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HON- O. L.VALLANDIGttAM.
His sec md Address to the People of Ohio
He accepts the. nomination for Governor,
and defines his position
NIAGARA FALLS, Canada West, )
July 17,18G3. $
Arrested and confined for three weeks in
the United States a prisoner of State ; ban
ished thence to the Confederate States and
there held as an alien enemy and prisoner of
war, though on parole ; fairly and honorably
dealt with and given leavo to depart, an act
possible only by running the blockade at the
hazard of being fired upon by ships flying
the flag of my country, I found myself first a
freeman when on British soil. And to-day
under protection of the British flag, lam
here to enjoy and in part to exercise the
privileges and rights which usurpers inso
lently deny me at home. The shallow con
trivance of the weak despot 3 at Washington,
and their advisers, has been defeated. Nay,
it has been turned against thein ; and I, who
for two years was maligned as in secret
league with the Confederates, having refused
when in their midst, under circumstances
the most favorable, either to identify myself
with their cause or even so much as to re
main, preferring rather exile in a foreign
land, return now with allegiance to my own
Siate and Government, unbroken in word,
thought or deed, and with every declaration
and pledge to you while at home, and be
fore I was stolen away, made good in spirit
and to the very letter.
Six weeks ago, whenjust going into ban
ishment because an audacious but most cow
ardljr despotism caused it, I addressed you as
a fellow citizen. l'j-duj', and from the very
p'ace then selected by me, but after weari
some and most perilous journeyings for more
than four thousand miles by land and upon
the sea, still in exile, though aim ist iu sight
of my native State, greet you as your repre
sentative. Grateful certainly lam for the
confidence in ins integrity and patriotism
implied by tho unanimous nomination as a
candidate for Governor of Ohio, which you
gave me while I was yet in the Confederate
States. It was not misplaced ; it shall nev
er bo abused. But this is the 1 ist of all con
siderations in times like these. I ask no per
sonal sympathy for the personal wrong. No ;
it it is the cause of constitutional liberty and
private right, cruelly outraged beyond exam
ple in a free country, by the President and
his servants, which gives public significancy
to the action of your convention. Yours was
indeed, an act of justice to States and the
liberties of the people, had been marked for
destruction by the hand of arbitrary power.
But il was more. It was an example of
courage worthy of the heroic ages of the
world ; and it was a spoctahle a:i 1 a rebuke
to the usurping tyrants who, having broken
up the Union, would now strike down the
Constitution, subvert your present Govern
ment, and establish a formal and proclaimed
despotism in its stead. You arc the restor
ers and defenders of constitutional liberty,
and by that proud title history will salute
you.
I congratulate you upon your nominations
Tliey whom you have placed upon the ticket
with me are gentlemen of character, ability,
integrity, and tried fidelity to the Constitu
tion, the Union, and to liberty. Tocir moral
and political courage—a quality a Iways rare,
and now the most valuable of public virtues
—-Is beyond"question. Every way all these
we r e nominations fit to be made. And even
joalousy lam sure, will now be hushed, if I
especially rejoice with you in tlm nomina
tion of Pugh your candidate for Lieutenant.
Governor and President of the Senate. A
scholar and a gentleman, a seicfier in a for
eign war, and always a patriot; eminent as
a lawyer, and distinguished as an orator and
statesman. I hail his acceptance as an
omen of the return of the better and more
virtuous days of the Rcpu blic.
I endorse your noble platform—elegant in
style, admirable in sentiment. You present
the true issue, and commit yourself to the
great mission just now of the Democratic par
ty—to restore and make sure first the rights
and liberties declared yours by your consti
tutions. It is vain to invite the States and
people of tho South to return to a Union with,
out a Constitution and dishonored and pollu
ted by repeated and most aggravated exac
tions of tyranic power. It is base in your
selves, and treasonable to yonr posterity, to
surrender these liberties and rights to the
creatures whom your own breath created and
candestro}. Shall thero be free speech, a
free press, peaceable assemblage of the people
and a free ballot any longer in Chio ? Shall
the people hereafter, as hitherto, have the
right to discuss and condemn the principles
and policy of the party—the ministry—tho
men who, for the time conduct the govern"
ment—to demand of their stewardship, and to
place other mec'abd another party in power
at their supremo will and pleasure? Shall
Order Thirty-eight or the Constitution be
the supremo law of the land ? And shall the
citizen any more be arrested by an armed
soldiery at midnight, dragged from wife and
child and home to a military prison ; thence
to mock military trial; thence condemned,
and then banished as a felon for tho excrciso
lof his rights? This is the issue, and
nobly have you met it. It is the very
question of free, popular government it-
"tO SPEAK HIS THOUGTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RIGHT. "—Thomas Jefferson.
TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUG. 26, 1863.
self. It is the whole riuestion ; upon the one
side liberty, on the other despotism. The
President, as 'he recognized head of his par
ty, accepts tho issue. Whatever he wills
that is law. Constitutions, State and Feder
al, are nothing ; acts of legislation nothing ;
the judiciary less than nothing. In time oj
war, there is but one will supreme—his will
but one law—military necessity, and he the
sole judge. Military orders supercede the
Constitution and military commissions usurp
the place of the ordinary courts of justice in
the land. Nor are these mere idle claims,
two years and more by arms, they have been
enforced. It was the mission of the weak
but presumptuous Burnside—a name infamous
forever in the ears of all lovers of constitution
al liberty—to try the experiment in Ohio>
aided by a judge whom I name not, because he
has brought foul dishonor upon the judiciary
of my country In your hands now, men of
Ohio, is the final issue of the experiment. The
party of the Administration have accepted it.
Byplcdging support to the President they
have justified his outrages upon liberty and the
Constitution ; and whoever gives his vote to
the caudidates of that party, commits himself
to every act of violence and wrong on the part
of the Administration which he upholds ; and
thus, by tho law of retaliation, which is the
law of might, would forfeit,bis own right to
liberty personal and political, whensoeve
other men and another party shall hold ther
power. Much more, do the candidates them
selves. Suffer them not I entreat you to
evade the issue ; and by the judgment of the
people we will abide.
And now, finally, let me ask what is tho
pretext for all the monstrous acts and claims
of arbitary power which you have so nobly
denounced ? "Military necessity." But if
indeed,all these be demanded by military ne
cessity, then believe me your liberties are
gone, and tyranny is perpetual. For if this
civil war is to terminate only by the subju
gation or submission of the South to force
and arras, infants of to-day will not live to
sec the end of it. No, in another way only
can it be brought to a close. Traveling a
thousand miles and more, through nearly one
half of the Confederate States, and sojourning
for a time at widely different points, I met
not one man, woman, or child who was not
re.-olved to perish rather than yield to the
pressure of arms even in the most desperate
extremity. And whatever may and must be.
the varying fortune of the war, in all which
I recognize the hand of Providence pointing
visibly to the ultimate issue of this great trial
of the States and people of America, they are
better prepared now every way to make good
their inexorable purpose than at any period
since the beginning of tho struggle. These
may indeed be unwelcome truths, but they
are addressed only to candid and honest men
Neither, however, let me add, did T meet any
one, whatever his opinions or his station, pol
itical or private,who did not declare his read
iness, when the war shall have ceased and in
vading armies been withdrawn, to consider
and discuss the question of ro-uuion. And
who shall doubt the issue of the argument ?
I return, therefore, with my opinions and
convictions a3 to war or peace, and my faith
as to final results from sound policy and wise
statesmanship, not only unchanged, but con
firmed and strengthened. And may the
God of heaven and earth so rule the hearts
and minds of Americans everywhere, that
with a Constitution maintained, a Union re
stored and liberty henceforth made secure, a
grander and nobler destiny shall yet be ours
than that even which blessed our fathers in
tho first two age 3 of the Republic.
C.L. VALLANDIGHAM.
A Draft St >ry.
We find the following in flic Drawer of
Harper's monthly
Theeirolling officer of Salisbury District,
Maryland was very active and thorough in
the performance of his duty. One day he
went, to the house of a countryman, and find
ing none of the male members at home, he
made inquiry of the old woman about the
number and age of the "males" of the family.
After naming several the old lady stopped.—
"Ts there no one else ?" asked the officer.—
"No," replied the woman, "none except Billy
Bray." "Billy Bra}', where is he?" "He
was at the barn a minute ago," said the old
lady. Out went the officer, but could not
find the man. Coming back, the worthy offi
cer questioned the old lady as to the age of
Billy, and went away, after enrolling his
name among those to be drafted. The time
of drafting came, and among those on whom
the lot fell was Billy Bray. No one knew
him. Where did he live? The officer who
enrolled him was called on to produce* and,
lo and behold, Billy Bray was a jackass !
and stands now on the list of drafted men as
forming one of the quota of Maryland.
•
EST J ones some time ago asked Smith
the following questions :
Says Jones, "We have the ago of iron, the
age of gold, and the age of bronze, but what
shall we call the present age. "Why," says
Smith, licking the back of a postage stamp
which he was about to apply to a letter, "I
think we had better call this mucil age. The
doctor disagrees with Smith—he thiuks it is
post- age.
From the Elinira Advertiser.
THE CONSCRIPTION.
We propose in this article, to make a few
plain statements in regard to the require
ments and operations of the National Mili
tia law.
1. Who are exempt ? The language of
the second section is as follows :
That the following persons be, and they
are hereby excepted and exempt from the
provisions of this act, and shall not be liable
to military duty under the same to wit :
Such as are rejected as physically or mental
ly unfit for the service also, first, the Vice
President of the United States, the heads of
the various Executive Departments of the
Government, and the Governors of the sev
eral States ; second, the only son, liable to
military duty, of a widow, dependent
his labor for support; third the only son of
aged or infirm parents dependent upon his
labor for support; fourth, where there are
two or more sons of aged or infirm parents
subject to draft, the lather, or if he bo dead
the mother may elect which son shall he ex
empt ; fifth, the only brother of children not
twelve years old, having neither father nor
mother, dependent upon his labor for sup
port ; sixth the father of motherless children
under twelve years of ago dependent upon
his labor for support; seveuth, where there
are a father aud sons in the same family and
house and two of them are in the military
service of the United States as non-commis
sioned officers, musicians, or privates, the
residue of such family and household not ex
ceeding two, shall he exempt aud no person
hut such as are herein excepted shall be ex
empt ; yrovided however, That no person
who has been convicted of any felony , shall
be enrolled or permitted to serve in said
foices.
2. Who are enrolled ? All persons be
tween the requisite ages, without any regard
to their conditiou. A tnan therefore, may bo
drafted who has hut one leg or one arm ;
hut he will, of course, he discharged upon
taking the proper steps.
3. What pay and emoluments do drafted
men receive ?
The law declares that the conscripts,
" when called into service shall be placed on
the same fooling in all respects, as volunteers
for three years or dur ing the war : including
advance pay aid county as now profited
by law ." We italicise this clause, because
we think a different impression lias been ob
tained. A drafted man now receives the
sainc pay as volunteers, and ONE HUNDRED
dollars bounty. One mouth's pay aud fourth
of the bounty, amounting to thirty eight
dollars is paid, when the conscript is mus
tered into the service.
4. What a man can do, when drafted.
One of four things ; 1. lie can report for
service. 2. He can furnish a substitute, 3.
lie can pay S3OO ti the Collector of the Dis
trict, an 1 preseut his receipt to the Enrolling
Board, which will secure his discharge. 4.
lie can he examined by tho Government
Surgeon, and he examined on tho score o
physical incompetence.
Provost Marshal General Fry has issued a
circular explaining that drafted persons pay
ing S3OO for exemption from this draft only,
and will bo liable to future d'-afts, but per
sons furnishing substitutes will be exempt
for three years. Also, that tho substitute
can not be drafted, after being mustered in.
He further decides that a drafted man can
uot pay comuutation money or present a
substitute after he has reported himself to
the Board of Enrollment for examination.
5. What is the consequence of resisting or
counseling resistance to the draft?
The following is tho 25ih section of the
law :
That if any person shall resist any draft
of men enrolled under this act into the ser
vice of the United States, or shall counsel or
aid any person to resist any such draft, or
shall assault or obstruct any officer in mak
ing such draft, or in the performance of any
service in relation thereto, or shall couuse
any person to assault cr obstruct any such
ollicer, or shall counsel any drafted men not
to appear at the place ol rendezvous, or wil
fully dissuade them from the performance of
military duty as required by law, such pe§-
sou shall be subject to summary arrest by
the provost-ma rshal, and shall be forthwith
delivered to the civil authorities, and upon
conviction thereof, be punished by a Que not
exceeding live hundred dollars, or by iinpris
enment, not exceeding two years, or by both
of said punishments.
9. Will the traveling expenses of the draft
ed men be paid ?
The act provides that " all persons report
ing at the place of rendezvous, shall be allow
ed traveling pay from their place of resi
dence."
7. Will the drafted men bo organized with
Regiments by themselves ?
The au6wtr of tho law is, " that all per
sons drafted under the provisioner of this
act shall be assigned by tho President to
military duty iu such corps, regiments, or
other branches of the service, as tho exigen
cies of tho service may require. "
JEST An Indian philosopher being asked
what were, in his opinion, the two most beau
tiful things in the universe The starry
heaveus above our heads, aud the feelings of
duty'in our hearts." *
WHAT IS A DOGEAR I
We hear a great deal about tho Almighty
Dollar, and have a curiosity to know what it
is ? Dollars may be Almighty, but tho dol
las is subject to many variations, and while it
was one thing yceterday, and another to-day,
it may still Jie another to-tao!Tcw, and so ou
to the crack of doom. Indeed ;we may 6ay
that the Dollar is the representative of change
—though there is no change in circulation—
and that is what It will bring, like that of
everything else—a bushel cf wheat, a ton of
coal, ashoddy Contract, or a Congressman,
What ts a dollar? We can remember the
time when five of them would buy a barrel of
flour or a ton of coal; when one of thcin
would buy ten, twelve or sixteen yird3 of
cotton shirting ; four of them would buy a
pair of excellent boots. Inihe summer of
18G1, ten thousand of them would buy ten
thousand barrels cf tar in New York city ;
but in the autumn of 1862. the tar cost forty
dollars a barrel. A dollar once meant eight
pounds of coffee, three pounds of tea, twelve
pounds of sugar, or six pounds of butter.
Now it is a different matter although—worth
scarcely half as much. This dollar which
we speak of is a harlequin—it goes and comes
and we cannot count it. Then, how differ
ent the dollars of different people are every
day in the year. The farmer's dollars is as
heavy as a mill stone. It represents real la
bor all that is required to raise a bushel of
wheat or two bushelsof corn, or four of oats.
To him it is getting up before light and doing
chores after dark. See him lift it when he
goes to market—it does not part from him
'ightly. But what an mrial thing is the dol
lar of a young merchant, a stock speciiltor,
or a contractor, or a gambler. Its specific
gravity is zero. It does not mean so much
toll as tho farmer's or Mechanic's dollar, and
it jumps away at a hint. A fast horse can
haul a great many of them, and fast women
can cover myriads of them with her skirts.
A dollar in Boston is one matter a dollar in
San Francisco is another; a dollar in Austalia
is another* A dollar in the country is twice
as large as a dollar in the city. A man has
five hundred of them a year in the couutry,
and is rich :he has a thousand in the city
and is poor he has fifteen hundred and he is
no better ; two thousand and he will run in
debt. Public combinatious make the dollar
go farther and by living gregariously we can
buy a newspaper for two cents, which would
cost a hundred dollars to manufacture it ev"
ery man had the focls. an 1 one man can rides
live miles on the horse railroad lor five centa.
whereas a private team for the purpose would
cost three dollars. Ilence we see that the
reign of the Almighty Dollar is not absolute,
but that it is to us just what we make it, as
it is to the counterfeiter, always providing
that we have one on hand.
A MODEL COMPOSITION".
To boys anil girls, who arc pcrplexe d to
know what to write about and how to write
it when required by their teachers to bring a
"composition," we commend the following
model:
TV INTER —Winter is tho coldest season of
the year because it comes in tho winter. In
some countries winter comes in the summer,
and then it is very pleasant. I wish winter
come in the summer in this country. (Then I
could go skating bare foot and slide down hill
in linen trowsers. We could snow-ball with
out our fingers getting cold—and men who
go out eleigh-riding wouldn't hava to stop
at every tavern to warm, as they do now
It snows more in the winter than any other
season of the year. This is because so
many cutters and sleighs are made at that
time.
Ice grows much better in winter than in
summer, which was an incouveninco before
the discovery of ice houses. Water that is
left out of doors is apt to freeze at this season.
Some people take in their wells and cisterns
on a cold night and keep them by the fire 60
they don'i freeze.
Skating is great fun in the winter. The
boys get their skates on when the river is
frozen over, and race, play tag, break through
tho ice and get wet all over, (they get drown
cd sometimes ;) fall and break their heads,
and enjoy themselves many other ways. A
wicked boy once borrowed my skates and ran
of with them aud I couldn't catch him
Mother taid a judgment will overtake him
one day. Judgment will have to be pret
ty lively on its legs if it does, for ho runs
bully.
There ain't much sleigh-riding except in
the winter—folks don't seem to care about
it in warm weather. The grow-up boys and
girls like to do sleigh-riding. The boys gen
erally drive with one hand and help the girls
hold their muffs with the other. Brother
Bob let me go aloug once when he took Celia
Crane out sleighing-riding, and I thought he
paid more attention to holding the mutf than
he did to holding the horses.
Snow balling is another winter sport, I
have snow-balled in the summer. But wo
used stones and hard apples. It isn't so
amusing as it is in the winter, somehow.
£isr "i am surprised, wife, at your igno
rance," said a pompous fellow. " Have you
uever secu any books at all ?" " Oh, yes"
he replied, '• m a uurnbor of eases."
ITEHMS i SI.GO PEn ANNTJM
THE TERMS.
•"l l
4 Mr. Lincoln never uttered a sentimeh*.
more true than that contained in one of his
earliest documents upon the rebellion. f Ho
6aid to the South, l ' we cannot always fight
after years of war the same question will re
turn for settlement ." It would 6eem that the
propitious time for negotiation, for an adjust
ment of the difficulties which now cpqvifise*
the country, cannot be remote. Indeed, it may
well be questioned whether in view the very
important advantages we have recently gain
ed, the government is not now in a situation
where it becomes a duty to make some ad
vances in the direction of peace, If we aro
not mistaken, there are signs that the pppular
mind is looking for some such demonstration.
Already many influential journalslare discuss
ing the terms on which the Union shall be re.
stored.
This is the point on which pubiic opinion
will necessarily divide. Amid the din and
commotion of war, it has not been difficult to
keep this subject out of sight. Every consid-.
erate mind, however, has long seen that this
question must soon arise, and become an ab
sorbing one. It would have been wise to,
shape our war policy with reference to such
a settlement of our sectional differences as
should prove practicable and aJapted to the
nature of our governmens. .
Ihe different views which must control
the sentiments of the people begin to be
shadowed forth. The article we publish this
week from the the Louisville Journal sets
out very forcibly the doctrines which all con
servative men have maintained lrom the be
giuniug of our unfortunate war.Jg They are
the doctrines which the President himself
adopted in the earlier stages of the rebellion,
and to which wo have no doubt he will tlnd
himself compelled to return. The Seceded
States must be allowed aud invited to come
back to the old Union, subject to 110 terms
or restrictions except only such as tho Con
stitution itself imposes. Any other position
necessarily involves revolution, and the over
throw of the great fundamental principle of
self-government.
The radical element of the country will,
of ceurse array itself against any such settle
ment ol the war. From the beginning, 60
far as they have been able, they have dictat
ed to Mr. Lincoln a policy which aimed rath
er at a change in the elements of Southern
society than a restoration of our government.
In this effort they have been so far successful
we apprehend, as seriously to embarrass tho
future anil most important action of the Ad
ministration. These persons, we may ex
pect, will assail with all the ferocity natural
to tho artificial minds any attempt to rostoio
peace, which shall not embrace as a primary
condition the abolition of slavery. II ow far
they have OIVJ ALL. to educate public opin
ion to su=ta:u their views remains to be seen.
—N. Y. Copperhead.
Royalty,
This word has been uiuch iu vogue for the
two years past, and it is not always easy to
comprehend precisely what is meant by tho
term as often used. \\ e can readily under
stand that it is the solemn duly of every one
to sustain the regularly oiganized govern
ment, while acting in its appropriate sphere.
It is our duty as American citizen to uphold
the Government of the United States, and to
our utmost give it efficiency especially at
this time when traitorous hands seek its
overthrow. But, we beg to ask does not
true loyalty equally require u? to sustain our
Stale Government i The State organization
is not less a part of our great American sys
tem of government, than the Federal. Can
a man be truly "loyal," who while ho sup
ports the General Government with unques
tioning subserviency, is doing all in his power
to depreciate and break down the State Ad
ministration ? Yet for the last two or three
weeks, men and presses which lay special
claim to a monopoly of "loyalty" and patriot- .
ism, have been doing just this thing. Wit
ness the unscrupulous ferocity of, their as
saults on Governor Seymour. No caudid
man can doubt that the Governor acted both
wisely and efficiently in the suppression of
the late disgraceful riots in New York. Tho
result amply justifies both his discretion aud
energy. Yet lrom the beginning of the troub
les, such presses as the Tribune, the Times,
and the Independent, have not lor a moment
ceased to assail him with the grossest epi
thets. aud the most false and malicious impu
tations. Happily for the peace and good or
der of society, the very violence of their as
saults, have recoiled upon these malignauts.
Gov. Seymour has been true to his duly and
equal to the emergency iu which lie is
thrown, and such will be the verdict of the
people.
EVILS OF IDLENESS —Nine-tenth of the
miseries and vices of manhood proceed from
idleness; with men ol quick miuds, to whom
it is especially pernicious, this habit is com-
monly the fruit of many disappointments,and
scheme olt batilcd ; and men fail in their
6cheuies,not so much for the want, of strength
as the ill diroctiou ot it, Th weakest living
creation, by concentrating his powers ou a
single subject, can accomplish something ;
the strougest, by dispersing his over many
may lail 10 accomplish anything,. The drop„
by continued iailiug, bores its passage through
tho hardest rock—the hasty torrent rushes
over it. and leaves nq-tracv behind.
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