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VALLANDIGHAM, CLEMENT L. 



by reason of "which, the missionary and be- 

 nevolent operations of the body were suffer- 

 ing embarrassment. Much discussion took 

 place in the effort to discover a manner in 

 which provision could be made for diminish- 

 ing the debt without causing further injury 

 to these operations, or reducing the Murray 

 fund. It was determined to present the sub- 

 ject urgently before the State conventions, 

 and make an effort to raise $20,000 in addi- 

 tion to all income probable from the Murray 

 fund and missionary-boxes. The trustees, 

 in apportioning this sum among the several 

 State conventions, were directed to apportion 

 $40,000, of which one-half might be retained 

 by the State convention for local work. 



In the matter of theological education, thirty- 

 one scholarships have been issued under the 

 direction of the trustees, which demanded an 

 appropriation for the year of $5,580. There 

 have been expended in this department, since 

 the establishment of the theological scholar- 

 ships, $17,520. 



The statistical reports from the State con- 

 ventions were pronounced by the trustees 

 " conspicuous for their incompleteness." The 

 report of the trustees, however, showed for 

 the year that there were 22,929 families con- 

 nected with the parishes from which returns 



have been received, containing 48,608 adult 

 persons; a gain was shown in these parishes, 

 during the year, of 1,735 adult persons. The 

 report continues : " The Sunday-schools show 

 a decided gain. The number of pupils report- 

 ed is 38,824, showing a net gain of 2,504. The 

 financial exhibit is also favorable. The value 

 of church property is $5,808,213, while the 

 indebtedness has been reduced $21)7,892, leav- 

 ing an indebtedness of $500,054. Church edi- 

 fices have been erected during the year to the 

 amount of $288,382, while $48,546 have been 

 raised for schools and colleges, and $80,085 for 

 missions and charities, together with $19,550 

 for miscellaneous purposes ; making an aggre- 

 gate of $734,255, which, added to the $948,537 

 reported last year, makes the result of our 

 centenary work foot up $1,682,792. We re- 

 solved that, as a centenary offering, we would 

 add to our financial capital at least a million 

 dollars. We have raised in excess of what we 

 undertook, $682,792, that is to say, we have 

 this amount reported." 



The Woman's Centenary Association, hav- 

 ing completed the object for which it was ori- 

 ginally organized, was organized anew, but 

 without deciding upon any permanent policy 

 to which it should aim. At present it will 

 endeavor to form a publication fund. 



VALLANDIGHAM, CLEMENT L., a Demo- 

 cratic political leader, born in New Lisbon, 

 Ohio, in 1822 ; died at Lebanon, Ohio, June 17, 

 1871, by the accidental discharge of a pistol. 

 His family was of Huguenot extraction, and 

 occupied a respectable position in society. He 

 received a good academical education, was for 

 a year a student in Jefferson College, Ohio, 

 and from 1838 to 1840 principal of an acad- 

 emy at Snow Hill, Maryland. In 1840 he re- 

 turned to Ohio, studied law, and was admitted 

 to the bar in 1842 ; in 1845 and 1846 he was a 

 member of the Ohio Legislature; from 1847 

 to 1849 he edited the Dayton Empire ; and for 

 the next six or seven years devoted himself 

 assiduously to his profession and to politics. 

 He belonged to the extreme State Rights wing 

 of the Democracy ; avowed himself a disciple 

 of Calhoun ; and for some time this ultraism, 

 as well as his reputed connection with the 

 political corruption of some of the State 

 officers, prevented his attaining the object of 

 his ambition, a seat in Congress. He was a 

 member of the National Democratic Conven- 

 tion which met in Cincinnati in 1856. In 

 1857 he ran for Congress against Lewis D. 

 Campbell, and, though declared defeated, con- 

 tested the seat and won it. He was elected 

 to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Con- 

 gresses, and served on the Committee on Ter- 

 ritories. During the Thirty-seventh Congress, 

 lie became conspicuous for his bold utterances 



against the acts of the Administration in the 

 conduct of the war, and on the 5th of De- 

 cember, 1862, offered a series of resolutions as 

 an amendment to those proposed by Thaddeus 

 Stevens, in which he declared, among other 

 things, " that, as the war was originally waged 

 for the purpose of defending and maintaining 

 the supremacy of the Constitution and the 

 preservation of the Union, with all the dignity, 

 equality, and rights of the several States un- 

 impaired, whosoever should attempt to per- 

 vert the same to a war of subjugation, and for 

 overthrowing or interfering with the rights of 

 the States, and to abolish slavery, would bo 

 guilty of a crime against the Constitution and 

 the Union." These resolutions were laid on 

 the table by a vote of 79 to 50. 



On the 14th of January following, Mr. Val- 

 landigham spoke to the resolutions of Mr. 

 Wright, of Pennsylvania, and defined his po- 

 sition on the war question. In this speech he 

 thanked God that not the smell of so much as 

 one drop of blood was upon his garments, and 

 characterized as a monstrous delusion the at- 

 tempt to whip back the Southern brethren into 

 love and fellowship at the point of the bayonet, 

 and denounced in exceedingly bitter terms the 

 usurpations and infractions of public liberty 

 and private right by the Administration. 



His third term in Congress closed on the 4th 

 of March, 1863, and, as he was not again 

 elected, he returned to Ohio, and made numer- 



