vallandigham pays no attention to them whatsoever. what he does is essentially put his fingers in his ears and go, la la la la. and that's it. he discovers he doesn't really like the confederates. the confederates learn they don't really like him either. and so, after a month in the confederacy, vallandigham and the confederates come to an agreement that he will leave. and so he gets on a blockade runner that goes to the caribbean. he picks up another ship there and goes up to canada, and spends the next year or so in windsor, ontario. right across the detroit river from detroit. there is a union gun boat parked in the middle of the river as long as he is there with its guns trained on his front parlor. but he's having a lot of meetings with confederate agents, with copperheads. he is up to probably all kinds of no good. but he wants to come home. he runs for governor of ohio in 1863. from windsor. the copperheads think he's going to win. because the soldiers will vote for him en masse because he wants an end to the war. he's going to