review and annul the proceedings and sentence of the military commission before which Mr. Vallandigham had been tried; but that tribunal, having under the Constitution no appellate jurisdiction of any kind, except in cases first ascertained by law, and Congress not having given such jurisdiction in any proceeding before courts-martial or military commission, was obliged, and upon this ground expressly and alone, to deny the writ. No American legislator had ever before imagined that any mere citizen would, under any circumstances, be subjected to trial by military law in a State where judicial process and courts had never been interrupted, and therefore no mode of redress had ever been provided. CHAPTER XIII. EXILE AND POLITICAL CAMPAIGN OF 1863. ALL efforts for Mr. Vallandigham's release having failed, on the 19th day of May, 1863, he was placed upon the gunboat Exchange, commanded by Captain John Sebastian, to be transferred to Louisville on his way South. His intercourse with Captain Sebastian was pleasant. The Captain was a gentleman in every sense of the word, and had a heart capable of appreciating the feelings of his prisoner. A regard and intimacy grew up between them which lasted during Mr. Vallandigham's life. Just before his death he gave a letter of introduction to a friend to be presented to Captain Sebastian, and when he did so he spoke in the warmest terms of the kindness and consideration with which the Captain had treated him when he took him a prisoner from Cincinnati to Louisville. It was the 19th of May when Mr. V. was put in charge of Captain Sebastian, and at 11 o'clock on the 22d the steamer started down the river. He was informed of the change of his sentence (from imprisonment in Fort Warren to banishment to the South) upon the gunboat a day or two before. The morning of his departure from Cincinnati, he drew up the following address to the Democracy of Ohio: "MILITARY PRISON, CINCINNATI, OHIO, May 22, 1863. "To the Democracy of Ohio: "Banished from my native State for no crime save Demo |