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Clement Vallandigham Conscription Bill Speech

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Title	Clement Vallandigham Conscription Bill Speech
Subject	Ohio Government Military Ohio Draft Civil War
Place	Columbus (Ohio) Franklin County (Ohio) Lisbon (Ohio) Columbiana County (Ohio)
Description	Clement L. Vallandigham delivered this speech on February 23, 1863 to the U. S. House of Representatives, outlining his objections to the conscription bill that gave the president authority to draft all men ages 18 to 45 to serve in the military. A few months later in May 1863 Vallandigham was arrested for delivering a speech sympathizing with the South. The speech is 22 pages long and measures 5.25" x 8.5" (13.34 x 21.59 cm). It was published in the book The Record of Hon. C. L. Vallandigham on Abolition, the Union and the Civil War in 1863. Vallandigham (1820-1871) was born in Lisbon, Ohio. He built his reputation as an attorney, newspaperman, and politician. Deeply committed to the Union, he led the "Copperhead" or Peace Democrat, movement of the 1850s and 1860s. He made a famous political speech on Mt. Vernon's public square on May 1, 1863, for which he was later arrested and tried for treason by a military court. The case led to his banishment to the South, although Vallandigham re-entered the United States through Canada in 1864 and was not arrested. After the war he was a staunch critic of Reconstruction. He died in 1871 of an accidental gunshot wound sustained while handling a gun that was evidence for a murder trial.
Creator	Vallandigham, Clement L., 1820-1871
Date of Original	February 23, 1863
Source	Published material 02-08
Submitting Institution	Knox County Historical Society
Type	Text
Format	speech

Title	Om2571_2756422_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om2571_2756422_001.tif
Image Height	3420
Image Width	2070
File Size	2242.869 KB
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