Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-03-01
VOL XIII.
NTr. Ie Fsrson Davis.

The mock President of the 4" Confederate
State" puts on lofty airs He talks as val
iantly as Ancient Pistol. He is apparently
unconscious of the fictitious character Of his
authority, like the mock king in the play,
whom certain Jolly wags actually persuaded
that he had suddenly come into actual posses
sion Of royal prerogatives.
What is this Mr.. Davis? He was once a
man Of fair reputation. certainly and has rem
dcred the State some service. But what is be
now? What does he imagine himself to be
doing? Every power which he attempts to
I exercise beyond that of an ordinary citizen is
sheer usurpatien. He has not even a pretensc
of any right TO rule by the popular suffrage Of
the little segment of country in behalf Of
which he ASSUMES to speak. Even the mon
arches of Europe now appeal to universal
suffrage as the authority for change of ru-
lers. Louis Napoleon did this, when he tram
pied under foot the Constitution Of the French
Republic. The people of Tuscany, and the
Roinagna, and -of other portions Of Italy,
were asked to express, by their votes. their
wishes as 10 receiving Victor Emanuel for
their king. Bat Ia the new Republic of Cot
tonia the peoples wishes are not asked A
few politicians get together in an irregular,
caucus fashion. select President aid "inadgu-
fate" him, without the remotest pretense of d
popular vote IN favor of the proceeding
The people have not been allowed, in solitary
one Of these States, even to express their will
and pleasure in regard TO secession
This Mr. Davis-Gen. Jefferson Davis
comes forward and ratifes this caucus decree,
this election oy a cabal Of politicians, self
called Congress, itself never so much as in
Formally elected by the people. He seizes the
power thus rendered him by knot of conspi-
rators, ard cannot even wait for the ceremony
of instament IN his usurped authority before
proclaiming war against the country whose
Constitution he is under the most solemn OBJ
legations to support. In advance, he has an
nounccd to the populacc that we of the law
abiding States should smell Southern pow
der ahd feel Southern steel" He will have
no compromis, He iecrs at recon
struetfon. Nothing viii satisfy him but
the unconditional submission of the loyal
Statcs He is for revolutionary COERCION,
and with all the ardor and ambition of a mil
itary chieftain bent upon winning n crown,
and adding tyranny to usurpation.
This bellgcrent usurper, who assumes to
speak for six States and two millions of white
people, holding Tor held byl as many more ne
gro slaves. in defying twcnty-eight loyal States
inhabited by twenty-$ix millions Of white peo-
pie, was "inaugnrttcd' in his would he bloody
career Yesterday. He issued an inaugural
address" In this effort, his brief triumphal
march across the State of Mississippi and part
or Aabana has eliminated. Never was
there more bitter mockerv Of truth than the
words uttered on thar OCCASION 1t was ad-
ding insult 10 the wrongs this Machiavelliun
harranguo was intended 10 gloss over. II was
intended to bIin1 the eyes of an cxcited tick
lei popu!acc to The prospects before thtm.-
Never was the First Consul of France prob
ably, so filed with eager aspirations for impe-
rial horrors, as the Fallen jeff Davis now is to
assume kingly sway over the Southern peo-
pie whose rights he has, With deviIish cunning,
already tranrped beneath his free, yet under
pretense of their con~cnt.
We do not suppose that this wariike dem
onstration of Davis, this prompt declaration
agasnst all compromise, CANCELLATION, and re-
construction, will have particularly winning
effect rpon the loyal States Of the South
This is not the entertainment to which they
have been inviting moderate people of the
--Cin:inGCii Ga=efte.