Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-08-23

tEThs Cant of Treason.D

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War makes no difference in regard to the
liberty of speech or Of the press. It is ex-
actly the same as in peace. People have as
much right to oppose war as they have to
oppose a National Bank, Tariff, or any other
policy hey may lhnk wrong There is moth
ing par ticularly sacred in a war that it can
not be discussed with perfect safety.-Cinein-
nafi Enquirer.
( That depends upon circumstances. 1t is
owing entirely to what kind ofa war it is
''rhe sophistry of the Enquirer, which it uses as
cloak for its reasonable procliyity, consists
| in this-that it Ignores, or pretends to iguore
| the fact that the war, on the part Of the Gov
ernment, is war against rebellion against
formidable attempt by insurgents to dis
member or overthrow the Government, and
Eota war with a foreign nation. It coutInu-
ally afects-meanly and designed-to treat
the whole matter as if it we're an ordinary
war with a foreign power, growing out of
some ordinary cause of war between sovereign
nations, thus recognizing the se-caled South
ern Confederaey and placing it upon the same
footing as a sovereign belligerent power-a
nationality, with all The rights and privileges
of an independent Government, engaged in
iustifable and laudable war with our own
Government-not war, however, involving
the existence Of our own Government, but
one 20 settle. some national dispute whereas
it is rebellion, wicked as it is uniustiiabie,
of portion of the people of the United
States against their own Gnvernment, not for
the purpose merely of addressing grievances,
but for the determined purpose of destroying
the Government either by dismemberment Or
overthrow And hence the war, on the part
of the Government against which the Enquir-
er boasts It's right to say what it pleases-
thus giving aid and comfort to the rebels-is
war not with a foreign power, but one Of
SELF defense, wherein its own existence as a
Government is involved, and against a rebel
lion which seeks its overthrow and destruction.
How can man oppose shcha war, in any
manner whatever, without, to the same extent
favoring the rebellion? How can he oppose
his Government in a crisis like this, without
| favoring those who seek its destruction
! Where is the middle ground on which he can
stand Tie life OF the Government is threat
ened he that is not for the Government is a
ganst it, He thatis rot against the rebellion
is for the rebellion What else could a Gov
ernment do, when its overthrow is threatened?
1t must subdue the rebellion or be .subdued
/ by it. Shall, the Government compromise?
How? Buy of the insurgents the privilege
! to exist p for. that is. what compromise,
under such circumstances, would be, But
would not that be paying premium TO re-
bellioB What would bsuch a Government
he worth And how long till the next re-
bellion, demanding a new "eompromise" and
further concessions q? Would not such q
compromise be establishing a bad, dan
geEous precedent fss19 gl51 .ss5s. ~ d. ...a.
Questions of policy. of local interest and
grievances, Inuy be settled by compromise, as
in the case of the Missouri e1Compronise,
boundaries between States, and the like. Any
thing, inofaeb may be COMPROMISED" until
the question arises Whaeine as the alternative,
the existence of the Government is threatened,
Whenever the issue is presented, no matter
what may be the cause of complaint, "com-
promise, or we dissolve the Union !" "concede,
or we overthrow the Government" Then
compromise is at an end! No sovereign Gov