of this
war is, in the beginning, that it was a
violation of tho very principles upon
which this government was organized.
Rut, if we hold with others that it might
have been constitutional in the beginning
as it was holy in its object, we must ad
mit that it has been perverted, and that it
is not now a war for the restoration of the
Union, the maintenance of the Constitu
tion, or one that can bring back peace
and prosperity to the land. The utter
failure of the experiment of coercion, the
breaking down now more recently of th
currency, the accumulation of this enor
mous debt, and the aggregation of a vast
taxation as a burden upon the people of
this land all these things are beginning,
from one end of the country to the
other, to open the eyes of the peo
ple, and the cry goes up, let me tell
you, men of New York, for a ces
sation of hostilities; throughout tho Mid
dle States and in the New England
States that fry is echoed. Your presence
here to-day, a vast multitrtde, gives the
same testimony. 1 have been ona who,
from the beginning, have believed that by
conciliation the broken Union could be rc
cor.structod. 1 was one of those who
clung to it to the last extremity, and I am
ready this day, and as long as the fi-cLlest
glimmer of hope remains, to exhaust
every mst:
i: mentality that human
ites-
mansiun ca;i tie ;se to brin about tliut
a
Union. (Great applause.) Rut I be
lieve as God is my judge, that that only
hope is in immediate cessation of hostili
ties Stop lighting. Did men ever agree
when they were at blows ' Was there
c-cr a treaty of peace signed amid the
roar . f cannon ? Was e ver a vexatious
litigation settled when the parties were in
the midst ot the trial, with passions
roused and bitterness and prejudice exci
ted. ? ("No.v) Was ever peace res-lured
in the household, between man and wife
w hen the husband resorted to the coer
cive power of blows ' (Voice " L duift
know. I never tiief! it."') Not in Ameri
ca. Then what is our duly ' What is
your pro.-pect if you do ' Five hundred
thousand more. Will the rebellion be.
crushed ia Y5 ' You have been told it
would be crush
d in s-ixty davs, since the
commencement of tho war. What guar
antee of success have you in the next
campaign? If General Grant's and
General Sherman's anniea of brave and
dlciplincd ir.en have been unsiiceessfi.l,
what guarrantee ia there that the oUU,
000 new men will accomplish more f
The records show that two millions of
men have gone forth. Where are they?
Not until the hist day of account will
their fate be known. (" They are in the
grave.") If the war continues we shull
t-oon sutler all the calamities of a ruined
atul broken down currency. There is but
one mode possible to secure peace and
compromise. A convention is sckjii to
ineel at Chicago for the. purpose of nomi
nating mi opponent to Abraham Lincoln
We propose to place before the people a
candidate who shall possess the requisites
which inspire the people with conti leiice
statesmanship, experience, devotion to
the Constitution, attachment to the Union
and a love of liberty. (Applause.) We
propose, in harmony and good feeling,
without dis.-eiision, there to assemble and
upon consultation agree upon .him who
shall best combine all these qualit'n s. I
do expect that lie will be committed t
the policy of a t-usp?i:.-ion of hosfiiifu a
and a convention of the Suites. ("Gool")
That if tho platform which it is my par
pose to support, and which is the de.-i-n
of a a.-t majority ol the delegates ot i::'.:
Northwestern States to insist upon ii-. that
convention. As for men we care li:iU.
We have no especial choice, so far as I
know, publis sentiment has seittled n no
one man. We propose to como together,
as patriots, in the tpirit of our fathers i
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