[VALLANDIGHAM

A Northerner of Southern stock, Vallandigham was an Ohio congressman 1858-1863. He opposed the Abolitionists, and all measures in support of a civil war or national defence. Many Northerners sympathised with his pleas to restore peace and freedom of speech. Defying Gen. Burnside's General Order no. 38, he was arrested and tried for treason. Lincoln shrewdly banished him to the Confederacy, but he escaped to Canada, from where he put himself up, unsuccessfully, for the Governorship of Ohio. He returned to Ohio in June 1864 to continue in politics, though never in office.