Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-05-17
Friends and Foes.
From the y. Y, Con mercial Advertiser

7 rom the y. Y. Con nerCial Advertiser
at this crisis of our national affairs the
Government and the people have a right tc
know who are their friends and who are their
foes. 1t is emphatically true to-day that 'he
who is not for US is against u.s." The issue is
so plain and distinct-thc repelling of de-
libcrate attack upon our flag and the main
terrace of constitutional Cove rnment-that no
Intelligent man can fail fully 10 comprehend
! and appreciate and he who will not sacrifice
every personal OF partisan sympathy in order
to promote the cause in which we are ein-
! barked, cannot be fricl d of the stars and
I stripes, and Of a Government under constitu-
/ tional restrictions like that under which It IS
/ our happiness to live. We say promote, be-
c anse ii is not enough that men should not
/ impede the glorious cause which the loyal
/ States are now sustaining Indifference,
neutrality" as some Ingenious sophiss have
thristenod IT, is a state of feeling so closely
akin TO actual sympathy with rebellion that
II would be rebellion if it could be with pro-
fit and safety. The man who will not aid in
putting aown conspiracy against his coun-
try s flag, and his country's honor, and Govern
mcnt cannot, in the very nature of things, be
patriot3 bat must, TO say the least. have
such lurking sympathy with the conspira-
tors as binds him TO the cnormity OF their
crime.
States, as represented by their Governments,
comprising their executives and legislators
are TO be measured by the same standard and
judged by the same rule, and when a State
talks of maintaining a neutrality. "an armed
neutrality" in the present contest, it al once
proc.aims its disloyaltt 10 the United States
flag and to the United States Government
Its very declaration ofneutrality is practically
proclamation that it has Just as much SYM
pathy with the assailants of the flag and the
enemies Of the country as it his with its de-
Tenders and supporters. When a State refuses,
when officially called upon, the aid which the
Government needs, it practically takes part
With the rebels who have brought thdt neces-
sty upon the Government The Governors
of Missouri, Maryland, Tennessee, North /
Carolina, Kentucky, have refused to comply /
or have not complied with the rcquisiton OF
the President for troops in this emergency
Some haze replied defantly and insultingly |
to the urgent call of the Federal Governments
others have treated it with coniemptous 81
lence, and after the troops that had been .
furnished by other States, and were peaceaby
marching thf6dgh had been brutally attacked
and some Of them murdered tie Governor OF
Maryland publicly declared to tie mob thai
he concurrcd with the MAYOR, (who had spo-
ken Of those troops as invaders Of MaryIand)
that he bowed to their will, and that he would
never assist in the suppression Of the rebellion
in the fet-oIting States:
Now. we hold that to States, to the Execu-
tives of those States and to private individuals,
the same law applies. "iIc that is not for US
in this vital issue, this life and death struggle
for constitutional government and national ex-
tence, lis against u.s. and if ever the tide Of
battle should be turned against us woald rcn-
der assistance to rebels he refuses to the Fed |
eral Government and therefore it is the daty |
of all loyal citizens to keep eye upon such
men as those who cannot be FULLY trusted.