Delaware State journal and statesman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1855-1870, 1861-05-14

tuition of the United States. As Delawareana
We have claim upon every portion Of our be
s. loved country, north aud south. The bones OF oul
y Revolutionary heroes, whiten every battle plnli
+, OF every state in which any battle was fought II
y the Revolutionary struggle. We will not CON
u sent to part company with Massachusetts,, "he
cradle Of Liberty" We cnunot give up South
/ Carolina. Upon her soil, at the battle Of Cam
, den, the Delaware Regiment was literally cut to
pieces the bones of our ancestors have been
mingled with her soil, and we have q claim upon
it, We cannot surrender "YOrltown" in Nir-
ginia, nor can we ever consent to forego or re-
lense our claim upon Mo'nt Vernon and tho Tomb
Of Washington. No, no, my fellow citizens, we
are indissolubly united for veal or for woe, 10
all the States-le WAoie thirty -four Stdies-whose
bright stars compose that brilliant galaxy upon
our glorious, victorious, time-honored "Star
Spangled Banner . We must OF necessity re-
main 07itca together as q free people, under the
Constitution Of the United States or in the end
he consolidated together, under q military des'
potism, after liberty shall have been crushed out
by insane, suicidal, interneoine struggles The
magnificent lakes of the North, and the mighty
Mississippi the " father of waters,n uniting en-
pres, and pouring its countless treasures into the
bosom of the Gulf of Mexico, with common At
lantic and Pacific seabOard of thousands of miles,
and lofty mountain chains, pervading and over
looking the wholearea of this great and glorious
Union, aud the interminable lines of Telegraphic
wires, and the "cndess iron chain" of Railroads
which run through the length and breadth Of our
and-as we'll as our common Constitutional
make us one People, iadissolaJiy united. "Whom,
therefore. God hath Joined together, let no man
put nsunder."
But my follow citizens. we could not secede if
We icoWld And it is we'll, if We have any seces-
tionists among us, duly to consider this impor-
tant truth Our interests as well as cur duty,
all incite us to be true and loyal to the Union.
Situated rs we are upon the Delaware Bay, our
trade lies North, with Pennsylvania, New York
and New England. Pennsylvania, with her
[ three millions Of population would never consent
that the Delaware Bay should be held by an
enemy Philadelphia, her great commercial en-
porum sends out her millions of exports and
receives her millions Of imports through the
waters of the Delaware So, too, the treasures
of the interior Of that great and noble Old Key
stone State flow down the Susquehanna into the
Chesapeake Both the Chesapeake and Della
ware bays, therefore. are Pennsylvana water.
courses, essentially necessary to her commerce,
agriculture, and manufactures. If any serious
effort should be made in Delaware to secede and
join the enemies of the General Government,
Philadelphia alone could, aud doubtless, would,
overwhelm this whole State, aye, this whole
Peninsula with her soldiers. It is well TO ra-
member that Philadelphia, alone, contains n
larger population than this whole Peninsula
and all of Maryland combined.
do not oifer these suggestions as arguments
addressed to our unmauly fears, for ii we had
just cause II quanel, l well known tie spirit of
cur citizens, -mal as is our State, would spurn
NIL such zuments. In connection, however,
with our pie duty, with the loyalty and devo-
tion we owe to the Union it is entirely proper
that we should take counsel Of our prudence
before we leap intp the awful abyss, the yawn-
ing gulf of secession of treason and of utter ruin
repeat, ire of Dsia{cdre, have no cause Of
querrel ngainst tic General Government Nor
in my tumble Judgment, has tile South, the other
slave States, aug Just cause of quarrel against
the Federal Government; unless having been
the pets and iayorites of the Government unless
having furnished more than their Just proportion
OF Presidents unless having had vast number
more than their just share of public officers,
military, naval and civil; unless having had more
money expended among them, than in the North
or in the West for fortiiiaatons, and improve
ments Of harbors and rivers unless the expendi-
ture of millions of money, and the sacrifice of
thousands Of lives to conquer the Indians, and
exiinguish their titles to lands for the benefit of
the South, and the acquisition Of Louisiana,
Florida and Texas, and the consequent war with
Mexico, for the especial benefit of the South
unless these benefits and many others furnish Just
cause Of complaint against the General Govern
ment-it is difficult for them to define the true
causes of complaint The fact that they, the
S""'nNin p"NHVluhS, "iliet uihoHS themselves rs
to the causes Of pggravation and complaint,
furnishes as with lregnont argument ogsinst
: elr P.escat ihsane' reasonable ihsusreetion
pg ! 81 the Goye,nmo
1t is admitted by their public men, that the |
election of Mr.. Lincoln gives them no just cause |
OF complaint because ii was the act OF ma
lorlty OF tne states, unuer the regular forms OF
INC CONSTITUTION ana Laws oi the Union; and in
a republican form of government, the majority
have an uulOubted right to GOVERN Ii is also
auml.tGd oy them mat the ''personal liberty
h1li'' However opleci.onallen ID unconsiiuiion-
VI we ma al uihN ,agm TO he, AMI Us think
'aey are, 40 lo' ithlsh lnst cause 0t quarrel
asalnst the Government, n3r00B aDirl6W cause
ior secession and rebellion because these ''per-
sonal liberty bills" were The acts of only some Of
the States and not OF the General Government;
and besides. these bills were in existence long
before Mr. Llncoln was elected, and most of
them long before the present Republican party
had any existence. The alleged non-enforce-
ment Of the existing Fugitive Slave Law, by one
or two of the free States can furnish no such
sufficient cause, when it is admitted by some
Of the leading secessionists, that that Fugi-
tive Slave Law is unconstitutional. If it be
uueonsiitutioral it cannot be . violation Of the
constitution to resist 1t. Bnt we think, at
least think, that law is Constitutional, and
ought 10 oe ehlorcea' ana Is. anu has been, pro-
baby, as faithfully enforced as most other pub
lie Acts The Tariff can afford no such sufficient
cause, because the present TaiiH Act has been
passed since secession began, and might have
been defeated II the Senators and Representa-
nves % from the seeding states had remained in
Oongress anu besides, the usurped, improvlsed,
aud reasonable Government at Montgomery,
CARED inc congress oil the "Conlederate States
oil America, has passed. Iarii nearly as strin- |
gent aud restrictive as the last Tariff Act OF the
United States. The repeal Of the Missouri Com I