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VALLANDIGHAM, CLEMENT LAIRD (182o-71)
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See also:VALLANDIGHAM, See also:CLEMENT See also:LAIRD (182o-71) , See also:American politician, was See also:born in New See also:Lisbon, See also:Ohio, on the 29th of See also:July 1820. He was educated in the See also:common See also:schools and afterwards studied See also:law and was admitted to the See also:bar in 1842. Elected tothe Ohio See also:House of Representatives in 1845, he became one of the extremest of the See also:state rights Democrats of his See also:section, emphasizing his principles in the legislature in the See also:local. and See also:national party conventions, and in the columns of a newspaper, the Western See also:Empire, which he edited at See also:Dayton, Ohio, in 1847–49. From 1858 to 1863 he was in the See also:lower house of See also:Congress, where he was noted for his strong opposition to the principles and policies of the growing Republican party, his belief that the See also:South had been grievously wronged by the See also:North, his See also:leader-See also:ship of the See also:Peace Democrats or See also:Copperheads, who were opposed to the See also:prosecution of the See also:war, and his See also:bitter attacks upon the See also:Lincoln See also:administration, which, he said, was destroying the Constitution and would end by destroying See also:civil See also:liberty in the North. Attempts were made to expel him, but without success. In 1863 he made violent speeches in Ohio against the administration, and for these he was arrested by the military authorities, tried by military See also:commission, and sentenced to imprisonment. See also:President Lincoln commuted this See also:sentence to banishment, and Vallandigham was sent into the Confederate lines, whence he made his way to See also:Canada. While in See also:exile he was elected supreme See also:commander of the Knights of the See also:Golden Circle in Ohio and received the Democratic nomination for See also:governor of Ohio, but was defeated. In 1864 he returned to Ohio, took active See also:part in the See also:campaign of that See also:year, wrote part of the National Democratic See also:platform at See also:Chicago, and assisted to nominate McClellan for the See also:presidency. After the war he denounced the Reconstruction policy of the Republicans as unconstitutional and tyrannical, but in 1870, seeing the uselessness of further opposition, he advised his party to accept the situation and adopt new issues. He thus initiated what was known as the " New Departure " Democratic See also:movement. Vallandigham was a See also:good lawyer and a popular politician. He was fanatically devoted to the Constitution as he understood that document, and in his course during the war he was not, as his enemies asserted, trying to aid the Confederates, but merely desirous of restoring " the See also:Union as it was." He died in See also:Lebanon, Ohio, on the 17th of See also:June 1871. See J. L. Vallandigham, See also:Life of Clement L. Vallandigham (See also:Baltimore, 1872) ; and J. F. See also:Rhodes, See also:History of the See also:United States from the See also:Compromise of 1850 (New See also:York, 1893-1906). Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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