Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-02
Sacfiaaal Traason,

king his letter a text for general i~nsolenee and
abuse toward what it calls designing hypo-
critics like Seward, Sumner, Wilson, Hale,
Chase and Banks, in which all the slang cpl
thets TINT have so profusely Illustrated that
sheet since the President took the labefing
oar on it, are brought IN requisition. The
style is what might be expected from the best
customer of the Pennsylvania distilleries, and
seems as spirituous as if written under the in
s~piration Of an extra dose of that old rye, the
mellowness of which he describes with tearsin
his eyes as the only water he allows to be ming
led with his potations.
But in all the seeming incoherency of this
double distilled production there is method
Various i'll begotton things are in the habit of
surrounding themselves with their own =un
! wholesome affluvia to dodge investigation. 1t
will take a most monongahahelan disturbance to
| cover up the fact that in the party that sup
ports the President, even the pretense of any
regard for the Union or law is the exception.
Strike out those who openly profess disunion
sentiments, and who declare that the penalty
against the African slave trade can never be
enforced in the South. and the President would
not have the support of a single southern
State and what is there in the North but
camp followers and cowboys, selling their
country for a political bride. just as directly as
Judas sold his Lord whose highest petition is
for some dodge of double Interpretation, some
thing which shall seem to express a truth, but
shall affirm a lie, with which to cover them
selves from the wrath of the people.
Southern politicians freely proclaim their de-
termination to dissolve the Union If slavery is
not protected in the territories by a slave code
if the prohibition Of the African slave trade
is not repealed ; they openly defy the enforce
ment of the law and declare that the South
will withdraw from the Union if a republican
President is elected even the withdrawal Of
official plumber from the Democracy being al
legged as sufficient cause for breaking up the
nation. To this the Constitution is submis-
sive. It's only depreciation is the division in
the Democracy that should make such an event
probable. 1t has nothing to offer against the
adequacy of such a cause for dissolution. 1t
pravs the South to avoid this terrible necessi-
ty by sustaining the administration.
The whole administration has been violently
assailed by the Democratic press i'll Mississippi
because Secretary Thompson; in the recent
presidential trip to North Carolina, opposed
the movement to violate the law against the
slave trade but the organ is meek as q lamb !;
it thinks tn MiSsissippians are under misap-
prehension that is all. Democratic candi-
dates and politicians in the South almost uni
versallv proclaim the higher law of slavery and
of the Slave trade as above all constitutions or
human laws, and advocate disunion as the rem
edy if the federal government should seriously
seek to enforce the law and the Presidents
organ is quietly submissive. Slavers, guilty,
beyond doubt, are released by southern Courts,
and the fact is hardly worthy OF mention in
the Constitution.
But let a northern man assert the higher law
of freedom, of the inuiienable rights of man,
as above human enactments, and the quintes-
sance Of the last key of Presidential inspira-
ton is poured out on him. Senators who pro-
claim, like jeff Davis, that slavery is an inAe-
rent right which government can only protect,
but cannot interfere with, and that such laws
are void, are pronounced eminently patriotic
and conservative by the Washington Constitu-
ton; but let northern men say thst life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness, are inalienable
rights which g~oYesniHents are formed only to
protect, but cannot destroy, and a whole Chi
nese magazine of traitors, fanatics, and whisky
rocking ePithets is opened upon them, and in
the northern press the ours Of still lover de
gree join in the yell editors who dare not
say what the law is, nor what the constitution
prcridcs, nor what popular sovereignty can do
with slavery, nor whether they themselves
would not ~violate the fugitive law, all uHite IN
this cry against our oTn people, while by their
,ic--~ ,-l,u l. o~Du-I -
and against the union of the South they admit
their own inferiority and serYitutcs which dare
not assert for liberty at the North what the
South universally proclaim for slavery, Who
arc better fitted for slaves than they uk0 Gang
to the tail Of a party, that in The class that
rule it, has no principle but disunion and the
higher law of slavery, while they at the North
are compelled to howl against those who as
sert that the rights of man are inalienable.-
What loss of manhood would there be if bod
lily s~ervitule should accompany this osteHta-
tious slavery of the soul
IF there is any class of persons whose ensla-
wing would be j~ustiEable, are they not those
who, born free, voluntarily assssslfne the badge
of inferiority and servitude, who are subservi-
cnt while the slave power assumes supreme
cohtFoi ever human rights arti human enact
merits, and then are set on like hounds to pur-
sue all those who maintain that liberty aud
right are the objects Of government, which il
cannot transcend ?-Ntate Journal
The REVIVAL IN WALEs.-A writer in the
British Messenger for May states that in some
in Wa.,es. almost all the people have
either churci, :" chapel that in one
neighborhood there were 2uIy three people