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MR. VALLANDIGHAM. ; Ills Arrival at Niagara Falls —How HE WAS TrEATEU IN THE SpUTH. ANI> the Manner in which He Got out of THE Coi NTKY Ills AuDKKHS TO THE People of Ohio—Outrages upon the Rights of the Press, &c. i j Special Correspondence of the Chicago Times, i I Clifton House, Niagara Falls, C. W.) j July 16, 1863. f Mr. Vallandigham arrived here yester-! : day njorning. The appearance of his j | name upon the Register caused the most | intense excitement among the guests. — i The news of his arrival spread rapidly in ' I the vicinity, and during yesterday and to-; day, hundreds of visitors called to pay their respects to him. Several parties of j ladies and gentlemen have came over | from the American shore. ; The mighty cataract and the grand mountain scenery are forgotten; the deI lightful drives are abandoned. The exiled statesman is the absorbing subject of interest and consideration. Eager groups, i anxious to learn every particular of his I eventful career, collected around the faj vored few whe have been honored with ■ personal interviews with the foremost man of the age. Crowds press upon him whenever his presence is accessible, to i congratulate him upon his sublime inor--1 al achievements and political prospects< life manners are modbst and *unassArtiing. He has a kind word and genial I greeting for all his friends. Yet his manners are not wanting in dignity befitting i his position; but the dignity is blendid ' with cordial suavity, so that while lie : commands respect from every one, he al- | so excites a feeling aiken to love, in all. I Mr. Vallandigham was treated in all I respects as a prisoner of war In the South ! and permitted to depart on giving his paI role. He succeeded in running the blockade from Wilmington. North Caro ina, ‘about the Middle of June, in a small ! steamer which took him to Bermuda.— i From the latter place he proceeded in a small steamer to Halifax, where arrived ; safely a few days ago, and took passage up the river St. Lawrence to Qnebeck, I whence he came by rail to Clifton. Hon. I). W. Voorhees, of Indiana, and , Hon. Richard T. Merriuk, of Chicago, ; were among the first to welcome him on ; his arrival. Hon. Messrs. Fendleton and i McLean are shortly expected to arrive. Mr. Vallandigham has just issued the I following address to the democracy of j Ohio: Niagara Fai ls, Canada West,} July 15, 1863. ) To the Democracy of Ohio: A n ested and confined for three weeks in the United States, a prisoner of State; banished thence to the Confederate States and there held as an alien enemy and prisoner of war, though on parole, fairly am! honorably dealt with and given leave to depart.—an act possilJe onjy by runi nirig the blockade at the hazard of Lenig i fired on by ships flying the flag of my own country,—l found myself first a freeman when on British soil And to day, under protection of the British flag, I am hei - e to enjoy, and in part to exercise, the priviligeS’and rights which usurpers insolently deny me at home. The shallow contrivance of the weak despoU at WashI ington, and their advisers has been defeated. Nay, it has been turned against i them: and I, who for two years was milinged as in in secret leAgue with the I Confederates, having refused when in i their midst, under cireimistanoes the most favorable, either to identify myself '. with their cause, or even so much as to i remain, prefering rather exile in a foreign land, return now with allegiance to my own State and government, unbroken in ; word, thought, or deed, and-with every I declaration and pledge to you while at ' home, and before I was stolen away, 1 made good in spirit and to the very letitvr - gix weeks ago, wlien just going into ‘ banishment, because an audacious but I most cowaidly despotism compelled it, I addressed you as a fellow-citizeo. Today. and from the very place then selected by, but after wearisome and most perilous journeyings for more than four thousand miles by land :mi<l upon the sea —still in exile, although almost in sight 'of my native State—l greet you as your represenmtive. GreatfuL certainly lam i for the confidence in my integrity and patriotism implied by the unanimous nom illation as candidate for Governor of Ohio which you "gave me while I was yet in the Confederate States. It wars not mis-

‘Cur Country’s Good shall eve; be cur Alm—Willing to Praise and not afraid to Blame.”

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, JULY 25, 1863.

I I I placed; it shall never he abused. But this is the least of all considerations in times like these. 1 ask no personal sympathy for the personal wrong. No, it is the cause of constitutional liberty and private right cruelly outraged beyond example in a free country, by the President and his servants, which gives public sig i niffcance to the action of your convention Yours was indeed an act of justice to a I citizen who for his devotion to the rights ‘ of the States and the liberties of the people ! had been marked for destruction by the hand oi arbitrai'y power. But was much 1 more. It was an act of courage worthy I of the heoric ages of the world; and it was ; ; a spectacle and a rebuke to the usurping tyrants who, having broken up the Union would now strike down the constituion,! j subvert your present government, and establish a formal and proclaimed despotI ism in its stead. You are the Restorers ; j and Defenders of Constitutional Liberty, and by that proud title history will salute you. I congratulate you upon your nominations. They whom you have placed up • on the ticket with me are gentlemen of character, integrity, nbilitv and of tried ‘ fidelity to the constitution the Union and !to liberty. Their moral and political courage—a qua’ity always rare, and now ■the most valuable of public all these were i nominations fit to be made. And even jealously, I am sure, will now be hushed, if I especially rejoice with you in the '! Domination of Mr. Pugh as your candi ■ date for Lieutenant Governor and president of the Senate. A scholar and a genil“nian, a soldier in a foreign war, and ’ alwav s a patriot; eminent as a lawyer, ' and distinguished as an orator and a - statesman, 1 hail his acceptance as an . omen of the return of the better and more I virtuous days of the Republic. I endorse your noble platform—elegant in slyie; admirable in sentiment. You 1 present the true issue, and comiu't yourselves to the great mission just now of I I the democratic party, —to restore and I tn»ke sure lirsl the rights and liberli. s , declared yours by your constitutions. It is in vain to invite the Stales end people of the south to return to a Union without ; a constitution and dishonored and polluted f»y repeated nnd most aggravated i exertions of tyrannic power. It is base in yourselves, and treasonable to your • posterity, to surrender these liberties and i rights to the creatures whom your own ■ breat created and can destroy. Shall there be tree speech, a free press, p> a- ; ceable assemblages of the people, and a free ballot any longer in Ohio? Shall the peod.le hereafter, as hitherto, have the right to discuss and condemn the prini ciples and policy of the parly —the ministry— the men who, for the lime, conduct the government, —to demand of ther public servants a reckoning of their stew- j ardship, and lo place other men and another party in power at their supreme will and pleasure? Shall order Thirty- . i eight or the constitution be the supreme law of the land? And shall the citizen any more be arrested by an armed soldiery at midnight; dragged from wife and 1 child and home, to a military prison; thence to a mock military trial; there 1 condemned, and then banished is a felon for the exercise of his rights? This is the | issue; you have nobly met it. It is the | ' very question of free, popular governI ment itself. It is the whole question: 1 upon oue side, liberty; on the other, despotism. The President, as the recog • nized head ol his party accepts the issue. Whatever he wills, that is law. Consti- | 1 tutions, State and Federal, are nothing; t acts ol legislation nothing; the judiciary • less than nothing. In time of war there is but one will supreme —his will; but •ione 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 i these mere idle claims For two years i and more, by arms, they have been ens; forced. It was the mission of the weak > but presumptuous Burnside —a name inI famous forever in the ears of all lovers of constitutional liberty—to try the ex i periment in Ohio, aided by a Judge ’ whom I name not, because he has brought foul dishonor upon the judiciary of ray country. In your hands now, men ■ ol Ohio, is the final issue of the experiment, The party of the administration have accepted it. By pledging support .; to the President, they have justified his outrages upon liberty and the constituj lion; and who ever gives his vote for the candidates of that party commits himself; to every act of violence and wrong on the ‘ part of the administration which he up- ; holds; and thus, by the law of retaliation, which is the law of might, would fairlv forfeit his own right to liberty, personal and political, whensoever other men and another party shall hold the power. Much more do the candidates themselves. Suffer them not, I entreat you, to evade the issue; and by the judgment of the people we will abide.

I And now, finally let me ask, what is the pretext for all the monstrous acts and ' claims of arbitrary power which you 1 have so boldly and nobly denounced? “Military necessity.” But if, indeed, all these be demanded by military necessity, then, believe me, your liberties are gone, and tyranny is perpetual. For, if this civil war is to terminate only by the subjugation or submission of the South to ; force and arms, the infant of to-day will not live to -ee the end of it. No, in an other way only can it be brought to a : close. Traveling a thousand miles and ! more, through nearly one-hall ot the Confederate States, and sojourning for a time at widely different points, I met not one man woman or child who was not resol*- i | ed to perish rather than yield to the prei.s---i ure ol arms even in the most desperate ex tremity. And whatever may and must be j the varying fortune of the war >n ail which ; ! I recognize the hand of Providence poinI ting visibly to the ultimate issue of this j great trial of the States and people of i ! America they are better prepared now : j every way to make good their ioexor-j able purpose than at any period since tile , beginning of the struggle. These may, indeed, be unwelcoms truths, but they I are addressed only to candid and honest men. Neither, however, lei me add, did I meet any one. whatever hie opinions or his station, political or private who did not declare his readiness, when the war shall have ceased and invading armies been withdrawn to consider and discuss the question of reunion. And who shall doubt the issue of the argument? 1 rel turn, therefore, with my opinions and convictions as to war and peace, and my faith as to final results, from sound pol- , icy and wise statesmanship, not •nly unchanged, but confirmed and strength- ! ened. And may the God of heaven and; j earth so rale the hearts and minds of : Americans everywhere that a constitution j mainteined, a Union restored, and lib- , erty henceforth made secure, a grander and nobler destiny shall yet be ours than that even which blessed our fathers in i the first two ages ot tlie Republic. C. L. VALLANDIGHAM An exclusive copy eif the Address was furnished to your correspondent yester- ' day, and he endeavored to telegraph it from Buffalo last night. The superinten- ' dent of the telegraph in that city was de-1 1 sired to forward the address with all pos- < : siblc despatch, as it was desirable that the telegram should be received as early as possible in the day. The Superintendent professed his readiness to comply with the request, and sat down by an in strument. your reporter taking a seat by I his side, in order to read the dispatch to ; the Superintendent, and thus facilitate its , ‘ transmission. The operator professed to transmit the entire dispatch, containing . an account of Mr. Vallandigham’s arrival at Niagara Falls, as well as the address; but when the transmission had been ap-; pat ently concluded, your correspondent ; was informed that orders had been receiv I ed from the government that the dispat- . ch could not be delivered until it had been i approved in Buffalo. The reporter desi-1 red to know by whom it should be approved. The Superintendent evaded ans- ■ weringthe question for some time, but finally answered, “By the Provost Marshal, probably.” Your correspondent was unable to find the Provost Marshal ot; Buffalo, and he accordingly demanded the message of the Superintendent, who i informed him that it could not be delive--1 red on that evening, as it had been locki ed up in the safe, and the key of the safe I carried by the l»y to his home. Your , reporter then offered a private message to < the editor of the Times stating the cir- i cumstances, and desiring farther orders. The Superintedent of the telegraph, in ; ; asmuch as he had received orders from I the government to suppress any such dispatch, refused to forward it. This a i bold and wanton usurpation of the rights and privileges of citizens generally. It was simply and solely’ a refusal to transmit a message from an employe, asking instructions from his employer. Neither the address or the dispatch contained a word that could be •onstrued as afford- ‘ ing aid or comfort to the Confederates. ; Throughout his sojourn in the seceded I States, Mr. Vallandigham was regarded as a prisoner of war. The Suppressed dispatch announced this fact, and it announced nothing farther, save an account of his reception in Canada. Mr. Vallandigham is the unanimous nominee for Governor of the democracy l of Ohio, and he has long been an expo-

■ nent of a peace policy, as affording the | 1 earliest and most complete reconstruction ; of the Union as established by Washing • i ton and his cotemporaries. lie has never • : favored a permanent division of the government. It is for these reasons that he I was banished, and it. is for these reasons | that everything concerning his movements and policy is regarded with interest by the people of the United States. I He has never been found guilty’ of anv j crime by the legitimate tribunals of the ( i country; he has never been, directly or I indirectly, implicated with traitors in plot-1 ting for the overthrow of the goverment. ‘ His only offence was the expression of belief that this wanton expenditure of I Wood and treasure only tended to produce i a wider severance between the North! and the South. He believed that a leni gthy war would impoverish the treasury ; ■ of the country, and desolate the homes of I the people, while it would enrich only! j unprincipled military contractors and ispeculators. These were his opinions,! and he proclaimed them boldly and fear-; lessly. An upstart, gifted wit h the insigna of I a Major General, and apparently endowed with all the attributes of a human being, basely arrested him for these expres- i sions of opinon. He was stolen away ' from the city of his residence at midnight amid the tolling of bells and general man- | ifestations of grief and indignation on the , j part of bis neighbors. An imbecile and corrupt administration sanctioned the ! arbitrary measures. But the patriotic i masses of his countrymen, whose hearts i over beats in unison with the dictates of j truth and common sense, approved his i conduct. The democracy of his native State unanimously nominated him as their | candidate for Governor. A tyrannic oli- ! garchy refused to allow a transmission of his acceptance of the nomination and a pusillanimous telegraph company comply with its demand! It is one of the most i flagrant ami outrageous violations of written or unwritten law ever perpetrated in ! a free country. i It should be stated that the movements of your reporter were followed by a remarkably seedy and ruffianly appearing individual, apparently gifted with all the ! attributes of a human being. Wherever vour reporter went, the shabby individ ; ual went. Who he was, or what his object was, the deponent knoweth not. He I was in Buffalo, he was in Detroit, and he ! was in all places where your corresponI dent visited. lie may have been a thief !he may have been the representative of • some government. The deponent knows ■ not the calling of the strange individual, and he gives himself very little anxiety i about him. A traveling gent, in passing a farm, I saw a boy at work in a road side, and, being of an inquiring turn of mind, 1-e stopped his horse and thus addressed the youth: Mv son. whose farm is this! ‘Dad’s,’ was the laconic reply. “Dose your, father raise, any stock? ‘Yes lot’s of cm ’ “What kind?” continued the stranger. “Cornstocks mostly,’ was the reply, as he proceded to hoe a hill of the article and the stranger went on his way | musing. The Northern States are fast work- ‘ ing out the destiny of all previous republics, are appear only to await the advent !of him who with resolute grasp shall be bold enough to seize the despotic power that Lincoln has only ventured to essay. If citizens may be seized, imprisoned, and tried bv eourl-martial, after the model of that which has convicted Mr. Vellandigham there is little left to be overcome in the desecration of public liberty.—• Canadian Paper. A little boy not ten years of age, was seen the other nay cramming his mouth with Cavendish, when a gentleman standing by. somewhat amused at the spectaI clo. asked him what he chewi'd tobacco for? ‘What- do I chew tobacco for,’ replied the urchin, ‘why, sir, I chew it to get the strength out of it to liesure—what do you think I chew it for?’ An artist painted a cannon so natural i ' the other day that when he finished the ■ touch-hole it went off. Sorry to say it ’ was taken by the sheriff.

THECONSCHH’TION LAW. (The City Judge of New York Declares it I iieoiotilutionMl. Before Hon John H HeCunn, City Judge ol New York, July 14, at ChatnI bers. Iu the matter of the complaint against I William L. St< phens, an enrolling officer, I who arrested Henry Bieael tor an alleged ! resistance to the said enrolling officer, and which has been before Judge Mo- ! Cunn for the past week, the case was decided by the Judge this afternoon The facts of the ca e were found to be as follows; That Stephens together with one j Dodge, enterred the shop kept by the I father of the complainant on 7tb avenue, ! where they were at work; that Stephens : demanded his name, which he did not j refuse to give; and that, while he was I endeavoring lo get him a card upon which his name was written, Stephens ! seized him, handcuffed him, and acted in I a violent mander, drawing a pistol, and threatened to shoot his father. He than locked Riesel up all night in the Park | Barracks. Judge McCunn held on these I state of facts: First, that the arrest was a violation of the 2d Revised Statutes, page 874, sec. 2, 4'h ed , which makes it a misdepiean. j or for any officer to arrest any person or ! detain any person or detain any person ugasnsl his will, without due and legsl process, or other lawful authority there lor. And secondly that the provisions of the conscription law, passed March 2, 1 did not protect him for under the ■ 15th section of the act, it was no offence to refuse to give a name to the enrolling officers. But apart from this Judge McCunn is of opinion that the entire act is I clearly unconstitutional, for it not only I violates the rights of the people and creates a dfs’inction amontr our citizens, but it is in direct, contravention lo the 14th and Isih subdivisions of section 8 of ar- • tide 1 of the constitution of the United j States. The constitution in authorizing i Congress “to raise and support armies,, provides only for the standing armies of the country, and not for the volunteer and temporary forces which and etrer- ■ gency may demand, because the 14th subdivision of the Bth section of article 1, authoriz s Congress to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws ofd.e Union suppress insurections and repel invasions.’ And Article II of the amendments provides: “A well regulated milit i being necessary to the security of a free Slate, the right of the people to keep and hear arms shall not be infringed.” And, for the purpose of using this milita force, the Preside nU is not • only made the Commander-in-Chief of army and naw of the United States, but also’of the tnilita of the several States, when called into the actual service of the United States. And, therefore, as this 1 conscription law does not make the force it creates a milita force of the States nor is it part of the standing armies of tha United Slates, it is clearly not authorized by the constitution. The standing army • of the country could be increased by an act of Congress, and the subdivision referred to amply authorizes Congress to provide the means for raising i’; but, Congress having neglected to do this the on- ! ly force the President is authorized to use exclusive of the regular army and navy is the militia and volunteer forces contribI uted by the several States when called upon. The Judge deeply regretted that the people had not had patience and patriotism enough under the operation of the eon- | scription law to await until the courts had fully detirmined this question that the courts were able and equal to the duty of sustaining the rights of the citizens; and it wns through the courts alone that their rights and safety in the end were fully ■ and properly protected. Stephens was ! held to bail in the sum of $2,000 III —■ HI ————— What a Democratic Regiment Does, i —The boys of the Ninth New Jersey are all Democrats. This is what they think of political resolutions and voting in the field; We hear a great deal about the soldiers voting and about certain resolutions which the different New Jersey ! regiments are said to indorse. If vheae i reports are true we think that these same Regiments are more qualified for the political field than the battle field. They ' should turn their attention to the rebels [ who keep guard over them] and try their \ hand at them. If they do this they will be serving tbeit country better than to bo interfering with politics at home. Tiny 1 should lake the Ninth’ as a sample of the sentiment of the Democracy in the army ’ from New Jereev. We do not interfere ’ with politics. We came here lo whip enemies ot our country, and we have done • it in every contest which we have hathe rebels, and, with God’s help, we will still continue to do so in the future as in the past. This is a Democratic regiment Does n t New Jersey point with ' pride to her gallant Ninth regiment? She would say to all others, Go thou and do likewise.’

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