Daily State Sentinel

Address of the Hon. C. L. Vallandigham to the Democracy of Ohio on the Result of the Election.

You were beaten; but a nobler battle for constitutional liberty and free popular government never was fought by any people. And your unconquerable firmness and courage, even in the midst of armed military force, secured you these first of freemen's rights—free speech and a free ballot. The conspiracy of the fifth of May fell before you. Be not discouraged: despair not of the Republic. Maintain your rights, stand firm to your position; never yield up your principles or your organization. Listen not to any who would have you lower your standard in the hour of defeat. No mellowing of your opinions upon any question, even of policy, will avail anything to conciliate your political foes. They demand nothing less than an absolute surrender of your principles and your organization. Moreover, if there be any hope for the Constitution or liberty, it is in the Democratic party alone; and you fellow citizens, in a little while longer, will see it. Time and events will force it upon all, except those only who profit by the calamities of their country.

I thank you, one and all, for your sympathies and your suffrages. Be assured that though still in exile for no offense but my political opinions and the free expression of them to you in peaceable public assembly, you will find me ever steadfast to those opinions, and true to the Constitution and to the State and country of my birth.

C. L. VALLANDIGHAM.

Windsor, C. W., Oct. 14, 1863.