Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-03-01

every people of the foreign States surroundin.
the Gulf Of Mexico-nlen whose raids on Nic
aragua, on Cuba and on Mexico. have fn
years been the chief stain on the honor nf tin
United States. These men no# control tn,
policy of a whole tier of States along the Gu!
coast, and they have. as they think successfully
thrown off the restraints which the laws anC
government representing twenty-five millions
LOT people in the States north of them impose
While fitting out hostile expeditions in Mo
/ bile and New Orleans against some one or
other Of the countries they hoped to colonize
| or conquer, we supposed them but IN excres-
ence which time would wear of. While push
| ing in new slave trade ventures from Savannah
and Charleston, We thought the Pulpable Grim
inality of their demonstration would itself pro
ducc a healthy reaction. Now we find them
| in power.in five or six States, and fOstered as
they have been by trpltors in high places, they
have risen to height of aggregated force
which it may well stagger the wisest to know
| how to meet
| The world must look on in ainazei1ent as
we have said, while the unprecedented drama
is going forward. 10 revolutionist in Europe
will know or recognize the horrid, misshapen
monster which assumes u name honorcd in
European struggles for liberty. Holders Of
despotic power in the Old World have not for
ceiitbries seen a government ioYerthrown IN or
der to found such despotism as that which
the ascendant party has dlready founded in
the South. Not only is our own structure Of
law and order overturned, but the very found
ations of all order are destroyed, to set up the
yiolef1t Till3 5f q hanllul of men who will rule
or ruin whatever they are associated with.
They revolt BECAUSE they can no longer rule
us of the more populous States because the
frame OF the government dUcs not provide for
the possession of power by Il minority. They
profess no other reason in Charleston, the
headquarters of treit@jI.; They spurn the idea
that any special injury to slavery i'll Sorttlf
Carolina has moved them. In no other 5 tate
is there reserve or hesitation felt. Florida
Mississippi and Louisiana alike cntrcnch them
selves in the vast dignity which characterized
them rs independent soyereigntes before they
entered the Union, an resume the powers they
then delegated witIn:t t6ntlescGrfling to assign
u reason. 1t is laweSsness-in fact it is re-
bellon in its worst sense; it is almost pir;ltie.s
defiance of.the rights and peace of the whole
world which actuates those who are, within
the last twenty four hours reported to us t3
have seized the mini and custom house at New
Orleans. as the forts and arsenals of Louisiana,
and the forts of the United States in other
States were seized at various TIMES within tie
past two months. .-
a tremendous responsibility rests OH this
Government and nation in view of these pain
full facts The world outside is ifGt alone the
judge of US OF our duty; the vast future, and
our duty to the millions whose happiness We
may guard and insure if We will, or may wreck
in the greatest ruin the world ever saw also
appeal to philadelphia North american
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