Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-05-23
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No.5.
Those Contraban5s If to be freed BY the North
Now is the time.

Up 10 the commencement Of the present
contest the North had been held back by Con
slitutional obligations. Had Tie South been
satisfied with this. nincty-nine huudredths, not
to say nine hundred and ninei ynine thousand,hs /
Of the North would have been content also.
Though fully believing in tie wrong and evil
Of slavery and grieving over its existence, they
would sill have left It as they found it simply
reasoning with tie South and hoping that /
they themselves might see, not only what was
right and just in itself, but what was for their 1
own interest, and act accordingly. Bat this |
they could not do. Not satisfied with having
more than was either just or equal and blind
TO their own welfare, year after year they de- |
manded new concessions, and at last being |
foiled in obt"iniug the utmost Of their wishes I
and for once losing their power to dictate as
to men and measures in the affliFs OF the na-
tional government, they have sought to over
throw and destroy the whole. This their war
has been their folly. and if now they loose
what they have formerly possessed, they have
no one 10 thank or complain Of but themselves.
They may call their conduct, aruiing in their
own defense. protection or what they will, it Is
rebellion, and nothing less aud the award of
tie rebel is al that they can justly claim or
haze any reason to expect. By their insane
attempt 10 overthrow the constitution, they
have themselves abrogated all special claims
which they have under that constitution. They
have broken up the old order of things, aud
thereby given to the majority of the nation,
tho right, If not Absolutely forced than 10 the
necessity 10 establish one that is new. They
have outlawed themselves; they have flung
themselves far beyond the circle of former
pledges or guarantees. ard now the rights of
the eUlprit and this only is theirs. Had the
constitution and laws anticipated and provided
for such monstrosity as their contest has
been, then we might be held by their provisions.
But such thing was never dreamed Of by the
fathers who adopted the constitution, or
those who have made laws under it. But as
we haEc no constitutional provisions or laws
to cover the present emergency, new ones mus
be made. and If in making ihes", the subject
Of slavery comes in our way, We have nothing
TO do but TO brush it asidh. Thas the right
and the necessity Of Interference is thrown up
on our hands Ne do not haze to 20 out Of
our way, or to back over any former pledges
or laws in order to interfere Interference i
forced upon rs against our wills. Talk of
maintaining the constitution as it IS and the
government as it was As well talk Of plac-
ing the SIM, moon AM stars back where they
stood eightceu months ago. and of aunihilating
tie space and the events that have since inter
veued. So for as the States which have re-
uiaincd true are concerned, they may remain
they were. Tlicy uwy d. 50. 80 far as
changing events VIII allow. though national
neceysity mny even require changes in regard
TO them. Bat take the rebel States ana 1t i
impossible to place hem where thy stood bc
fore the rebellion. We caad n0t ID it fully
even if tley would now snbHit and return 10
their former allegiance. Bat for such sub
mission they show NJ disposition They yield
70 hope. This rebellion IS a thing That exists
and we must d,ai with it az such. But ia
dealing with it as it is. we mlst adopt m asnres
in accordance with the end desired IfamOng
these measures. either as 4 means to secure
peace, or 10 perpetulte il after il is secured,
the suppression Of slaverv becomes necessary,
It is our unqucsiioucd right 10 ak the need
full steps. Yes. and ihe sooner We Ike them
the better To talk any thiug different from
this IS to say that the great mtj ,rity Of this
nation have not the right to preserve their own
liberty or even :heir own national existence.
Il Is proc'aiming that "cottol is king y that
Shareholders, by brthright, are its prime min
listers; its great Hamans, and therefore all
others mast bow down and reverence, or 60
tc The gaIows, seven times Gity eubits high.
But who is prepared for this. Who is ready
10 bow down the head so low as 10 be 50 con-
pletely crushed beneath the wheels Of this
monstrous juggernaut Of would be American
Tyranny? Surely not the free and sovereign
voters ofOhio Irthey are, they are unworthy
of the tame Of frccmen.
But we may be asAed If the suppression OF
slavery would tend 10 the restoration Of peace
or to the coatinulnce Of it when once scared?
Most unqusst;onably so. To eternalise the
system and exalt it above tha skies is the OBJ
ject of the rebellion Destroy the cause of the
rebellion, and YOU will destroy the rebellion
itself You will also remove the source Of
future discord On the other hand, ignore the
existence Of slavery, and we throw away
mighty engine Of present success and leave in
existence the certain-s source of future trouble.
You may say il has been already, and vii! be
further much weakened in the present contest,
whether it is directly interlered with or not.
All this may be true. And SO slavery was
weak when our constitution was first adopted,
it was the wish and the expectation of nearly
every one that it was soon to melt away and
disappear forever. But we have seen how
soon, that which was weak at first has become
strong, and in lis insaEe strength, has endeav-
10, flrNf fIo frNtr,rt,r,,-pf !,
whose protection it had become of such over
wcaniug self importance. Aud so now, though
it may became weak like Sampson sh0rn OF
its strength, have It's eyes, JEFF Davis S Co.
put out, and be placed in the tread mill OF pub
lie show, its locks nay soon grow again. and
with its returning strength, it may grasp
! anew the two great pillars Of our national
temple, freedom of speech and freedom pursuit,
and bear them down. temple, nation and all
! Slavery and freedom are 50 perfectly antag0n-
| istic to each other that the two can not long
exist side by side under the san3 government.
Ii the one goes up and fourishes, the other
mast go down and perish. This is evdcnt
enough to any unbiased and observing man.
| The white poor mau, or the white laborer at
the South, has long been esteemed as nothing
| So he will eventually come to be considered
here at the North, if slavery is continued
! What then is our wisdom? What is wisdom
for those who are free and wish TO remain 50
who are free and rejoice in having their own
hands or their own brains administer to their
wants? 1t IS to make an utter end of this
monster evil at once aud forever. The ques-
tion is up and now it is up, make an utter
finish of it. Not to do so would be like
leaving the ineendary, the highwayman, OF
the murderer to go on his way with his instru-
ments of destruction and death in his hands
when he has once been brought under oul
power. 1t is like saying to the South, "gentle-
nan MO Eka this cDOrt We will mt therefore