Daily State Sentinel

From the New York Express,

Vallandigham—the Dry Tortugas.

The following very important paragraph appears in the Washington Chronicle, 'semi-official:')

We understand that the members of the Court Martial which has been trying C.L. Vallandigham at Cincinnati, Ohio, have agreed on a verdict, and submitted it to Gen. Burnside to be approved or disapproved by him. The majority of the Court, we learn, have sentenced Mr. Vallandigham to the Dry Tortugas for two years. The minority, it is said, were in favor of sending him South, with the injunction not to return until the war is over.'

The Dry Tortugas is the American Botany Bay, and a more cruel, or more atrocious 'sentence' than this could not be rendered. If ever the civil law resumes its sway in this country, every military actor in it will be the victim of the law as long as he lives. Even the Drum Head Court Martial established in Cincinnati failed to prove even its own charges against Vallandigham. There was nothing in his Mount Vernon speech unpatriotic or disloyal, nor, nothing but what was in defense of the Constitution and the laws, and in every respect conservative and just.

Beware, beware, men of the Administration, that you do not stretch the cord of human endurance too far. Thousands prefer death to slavery. Remember, that if ever a military despotism is established over the Western people, they will avenge themselves in arsons and assassinations. Stand by the law—overthrow not the law; be true to the Constitution of your country. Desolate not this Northern land in the misery of civil war, by overthrowing here the whole civil law.