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              ?- VOLUME XXVIII. PV1UIKBB BTSBT IITIIIUT lOUIIt BY. L. HAEPEB. Oflee In Woodward Block, Sd Storj. -Two Dollar per unm, payable in ad- ran oe; 93.de within six months; 93.00 after tee ezpi ration of the year. Ljob's Kathairon. v- Kathairon ia from the Greek word " Katnro," or Kathairo," signifying to cleanse, rejuvenate and restore. This artiele is what its name signifies. For preserving, restoring and beautifying tbe Human kair it is the most remarkable preparation in the world. It is again owned and put up by toe original proprietor, and is now made with the same care, skill and attention which gave it a sale of over one million bottles per annum. Itis a most delightful Hair Dressing. It eradicates scurff and dandruff. It keeps the head cool and clean, -. ' It makes the hair, soft and. glossy. It prevents the hair from falling off. It prevents the hair from turning gray. It restores hair upon bald heads. AayJedy or gentleman who values a beautiful head ef hair should nse Lyon's Kathairon. It is known and used throughout the civilited world. old by all respectable dealers. DB MAS S. BARNES CO. New York. Mar. 2-ly ' ' - ITagans M agnolia Balm. This is the most delightful tnd extraordinary arti-.ticle ever discovered. It changes the sun burnt face and hands to a pearly satin texture of ravishing beauty, imparting the marble purity of youth, and the ditiyt apfearance so inviting in the city belle of fashion. It removes tan. freckles, pimples and roughness from the skin,-leaving the complexion fresh, transparent and smooth. It contains no material injurious tu the skin. Patronized, by Actresses and Opera Singers. It is what every lady should have. Sold every where. - Preparee by W. E. IIAGAN, Troy, N. Y. Address all orders to -1 DEM AS S. BARNES & CO. New York. Mar. 26-ly ' . .'. ; ITEIMSTREET'S Inimitable Hair Restorative, HO't A 1YE Bill restores Rroy hair to it origin:! color, by sup- ' plying the eapillury tubes with natural sustenance, impaired by a or diw.fp. All iimtuHteruum dyei are mp'M:-I "f ' nntfr w int'-. detroyihi; the vitality and beauty n! trie Imir. n I ;iiiird themselves no ilre-4tn. Hchnfvct'i in; nnnble Clrin not on Jy restores h lir'to its HiUu;il coler by au eay pro- oes, but gives the h.ii'r a I : Inxuriaiit Beauty, " prom ites its growth." prevents it fallin off, era li-te 'litn-lrufi. -n.l iuifihU- health an tjile.i.-'anlne.i-tefhvhead It ' lia't-.K'l the test of time, beinj; the" oriiual Hair C..i..r'iug, und is constantly increasing in fvur. UseU i.y buO. utlemau noil ladies. It U sold by all re?i.t-c!aljlt: dealers, or can be procured br them of the c'iu;n&r-ial agents. D. S. BARNES A CO. J')-' lir.iu ia),Xtw York. Two sizes, 50 ceuts od $1. " - --"." lexican .Hum tang Lluiment. The parties in ."-1. Louis A Cini-iunati, vrho have counterfeited the Mustang Lihiiuent under preten.e of proprietorship, have been thoroughly estoped by the Courts- To guard against further imposition. I svaVv procured from the United States Treasury, a uivaie steel plate revenue stamsp. which is placed over ie top of each bottle. . ;--h stamp bears the fac MiU of my bignature, and without which the article is a Coui-terfeiU dangerous anJ worthless imita-tiua. Uxamiae vry bottle. This Liniment has "been in use and growing ua favor tor many yeaiVJ- There hardly exists a hamlet on the habitable Globe that does not contain evidence of its wonderful effects. Il is the best emoliment in the world. With its present improved - ingredients, its effects upon man . and beast are perfectly remarkable. Sores are' healed, pains relieved, lives saved, valuable animals mads useful, and uut ld ills assuaged. For cuts, bruises, sprains, rheumatism, swellings,, bites, cuts, caked breasts, strained horses, c, it is a Sovereign Remedy that should never be dUpeuted with." It should fee ia eiery fami'y. Sold by all Druggists. 1). S. BAaXfti,-Xew York Mar. 26-ly .: H. T. 18- X. Persons of sedentary habits troubled with weak-bftss, lassitude, plpHtie of the heart, lack ot'ape- tite, distress after eating, torpid liver, constipation. Ac, deserve to suffer if they will nut try the celebrated - Plantation Bitters, which are now recommended, by the highest medical ' authorities, and warranted to produce an immediate beneficial effect. They are exceedingly agreeable, perfectly pure, and must supercede all other tonics where a healthy, gentle stimulant is required. . They purify, strengthen and invigorate. .. They create a healthy apetite. They are an antidote to change of water and diet. Taey overcome effects of dissipation and late hours. Toey atrontheu the system and eulived the mind. They Preveut inia.-tmttic and intermittent fevers. They purify the breath and acidity oft he stomach. iney cure Dyspepsia and Constipation. - They cure Diarrhea, and Cholera Morbus. They cure Li ver Complaint and Nervous Headache, . 'They m ike the weak strong, the linguid brilliant, a-l are exhausted nature's great restorer. They are composed of the celebrated Calisaya bark, winter-green, sassafras, roots and herbs, all preserved in per- leotly pure ftt. Croix rum. cor particulars, see cir culars an l testimonials around each bottle. Beware of impostors. Examine every bottle. See that it has our private U. S. Stamp uninutilated over the cork, with plantation scene, nd our signature on a one steel m ue siae lai.ol. ee tbat our bottle is not refilled with spurious nnd deleterous stuff. Any - person pretending to sell Plantation Hitters either by the gallon ant bulk, is an ira poster. Any per on imitating this bottle, or seliiug any other ma terial therein, whether eai!od Plantation Hitters or at, is acrimin.il umier the U.S. Law, and will be so prosecuted by us. We already have our eye on sev eral parties re-lilting our bottles, Ao , who will stir. ceel in 'ettin; themselves into elose quarters. The lein in I for Drake's Plantation: Bitters from ladies cleryuiaa. m.-r.-h iats, Ac., is incredible. The simple trial of a brtie is the evidence we present of their ortb and superiority. They are sold by all res-pectaWe .IrugUts. grocers, physicians, hotels, sa-looas, steam Vats uud oountry store. ' ' ' - P. H. DRAKE k CO, Mar. M ly - 02 Broadway. N. Y. Home Testimony. '- Ixdrpendkiice, Richland Co. O buck, Kichland Co. O. ) September 25, 1859. j Dr. C. W. Roaca Dear Sir: Thi Is to certify that I was lermh afflicted with a disease of the . Liver. I was recommended to try your Scandinavian Blood Pills and Purifier, and aid so. I used them with great tneeess aad ean recommend them to my friends to cure the diseases they are recommended for; consequently their sates here, yoer Agent informs me, are altogether satisfactory. Wisaiae; yon great suooeas, I ska . - . Yoar Sineere Friend, - -Jobk E. Wabshak. .' rSea advertisement ia another eolamo,- - - . to iferwou flerun efbeta Sexes. T.A aTn Gentleman havinr been Mctored A haaltk .a? a . 7 i ww undergoing all the asu- . Md regular expensive modes of treatment wttaoat saecess. eoaalden i fci. i u .iu fe.1,nr - of k.TrT ' . . , ' "P or an addreaeed enVel-n B Win Mod (free) a eopy ef the prescription ttaed. Direct to Dr. Jom JtPH4W IsoFoJatreet (She 3m0flratw Bmntx EDITED BY L. HARPEB. i A JHodel Oorernment The promise of the Republican papers, and Abolition stamp speakers, says the Hartford Times, hefore the days of Abraham Lincoln, (the joker.) io bring back the Government to the purity of oar fsrefathers, having failed, it may not, perhaps, be deemed disloyal, to make an estimate of the number of the persons "en gaged in the blessed work of redemption, their character, position, influence, and condition in life. We enumerate as follows : 100,000 dishonest contractors. 100,000 shoddy makers. 5,000 political preachers. 10,000 Abolitionists who love niggers. 100,000 Black Republicans.-Fred. Douglas. ; Anna Dickinson. 100,000 other etrcog minded women. 50 or CO weak sisters in Chase's department. 100,000 negro soldiers. And the list might be continued ad infini tum, but the above will answer; Take this salt" of the land and distribute it througout the country, and woe unto the purity of the Government of Abraham 1 Who is not wait ing for the g-ory of the Lord t manifest itself and save the country from the wrath to come. Richmond and Sevastopol. The 'New'-York TF'nrtz' is of the opinion that there; is a similarity between Richmond acd SebastopoL. It says : Richmond is in one extremity of the Con federacy, as i;Sebaiopol of the Russian Empire..':" It i de(endel - by earthworks made in the same manner. - Its cdmntiinicatiohs South are intact, as were those of Selrastopol North. it has this advantage over Sehasioiol, tliat it is in. Railroad conimunication with evarv part of the South, while Sebaato'po! had to be supplied trom the distant depots of the EmDire by wagons, aini it i to the exhaustion nroJued by the difficulty of supplying this distant post that this acknowllgement of final defeat by Itussia is mainlv due. It addn that Gen. Grant will be compelled to adopt one of two couws : either to advance around the rebel left, ami thux endanger his own communications with the White House, or eh-e change his base, as General McClellan did. tu the James river, with a view to operr tin;" against Richmond from Bt rinuda Ilun-dr?:l. As the country has already been advised the latter course has been adopted. Richmond, if Taken, but a "Barren Victory." The special correfponde.it of the New York Trtium, writingfrom Gen. Butler's headquarters. June '2d, says : "The oapture of Richmond, abandoned rjy the rebels, a irren victory. Lee's army, which in reality is tit e Southern Confederacy, tstill exints. and must it conqueael or annihilated. 4 ad General iXutler's force been left intact, he could now move to advantage ; but tli rough the orders of General Halleok this army has been crippled at every time when it should be made available tor ofl'eneive operations."Yet, to this capture, thus given out in ad vance to be a barren one. a large number of our people have looked to as the blow that would end the war. Sepeal of the Fugitive Slave Law. The House of Representatives, on the 13th inst., by a strict party vote, voted to repeal the Fugitive Slave Law. Hereafter, therefore there is to be a riht of asylum in this country fornegroes, but not for white men. The slave who owes service under the Constitution is absolved from he obligation by act of Congress; but the stranger who comes to Qur shores, if he has the misfortune to be white, can find uo asylum here ; for the laws can be daringly and ostentatiously violated to kidnap him out of the country. tSf The following is from the army correspondent of the New York Herald; COWARDS. " Within the past eek I have seen some ten or twelve caseofself-inutilation by soldiers desirous ot getting to the rear. These cowards ehool themselves through the hand, se lecting generally the second ringer of the right hand, and t lien go back to the hospital in hopes of being sent to Washington with the wounded. The surgeons have noticed the recurring frequency ot these cases as the character ot thee wounds, burned and discolored with jiowder,wa-utfieiently indicative of their origin they reported the matter to headquarters, and tlte ile'tinqnentd in future are to be put upon the skirmish line. It is customary in ordinary caves to put the patient under chloroform : but. as a puuUhment to the coward. the surgeons now perform the amputation of wounded hngers without any aneethetic. CoL Bngen We find the following in a late copy of the Cleveland Herald: Retired. Col. R. II. Nngen, who for sev. eralyar has been connected, with the super-inteudance of the Ohio Canal, both uuder the State Government and the Lessees, has retired from his position, having beonie concerned in a Railroad enterprise in Pennsylvania. Ool. Wugen leave hie old potKn, carrying with him the good wishes of the large mas of bufinesa men with whom his position brought oim into Dusines relations. The Fifth Congressional District. The Democracy of the Fifth Ohio Congress' ion al District held their Convention at Lima, on Wednesday, June 15th, and elected George M. Baxter, of Allen county, and C. W. Cow an, of Auglaize, to represent that District in the Chicago Convention. C- R. Mott, otWy-andot, and A. J. Lindxee. of Mercer, were cho-t en AlternatMi and Major C N. Lamison waa 'nominated for PrMidential Elector. -. Hon. F. C. Le Blood wai nominated bj ao clamation for re-election to OoBgraea. ' The AUlitioaiete last fall aaid t&er m- 1j- wStnled t vnp jxtj." Now, fcae split their ciwn party Into Am The Fremont wing a&4 the ofSce-belder'e eectioa. MOUNT VERNON, OfilO: -SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1864. THE SUII TOTAL! The Enormons Taxation in Ohio! From the Seneca Advertiser. The figures we give below will show that under the Abolition War Dynasty the people of Ohio are burdened with a taxation unequal-ed in any country in Europe : The Legislature of Ohio, on the 23d of January, 1864, appropriated for miscellaneous purposes. ..$58,100, 000 On the 23d of March, in the Gene- eral A ppropriation Act for State .-Expenses, Ac. 1, 106,183,51 For School purposes 1,450,000,00 Payment of Interest on the State Debt ............. 760,000,00 Interest on irreducible debt .. 181,000,00 Bounty Fund and Union Loan.. .7,291.500,00 Special Appropriations ........ ..... 100,000,00 10,946783,51 Add to the above the usual local, township and county Taxes, estimated at i more than last year and we have ; 17,250,000,00 - 28,196,783,51 Also amountap propriated for State defence and National Guards... 1,000,000,00 $29,196,783,51 Thus it will be seen that our State, County, and Local Taxation in Ohio, this year, is near ly THIRTY Ml LLIONS, against a taxation last year, a reported by the Auditor of. State, of $1 1.850,473,68. In addition to this a milition commutation fee of FOUR DOLLARS is demanded from able-bodied men. who did not see the propriety of joining the National Gurds, to be ordered out of the States, at the whim or nod of the State Executive. The taxes of the Deople of Ohio to be paid n December will be double what they have ever been before, whi e the grand lu plicate will show less proper. y upou which the tax is to be levied. But these jtre taxing times. In addition to the large sums extracted from the people by paying the Draft Commutation, they are pay- ng their National Income and Direct Taxes. The Federal Government expects Ohio to pay about FIFTEEN MILLIONS OF INTERNAL REVENUE THIS YEAR ! Now. add the fifteen millions to the thirty -.' million's of dollars, and we have the enormous sum of Forty-Five Millions! a-n amount of taxation that will hot be regarded as a great luxury even by our Abolition friends' And what is the prospect for its di. minution? Nine whatever, but if Lincoln, Brol';u JbCo. are continuel in power, and they are allowed full sway they'll rum every taxpayer in the country! The National debt of the country is estimated at three thousand million of dollars probably more now, but Ohio's share of all this is about One-tenth. The entire real and chattel property of Ohio is estimated at nine hundred millions of dollars. If the war should stop to-morrow, and the debt was to be paid, every man in Ohio would be compelled to part with one-third of his property'! ' Now comes another feature. The Slioddyites, Contractors Navy Suppliers, Office-holders, tc.,fcc. hy investing their money in United States Bonds get rid of paying taxes! About four millions of personal pr operty in Ohio is thus withdrawn from the duplicate, by Abolition financiering, and the additional tax js saddled upon the small ; property-holder and the owners of real estate. These bonds were bought at a discount, yet the people are taxed to pay their .holders in gold, and bound to pHy the principal at par ! Is this right is this just?- Yet we call the attention of the people of Ohio to the fact that when a Democratic member of the last Legislature introduced a bill with the view of taxing National Securities, the Abolition majority -promptly -voted it down! By this act millions of dollars which should be on our duplicate for taxation, which should bear alike with real estate the burden of gov ernment, g6es untaxed! Capitalists and Slioddyites may think this just, honest, righteous. but we tnuHnKejiie. piam people u tney uo not put the seal of their condemnation on such de testahle financiering. THE SUM TOTAL! How do you like it, people of Ohio? How much of this immense sum has been frittered away, by the favorites of the party in power? Well could the vener-ahle Chairnian of the Finance Committee of the Ohio House ot Representatives declaim a-gainst extra vaga oe, and protect against the 'fury of taxation" when the SU M TOTAL stared him in the face! Well did he conceive that an outraged and over-taxed people would rise up in judgment against their pitiless public servants! He. more than his co-laborerS, could see the . hainl-vritin on the wall ! The sovereign people of Ohio are awakening to the necessity of a change in the Administration that has even disgusted thousands of its once tqarm friends and driven them into the necessity of withdrauting from its support! An Administration Paper on Lincoln- ; Wilk?s's Spirit of the Times, which has heretofore been a strong supporter of Lincoln's administration, t as changed views Somewhat. In a late number it asserts that "The nation cannot live with Abraham Lincoln and Seward at its head during the next terrible four years. Even if honest, they are unequal to the task ; and that they are not honest, i evident in the arts they have devised to suhjugatd the expression of the loyal masses, in the name of the party they have labored to destroy. . Freedom of the Press. . In his speech at the Cleveland Convention Gen. Cochrane, the Republican candidate for Vice Precedent, delivered the following sentiments r which, it is said, wers received with "much applause :" " Intimately connected with these rights is the freedom of the proas and the administration or the man who would aim a blow at it isgutlty of a crime but little lesa guilty than be who ia traitor to the eaoss of bis country,' .'.. .V!--. ; - ' ...' t3 A earman io New Orleana raa aver and put oiU the ahrh.t a rery yoaas Ameriean citizen of Afnoa4 deeoent aad wae heard to exclaim, God bless the emancipation proelama-tioal If I had done that two years ago it woald have cost me fire hundred dollars!' - Fremont's Letter The Portions Not Telegraphed . TREASON AGAOST LWCOLN! Liettera of AeeeptatBee of aad Cochrane. Fremont LETTER OF GEN. FREMONT. New York, June 4. Messrs. Worthington ; G. Snethen. of Maryland; Edward Gilbert, Casper Butz, of Illinois; Chas. E. Moss of Missouri; N. P. Sawyer, of Pennsylvania, Committee, &c: Gentlemen In answer to the letter which I have had the honor to receive from you on the part of the representa tives ot the people assembled at Cleve land, May 31, I desire to express my thanks for the confidence which led them to offer me the honorable and difficult position of their candidate in the approaching Presidential election. Ve ry honorable because m offering it to me you act in the naThe of a great number of citizens who seek above ali things the good of their country, and whonave no sort of selfish interest in view. Very difficult because in accepting the candidacy you propose to me I am exposed to the reproach of creating a schism in the party with which I have been identified. Had Mr. Lincoln remained faithful to the principles he was elected, no schism could have been created and no, contests could have oeen posible. This is not an ordinary election, it is a con test For the right to have candidates. and not merely a usual election for the choicg among them. Now for the first , time since 1776, the question of consti- tutional liberty hasjbeen brought direct- y betore the people tor their serious consideration and vote. The ordinary rights, secured under the Constitution and the laws of the country, have been violated, and extra-' ordinary powers have been usurped by the Executive. , It is directly before tlio people now to say whether or no. the principles established by the resolution, are worth maintaining. If as we have been taught to believe, those guaranties for liberty, which made the distinctive value and glory of our country, are in truth inviol ably sacred, then there must be a protest against the arbitary violation which had not even the excuse of necessity. The seism is made between those who force, the choice between a shameful silence or a protest .against wrong. In such considerations originated the Cleveland Convention. It was among .its objects to arouse the attention of the people to such facts and to hring them to realize that, while we are saturating Southern soil with the best blood of the country in the name of liberty, we have partially parted with it at home. To-day we have in the country the abuses of a military dictation without its union of action and vigor of execution, ah administration marked at home by disregard of constitutional rights, by its violation of personal liberty of the press, ana as . crowning shame, by its abandonment of the right of asvlum. dear to all free nations abroad. Its course has been characterized by a feebleness and want of principle which has misled European powers, and driven them to a belief that only commercial interests and personal aims are concerned, and that no great principles are invoked in the issue. The admirable conduct of the people, their readiness to make every sacrifice demanded of them, their forbearance and silence under the suspension of everything that could be suspended, their manly acts of heroism and sacrifice, were all rendered fruitless by the incapacity, or, to speak more exactly, by the personal ends for which the war was managed. This incapacity and selfishness naturally produced such results as led the European powers, and logically enough, to the conviction that the North and its greatly superior population, its immense resources, and its credit, will never be able to recover the South. Sympathies which would have been with us from the outset of the war, were turned against us, and iu this way 'the administration had done the country a double wrong abroad. - It created hostility, or at best, indifference ' among those who 'would have been its friends if the real intentions of the people conld have been better known while at the same time it neglected no occasion for making the most humiliating concessions. Against this disastrous condition of affairs the Cleveland Convention was a protest. J, The principles which form the basis of its platform, have my unqualified and cordial approbation, but I cannot so heatily concur in all the measures which you propose. x do not be o not believe that, 'confiscation ex- tended to the property of all rebels is i practicable, and if it were so . " do 'not Ivr-i. 71 ' -r. uuu& 1,1. a meMuxo ui kuuqq policy, xi is in Tact a rn.esjti(rn belonging to - the people . themselves'. 'to decide, and. is a proper occasion for the exercise of their original and sovereign authority. As a war measure in the beginning of a re volt, which might be quelled by prompt severity, I understand the policy of con fiscation, but not as a final measure of reconstruction after the suppression of an insurrection. ' In the adjustments which are to follow peace, ho consideration of vengeance can consistently be admitted. The ob ject of the war is to make permanently secure tne peace ana happiness of the whole country, and there was but a single element in the way of its attainment.This element of slavery may be considered as practically destroyed in the country and it needs only your proposed amendment to the Constitution to make its extinction complete. - With this extinction of slavery the party divisions created by it have disappeared, and if in the future history of the country there has ever been a time when the American people, without re gard to one or another of the political divisions, were called upon to give solemnly their voice in a matter which involved the safety of the United States, it is assuredly the present time. 11 the Convention at Baltimore wil1 nominate any man whose past life justifies a well grounded confidence in his fidelity to our cardinal principles, there is no reason why there should be any di vision among the really patriotic men of the country. To any such I shall be most happy to give a cordial and active support. My own decided preference is to aid m this way and not be invself candidate; but it Lincoln be nomina ted, as I believe, it would be fatal to the country to endorse his policy and renew a power which has cost us the lives of many thousand ot men. and needlesslv v . i 7 ; J put the country in the road to bankrupt- cy, there will remain no alternative but to organize against them every element of conscientious opposition, with a view to prevent the misfortune of his re-elec tion. In this contingency I accept the nomination at Cleveland, and as a preliminary step I have resigned my commission in the army. This was a sacrifice for me to take, but I. had for a long time fruitlessly endeavored to obtain service. 1 make the sacrifice now onlv to regain liberty of speech, and leave nothing in the way of discharging, to my utmost ability, the task you have set before me. With earnest and sincere thanks for your expressions of confidence and regard, and for the many honorable terms in which you acquaint me with the action of the Committee, I am, gentlemen, very respectfully, and truly yours, 0 J. C. FREMONT. LETTER OF (JEN. COCHRANE. New York, June 4 Gentlemen : I dave received your note informing me officially of my nomination by the Radical Democracy at Cleveland, on the 3lst ult., as their candidate for Vice President of the United States on the ticket with John C. Fremont as their candidate for President. I have been accustomed to regard simply as duty performed, what you are pleased to represent as personally mer-itous and to regret the physical disability which alone withdrew me from the i mm ed iate scene of war. I concur in the action and agree with the principles of the Convention whereby its 12th resolution the question of reconstruction is referred to the constitutional action of the people. It wisely committed to them an issue peculiarly within the province of the future, and not yet sufficiently emerged from the war to warrant positive opinion. While I have ever supposed confiscation and use of the property of an enemy in arms to be a laudible exercise of an established and essential, rule of civilized war, I am pleased to observe that the Convention when asserting the justice of the principles intended to remit its exercise to the discretion of the people hereafter, manifested through their representatives in Congress, when considering the paramount question of reconstruction. This was judicious. For indeed so blended must be the 'various methods, sequestration, confiscation military absorption and occupation that shall hereafter ico-opperate to evolve -order from confusion, and to restore, the Govern-1 ment, that it is difficult, if not impossible, now when affirming the principle to provide for its application. , I have the honor, gentlemen, to accept the nomination for Vice President of the United States which you have tendered to me under the direction of the committee. . . I am very respectfully, yours, . JOUN COCHRANE. Ta WortVington G. Snethea, of Maryland; E. Gilbert, of New York; C. Buta, of Illinoia; j Chae E. Moae, of Misftoari; N. Sawyer, of Pennsylvaaia, Committee. Jbc ' "8pade Tnxntps.M A telegram from Gen, Grant annooee tbat hi forces "are busily ee gaged diggUg toward, the worka of tie enemy." Butler alao aae4 himself by the spade and yet, ben Gen. JIo-Clellan tuad this fTectira Weaoon on the P- Lninaolahe was rtdiooled by all- tb foola of the North. Intbe war of 1812 the Federal- uia naicaie un. ucmmom -wwn - oaje ai New Or leans io the same nt; There is always more genera Uhip ia throwing op iatrench-ments. with- spades than digginr gravea with bayonets.-'-Camden N; J. Democrat. - Now ia the time to subscribe for the Banker. SPEECH OF , . -' Hon. C. L Vallandigham, AT TBI DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION, At nmilton, Ohio. On the 15th of June, A. D. 1884. Men of Ohio : To-day I am again in your midst, and upon the soil of my uohtc oiaie. i iiHiav i am once more within tho District which for ten years extended to me the highest confidence, and three times Jionored me as its Representative in the Congress of the Uni ted States. I was accused of no crime against the Constitution or laws, and guilty of none. But whenever and wherever thus charged upon me process of law, I am now here ready to answer before any civil court of competent jurisdiction, to a jury of my countrymen; and in the mean time, to give bail in any sum which any judge or court, State or Federal, may affix ; and you, the hundred and eighty six thousand Democrats of Ohio I offer as my sureties. Never for one hour have I remained in exile, because I recognized any obligation of obedience to the unconstitutional andi arbitrary edict. Neither did personal fear ever restrain me. ' And to-day I return of my own act and pleasure, because it is my constitutional and legal right to return. Only by an exertion of arbitrary power, itself against the Constitution and law, and consummated by military force, I was abducted from my home and forced into banishment. The assertion or insinuation of the President that I was arrested " because laboring with some effect to prevent the raising of troops and to encourage desertions from the army," and was responsible for numerous acts of resistance to the draft and to the arrest of deserters, causing " assassination, mai-roing and murder;" or that at any time, in any way, I had disobeyed jir failed to counsel obedience to the lawful authority, or even to the semblance of law, is absolutely false. I appeal for the proof, to every speech 1 ever made upon those questions, and to the very recosd of the Mock Military Commiss ion by the trial and sentence of which I was outraged. No ; the sole offense then laid to my charge was words of criticism of the public policy of the Administration, addressed to open and public political meeting of my fellow citizens of Ohio, lawfully and peaceably assembled. And to-day, my only 'crime' is, that in the way they call treason worship I the Constitution of my fath ers. 15ut lor now more than one vear. no public man has been arrested, and no newspaper suppressed within the States adhering still to the Union, for the expression of political opinion; while hundreds, in public assembly and through the press, have, with a license and violence in which I never indulged, criticised and condemed the acts and policies of the Administration, and denounced the war, maintaining even the propriety and necessity of the recognition of Southern independence. Endorsed by nearly two f hundred thousand freemen of the Democratic party of my native State, at the late election, and still with the lympathy and support of millions more, I do not mean any. longer to be the only man of that party who is to be the victim of arbitrary power. If Abraham Lincoln seeks my life let himrgo declare ; but he shall not again restrain me of my personal liberty, except . upon " due process of law." The unconstitutional and mon strous "Order lhirtv-eight under which alone I was arrested thirteen months ago, was defied and spit upon at your State Convention of 1803, by the gallant gentleman who bore the standard as vour candidate for Lieuten-ant Governor, and by every Democratic press and public speaker ever since. It is dead. : From the first it was against the Constitution and laws,, and without validity ; and all preceedings under it were and are utterly null and void and of no effects The indignant voice of condemnation long since went forth from the vast majority of tho people and press es of America, and from all free : coun tries in Eugrope with entire unanimity. And more recently, too, the " platform" of an earnest, numerous and most form idable convention of the sincere Republicans, and still further, the . emphatic letter of acceptance by the candidate of that Convention, General John C. Fremont, the first candidate also of the Republican party for the Presidency eight years ago, upon the rallying cry of Free Speech and a J?ree Press, give renewed hope that at last the reign of arbitrary power is about to be brought to an end in the . United btates. It is neither just nor fit therefore, that the Wrongs and the other edicts and acts of such power, should any longer be endured certainly not by me alone. -. Jiut 'every ordinary means of redress has first been exansted; yet neither by the di rect agency of the Administratioii and itf Bobordinatee, or, through its infl uence, or intimidation . ox . 'becanse ' of want of jurisdiction: in .the civil courts to meet a case whicb no American ever in former times conceived to be possible here, all have failed. Counsel applied NUMBER il. in my behalf to an unjust judge for the writ of habeas corpus. It was denied ; and now the privilege of that writ is ' suspended by act of Congress and Executive order in every State. The Democratic Convention of Ohio, one year ag by a resolution formally presented-through a committee of your best and ablest men, in person at Washington, demanded of the President, in behalf of a very large minority of the people, a revocation of the edict of banishment. Pretending that the public safety then acquired it, he refused ; saying" at the same time,: that -"it would afford him pleasure to comply as soon as he could by any means be made to believe that the public safety would not suffer by it." One year has elapsed, yet this hollow pretense is still tacitly asserted ; and today I am here to prove it unfounded iii fact. I appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States and because Congress had never conferred jurisdiction in behalf of a citizen tried by a tribunal unknown for such purpose, to the laws, and expressly forbidden by the Constitution, it was powerless t redress the wrong. The time has, therefore, arrived, when it becomes me as a citizen of Ohio and of the United States, to demand and by my own act, to Vindicate the rights, liberties and privileges which I never forfeited, but of which, for so many months, 1 have been deprived. Wherefore, men of Ohio, I am again in your midst to-day. I owe duties to the State, and am 'here to dis- charge them: I have rights as a cit;- zen, and am here to assert them ; a wife and child and home, and would enjoy all the pleasures which are implied in those cherished words. But I am here for peace, not turbulance ; for quiet, not convulsions ; for order and law, not anarchy. Let no man of the Democratic party begin an act of violence or disorder; but let none shrink from any responsibility, however urgent, if forced upon him. Careful of the rights of others, let him see to it that he fully and fearlessly exacts his own. Subject to rightful authority in all things, let hhu submit to excess or usurpation in nothing. Obedient to the Constitution aul law, let him demand and have the full measure of protection which law ait J Constitution secure to him. Men of Ohio : You have already vindicated your right to hear : it is now my duty to assert my right U apeak.-Wherefore, as to the sole offense, ir which I was arrested, imprisoned and banished free speech in criticism and condemnation of the Administration ; an Administration fitly described in , a recent public paper by one of it early supporters, " marked at home by disregard of constitutional rights, by it violations of pei-sonal liberty and the liberty of the press, and, as its crowning shame, by its abandonment of the right of asylum, a right especially dear' to all free nations abroad," I repent it here to-day, and will again and yet again, so long as I live, or the Constitution and our present - form of Government shall survive. ; The Words then spoken and the appeal at that time, made and now enforced by one year , more of taxation and debt, and of blood and disaster, entreating the people to charge the public servants and their policy, oot' by force, but peaceably, through the ballot, I now and here reiterate in their utmost extent, and with all their significancy I repeat them, one and all, in no spirit of challenge or bravado, but as earnest, sober, solemn truth and warning to the people. . Upon another subject allow me here a word: A powerful, widely spread and very dangerous secret, oath-bound combination among he friends of the Administration, known as the " Loyal Union League," exists in every State, yet the very men who control it, charge, persistently upon the members of the Democratic party, that they have organized especially in the North-west the " Order of Knights of the Golden Circle," or some other secret society, treasonable or " disloyal" in its character, affiliated with the South, and for the purpose of armed resistance to the authorities of the Federal and State Gov ernment Whether any such ever exis ted, 1 do not know; but the'eharge that organizations of that sort, or having any such purpose, do now exit among members of that party in Ohio or other non-slaveholding States, is totally and positively false. That lawful political or party associations have been established, having, as their object, the or- Emization and strengthening; of the emocratic party, and its success in the coming Presidential election, and designed as a counterrmoveraent to the so called Union Leagues,' and, therefore, secret in their proceedings, is Tery probable, and however objectionable hitherto and in ordinary times, I recognize, to the fullest , extent, not the lawfulness' only, but the propriety and necessity of such organization for ' V when bad men . combine good men" must associate.''.; But they are no con- ' spiracy against the - Government, and their members are sot' conspirators, tut patriots ; men not leagued togtther for the overthrow of the Constitution or the laws, . and still less, of liberty, but firmly united for the preservation ' and support of these great objects. There Ls indeed, a 44 conspiracy," very powerful,.