Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-08-03
NO. 49,.
Trouble in the Family.
IErom the New York Trfbuue


IFrom the New York Tribune
We learn with regret that Mr. Douglas Or,
posed Sedition Law, whereby he designed
put down all incendiary Abolition culmin;
tions, is being put in force in the South in az
vance of its enactment. Who shall say henc,
forth that our Southern brethren are not
progressive, wide-awake people, and fully IL
with the times? The only mistake seems t
consist i'll putting this act in force against MI
Douglas supporters, which is not, we presume
the entertainment to which Judge D. mean
to invite or to be invited. The supporters O
Breckenridge are so overwhelmingly prepon
derant in the South. especially In the Cottol
region, they will NOT allow the advocates o
Douglas or Lincoln quiet hearing Ever
the Hon. Herschel V. johnson, Douglas can
didate for Vice President, is not allowed t.
address meetings in the State which ne form
erly represented in the Senate aud ruled a.
Governor. He tried it on at Macon a few
days since, and was hooted and grossly insult
ed. Whereupon, that distinguished champion
of Free Thought, Free Speech, ard everything
else Frce-free ni9gers and free soil excepted
MIR. James Pinckney Hambetou, editor OF
the Atlanta Confederacy, thus pitches into
the rioters
"Goy. Johnson, by appointment, addressed
the citizens of Macon on Saturday evening,
the 30th ult. We have most reliable nforma-
ton, that this distinguished Georgian was
treated with great disrespect by his political
enemies. 1t is a blighting stigma upon the
fair escutcheon of Macon that such was the
Case"
Gov. johnson is gentleman a Georgian,
National Democrat - trpe and tried advo-
cate of Southern rights.sa nan of untarnished
honest ability. Aud Why be, should be insult
ed and hung in effigy npoli his own native soil
is more than we dhdcfAald We can only
say to those that aete guilty of so foul and
cowardly deed. that We are conscious Of the
fact that no genftemQn had any completely
whatever in SO damning disgrace as that Of
fered by the dastards of Macon to so distin-
guisbed son of Georgia as Hcrschel V.
johnson. We say further. that we know the
fact that the parties who were engaged in Of
fering insult to Gov, Johnson at Macon, are
a set of netarieas- scouhdrels, cowardy trait
ors and the basest poltroons. If they are not
they will prove themselves to the contrary"
gentlemen never offer indignities to rcspec-
table citizens representing political parties, at
any time. Honest differences of opinion and
the freedom of speech is the essence and quint-
essence of true Democracy. And this spirit
of intolerance that is manilesting itself at the
South by the opponents of Stephen A. Doug
las is the spirit of cowardice, and can only ex-
ist in the hearts of poltroons and midnight as
sassins. II gentlemen differ from the position
taken by Judge Douglas and his advocates, it
is their right as freemen, and nobody ques-
tons it But at the same time the friends of
Judge Douglas have an equal right to oppose
Mr.. Breckinridge and Mr. Bell, and in so do
ing are in the exercise of their rights as free
men. Let political opponents meet as gentle
men, aud discuss all questions ut issue freely
and fully, as becomes gentlemen aud not as
sumo the attitude of beasts and ingrates, and
undertake by bru'e f'rcc TO prevent any man
from uttering his honest convictions No
gentleman will couutcnance any other course. |
And We fearessly declare that there wss not |
a gentleman in Offering indignities to Gov. |
ohnsOn at Macon. nor has such All idea enter |
ed The brain OF any gentleman In any part of
the State-nor can there be found a thorough |
gentleman in the broad limits Of the Union |
who will by trick or indrection in any man
a gent manly exercise Of the freedom of speech. !
when partits are fortified with truth and /
principle, they invite discussion |
But when they stand upon the qucksands Of |
fasehood and deception, they are ever ready !
by brute force and cowardce, to override |
truth and principle TO save themselves from
immediate ignominy and disgrace. If men de-
sire information, and desire 10 act as becomes |
PATRIOTS they are always ready to hear and in
form themselves. But when they are bound !
together by secret oaths and cabalistic signs, |
as was the Know Nothing party, they are al |
wavs rady TO conceal facts, destroy principle, /
md disgrace the truth.
''Thcse remarks are intended alone for that .
class of men who have manifested a disposi- !
lion to insult, to dccry, TO misrepresent, and !
10 stifle the voice of each aud every man who
happens not to believe as they do
We beg to ex;eud to the Hon. james
Picnkney Bambleton assurances of our dis
Linguished consideration is right as a
1ook, and we back every word of the forego-
ng When we ird time to drop down to
Al lania and make speech for Lincoln and
Liberty, we are sure he will stand at our side
With a cooked revolver in each hand and a
lrawn sword in his teeth, ready to pepper at
east the first thirteen ''dastards" and "infa-
nous scoundres" who may make attempt to
suppress cur avCwal of "honest differences Of
opinion exercise of our rights as free
men," You are all right, Pinckney! They
'nly who stand upon The quicksands of false
lood aud deception" seek "to override truth
md principle by brute force and cowardice. -
Be good enough not to forget it.