Delaware State journal and statesman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1855-1870, 1861-02-26

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

Nr. Editor -
Can il be possible after the years of suffering,
this great nation has passed through, from the
curse of slavery, and the great labor md exer-
lions made by true-heArted Republicans and phi
lanthropists to correct it cOnstitutionally, that
now, when the friends Of freedom having throt-
tied the monster, and it Tolls its tongue, aud is
in the last stage of dissolution, that any motive
other than its total prescription from any neip or
free acre of land within the boundaries of this
country rs territory, can enter the mind of my
sane Republican?
It is plain to be seen the traitors game Of de-
ception and Bug is played out. The quiet, firm,
lnagnnnimous Indifference to the threats OF trai-
tors by the great free northern States has checked
them in their game; they could not 60 "aly
better" on the hand they held.
My humble wish is for the government to act
under and by the constitution and the laws -
What else can they act by or under, that will
not he perjury collect the revenue, close the
postal service in all seeded States and leave
them in their glOry, aud the leading traitors will
soon find themselves like the Kilkenny cats,
nothing left but their tails.
The democratic or breckenridge party who to
maintain their much abused power, went into CO.
partnership with the Southern slave drivers, have
shared the fate Of those "who play with edged
tools" and that which belalls all men who sup
port institutions directly in opposition to all
laws or the rights of man. They were utterly
destroyed by their own corruption md such
corruption as the world never saw or history
Is at fault.
Look before you leap, ye who would compro.
mise with traitors, or men grasping to enslave
you or any designing enemy. What would have
been the fate of the Iron Duke, if after the
victory Of Waterloo, he had made q compromise
with the enemy, equivalent in concession, and
humiliation, to Crttenden's for the Republicans
/ Would his monuments, and statues stand on the
pedestals they now do? | think not and sc
would sny all consistent men. What is a com.
promise to traitorsH Is itany thing better thar
demeaning yourselves to their standard or below
1t? Is II not under the circumstances perfect
humiliation? Is II not legalizing treason? lsit
not n total Generalization of our constitution anG
our laws IL it not cOnceding your legal and
moral rights to evil doersl And all for what? Tt
keep rattlesnakes, and traitors, from leaving th,
fold which protected them, hut whose presence
endaugers the whole Union, and 10 again play
the same game when the peculiar institution re
puires ii. No sensible man judging the future
by the past supposes for moment that any com
promise would he held sacred longer than II
attain power, opportunity or wish to change it
Has it not been uniformly so Then why repea
ity Have they become more honest and purt
AHNH lHFHlNlg A'Ehu huANela lIoH your luTts
arsenhls, subtreasdIies, luins, revenue, Sc, &c
Why not like honest fearless men, like ou
forelathers stand by the constitution, the right
OF freemen, liberty OF speech liberty OF the press
and liberty OF man Grant to all and every ont
their rights under the constitution, and protec
it, and execute the laws Mt all hazards.
Like the chiyalrio Major Anderson, walk int
the Fort Sumter of an honest just and pure
heart, and wait the batteries of the unjust ant
should they open, it will be the tOcsin of their
own destruction.
May be saved the humiliating view of tn,
dsintegration of the Republican party by com
prOmisors to treason; or the great free Northern
States by total disregard Of their voices at th,
ballot boxes last November. Was there any
thing to compromise you might have reason
such is not the fact; the Republicans elected
their President 10 every way properly, and con.
additionally; they are not yet in power to com
nit any overt oct OF aggression if they ever
intended it. Then what have you 10 compromise
but your moral and legal rights? Are you pre-
pared then to do this, and also hand back thu
power you deprived them Of last November, Il
no put again to their base uses, and place NOR
foul bl0ts on your escuicheOn | hope not
The papers of all Europe are now teeming will
our disgrace. Oh, my country, are there not
with all the treason, enough patriots left to pro.
tect thee yet? think 80. Aud she will com
out brighter from the crucible and take warninJ
by the past
FIDUs EFT FORTS.
Wilmington, DEL, Feb. %, 1861.