onfederate States, and sojourning for a time at
widely different points, I met not one man, woman, or child, who
was not resolved to perish rather than yield to the pressure of
arms, even in the most desperate extremity. And whatever may and
must be the varying fortune of the war, in all which I recognize
the hand of Providence pointing visibly to the ultimate issue of
this great trial of the States and people of America, they are
better prepared now every way to make good their inexorable purpose
than at any period since the beginning of the struggle. These may
be unwelcome truths; but they are addressed only to candid and
honest men."

The assumption of the certain success of the rebellion, and that
the war for the Union would assuredly fail, was the strong point of
these gentlemen in favor of the election of Vallandigham and the
defeat of Brough. Fortunately, the patriotic people saw the
situation from another standpoint, and under the influence of
different feelings and different sympathies.

In the elections of 1863, the peace Democracy of Ohio and other
States sustained defeats which have no parallel in our political
history. But, notwithstanding their reverses, the year 1864, the
year of the presidential election, found the Ohio leaders possibly
sadder, but certainly not wiser nor more patriotic than before.

At the National Convention at Chicago, in August, Mr. Pendleton was
nominated for vice-president, Judge Thurman was a delegate of the
State of Ohio at large, and Mr. Vallandigham as a district
delegate, and as a member of the committee on platform, was the
author of the following resolution adopted by the convention:

"_Resolved_, That this convention does explicitly declare, as the
sense of the American people, that, after four years of failure to
restore the Union by the experiment of war, during which, under
pretense of military necessity, or war power higher than the
constitution, the constitution has been disregarded in every part,
and public liberty and private rights have been alike trodden down,
and the material prosperity of the country essentially impaired,
justice, humanity, liberty, and the public welfare demand that
immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities, with a
view to an ultimate convention of al