Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-09-27
Gen. geh0nek at Whesling-Ris Views
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: From the Wheeling Intellisencer Of the 18th.
/ Gen. Robert Schenck was in the city last
/ evening, on his way to join Gen, Rosecana-
About Z o'clock, large crOWd assembled in
( front Of tic McIsare House, and called upon
/ him for speech. The General, accompanied
/ by Gov. PievpoHt, came out upon the balcony,
and was introduced to the crr wd by the Gov
ernor In reference to the existing condition
of this1ys, he said there were but two sides to
the question. There arc those in favor of sus
tanning the Government, and those who are in
! favor of prostrating it. There can be no mid.
die ground You talk about peace. We are
all for peace. You talk about neutrality. We
would all be neutral, if we could. but peace
and neutrality at this time are only other names
! for secession and treason. Those who are not
| for the Government are against IT. He said
he had infinitely more respect, if he could have
any respect at all, for tine man who came out
boldly under the flag OF JEFF. Davis, and met
/ him upon the field of battle, than for the sneak
/ ing pOltrOOn who gives the rebel cause all his
/ sympathy, but is afraid to incur the danger
| The Tory Of the Revolution was gentleman
and patriot compared with the Sece ssiOnist
/ of 1861. The cause of the present war is that
4 class Of men have been teaching that we are
collection of separate, petty COnlederacieS
and that our allegiance is matter Of locality.
Al the breaking out of the war, il was com.
mon to hear men say. must go to South Car
OliBa, because / was born !herc or perhaps, il
lac was not born there he had married therr,
and there lived his connections; or, if neither
born there, nor married there. he had lived
there long time and done business. What
should We do with the man who was born in
Que State, married in another, and did business
in another? We must have great common
country, to which we mnst owe a common al
| legiaBec. We must be born where We please,
| (if we have any control over it) do business
where We please, and marry where we can. 1t
I is this political lie, therefore, about separate,
petty sGyereigni:es, that is at the root of all
this difficulty. TO illustrate. go TO any Of your
hills about here. You see first the tai! hckO'
~, then the gnarled oak, and the miserable dog
wood, or some such scrub, and you really think
there is some difference; but go back little
| ways, and We the whole vast, vertlant for
est beautifully blended into one. Al home we
understand these little differences Of locality,
but when abroad we are never Virginiaus or
Ohioans, but American citizens.
Ii Is for this reason, said the General, that
we have q common Cause in this war. We must
fight it out together if VIC expect our liberties
TO be maintained. do not go TO light the battles
of Virginia or Ohio, but go to fight the bat
ties Of the United States. shall not ask the
man who Is standing shoulder to shoulder with
me, What State are you from sir. neither do
! expect him to ask that question of me. Il
is enough for ne to know that be is there, Gu
gagged in the same glorious cause.
In concluding. Gen. Schenck said he did not
think it would be long war. II We all did
our duty, aud came forward to meet the em1r-
gency Is il should be met, the neck and the back
and the heart of this rebellion would soon he
broken. He was willing to give all his strength
of body and mind, and all he had, and go in
with those who were willing to drop all party
lines and sectional Prcdjudiccs TO accomplish
the great object.