1870 · Dayton
by Vallandigham, Clement
Dayton, 1870. Single leaf, written on recto only in ink manuscript, on lined paper, 5" x 7-3/4." Very Good, with mild evidence of old mounting.
From the campaign of 1860 until the end of the War, the Ohio Copperhead Vallandigham was a painful thorn in Lincoln's side. He was arrested on Lincoln's orders for his anti-War speeches and banished to the Confederacy. But he went to Canada, campaigning unsuccessfully in absentia under the Peace Democrats' banner for Ohio's governorship in 1863. He became a symbol of Northern wartime treason.
After the War he returned to Ohio and domestic life. His letter indicates that he was a man who had a sense (truncated)
From the campaign of 1860 until the end of the War, the Ohio Copperhead Vallandigham was a painful thorn in Lincoln's side. He was arrested on Lincoln's orders for his anti-War speeches and banished to the Confederacy. But he went to Canada, campaigning unsuccessfully in absentia under the Peace Democrats' banner for Ohio's governorship in 1863. He became a symbol of Northern wartime treason.
After the War he returned to Ohio and domestic life. His letter indicates that he was a man who had a sense (truncated)