Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-10-18
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lt EDITOR GAzETrE:-The following is take
: from Brownson's Quarterly Review. 1 cop
: it for TIE Gazstte, hoping that you will be 5
i kind as to give it place in your excellent pa
: per, as worthy to be printed anywhere. Di
such an article come from some Radical Alb
olition Journal II webld not strike any one a
. a very remarkable production, for that class Q
papers are full Of such matter; but coming, al
, it does, from great organ Of the Romal
Catholic Church in this country, which for th
last twenty years has most strenueusly oP-
posed The abolition movement in the fire.
States, it st rikes ones mind as somewhat sig
ni6cant. s.f-r
i For the sake Of brevity viii not copy CON
secuIively, bat only give the most important
paragraphs: sl ziic5s ....si
"THE BORDER STATES AND FREEDOM Blu
if It be required 10 treat them as free and 10y
al citizens by the military operations for tht
preservation of the Union, or even remove
the causes Of the present rebellion the govern
ment is so bound to treat them. The oaly
doubt that can arise 1t to the fact whether il
would or would not prove useful to this end.
1t may be objected to such measure that
'
/ Ea stern Tennessee, and drive into open hostiI
ity to the Union Marylard, Kentucky aud
Missouri. This objection deserves grave con-
sideration. But it is in substance the objec-
tion tn at has embarrassed the government
from the outset, and compelled it to take only
I halfway measures to suppress the re6elion.-
| For ourselves, we cannot respect the fear to
which this obligation appeals. Fear is the
worst possible counsellor, in the world, and
/ the government that hestates to adopt the
best policy for fear Of alternating its. friends is
/ lost. Let the lines be sharply drawn be
/ tween our friends and enemies. In crisis
| like the present lukewarm friends, or friends
who will be our friends only by virtue of Ger
tain concessions to their interests or prcdjadi-
ces, are more embarrassing than open enemies,
and do mere to weaken oar forces than if ar
r1yed in open hostility against US.
II these States are for the Union they will
insist on no condition incompatible with the
preservation of the Union; they will make sac
rifccs for the Unon as well as the otler loyal
States, and there is no reason nor justice in
Massachusetts,, New York, New Jersey, Penn
syIvania and the great States Northwest OF
the Ohio. pouring out their blood and treasure
tor the qualification of the slave holding pre-
tensions Of Maryland, Kentucky or Missouri
The citizens uf lhAs3 States VIA own slaves,
are As much bound, if The preservation Of the
Union requires it, to give up their property in
slaves, as we at the farther North are to pldr"
out our blood ahI treasure TO put dJwH re-
bel.ion, which threatens alike them and U.S.
Ii they love their few Slaves more than hey do
the Union, let them 20 o 1t of the Uaion. We
are stronger to fl ht til; battles OF the Union
without them, than w are with them"
Speaking Of Emancipation, it SAYS: 90 -7'
Now slavery is to lhem a source ofstrength;
ii You'd lhen be to them s,urce ofwtakiIcss.
Its abolition woali, i'll our judgment, be stEi-t
king The enemy al his most vulnerable point,
precisely where VIC can best SuIider the sinews
Of his strength, and deal him the most fatal
blow. 1"
Moreover, it would not only bring TO the
assistance Uf the federal arms the cooperation
of the whole colored race III The Union, but
would secure to US what we now lack, the sym
palhy aud M ,ral aid of the Whole civilized
word, and lcmOve all danger of coming
in conflict with either France or England
X : We confess that we fear, il
we let slip the opportunity which the, South
ern rebellion gives Us, to do Justice to the
slave. or 10 make his eausc ours, in vain shall
we have gathered our forces and gone f5rTh to
battle. We fear G,,d' may be using the rebels
as Instruments OF Onr pHnishnent,-ins
mehts themselves to BE- destroyed, VIXEN
through them DIR own destruction has been
effected. We speak solen,nly and in deep
earnest; for he i5hts at terrible odds who has
the infinite and just God against him. + = y
Nov is cur day Of grace. This opportuu-
ity neglected, our day of grace may he over,
and our Republic follow the fate OF all others
and become Kissing and bye-word in all the
Garth" #. =. a
This expression has two.f fold mportance
as containing important matter within itself. I
and as ind eating m)msatou5 change in the
public mind He who watches the times.
must see that the mighty tide of the Northern !
mind and heart is gradually turning against
the prime cause of the Southern rebelIion-
The enlightened people of the North are be
ginning to see and feel that, in the language
of Senator Wade, in bis recent Delaware
speech, ~ here is no use holding up slavery
with one hand and fighting slave-hodihg rebels I
with the other.'' s l-1
The ball keeps rolling! LIBERTY.