s of kindness
and acts of friendly sympathy, not in deeds of violence and blood.
The people of the Northwest were carried away by the excitement of
April and May. They believed war would restore the Union. They
trusted to the assurances of the president and his cabinet, and of
Congress, that it should be carried on for that purpose alone. They
trusted that it would be carried on under the Constitution. They
were patriotic and confiding. They sent their sons, and brothers,
and husbands to the army, and poured out their treasures at the
feet of the administration. They feel that the war has been
perverted from this end; that the Constitution has been
disregarded; that abolition and arbitrary power, not Union and
constitutional liberty, are the governing ideas of the
administration. They are in no temper to be trifled with. They
think they have been deceived. There is danger of revolution. They
are longing for peace."

Need I pause to inquire who would receive encouragement, or whose
spirits would be depressed, on reading these remarkable sentences?
Imagine them read by the rebel camp-fires, or at the fire-sides of
the rebel people. What hope, what exultation we should behold in
the faces of those who heard them! On the other hand, at Union
camp-fires, or by the loyal fire-sides of the North, what sorrow,
what mortification, what depression such statements would surely
carry wherever they were heard and believed!

The course of the peace Democracy of Ohio during the memorable
contest of 1863, between Brough and Vallandigham, is too well known
to require attention now. Judge Thurman was one of the committee
who constructed the platform of the convention which nominated Mr.
Vallandigham, and was the ablest member of the State Central
Committee which had charge of the canvass in his behalf during his
exile.

The key-note to that canvass was given by Mr. Vallandigham himself
in a letter written from Canada, July 15, 1863. That letter
contained the following:

"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 see the end of it. No, in another way only can it
be brought to a close. Traveling a thousand miles and more, through
nearly half of the C