Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-11-30
DELAWARE, OHIO, NOVEMBER 80, 1860.

war without a caffsey for South Caroline
makes no e9mplaint agallststhe present rev
enue laws. shsp for this-to be-
come tha agaessSN n TIE ohay asa nn set
for her Minute men is, that they enable
the people the more really to suppress any
uprising in their midst, which their misrepresen-
tations Of our purposes may have encouraged
She complains that the Fugitive Slave law is
not executed in some of the States. This, il
true, the whole country knows to be sham
So far as South Carolina is concerned, she is
so situated that no slave can escape from her
| limits into Free States, however much cause
the border slave States may have to complain
of the escape of their negroes into the Free
| States. 1t is clear South Carolina can have
DO such complaint. In her resolves she pro-
fesses to be preparing TO defend herself against
encroachments on her rights Let her adhere
to this policy, and not attempt to dictate to
| other States what they shall do, and no COLI
sion will occur, for no encroachments viii De
made FAe disunion feeling in the South, is
doubtless gFeatly exaggerated. A sort of ter
rorism seems to prevail in some places, which
for the time, appears to have crushed out any
manifestations of Union sentiment. But as
the causes for this excitement are all imagina-
rys the election of Republican President, in
the constitutional mode, certainly affording no
excuse for it, it is reasonable to suppose that
a reaction will soon take place among the
Southern people themselves, which will over
throw the disunionists at home 1t is a great
mistake to class the supporters of Mr.. Breck-
ipridge as disunionists. Some few of them
bo hut !, |,
supporters, as a class. are. doubt not, as sin
cerely attached to the Union as many of those
who, for political purposes during the recent
excited contest, sought to fasten Oh them the
stigma Of tisdnion. Should the conservative
and Union men in any particular locality be
unable to cope with their adversaries, and
South Carolina, or any other State, under the
lead of Nullifiers and Disunionists who have
for years been seeking a pretext for breaking
up the Government, plunge into rebellion, and
without cause assail by force of arms the con-
stituted aethorities of the Union, there will
be but one sentiment among the great mass of
the people Of all parties, and in all parts of
the country, and that will be "the Unon-it
must and shall be preserved" and woe to the, !
traitors who are marshalled against it
Should any Republican inquire what is gain
ed by the triumph Of the RepHblcanism, l
answer much. We have gained decision of
the people in favor of Pacific ralroad-a
Homestead policy-a iudicious Tariff-the ad- |
mission into the Union of Kansas as free |
State-reform in the Financial department of |
the Government-aud more important than I
all, the Verdict of the people-the source of
power and from whose decision there is no |
appeal that the Constitution is not Slavery
extending instrument. No morc Dred Scott |
decisions will now be made Freemen both |
of the North and Of the South, will hereafter |
be protected in all their constitutional rights. |
The policy of the Government, as of old, viii !
now set in favor of Freedom, and not for the |
supremacy Of Slavery, as has been the case for /
the last six years. Freedom henceforh will
be the law of the Territories, because the peo-
pie, in their majesty have so ordered, and nci-
their Courts nor Congresses will be able to
th7zart their will. When full effect shall have |
been gisc5feto all these great measures of the
party, and the prejudices engcn-
dered against it in the minds of many by the
artful appeals of demagogues, who have mis-
its objects. shall have been re-
moved by actual knowledge of its acts, we
may expect the bitterness of party spirit to
subside, the cry of disiniou to be hushed, and
the principles of Republieanism to become I
The permanent policy of the Government, un-
der which it will flourish and prosper, as l
Trust, forever.