2006-06
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Vallandingham was arrested for his sympathy for the enemy and banished to Confederacy. excellent content Civil War date ALS, 3pp., 8vo. light age back of last page which affects nothing, Dayton, Ohio August 13, 1862, reads: “My Dear Sir: You did well. No man has a right to forsake his country in her hour of peril. Except ye abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved. The Newark Journal published my card after I wrote to you. It is all right & no further notice of the matter need be taken of it at the present. I am myself ready at all times to incur any responsibility which my sense of duty demands; but ask no one else to divide it with me. I am obliged to Mr. Fuller for what he has done; & so let him wait till the storm pass. We are in the midst of the great crisis of this revolution. It will be followed by another reaction which cannot be checked as the others have been. Let us be firm & wait. The Democratic party in the west, militant now through organization, meetings & the ballot box, will be triumphant at last. Read history. The future was written years ago. Here in the west we shall hold Democratic meetings, organize & canvass & hold the election as usual. Our constitutional rights we will not surrender-never, let the consequences be what they may”.
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