spiracy against the Government, and their members are not conspirators, but patriots; men not leagued together for the overthrow of the Constitution or the laws, and still less, of liberty, but firmly united for the preservation and support of these great objects. There is, indeed, a "conspiracy" very powerful, very ancient, and I trust that before long I may add, strongly consolidated also, upon sound principles, and destined yet to be triumphant-a conspiracy known as the Democratic party, the present object of which is the overthrow of the Administration in November next, not by force but through THE BALLOT-BOX, and the election of a President who shall be true to his oath, to Liberty, and to the Constitution. This is the sole conspiracy of which I know any thing; and I am proud to be one of the conspirators. If any other exist, looking to unlawful armed resistance to the Federal or State authorities anywhere, in the exercise of their legal and constitutional rights, I admonish all persons concerned, that the act is treason and the penalty death. But I warn also the men in power, that there is a vast multitude, a host whom they cannot number, bound together by the strongest and holiest ties, to defend, by whatever means the exigencies of the times shall demand, their natural and constitutional rights as freemen, at all hazards and to the last extremity.

Three years have now passed, Men of Ohio, and the great issue of Constitutional Liberty and Free Popular Government is still before you. To you I again commit it, confident that in this the time of their greatest peril, you will be found worthy of the ancestors who for so many ages in England and America, on the field, in prison, and upon the scaffold, defended them against tyrants and usurpers whether in council or in arms.

SUPPLEMENT.

"An enthusiasm can be evoked from the hearts of the people before which all opposition will be swept away as by a consuming fire."-Letter to Sanderson, of Pennsylvania.

SUPPLEMENT.

IN this SUPPLEMENT will be found extracts from Speeches, Letters, &c., not deemed of sufficient importance to be included at length in the body of the book. These extracts are inserted here, not because of any especial excellency in style or originality of thought, but as giving a fuller and clearer insight into Mr. ValLANDIGHAM's political and personal sentiments and character, than any mere narrative could express.

THE BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS OF THE STATE.

Extract from a Speech (Mr. V.'s first) in the Ohio House of Representatives, December 8, 1845. The speech was noticed thus in the editorial correspondence of the Lancaster, O., Eagle: "The youngest Democratic member in the House, Mr. VALLLANDIGHAM, made his debut today, on a resolution to print documents. It was a brilliant effort, and produced an electric effect upon the House. He is a splendid young man."

Ir there be any one thing more than another, to which the citizens of Ohio may point with proud and generous exultation, it is to her public asylums, to her common schools, to her state prison, by which she has acquired so lofty and honorable a pre-eminence among her sisters of the confederacy. Not the soil of Ohio, not her climate, not the extent of her territory, nor the multiplied variety of her productions; not even the majestic river, which washes her base; not the multitude of her teeming population, nor her wealth, nor her resources, nor her rapid growth, unparalleled in the history of States, challenging the wonder of the world, and realizing the magic creations of the lamp in Oriental fable; not any thing in her whole history and character, has contributed one-half so much to elicit the eulogy and admiration of the intelligent and enlightened of Europe and America, as the asylums, and other public institutions, which the generous benevolence of the people of Ohio, has consecrated to the relief and solace of those, whom, otherwise, the misfortune of birth, or the accidents of life, must have consigned to hopeless despair. For my own past, sir, I never turn my eyes or direct my thoughts toward these buildings-these living monuments of a lofty and substantial charity-and to our common scnoos, without the warm feelings of a heart-patriotic, I trust-swelling unconsciously in my bosom, and breaking from my lips, though in solitude, in audible accents, "I am a citizen of Ohio."

Mr. Speaker, I do not mean, upon this or upon any occasion, to indulge on this floor, in mere school-boy declamation. I desire, now and always, to speak in language becoming the representative, in part, of this great people. But be assured, be assured that these are the institutions which constitute the true glory and greatness of a