The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-06-29
SIGNS OF THE TIMES,
PEACE MEETING AT DOVER mn,
Va Thursday afternoon a large and enthusiasts,
meeting was held at Dover, Del.

j. va thursday afternoon large and entbusias
= meeting was held at Dover, Del
T. ORGANIZATION OF THE MEETING
az nai'-past one o'clock the meeting was Iar,r
TTatHy organized By calling Robert w R.~nIi, ~
h,nt county, to the chair "o'uS'
Dr: henrY kldgelY, from the same pIsca ~
APPOINTED the Chairman of a committee to ann;
permanent officers. W aPP"i
ExGov VIM. TempIe of Eert o.
announced the president of the meeting wac u"
A. ~ Ea"ard Wobrell, of Delaware CITY ,no,,
tp"t c!ihmlttee OF three be appointed to wal.
F ~ esluent ana inform bim of the orgapizsti,
mada hi Alter short time the preside
mao mace MS appearance on the platform. and ,cas !;
'Fouuced to the audience by the chairman. =
r, REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT
ne slia mat he had no idea of the honor III,
was was l" De conferred upon him, and was. tbercr,r
unprepared to make a suitable renIy "a o'oa VI;
war. 4oH Vi peace {
AS they had called him to preside over tba;r d.
LoerhtlOns, he would say he was peace man-Nb
was Union man. He went for peace m rer'at,au
thiS Union; and the only way to preserve fbi H.;
va oy peace. lie would not detain them "a sr
t many gthers; much better prepared, were presen
wos oaneT eSS mem lie thonght that the meeting
& &n"s edI'eu under very different circumstances fron
.naI one which was assembled at this pIace ,wl
LNS ago lie woulG now leave the meetinr !,
| charge Of other parties e'''H II
,ha. Ion lIiam Whitley late representative from
Ia. tn"S otate, then moved that a committee of tar
!oni each county be appointed TO prenare rasoi,,
| tlons to present for adoption 'e'oi"-
me committee was then announced
CON ''T n"St'e cHunty-John Merritt, John N. Wat
son, James DeIaplaine Gassowav WatLins w ~
Lodge, James Springer DR.. n RI CIart WI y" : " y.
j Bolden, James Roberts " NJ NaIhah
.op hent h c@unty-R. w. REYNOLDS, Alexander John
I""' nT. "ove Salisbury, John NJ. Voshell WiIson
Icacrotn' "%on""' VIM Al. W. Dorsley, Edward Ridgey
~, Sussex iI3 couuty-Caleb r. Painter Isaac Giles
lows. - ' '"'t' John Bel
Loud calls were then made for Charles r Gouo
VI We" castle county, and that gentleman did nof
appear Hon. William g. Whitley. Of Nn,rnostTo u.u not
was called for. Vi newcastle,
a VOICE Come forward and show your coIors u
spoke as follows: 'H0 ''N'u ana
\, non. wW. G. wHITELY's SPEECH
r,oss;on "itgIF tT commenced with the foOwidr ex-
a,,d %" 1h;, lax payers ana voters Of Delaware
inv ~ ~ ni.noeipnians. He then continued hold
,"E mat they, the tax payers, were to decide
whether they were for peace or for war, with al
It's horrors. They had nothing to do with tha
Do1 na9IeS bsi1 onat now disturb the country They did
a man in the State Of Delaware in favor ~ ,aa' -
Sion lie appealed to his vote in the Honse of %
iTSehVatiVeS, whether he, in Conjunction lii
essrs. Bayard and salisbury, had not dorn ev@r
'hng TO save the glorious flag
But it was said, ono cGmpromiso- .. -,
Khiie' and war to the hilt with these S,r,tho, y,
ieI hs, as their representative, voted for Mr. Grit
t,: t,nueh compromise, aud was willing to do any-
sing stnng 10 accomplish the object proposed Yet he
$1,000 before them to-day branded as a traitor
ne thought 1t was the duty of everv citizan r.
s'aHu up ana speak facts they are and sov ,yhot
IS letter ior.the Union. Herepresented the Dem
iiaGy 0' DeIa"are-the Breckinridge, DOUGLAS and
pen Pen democracy. tie 'cas for peace He depIored
the action of the Southern States He ro ,I eu
were determined to go out, and thev did on nni
lie found that States said they w3uld go o,t
icy sald we don,t want you to alter your Can
,o & "r your supreme Court laws, but want
10 go out ana govern ourselves. Applause
lie asked what he should say for the nea.nlr.a r
pooS p'oPoSe"; Most OF them had never partici
bt @ IN war. lney knew the blessings of peace.
ou. now business Is prostrated everyiLnr j. sfo0'
mated in consequence of this civil var H. - E
that Mr. Douglas never uttered truer word tbnu
tHaI war is diSunion- absolute and eternal die
IniGn Innii r Ihe first gun at Fort Sumter was the
su2Jugat@ the South? [Cries of "no. po,"1 '"ey
million. of people? You may whi;6 then - a. IL.
nassas junction may drive them out of Virg;n;a |
out you cannot subjugate them. Ii has aITa.dn
cost me Government millions Of dollars in three
nIntnS time to advance ten miles in Virginia.
ien 10 tHe tT name OF God would they get to New
orleans! Laughter. Now all the wealth Of Col
sonaa, or OF Peru or Balbec, would not pav for Si
/, var. ar 1t is costing the Government million or
iollars day. nll'''on oI
All the men Of the North can't conquer the rights
u the people OF the South. CHEERS Men will
DIN an army, whatever it may be. when tbar
AN do n better, and get eight dollars rnnn,I
Cheers,) II this war last ten wears, what viii he
ne coSt Gi II! VINO can tell? When the war ceases
'eace will be at hand. Anyhow, you will have 70
ecognizc the right of these peonle TO govern tber
elves Then, you of the State of Delaware. coma
ut ara say you are for peace. CHEERS War
a,s @ inaugurated by Abraham Lin
oln, will bankrupt US. Look at your citias
.entleman in Philadelphia told me he didr,t h."
ieVe there was solvent man on Market straat ~
ne same is the case in New York Yon do not
HpecI 10 make your money by stealing from the
government. The declaration of this war kills rnn
II. ~ val Nils lou
how with the Government? l ask YOU at what
ate lhis Government OF King Abraham's obtained
loan the last two weeks? '''e"
" iHey couldn't get fifteen millions taken At all
ne moneyed men of Boston ,ynuIdn,t - ~
Hy 'ouiu Only get nine millions taken with tho
,t a,'n vi the government pledged, at eqhtv-fve
ems en- on the dollar Daughter and cheers and thav
aa 10 issue Treasury notes for the baIanca2 W.
.uSt we work out this rebellion? OnIy 70 H.!
nat we have Government? Cheers I"nm IUa"
ere to Cay, in the light of heaven, that no act ~
hcolhs up TO to-day. in reference to this war has
cen legal or constitutional. (Applausel
want you to lock at our Constitution ybe, ro,,
0 nome, and see If it does not say that CONGRESS-
annot make an appropriation for troops but for
No years, and Lincoln has calledout men for three
&c has overrun Maryland where he has dnno a !
'uler act-a little one in itself but fonI ac, fo~
Il that-he has suspended the writ of hobens cnrn,,s
= "hat Is worse, he has delegated to his brigaGer
eheTais 70 DO It for him. Cheers The English
soP'e' uhGer hing John, couldn't stand such ac
On, nor dld they when they demanded the Mar
Charta. ' nag {
lie asked whether they should recopniza tba Z
ar? - U'0onS'i' u'iohal
Abraham Lincoln, said the snaakor : - d, |
srJured man before high Heaven (Cbee~s \ VII
'es ne perpetrate these unconstitutional acts mn
'r the plea of necessity? that has ALWAYS hren Tho
ca o. tSrants Greeley said the other day, if the
oVernment does not prosecute the war he world J
! and kick the Cabinet out On the contTsrv bo
oud say that he would lend Greeley his Tioht
g. (Laughter.) "i' ''s"' t
Look at the Courier and Enquirer. 1t says that
ese o'ate lines are all wrong. These foreigners
oud take away the boundary lines of Delaware
I'd merge you into Pennsylvania. "a voice-"Yes
ey willy I
The speaker then said that there was great '
tort TO get Governor Burton to call session OF
9 Legislature. For what? They want to get c
III million ot dollars to prose cute the var &
hch all of you now believe to be an unholy war b
ne believed IN the warhe wouldn't object to pass
8 moderate tax to support it, but he did object
paying for Philadelphia volunteers In moot a
the tacGthat the Taxpayers of Delaware were
ing this, he quoted from several papers OF Della d
are and Philadelphia, in which it was alleged i'
at the Delaware regiments were made up of verv II
ubtul material of Philadelphia origin. TCries Of a
So, We won't'-"To the Devil with them."l II
The speaker then referred to a paragraph which "
d been published in a Philadelphia morning pa Sc
r OF Wednesday, calling npon the citizens of , n
lliadelphia to come down to Dnver and stop the b
eeting to be held there on Thursday The letter h
Is signed "R," and he wanted to know, if the
an lived in Dover, who he was. fl
In reply to the article, he said that it was never
'itten in Dover, but was enacted in the ofFca of
e Philadelphia Press. Then followed an attack Il
on Mr.. John Fornev. "''''N n
In conclusion, Mr. Whitley said: s.In the snirit a
the Declaration, in the name of the glorious u
= Inst'tuuon' he called upon them to declare now |. |.
d torevermore for peace" m
The speaker retired amid great cheering. 2:
LOUD calls then being made for Thomas F. Bay ~
9, that gentleman stepped upon the platform Se
I'D great cheering. ~
THOMAS F. BAYARD's sHEECH. st
He said that American freeman he congrat-
,ted them upon the assembage. You are here al
declare your allegiance to those institutions In
ich were dearly purchased in the past and which =.
u will not rrinquish. They were for free speech IN
free thought, but American freemen had been
iced under the feet of public servants He asked OF
ether the men there assembled bad not been eau nt
ned by their shorsighted friends against attend 10
the meeting. Had such a thing ever before NJ
en- known in the State of Delaware? The uues- NJ
n for one and each was, "My country, what can -,
10 for yOu?" III
He asked what the soldiers were fighting for . m
e war upon which we have been forced has no
rrant for it. The Constitution of the TTnita6 cl
ates provides for the calling of an armv for two IN
ars- The President, in his apbitiou had csIlad eC
troops, not only for two or five wears. bpt for m
war, ne vas not there to argue the rig hit of W
state to secede or otherwise; he was tbora - AZ IN
lnce the war as unconstitutional They Ask onIv tt
! i've under separate government.from vours.
govern themselves. Was this olive branch but 50
d out TO them, peace would be established within ST
uats' !" nave Canada on the north, Mexico a,
tnc sou'h, ana have we not lived at peace with mi
gland Tor htty-two years2 Let us bring about ="
5 compromise, and peace and prosperity will
ain flow in upon u.s. ce
The war, he said was war of impulse-a war OF I'll
,lo had had d. | L.