THE RECORD OF HON. C. L. VALLANDIGHAM
ON ABOLITION, THE UNION, AND THE CIVIL WAR
FIRST EDITION
NEAR FINE CONDITION
PROTECTED IN A CLEAR, MYLAR DUST JACKET
Original, Clean, Solidly Bound, 1863, Antique Book
Frontispiece Illustration of Vallandigham
Includes Many of His Speeches, Official Correspondence, Etc.
PUBLISHED BY J. WALTER & COMPANY, COLUMBUS, OHIO, IN 1863
OUT-OF-PRINT
HON. Clement Laird Vallandigham was the acknowledged leader of the Copperheads, a faction of the anti-war Democrats during the Civil War. He served two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and, in May 1862 coined their slogan, “To maintain the Constitution as it is, and to restore the Union as it was.”
Vallandigham was a vigorous supporter of constitutional state’s rights. He believed the federal government had no power to regulate a legal institution, which slavery then was. He also believed the states had a right to secede and that the Confederacy could not constitutionally be conquered militarily. He supported the Crittenden Compromise and opposed every military bill, leading his opponents to charge that he wanted the Confederacy to win the war.
After General Ambrose Burnside issued General Order Number 38, warning that the "habit of declaring sympathies for the enemy" would not be tolerated in the Military District of Ohio, Vallandigham gave a major speech on May 1, 1863, charging that the war was being fought not to save the Union but to free the slaves by sacrificing the liberty of all Americans to "King Lincoln.” To those who supported the war he declared, Defeat, debt, taxation [and] sepulchres - these are your trophies
Vallandingham "publicly denounced the ‘wicked and cruel' war by which ‘King Lincoln’ was ‘crushing out liberty and erecting a despotism,'” and called for Lincoln's removal from the presidency. He was arrested as a violator of General Order No. 38, and was tried by a military court, denied a writ of habeas corpus, was convicted by the military tribunal of "uttering disloyal sentiments" and attempting to hinder the prosecution of the war. He was sentenced to 2 years' confinement in a military prison. President Lincoln wrote to several Ohio congressmen, offering to release Vallandigham if they would agree to support certain policies of the Administration. Lincoln, who considered Vallandigham a "wily agitator" and was wary of making him a martyr to the Copperhead cause, ordered him sent through the lines to the Confederacy. He was taken under military guard to Tennessee. His conviction was upheld by the court due to Lincoln’s “war powers” act, but was later ruled to have no power to issue a writ of habeas corpus to a military commission.
After being sent to the Confederacy, Vallandigham travelled by blockade runner to Bermuda and then to Canada, where he declared himself a candidate for Governor of Ohio, subsequently winning the Democratic nomination in absentia. He managed his campaign from Ontario. He asked in one speech, Shall there be free speech, a free press, peaceable assemblages of the people, and a free ballot any longer in Ohio? His platform included withdrawing Ohio (and any other Northern state that would agree) from the Union, if Lincoln refused to reconcile with the Confederacy. Vallandigham lost the 1863 Ohio gubernatorial election in a landslide the pro-Union candidate, but his activism had left people of Dayton divided between pro- and anti-slavery factions.
THIS BOOK IS IN NEAR FINE CONDITION
This original, First Edition book is in excellent overall condition. It comes protected in a clear, Mylar dust jacket. The book is bound in brown, textured covers with impressed decorative work, and gold lettering on the spine. The exterior has no bumping, rubbing or discernible edge wear. The interior clean and the pages are in excellent condition, but some pages have light foxing. The book has no writing, smudging, stamps, or pasteboards. It is not an ex-library book. The book has solid binding throughout; it has no looseness or lean and both hinges are fine. The book contains a frontispiece of Vallandigham. 248 pages. Overall an nice, first edition copy of this hard-to-fine, antique book.
THE RECORD OF HON. C. L. VALLANDIGHAM
ON ABOLITION, THE UNION, AND THE CIVIL WAR
FIRST EDITION
NEAR FINE CONDITION
PROTECTED IN A CLEAR, MYLAR DUST JACKET Original, Clean, Solidly Bound, 1863, Antique Book
Frontispiece Illustration of Vallandigham
Includes Many of His Speeches, Official Correspondence, Etc.
PUBLISHED BY J. WALTER & COMPANY, COLUMBUS, OHIO, IN 1863 OUT-OF-PRINT
HON. Clement Laird Vallandigham was the acknowledged leader of the Copperheads, a faction of the anti-war Democrats during the Civil War. He served two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and, in May 1862 coined their slogan, “To maintain the Constitution as it is, and to restore the Union as it was.”
Vallandigham was a vigorous supporter of constitutional state’s rights. He believed the federal government had no power to regulate a legal institution, which slavery then was. He also believed the states had a right to secede and that the Confederacy could not constitutionally be conquered militarily. He supported the Crittenden Compromise and opposed every military bill, leading his opponents to charge that he wanted the Confederacy to win the war.
After General Ambrose Burnside issued General Order Number 38, warning that the "habit of declaring sympathies for the enemy" would not be tolerated in the Military District of Ohio, Vallandigham gave a major speech on May 1, 1863, charging that the war was being fought not to save the Union but to free the slaves by sacrificing the liberty of all Americans to "King Lincoln.” To those who supported the war he declared, Defeat, debt, taxation [and] sepulchres - these are your trophies
Vallandingham "publicly denounced the ‘wicked and cruel' war by which ‘King Lincoln’ was ‘crushing out liberty and erecting a despotism,'” and called for Lincoln's removal from the presidency. He was arrested as a violator of General Order No. 38, and was tried by a military court, denied a writ of habeas corpus, was convicted by the military tribunal of "uttering disloyal sentiments" and attempting to hinder the prosecution of the war. He was sentenced to 2 years' confinement in a military prison. President Lincoln wrote to several Ohio congressmen, offering to release Vallandigham if they would agree to support certain policies of the Administration. Lincoln, who considered Vallandigham a "wily agitator" and was wary of making him a martyr to the Copperhead cause, ordered him sent through the lines to the Confederacy. He was taken under military guard to Tennessee. His conviction was upheld by the court due to Lincoln’s “war powers” act, but was later ruled to have no power to issue a writ of habeas corpus to a military commission.
After being sent to the Confederacy, Vallandigham travelled by blockade runner to Bermuda and then to Canada, where he declared himself a candidate for Governor of Ohio, subsequently winning the Democratic nomination in absentia. He managed his campaign from Ontario. He asked in one speech, Shall there be free speech, a free press, peaceable assemblages of the people, and a free ballot any longer in Ohio? His platform included withdrawing Ohio (and any other Northern state that would agree) from the Union, if Lincoln refused to reconcile with the Confederacy. Vallandigham lost the 1863 Ohio gubernatorial election in a landslide the pro-Union candidate, but his activism had left people of Dayton divided between pro- and anti-slavery factions.
THIS BOOK IS IN NEAR FINE CONDITION
This original, First Edition book is in excellent overall condition. It comes protected in a clear, Mylar dust jacket. The book is bound in brown, textured covers with impressed decorative work, and gold lettering on the spine. The exterior has no bumping, rubbing or discernible edge wear. The interior clean and the pages are in excellent condition, but some pages have light foxing. The book has no writing, smudging, stamps, or pasteboards. It is not an ex-library book. The book has solid binding throughout; it has no looseness or lean and both hinges are fine. The book contains a frontispiece of Vallandigham. 248 pages. Overall an nice, first edition copy of this hard-to-fine, antique book.
