Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-05-28
Ancient and Modern Doaghraecs.


Senator Wade, in his great speech On the
I4th,' made some capital hits, and none bet
ter than the following, tracing the similarity
Between singular race of beings that lived
in ancient times, and the fossil remains of a
siEafsaf race of people whom we discover
in the United States, in this use of the world.
Every one will agree with the Senator, how
ever, that like the Indian tribes, they are
fast disappearing from the face of the earth.
Says Mr.. Wade:
'How have you done it! You have done
Il secaase you had general bond of intre-
est uniting you, tying you together as if an
mated by one sovl. WIfat was the inter-
est of one was the interest of another. YOU
are forced on the same platform, all acting
to one end. You found the Democracy of
the North divided in various pursuits, labor
ing in their vaFiFoas ayocatiorls, with very
little time to stsdy this problem of politics;
and goa have always been able to seGsace
enough OF US over to- you, to carry your
government along. know that sentIersen
smile at this5 but am compelled by truth to
state facts here that wish couid hide from
the world. 1t is a rottenness at the North
that you do not have. It is disreputable to
us, but | am compelled to admit it. Your
allies, the doughfaces of the North, in
my judgment. are the most despcable of
men.
The modern doughface is not character
peculiar to the age in which we now live,
but you find traces of him at every period
of the worlds history. He is void of pride;
he is void of self-respect; he is actuated by
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sell his Maker for price. Why, sir, when
old Moses, under the immediate inspiration of
God Almighty, enticed whole nation of
slaves, and ran away. not to Canada, but to
old Canaan, suppose that Pharaoh and all
the ehifary of old Egypt, deBovEced him as
Frost fsTiops Abohtionist Laughter}.
do rot know but strat they blasphenea their
God, who had assisted the fugitives from la
boz to escape. l have no doubt at all when
soHse Southern gentlemen of eke gospel
come up to preach to the North, they will say
that the Almighty acted the financial part in
this business. am afraid they will say so;
for He was aiding and abetting in the es-
cape. But amidst the glories of that great
deiverance, even feeding npon miracles of
the Almighty as they went along, there were
not wanting those who loved Egypt better
than they loved liberty; whose souls longed
for the fesh-poas of Egypt, and who could
.asl fsoas she yisabie giosaes of the Almghs
ty God, to worship an Egyptian calf. These
were the doughfaces OF that day. They
were national men! tLaughter] They
were not exactly Northern men with South.
ern principAss--but they were Israeliteswi.h
Egyptian principles. [Laughser1
Again. when the SayiOur OF the werfd
went forth ON bis gfeat mission to proclaim
glad tldings of great joy to all the people
of the earth, to break every yoke. and to
preach deliverence to the captive, He met
with the same class of men in the persons
of Judas lscariot and the chief priests. In
the days of our own revolution, when NYasif-
ington and his noble associates were carry
ing on that struggle to establish justice, and
TO secure the blessings of liberty to them
selves and their posterity, they met with the
same class of men in the admirers of George
Eli. and Lord North.
They are all of the same class--faIse to
the education of their fathers-4false To the
great principles which have been instilled in
10 them by their mothers from their birth
willing to do anything that will minister to
the cupidity of their nsastefss let the coTsse-
quences be what tlsey may. 1t is this class
of men, aided by close aristocEaey at tire
! South, tlfat has enabled the minority to rule
with iron hand the majority Stree the orgau-
ization of this Government I have eudsa-
vored to daguerreotype these men for tire
benefit of future ages; for I believe that like
the Endian tribes trey are disappearing =
You have put them to very hard service,
sir. TREY die faster than the northern ne
groes in your rice swamps-politisatly
mean. You put them to service they &aft-
not stand. When you ask them to vote for
the fugitive bill, they may do it at once. but
political death stares them in the faces--
When you ask them to go With yos for the
repeal of the Missocri restriction, you find
the same state of things. And now, worst
of all, when you ask them to fasten upon their
fellow-men, in a Territory of the United
States, constitution which that people ab-
hor, tell you every northern representative
who participate v this act, is rot only poll
ticaIly dead, but he may thank God if he es-
capes with that"