THE GREAT REBELLION: Preparations for the Grand Advance; Flying Artillery, Rifled Cannon and Troops Sent into Virginia; A GREAT BATTLE AT HAND (7/8/1861)

The city has been rife with rumors to-day, relating to the movements of PATTERSON's column. One report had it that JOHNSTON had been defeated, with a loss of two thousand killed and a large number wounded. Another report had PATTERSON defeated, and that he was falling back. From Col. LAMON, who left Martinsburgh yesterday afternoon, I learn that Gen. PATTERSON was at that place, and had no expectation of a conflict with the rebels before the middle of the week.

I visited to-day all the fortifications along Arlington Heights. They are in a state that they may be finished in two days. There seems to be no indications of a movement, except that the strong regiments had orders to hold themselves in readiness for marching on short notice. The trenches of the Sixty-ninth are completed, and the guns mounted. The batteries of flying artillery are being placed in position along the line on the right, left and centre of the column. Capt. AYRES, in command of SHERMAN's battery is in front of the Sixty-ninth. At their drill to-day, with the thermometer at 100, they showed remarkable proficiency.

The Twelfth New-York Militia and the Fifth and Twenty-eighth Volunteers left for Harper's Ferry this afternoon.

A Committee of Boston and New-York merchants are here to induce some changes in the Tariff. It looks as though little would be done in that line at this session.

Col. DAVIES, of the Thirty-eighth, has been given the command of a Brigade, composed of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and his own Regiment.

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Me. Vallandigham in bad odor.

"Mr. Vallandigham visited the camps of the Ohio regiments to-day. On his appearance the volunteers hung him in effigy, and gave him unmistakeable signs that hey would hanfle him roughly unless he left. As he left the camp he was assailed with onions, stones, hisses and yells."

On May 5, 1863, Vallandigham was arrested as a violator of General Order Number 38. His enraged supporters burned the offices of the Dayton Journal, the Republican rival to the Empire. Vallandigham was tried by a military court on May 6 and 7. Vallandigham's speech at Mount Vernon, Ohio, was cited as the source of the arrest. He was charged by the Military Commission with "Publicly expressing, in violation of General Orders No. 38, from Head-quarters Department of the Ohio, sympathy for those in arms against the Government of the United States, and declaring disloyal sentiments and opinions, with the object and purpose of weakening the power of the Government in its efforts to suppress an unlawful rebellion."[22]
The specifications of the charge against Vallandigham were: Declaring the present war "a wicked, cruel, and unnecessary war"; "a war not being waged for the preservation of the Union"; "a war for the purpose of crushing out liberty and erecting a despotism"; "a war for the freedom of the blacks and the enslavement of the whites"; stating "that if the Administration had so wished, the war could have been honorably terminated months ago"; that "peace might have been honorably obtained by listening to the proposed intermediation of France"; that "propositions by which the Northern States could be won back, and the South guaranteed their rights under the Constitution, had been rejected the day before the late battle of Fredericksburg, by Lincoln and his minions", meaning thereby the President of the United States, and those under him in authority; charging "that the Government of the United States was about to appoint military marshals in every district, to restrain the people of their liberties, to deprive them of their rights and privileges"; characterizing General Orders No. 38, from Headquarters Department of the Ohio, as "a base usurpation of arbitrary authority", inviting his hearers to resist the same, by saying, "the sooner the people inform the minions of usurped power that they will not submit to such restrictions upon their liberties, the better"; declaring "that he was at all times, and upon all occasions, resolved to do what he could to defeat the attempts now being made to build up a monarchy upon the ruins of our free government"; asserting "that he firmly believed, as he said six months ago, that the men in power are attempting to establish a despotism in this country, more cruel and more oppressive than ever existed before." All of which opinions and sentiments he well knew did aid, comfort, and encourage those in arms against the Government, and could but induce in his hearers a distrust of their own Government, sympathy for those in arms against it, and a disposition to resist the laws of the land.[23]
The peace proposal of France was true; Vallandigham had been requested by Horace Greeley to assist in the peace plan.[24]

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