Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-17
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For the Delaware Gazette.
Mr.. EDITOR: Having taken some interest in
the past, l still feel a desire in the future to
shed what light l can on the great subject OF
politics and as | never expect Office. money
nor honor, for my service, / have nothing to
fear. | an untrammeled, and / intend to set
before the readers of the Gazette, and others,
the issues of the two great political parties that
has divided our State and nation.
TIT present issues of our nation are Slavery
and Slavery extension, and Freedom and Sla-
very prohibition.
p Our nation has become divided into two
great political parties, one commonly called
the Dem 1eratic or proslavery party and the
other the Republican or antislavcry party
Now the question is which is the true interest
of our nation Slavery or Freedom? If Slavery
is wright, the Republican party are enemies to
the true interests of our nation and if Slavery
is wrong. the democratic party are enemies to
the true interests Of our nation. I would say
to my friend Of the Standard, that as you be-
long to the Democratic or slave party, hold Of
Gce in the same, and a leading man here in
Delaware county, and spoken Of by a great
many of the Slave party in our county as the
most suitable man to represent the slave inter
sets as representative in our next Ohio State
Legislature, and as you are editor of the Dem
~ocratic or Slave STANDARD, and being a great
man to explain the beauties of Slave Democra-
cy and oppression, and being born in a land
Of oppression, and knowing all Of its beauties
better than any other nam in our county, l
want you to conn out boldly through the Stan
dard and advocate all the beauties of Slavery.
If Democracy and Slavery are wright want
to be a Democrat, and Slave holders alder and
abetter, like yourself; and if slavery is wrong
I want you to become a Republican and a
friend of freedom We have also got a large
amount of professional nen within the circula-
ton of our county papers, such as Doctors,
Lawyers, Clergymen, and another of laboring
people, called by the Slave party mud siHs.-
These classes of people are divided into these
two classes, pro and anti-slavery, and the Re-
publicans ought to beconverted into democrats
or slave supporters, or the democrats ought to
be converted into republicans or slave opposers.
Our democratic or pro-slavery clergymen preach
from the bible, the word of God, that the insti-
tuition of slavery is of divine origin, and that
man has a right to hold property in man, Or
that it sanctions slavery as it now exists in
these United States and the republican cler-
gymen they preach that the bible prohibits sla-
very in every way, shape and form. Either
the democratic or republican ~clergymen must
be in error on the subject Of the bible sanction
ing or prohibiting slavery, and it is full time
they know which is right and which is wrong,
and as you are a democratic or pro-slavery pro-
co5-o, of ,ol;o;n1 o1J o-o fria,IIr 70 tho o1or
gymen of our county Of that belief, please get
them to give you the bible doctrine for holding
property in man. and will get the republican
or anti-sIavery doctrine that foriids slavery.
This will have a good effect on our ciergymen
in making other democrats or republicans
Our c~lergynen are said to be a conscientious
body of divines. and conversion will immediate
ly follow conviction. They will be all pro Or
anti-slavery after giving this subject a brief
discussion, and this will have a great bearing
on their hearers throughout the coufty, and
make us all pro or anti-slavery christians that
bear the namc of christians through the coun-
ty, and have a good effect on our brethren in
other counties and States.
We also have a respectable class of the le-
gal profession in our county, though; not as
COLoCiCIltlouo DIS pul CO NHrCu, yCt IUCS ave
considerable influence, and they are divided in
to democrats and republicans, and as they are
expounders of the law the democratic disciples
of Blackstone believe that the declaration of
independence and constitution of these United
States sanctions slavery, and the republicans
believe that they forbid it. Some one of these
must be wrong. ! would suggest to some of
the able men of our county on both sides, to
expound the declaration and tell us through
the county papers. We want you to attend to
the subject, preachers and lawyers, because we
have entered another new political campaign.
There is a new Governor and ticket to be cleo
ted in Ohio. The democratic or slave nominee
is r. P. Ranney and ticket, and the republican
nominee is w. Dennison and ticket. As we
are voters we want TO vote intelligently. We,
the mud sills, want to vote for the true inter-
ests of our nation. If slavery is right we
want to vote the democratic ticket, and if sla-
very is wrong we want to vote the republican
ticket. l would suggest to both the slave and
the free parties as they have also to elect a'rep-1
~resentative and some. county officers the COM
ing fall, that they yoke them up side by side
and have an appointment in each township and
discuss the subject Of slavery and freedom SO
that we will know how to vote.
Jund 10, 1859. A. II. CASTOR.