Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-08-30
The Traitors Feast.


That must have been a ghastly feast Of til
Seces+ionists in Baltimore Mt which Breckir
ridge and Vallandigham were the honore
guests. The fact that such feast was held
the most s,rikiugy significant indication "
have yet seen of the depth of dishonor Il
which enmity 10 the Government and the Tn
ion las carried men. All the circumstances o
the time are inexprcssib!y painful to every
rlght-mndcd man, yet the Baltimore sympa
thizers with rebellion make an entertainment
as their champions yet in Congress pas
! through the city-an entertainment at which
! the blood Of thousands of their own madmcr
slain must be present. in the CLEAN of the wine
i Who among US who love the Union would toll
crate the thought of dinner to members oi
/ Congress or generals from the army? Not one
70 all honorable citizens the fortune of war in
! success is filled with a mournful sensibility
when we bear in mind that the misguided and
Innocent suffer terribly because they cannot
! leave the guilty authors of the war 1t may be
necessary to fire on body of riotous men in
a crowded city; but who, while disorder re-
quiring force to represz it fills the streets,
thinks of making merry with the apologists of
| the rebellion?
This guilty dinner with traitors will finish
the public career of the two men who tried to
celebrate treason on Thursday, in Baltimore.
All know it to be an outrage 20 accept pub
lie dinner at time like this, whatever it may
be to talk as near to the border of overt trea-
son in the Senate as one can talk and not aui c
pass the line If the cause of the rebels might
be supposed to have merit, their friends should
now be only the more deeply depressed at the
sufferings they endure, and the certainly that
their submission will be enforced at whatever
cost of their lives may be necessary. On the
contrary, they are arrogant, defiant, abusive;
and they crown the infamy Of their general
course by an entertainment given to B.eckin-
ridge and Vallandigham in BIltim1r". And
these men are so lost TO shame as 10 accept the
ovation, and to seek to poison the air by ven
tilating their winc-heIted hatred of the
govern in outdoor speeches. Fortunately
the people we're too Srong for them outside
the nest of enemies of the Union by whom
they were invited The air even at Baltimore
is too good for such men to breathe with entire
freedom. 500. .t la
A grand dinner over the destruction Of life
at Manassas, over the prostration of business
and the ruin Of every private interest in seven
or eight States OF this Union, st be ghast-
ly sport None but Baltimore Seeessionists
could conceive such q pcice of Infamous impro
priety, and no men but Brcckinridge and Val
landigham could be the heroes OF such feast.
The event is alone in history of its kind. II
there had been a procession in sackclOth and
ashes our sympathies might have been moved,
and small measure of respect for the half-in
sane devotees of slaEeho ding u.traism nigh
have been called forth. If there is anything
for Baltimore to do it is TO G in mt urn.n ng.-
A thousand or more Of the inhabitants Of that
city are in arms against the government, and
their doom is d,ath, Or early and peaitent sub
N ssion. Blltiln )re itself is wrecked in all is
business relations; its shops are silent, and its
position in the country gone. No doubt there
are many noble and honorable men there who
deserve, and we hope will soon attain, better
position; but this is the penalty a"cessionism
has already brought on that city. ThCse are
not the events over which men usually give
grand dinners and make eloquent speeches
The new.made graves at Manassas are almost
too fresh for ecstacy over the causcless ruin
treason has made. Virginia does not seem par.
ticuarly elated at Richmond, nor is General
Wise enthusiastic enough to enjoy grand din.
ner at the Eutaw House. There are few-very
few-in the world who could give such din
ner with Deaths head at the sideboard, and but
two men liking who could be its guests-Breck-
iuridgc and Vallandisham.-[ Phila. North
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