Smyrna times., 1860-12-20
Delaware and Secession.

The rebuke that Mr.. Salisbury gave to the
0ecesslonlsts at the opening Of Congress
(paollshed IN our last issue,) meets with a
nearly approval in this section. and from every
side, in social circles as well as the public
prints we hear nothing but remarks of com.
mendatIon at the early and decided stand he
took tor the Union. Delaware can never be
anything but loyal to the interests of the coun-
try and the Constitution, being one of the
oraVess in achieving eur liberties, and the first
IN signing Federal compact, guaranteeing a
Sate' prosperous and happy government Our
lloertles cost US too much to be thrown away
for trlfe, and Mr.. Salisbury but expressed
the sentiment of the people of our State when
ne declared that " Delaware would be the last
to abandon the Union," and sacrifice at one
blow what had been our pride and boast from
lhe days that recorded the daring deeds of our
grand-sires. A writer in the Republican,
soldier of 1912, says:
The representatives, of no State had so good
right to administer such a rebuke as Della
ware, because no State lost more men in the
battles OF the Revolution than Delaware in
proportion to her population, (the most agra
Vated portion OF that loss occurred from the
cowardIce OF the South Carolians-the sires
ana grand-slres of the present agitatiug, disaf.
Iected Draggarts. In 1775, at the beginning
OF the Revolution, Delaware contained only
ol,OOO white inhabitants, all told; of these
4,5OO were males between the ages of IA and
oO years; and yet with this small fighting
previous to the peace of 1888 Della. |
ware had sent 5000 men to do battle in their
counlry's defence! For the truth of this see
the annals OF Delaware, by Hon. VIM. Hufipo-
'on' ABOUT one-half of those were in the re. !
guar army, some of whom were en-. aged in 30 |
PNched battles. Many of the 5000 were vol. |
uuteeTs TOT snort terms-one company of whom
were recruited and commanded by Capt. VIM |
CLARK, father of late Gov. John Clark. This
company were mostly young men from the
lower part of New Castle and the upper mart
ot Aent countes-Appoqunim and Duck
CreeR hundreds; which company, on the morn.
Ing OF the battle of Monmouth. mustered ~
men, bat lost in the engagement 45 in killed
ana wounded. The writer well recolccts
nearing Two OF the survivors of that Company
olleh taIK over the horrors and .atigues of that
lay' so fatal TO that gallant little band of De.
awares. Few, Indeed, are the natives of De-
N'0' NNSSN"uoutS VI lLe men OF no, who
ia not lose relatives in the battles of the Re-
soIutIon. Seeing and knowing the above
iacts, will any one doubt that the successors
of such an ancestry will be the last to abandon
Inc ohce-unlied and yet-beloved Union!
Our young and patriotic Senator should. and
doubtless will, be sustained by every man in
Delaware, except it may be few worse than
madmen, desperados, who have neither charac.
ter means or hopes worth living for; who ex-
pect, like the incendiaries who infest our ci
lies, to obtain by plunder something from the
general conhagration that would result from
civil war amongst the States.
VIM. Seymour, Sergeant Major of the Della.
ware regiment, in his diary which he kept from
the time his regiment left Morristown. N. J..
In IT'S, to the return of the remnant of the re.
glment In l7Sl, after the battle of Yorktown.
mas the Following note after the battle of Cam
1en' >. Z In which he says, that previous TO
the battle large force of Carolinians and Vir.
glnIans arrived and encamped near US to the
number OF 5000, which we took as an emen Of
good import, but which afterwards proved our
utter ruln for at the first fire every mother's
son oil them run, which encouraged the British.
Hence the slaughter and annlhilation of the
Delaware regiment.